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I.B. Mining Company records, 1916-1933

Overview of the Collection

Creator
I.B. Mining Company (Bannack, Mont.)
Title
I.B. Mining Company records
Dates
1916-1933 (inclusive)
Quantity
1.3 linear feet of shelf space
Collection Number
MC 85 (collection)
Summary
The I.B. Mining Company, located at Bannack, Montana, was a gold mining operation incorporated in 1929 by I.B. Haviland, Carl Becker, and C.W. Stalling. In 1931 the company began quartz mining of low-grade gold ore. Collection includes incoming, outgoing, and interoffice correspondence (1929-1933) relating to the operation of the company; plus lesser amounts of financial records, organizational records, etc. The company went bankrupt in 1933.
Repository
Montana Historical Society, Library & Archives
Montana Historical Society Research Center Archives
225 North Roberts
PO Box 201201
Helena MT
59620-1201
Telephone: 4064442681
Fax: 4064445297
mhslibrary@mt.gov
Access Restrictions

Collection open for research. (Summary of access restrictions as appropriate).

Languages
English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Historical Note

The I.B. Mining Company was organized by I.B. "Ike" Haviland in May 1929, to finance the extraction of low-grade ore from mines at Bannack, Montana. Haviland, whose previous experience included development of a coal mine in Indiana, became interested in the possibilities in Bannack when checking other Montana property for Eastern businessmen. Gold was discovered in Bannack in the early 1860s. However, as the rich ore disappeared, the mines there were abandoned. No attempt was made to retrieve the remaining low-grade ore until 1917, when the 300-ton capacity, hydraulic-powered Gold Leaf Mill was constructed. A shortage of water, among other problems, halted those efforts. I.B. Haviland bought the property in 1929, and the I.B. Mining Company was formed with Haviland as president, C.W. Stallings as engineer, and Carl Becker as secretary-treasurer. Haviland received financial backing from Midwestern businessmen. Haviland directly supervised the rehabilitation of the Bannack property, uncovering large new bodies of low-grade ore. A power line was constructed from Dillon to Bannack to power the Gold Leaf Mill in 1931. However, the mill operated successfully for only nine months. Lack of operational capital resulted in the bankruptcy of the I.B. Mining Company in April 1933.

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Content Description

Records. 1916-1933. 1.3 linear feet. This collection contains extensive correspondence between stockholders and officers of the I.B. Mining Company organized as incoming correspondence and interoffice correspondence. Personal letters (1929-1931) to officers of the company have been listed as miscellaneous incoming correspondence. There is also a small amount of financial records, legal documents, miscellany, and clippings.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

(MAY HAVE ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE WHICH VARIES BY COLLECTION). Researchers must use collection in accordance with the policies of the Montana Historical Society. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all materials in the collection. In some cases permission for use may require additional authorization from the copyright owners. For more information contact an archivist.

Preferred Citation

Item description and date. Collection Title. Collection Number. Box and Folder numbers. Montana Historical Society Research Center, Archives, Helena, Montana.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Arrangement by series. Each correspondence series (Interoffice, Incoming, and Outgoing) arranged alphabetically by last name.

Location of Collection

5:4-7

Acquisition Information

Acquisition information available upon request

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Detailed Description of the Collection

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection

  • Interoffice Correspondence

    • Description: Carl Becker to I.B. Haviland
      Dates: 1929-1932, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 1-2
      Location: Interoffice Correspondence
    • Description: I.B. Haviland to Carl Becker
      Dates: 1929-1933, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 3-4
      Location: Interoffice Correspondence
    • Description: Francis A. "Hank" Hancock to I.B. Haviland
      Dates: 1931-1933
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 5-6
      Location: Interoffice Correspondence
    • Description: I.B. Haviland to Francis A. "Hank" Hancock
      Dates: 1933
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 7
      Location: Interoffice Correspondence
    • Description: C.W. Stallings to I.B. Haviland
      Dates: 1929-1931
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 8
      Location: Interoffice Correspondence
    • Description: I.B. Haviland to C.W. Stallings
      Dates: 1929-1931
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 9
      Location: Interoffice Correspondence

