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Mark P. Miller Milling Company Records, 1940-1960
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Mark P. Miller Milling Company
- Title
- Mark P. Miller Milling Company Records
- Dates
- 1940-1960 (inclusive)19401960
- Quantity
- 8 Cubic Feet
- Collection Number
- MG133 (collection)
- Summary
- Office files, including correspondence and brochures; financial records, principally year-end reports and tax records; ledgers and other papers of this Moscow, ID, flour mill. Also included are tax-related papers of the Latah County Grain Growers, 1949-1960.
- Repository
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University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives
Special Collections and Archives
University of Idaho Library
875 Perimeter Drive
MS 2350
Moscow, ID
83844-2350
Telephone: 2088850845
libspec@uidaho.edu - Languages
- English
- Sponsor
- Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
In 1904 Mark P. Miller took over the Cochran & Sons flour mill on the corner of Jackson and 6th Street, Moscow, Idaho. The mill's chief product was Blue Stem Flour, a blend of wheat varieties which was very popular with housewives in the northwest. According to the 1903-1904 Polk directory, the steam powered roller mill had a capacity of 75 barrels a day. In 1908 the mill was converted to electricity and its capacity increased to 125 barrels, and by 1914 this capacity was doubled.
The Mark P. Miller Company was incorporated in September 1911. In 1922 Miller left Moscow for Portland where he also had flour mills and it is probably about this time that Moscow mill became a branch of Terminal Flour Mills, a Portland based firm. The company also operated a grain storage warehouse at the 6th and Jackson location and had two other warehouses in Oakesdale and Seabury, Washington. About 1959 the Moscow warehouse was sold to Latah County Grain Growers and the Washington warehouses were purchased by the Oakesdale Grain Growers.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
The records of the Mark P. Miller Milling Company span the years 1940 to 1959, with the bulk of the material from the 1950's. Included are office files (primarily correspondence and brochures), financial files consisting of accountant's year-end reports and tax records, a grain ledger, and nine bound ledgers. There is also approximately one c.f. of Latah County Grain Growers tax returns and other papers for the years 1949-1960.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Arrangement
The records of the Mark P. Miller Company retain the original order of the records as received. The office files are alphabetical by subject, the financial files are separated by type of material such as accountant's reports, insurance inventory, payroll taxes, and county and state taxes. The ledgers are arranged first by type, then chronologically. The final series consists of tax related material of the Latah County Grain Growers, arranged chronologically.
When individual items such as invoices or check vouchers were recorded in a journal, the individual items were removed from the collection. In cases where journals and ledgers contained the same information only the ledgers were retained. As a result, the records were reduced by approximately five cubic feet.
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Series I. Office Files , 1948-1959Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | ||
| 1/1 | American Federation of Grain Millers 1 item
|
1956 |
| 1/2 | B & B Manufacturing Company 16 items
|
1954 |
| 1/3 | Bags - General Information 57 items
|
1952-1959 |
| 1/4 | Cadillac Winch Hoiste 3 items
|
1957 |
| 1/5 | California Spray Chemical Corp. 2 items
|
1951 |
| 1/6 | Chamber of Commerce, Moscow 6 items
|
1957-1959 |
| 1/7 | Charter Seed Company 68 items
|
1952-1957 |
| 1/8 | Crites Moscow Growers 18 items
|
1951-1952 |
| 1/9 | Feed, quarterly tonnage fees 40 items
|
1952-1958 |
| 1/10 | Feed laws and analyses 32 items
|
1951-1959 |
| 1/11 | Feed letters and data 6 items
|
1952-1954 |
| 1/12 | Feed registration, etc. 33 items
|
1952-1959 |
| 1/13 | Fischbein (Dave) Company 5 items
|
1956 |
| 1/14 | Freight Rates - North Pacific Coast Freight Bureau 1 item
|
1957 |
| 1/15 | Friden Calculating Machine Agency 32 items
|
1952-1959 |
| 1/16 | Fumigant Information 3 items
|
1957-1958 |
