Archives West Finding Aid

The records of the Puritan Mining Company are divided into eight series: Records of the Board of Directors and the Stockholders, 1905-1939; General Correspondence and Related Records, 1906-1939; Capital Stock Records, 1905-1939; Ore Production and Shipment Records, 1916-1917; Insurance Records, 1927-1930; Financial Records, 1905-1939; Personnel Records, 1906-1917; and Tax Records, 1909-1940.

The first series, Records of the Board of Directors and the Stockholders, includes: a minute book, 1905-1939; a folder of records relating to meetings for only 1931-1939, chronological; a folder containing a copy of the by-laws, dated May 1, 1905; and a folder of financial statements. These are intermittent and of varying form from 1905 to 1931 and yearly from 1933 to 1939.

General Correspondence and Related Records, the second series, contains: a folder of property patents, 1906-1929; two sets of correspondence, one chronological -- running 1907-1929 and kept by Secretary Charles Solberg -- the other, alphabetical, containing correspondence of Solberg and other officers, running 1913-1934. A final folder contains Annual Statements of Domestic Corporations, 1920-1939, incomplete; and Reports to the Idaho Inspector of Mines, 1930-1938.

The third series is Capital Stock Records. Included are a ledger, 1905-1939, two journals, and two audits. The information in the journal covering 1906-1922 appears to be duplicated in the journal covering 1906-1939. One stock audit was done by H.P.. Miller in February 1929, the other was done by S.F. Heitfield and R.W. Anno in November 1933.

The fourth series, Financial Records, contains a ledger and a journal, both 1905-1939, and both little used; two thick folders of invoices, 1906-1930; a folder of four check registers, another with three bank books, and two with bank statements and paid checks. Collectively, these last four folders cover transactions with three Wallace, Idaho, banks between 1906 and 1939.

The fifth and sixth series each contain only one folder: Ore records amount to only one folder of settlement sheets and related bank deposit slips sheets for a few months in the summers of 1916 and 1917; Insurance records consist of one folder containing three fire insurance policies, 1928, 1929, and 1931, purchased for company buildings.

The seventh series contains a folder of monthly pay rolls for July 1912 to February 1917, and another with about fifty time slips of widely varying format for 1906-1916.

Tax Records, the final series, contains two folders of federal tax records dating 1919-1940, organized chronologically. Included in these folders are a near complete run of corporate tax return forms, a few capital stock tax returns, and correspondence. A third folder contains receipts for taxes paid in Shoshone County, 1909-1930, and state returns for Idaho, 1931-1939.

Removal of cancelled stock certificates, returned mail, and duplicate materials reduced the size of this collection by two cubic feet.