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Hubert Alfred Simmons papers, 1906-1967

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Simmons, H.A. (Hubert Alfred), 1881-1967
Title
Hubert Alfred Simmons papers
Dates
1906-1967 (inclusive)
Quantity
10 linear feet of shelf space
Collection Number
MC 204
Summary
Hubert Simmons (1881-1967) was a Red Lodge, Montana, attorney, state legislator, and coal mine owner. Papers consist of five subgroups: Simmons' personal papers (1906-1967); Eagle Coal Company records (1918-1947); Owl Mining Company records (1930-1958); W.B. Innes and Company records (1919-1930); and Western States Coal Company records (1917-1927).
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.

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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Biographical Note

Hubert Alfred (H.A.) Simmons was born in Spadra, Arkansas, the son of Ferdinand Simmons, on November 13, 1881. Simmons moved to Red Lodge, Montana, in 1899, where he worked in local coal mines and for the Montana Mercantile Co. He left Red Lodge to attend the University of Indiana Law School from which he graduated in 1906; he was admitted to the Montana Bar that same year. In 1906 Simmons, a Republican, was elected clerk of the district court, and he held that position through 1916, when he was elected Carbon County attorney. He held that post until 1920, when he began a twelve-year term as Red Lodge city attorney. In the years following World War I, Simmons was accused of being a member of the local Liberty Committee, a vigilante group established to police political non-conformists. Simmons denied the charges, and in 1932 was elected to the Montana state senate; he ran successfully for that office seven times. In his capacity as a legislator, Simmons was an advocate for the construction of the Beartooth Highway to connect Red Lodge with Cooke City and create a northeastern entrance to Yellowstone National Park. In 1928 Simmons was the chairman of the Hoover-Curtis Volunteer Committee of Carbon County, part of the statewide campaign for presidential candidate Herbert Hoover.

On June 1, 1907, Hubert Simmons married Ellen Freeman, daughter of William R. Freeman, and sister of James M. and William R. Freeman, Jr., both of whom were owner-operators of the Montana Coal and Iron Company of Washoe. The couple had a son, Hubert A., Jr. (born, February 10, 1910; died, 1976); and twin daughters, Helen Annie and Margaret (born, April 20, 1918). Ellen Simmons died on March 24, 1940, and Simmons married Mrs. Dorothy Chase Denison on June 14, 1940. During the Second World War Helen served as a clerk-typist in the U.S. Marine Corps, stationed primarily in Charleston, South Carolina. She enlisted in Butte on March 16, 1944, and was honorably discharged on August 21, 1946, having obtained the rank of sergeant. In addition to his political activities, H.A. Simmons maintained a law office in Red Lodge. He was joined in his practice by his son in May 1937.

Simmons also invested in various coal mining and distribution firms, including the Eagle Coal Company, the Owl Mining Company, W.B. Innes and; Co., and the Western States Coal Company. The Eagle Coal Company was established in December 1918 by T.E. Frasure, and John T. Flaherty and his brother J.V. Flaherty, all of Red Lodge, to operate the Foster coal mining claims in the Bearcreek-Foster Gulch area of Carbon County. The Flahertys were brothers-in-law of James M. Freeman. The company office was located in the U.S. National Bank Building in Red Lodge. In March 1919, H.A. Simmons bought some of the company's stock. The company actively mined and sold coal through the 1920s. By the 1930s much of the company's mine management and sales had come under the auspices of the Montana Coal and Iron Company. On June 30, 1938, that company formally took over the management, ownership, and interest of the Eagle Coal Company, which continued to produce coal for some additional years. The company was officially dissolved on December 31, 1947.

The Western States Coal Company was established on September 18, 1917, as a coal distributor. The firm's stockholders included John T. Flaherty, H.A. and Ellen Simmons, and E.A. Logan, all of Red Lodge. The company also owned stock in the Eagle Coal Company. At their annual meeting in January 1920, the stockholders voted to discontinue business and transfer all its liabilities and assets to H.A. Simmons.

W.B. Innes and Co. was incorporated in March 1919 as the general sales agent for the Eagle Coal Company and other firms. Stockholders included Walter B. and M.C. Innes of Billings and H.A. and Ellen Simmons, and Charlott Dilworth of Red Lodge. Walter B. Innes served as the district fuel administration for all of Montana and parts of Wyoming during the First World War, and as secretary of the Western Coal Producers' Association. The firm, headquartered in the Electric Building in Billings, operated through 1922, when its accounts were assigned to Montana Coal and Iron Company.

The Owl Mining Company was incorporated in Idaho to develop mining claims near Shoup, Lemhi County, Idaho. The original officers of the company were J.M. Freeman, Billings; E.H. Casterlin, Salmon, Idaho; and H.A. Simmons. Some development work was done on the claims during the 1930s, but for most of its existence, the company's mines were nonproductive.

H.A. Simmons was a member of the Methodist Church, Rotary Club, the Inquiry Club and the Masons. In the early 1940s Simmons was involved in the formation of the Carbon County Pioneers' Association, a group composed of men and women who became residents of Carbon County prior to 1901. The group incorporated in 1942, and Simmons was elected its president. H.A. Simmons died on December 14, 1967, in Red Lodge, at the age of 86.

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Content Description

This collection consists of the papers of Hubert Alfred Simmons and is divided into five subgroups: Hubert Alfred Simmons, Eagle Coal Company, Owl Mining Company, W.B. Innes and Co., and Western States Coal Company. Maps, photographs, and printed material have been transferred to the Library Map Collection, Photograph Archives, and Library respectively.