| 1/17 | George (Henry) & Sons, paid invoices, concrete for annex #262 150 items
|
1954 |
| 1/18 | Grain Dryer 10 items
|
1956 |
| 1/19 | Grain Grading 5 items
|
1950-1954 |
| 1/20 | Great Northern Railway Company 5 items
|
1953-1958 |
| 1/21 | Hot Spot Detector, Inc. 5 items
|
1956 |
| 1/22 | Idaho. Department of Agriculture 7 items
|
1952-1958 |
| 1/23 | Idaho. State Insurance Fund 2 items
|
1954 |
| 1/24 | Idaho Public Utilities Commission 8 items
|
1958-1959 |
| 1/25 | Industrial Fumigant Co. 7 items
|
1958 |
| 1/26 | Inland Advertising Co. 2 items
|
1955 |
| 1/27 | Inland Power & Light Co. 2 items
|
1955 |
| 1/28 | Insects - Control in Grain Storage 6 items
|
1950-1955 |
| 1/29 | Insurance Policies, Old 19 items
|
1948-1951 |
| 1/30 | Jones Farm Chemical Co. 10 items
|
1954-1955 |
| 1/31 | Latah County Extension Advisory Committee 7 items
|
1957-1958 |
| 1/32 | Northern Pacific Railway Co. 8 items
|
1951-1958 |
| 1/33 | Pendergrass, Spackman & Bullivant, Attorneys at Law 1 item
|
1955 |
| 1/34 | Pictsweet Foods, Inc. 34 items
|
1950-1952 |
| 1/35 | Price Supports - Wheat, Oats, Barley 49 items
|
1954-1956 |
| 1/36 | Pure Line Seed Co. 9 items
|
1952 |
| 1/37 | Reid-Strutt Company, Inc. 48 items
|
1955-1959 |
| 1/38 | Rodent Control, R & M Exterminators 4 items
|
1959 |
| 1/39 | Ross (J.J.) Mill Furnishings 17 items
|
1949-1954 |
| 1/40 | Safflower 3 items
|
1954 |
| 1/41 | Seed Data 51 items
|
1951-1957 |
| 1/42 | Seed Regulations 7 items
|
1953-1958 |
| 1/43 | Seed Treatment - Panogen 18 items
|
1952-1956 |
| 1/44 | Seedburo Equipment Co. 3 items
|
1954 |
| 1/45 | Shaw Borden Co. 10 items
|
1952 |
| 1/46 | Smith (R. Robert) & Company 41 items
|
1951-1958 |
| 1/47 | Smith Frozen Foods, Inc. 41 items
|
1952-1955 |
| 1/48 | Soil Sterilent 3 items
|
1957 |
| 1/49 | Songstad, Merle, Contractor. 9 items
|
1951-1952 |
| 1/50 | Stonehard Company 4 items
|
1954 |
| 1/51 | Terminal Flour Mills Co. 105 items
|
1951-1959 |
| 1/52 | Terminal Storage - Loans 16 items
|
1958 |
| 1/53 | Thomas (J.N.) Co. 8 items
|
1955-1958 |
| 1/54 | Towmotor Lift Truck 5 items
|
1954 |
| 1/55 | Union Special Sewing Machine 6 items
|
1956-1958 |
| 1/56 | Van Waters & Rogers, Inc. 5 items
|
1953-1959 |
| 2/57 | Wage and Hour Laws 10 items
|
1950-1956 |
| 2/58-60 | Warehouse License, Bonds, CCC Uniform Grain Storage Agreements 110 items
|
1951-1959 |
| 2/61 | Washburn-Wilson Seed Co. 6 items
|
1952-1955 |
| 2/62 | Washington Water Power Company |
1954 |
Series II. Financial Files , 1940-1959Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | ||
| 2/63-64 | Accountant's Reports 32 items
|
1948-1959 |
| 2/65-66 | Insurance Inventory 107 items
|
1950-1959 |
| 2/67-68 | Payroll Tax Records 46 items
|
1951-1959 |
| 2/69 | Latah County Taxes 88 items
|
1940-1959 |
| 2/70-71 | Whitman County Taxes 194 items
|
1940-1959 |
| 2/72 | Washington Excise Tax Returns 196 items
|
1946-1959 |
| 2/73 | Capital Stock Tax 1 item
|
1945 |
Series III. Ledgers and Journals , 1942-1959Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | ||
| 3-4/74-75 | Grain Ledger 3150 items
|
1950/1951-1957/1958 |
| os/76-77 | Employment Records 2 items
|
1943-1958 |
| os/78-79 | Accounts Receivable Ledger 2 items
|
1946-1955 |
| os/80 | Payroll, 1942-1958; General Administration & Expense Ledger, 1942-1957; General Journal, 1942-1947 |
1 |
| os/81 | Cash Received; Check Record 1 item
|
1942-1956 |
| os/82 | General Journal, Cash Received, Check Record 1 item
|
1956-1958 |
| os/83 | Purchases & Sales Record 1 item
|
1942-1958 |
| os/84 | University of Idaho. Grain and Feed Deliveries 1 item
|
1942-1959 |
Series IV. Latah County Grain Growers , 1949-1960Return to Top
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
| Box/Folder | ||
| 5/85 | Fair Labor Standards Act - Unpaid Wages 26 items
|
1949-1951 |
| 5/86-89 | Quarterly Tax Reports 76 items
|
1949-1950 |
| 5/90-110 | Annual Information Returns, State and Federal 2162 items
|
1953-1960 |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Flour mills -- Idaho -- Moscow -- History -- Sources
- Grain trade -- Idaho -- Moscow -- History -- Sources
Corporate Names
- Latah County Grain Growers
Other Creators
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Corporate Names
- Mark P. Miller Milling Company -- Records
Finding aid prepared by Judith Nielsen
1984
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