  • Incoming Correspondence

    • Description: A (correspondents include Mayme E. Adamson; R.L. Adamson; Mrs. John Albers; Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company; American Mutual Liability Company of Boston)
      Dates: 1929-1933
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 11
      Location: Incoming Correspondence
    • Description: Louis K. Boyson (First Union Trust and Savings Bank, Chicago)
      Dates: 1930-1933
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 12
      Location: Incoming Correspondence
    • Description: B (correspondents include Ball Brothers Company; Carl Becker; Beaverhead County Mining Association; Alvina Becker; Haviland Hollister Becker; H.A. Becker Company; Walter H. Becker; Beaverhead Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution; R.W. Bixby; Clarence Blewett; F.C. Bowman; Eunice Conway Bratcher; Charles P. Brenner; Dorothy Brooke; Ed Buesch; S.P. Burr)
      Dates: 1929-1933
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 13
      Location: Incoming Correspondence
    • Description: George B. Conway
      Dates: 1930-1933
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 1
      Location: Incoming Correspondence
    • Description: C (correspondents include Cadillac Motor Car Company; Howard Candland; June Carlos; Frank D. Chase Incorporated; Chicago Tribune; Estella Coffey; George G. Collins; Conoco Travel Bureau; Consumers Credit Company; Billy Cutter)
      Dates: 1930-1933
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 2
      Location: Incoming Correspondence
    • Description: D-G (correspondents include C.M. Delacy; The Denver Fire Clay Company; Carl Dicker; Tracy C. Drake; William Dunn Sr.; G.D. Edwards; Emigh and Cockfield; Dwight K. Emigh; Myrl Erwin; C.D. Evans; H.J. Fennimore Company; Fireman's Fund Indemnity Company; G.P. Englbrecht; The First National Bank; Gardner-Denver Company; R.F. Garrettson and Company; Tom L. Gibson; T.E. Gilbert; Sam M. Gill; The Gilmore and Pittsburgh Railroad Company, Ltd.)
      Dates: 1929-1933
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 3
      Location: Incoming Correspondence
    • Description: John P. Hartman
      Dates: 1930-1933
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 4-5
      Location: Incoming Correspondence
    • Description: Fred A. "Shum" and Winifred Hollister
      Dates: 1929-1932
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 6
      Location: Incoming Correspondence
    • Description: H (correspondents include E.A. Hamilton; Harold H. Hanson; Philco Hanson; Hanson-MacPherson Company; Clifford Harvey; Mother and the Harveys; Frank A. Hazelbaker; H.J. Hersey Jr.; Hirsch's; Louis W. Hoffman; H.L. Hollis; Carl Howard)
      Dates: 1929-1933
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 7
      Location: Incoming Correspondence
    • Description: Howard A. Johnson
      Dates: 1929-1933
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 8-9
      Location: Incoming Correspondence
    • Description: W.E. and J.H. Keeney
      Dates: 1930-1933
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 10
      Location: Incoming Correspondence
    • Description: M. Edgar Mason
      Dates: 1930-1931
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 13
      Location: Incoming Correspondence
    • Description: M (correspondents include W.S. Marsh Advertising Art; Arthur McClement; The Merchants National Bank; Metals Bank and Trust Company; Michigan City Retail Credit Bureau; Fred P. Mignin and Company; The Mine and Smelter Supply Company; Mining Journal; Montana Auto Supply Company; Montana Hardware; State of Montana Industrial Accident Board; Montana School of Mines; Montana Secretary of State; Montana State Auditor; Montana Stock and Bond Company; A.B. Morse Company)
      Dates: 1921-1933
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 14
      Location: Incoming Correspondence
    • Description: Arley Nation (Nation-Paxton-Delacy)
      Dates: 1930, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 15
      Location: Incoming Correspondence
    • Description: N-O (correspondents include Harry R. Naftalin; George Neal; New York Montana Mines Company; Earl F. Nieman; O'Brien, Boardman, Conboy, Memhard and Early)
      Dates: 1930-1933
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 16
      Location: Incoming Correspondence
    • Description: Louis Preschner
      Dates: 1932-1933
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 17
      Location: Incoming Correspondence
    • Description: P-R (correspondents include The Pacific National Bank of Seattle; The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company; Arthur Pauschert; George W. Paxton; A.P. Peake; Andy Peterson; Elinor Peterson; Jean Jacques Pfister; George P. Porter; Prather Cadillac LaSalle Company; G. Pritchett; Letha Radamecker; Newton S. Rogers; C.M. Roode; H.G. Rosebaum; John C. Ryan)
      Dates: 1930-1933
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 18
      Location: Incoming Correspondence
    • Description: E.A. Stavrum
      Dates: 1929-1930
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 20
      Location: Incoming Correspondence
    • Description: S (correspondents include Sanders and Company; Sharman Automobile Company; James E. Shields Company; Silver Bow Trades and Labor Council; Mrs. Perry Snook; Societe Anonyme au Capital de 1,000,000 de Fr. Entierement Verses; Roger W. Somers; John S. Sweet; Star Grocery; State Bank and Trust Company; W. Stussy; Sullivan Machinery Company; Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada)
      Dates: 1929-1931
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 21
      Location: Incoming Correspondence
    • Description: George and Charles Thompson
      Dates: 1929-1932
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 22
      Location: Incoming Correspondence
    • Description: T (correspondents include L. Thurston; William R. Thurston; June Top; Mrs. Dan Turner)
      Dates: 1929-1933
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 23
      Location: Incoming Correspondence
    • Description: United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company (N.M. Wooley)
      Dates: 1931-1932
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 24
      Location: Incoming Correspondence
    • Description: U.S. Treasury Department
      Dates: 1930-1931
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 25
      Location: Incoming Correspondence
    • Description: U-V (correspondents include United States Corporation Company; The State of Utah; Vanadium Metal Products Company; John Velie; R.B. Vickens; Cecilia Vincent)
      Dates: 1930-1933
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 26
      Location: Incoming Correspondence
    • Description: W-Y (correspondents include The Waldorf-Astoria; Washoe Sampler; Arthur L. Webster; J.J. Weinstock; W.E. Peat; The Western Union Telegraph Company; John B. Wheeler Company; Margaret S. Witter; Worlds Fair Realty; William Wrigley Jr.; Philip K. Wrigley; Frank Yurka)
      Dates: 1929-1933
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 27
      Location: Incoming Correspondence
    • Description: Unidentified
      Dates: 1930-1933, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 28
      Location: Incoming Correspondence

  • Outgoing Correspondence

  • Financial Records

    • Description: Accounts, taxes, expenditures
      Dates: 1916-1933
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 1
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Expenditures
      Dates: 1913-1914
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 2
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Invoices / receipts (sampled)
      Dates: 1929-1933
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 3
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Stock certificate sales, etc.
      Dates: 1929-1931
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 4
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Miscellaneous
      Dates: 1929-1933
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 5
      Location: Financial Records

  • Organizational Records

    • Description: Bannack Mines Consolidated Prospectus (draft)
      Dates: circa 1929
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 6
      Location: Organizational Records
    • Description: I.B. Mining Company directors; description of company
      Dates: 1930-1931
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 8
      Location: Organizational Records

  • Reports

    • Description: Laboratory reports, mill reports
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 9
      Location: Reports

  • Miscellany

    • Description: Memorandum
      Dates: 1932
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 10
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Press releases
      Dates: 1930
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 11
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Notes, etc.
      Dates: 1919-1933
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 12
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Miscellaneous (includes "Management Mocks at Depression"; "Notice to Miners and Others"; "Power Line Impetus to Local Industry"; "Over $1000 Damage from Cold Snap at Bannack"
      Dates: 1929-1933
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 13
      Location: Miscellany

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Subject Terms

  • Gold Mines and Mining
  • Mines and Mineral Resources--Montana--Beaverhead County
  • Silver Mines and Mining--Montana

Corporate Names

  • I.B. Mining Company (Bannack, Mont.) (creator)

Geographical Names

  • Bannack (Mont.)--Industries

Finding aid prepared by MHC staff
2004

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