The Hubert Alfred Simmons Subgroup documents Simmons' family and professional life, and is comprised of general correspondence (1906-1956), including letters concerning his family, legal practice, legislative concerns, Helen Simmons, military service; etc.; miscellaneous correspondence (1944); financial records (1936); legal documents (1912-1948); reports (1916-1920); speeches (1911, 1939; undated); subject files (1928-1967); writings (1906, 1967); miscellany (1928-1967, undated); and clippings.

The Eagle Coal Company Subgroup is comprised of general correspondence (1918-1945), arranged alphabetically by correspondent, dealing primarily with coal sales in Montana, North Dakota, and Washington. These letters, to and from coal dealers and distributors, touch upon matters such as type and quality of coal mined, labor relations and other day-to-day problems of coal mining. Also included are financial records (1918-1947), including payrolls; legal documents (1920-1940); maps (1927-1930); minutes (1919-1931); organizational records (1918-1945), including stock certificates; production records (1920-1934); reports (1919, 1943), including an account of the Smith Mine disaster; subject files (1919-1941), pertaining in part to the Bituminous Coal Producers Board for District No. 22 of the National Bituminous Coal Commission, and the Montana Coal Operators Association; and miscellany (1918-1935).

The Owl Mining Company Subgroup consists of interoffice correspondence (1931-1949), financial records (1930-1958); and legal documents (1930-1948).

The W.B. Innes and Co. Subgroup is comprised of financial records (1919-1930), legal documents (1919); minutes (1919-1922); and organizational records (1919-1922).

The Western States Coal Company Subgroup includes general correspondence (1919-1928), financial records (1917-1919), and organizational records (1917-1919).

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

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

Arranged by subgroup and series. Some material housed in oversize boxes, Archives Map Case, and Manuscript Volumes. See inventory below for more information.

Location of Collection

12:3-4

Location of Collection

5:2-5 (oversize boxes 22, 23)

Location of Collection

146:1-3 (volumes 1-7)

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

  • Hubert Albert Simmons

    • Incoming Correspondence

    • General Correspondence

    • Miscellaneous Correspondence

    • Financial Records

    • Legal Documents

      • Description: Certificates of election; certificates to practice law; oath of office as president pro tempore and acting governor
        Dates: 1906-1948
        Container: Box/Folder 5 / 3
        Location: Hubert Albert Simmons / Legal Documents
      • Description: Certificates of election; certificates to practice law; oath of office as president pro tempore and acting governor [Oversize: See Archives Map Case]
        Dates: 1906-1948
        Container: Oversize Folder 1
        Location: Hubert Albert Simmons / Legal Documents

    • Photographs and Printed Material

    • Reports

      • Description: Annual reports of Hubert A. Simmons, Carbon County Attorney
        Dates: 1916-1920
        Container: Box/Folder 5 / 5
        Location: Hubert Albert Simmons / Reports

    • Speeches

      • Description: Miscellaneous (includes eulogy for James S. Robbins; talks to the Red Lodge Inquiry Club on national and world politics; poet Robert Burns; Philippine independence; child labor; ; etc.)
        Dates: 1911, 1939, undated
        Container: Box/Folder 5 / 6
        Location: Hubert Albert Simmons / Speeches

    • Subject Files

      • Description: Beartooth Highway (Red Lodge to Cooke City)
        Dates: 1947-1967
        Container: Box/Folder 5 / 7
        Location: Hubert Albert Simmons / Subject Files
      • Description: Carbon County Pioneers' Association (includes constitution, bylaws, and list of pioneers who arrived in Carbon county prior to 1901)
        Dates: 1942-1951
        Container: Box/Folder 5 / 8
        Location: Hubert Albert Simmons / Subject Files
      • Description: Hoover-Curtis Volunteer Committee of Carbon County (re Herbert Hoover presidential campaign: includes correspondence to Julius Wuerthner, state chairman; financial records; etc.)
        Dates: 1928
        Container: Box/Folder 5 / 9
        Location: Hubert Albert Simmons / Subject Files

    • Writings

    • Miscellany

      • Description: Carbon County Chronicle articles of incorporation and lists of subscribers to company stock
        Dates: 1924
        Container: Box/Folder 5 / 11
        Location: Hubert Albert Simmons / Miscellany
      • Description: Certificates, etc. (includes Indiana Law School diploma; certificate of honor as Four-Minute Man of the Committee of Public Information [World War I])
        Dates: 1906, 1918
        Container: Oversizebox 22
        Location: Hubert Albert Simmons / Miscellany
      • Description: Fromberg Methodist Church 1966-1967 Review
        Dates: 1967
        Container: Box/Folder 5 / 12
        Location: Hubert Albert Simmons / Miscellany
      • Description: Home insurance policy (includes description of residence)
        Dates: 1924
        Container: Box/Folder 5 / 13
        Location: Hubert Albert Simmons / Miscellany
      • Description: David Lay, Civil Engineer, daily record of work done; financial record; David Lay Estate financial records
        Dates: 1897-1929
        Container: Box/Folder 5 / 14
        Location: Hubert Albert Simmons / Miscellany
      • Description: Liberty Committee (Carbon County) membership list (includes note by Simmons stating that he was not a member)
        Dates: 1917, 1934
        Container: Box/Folder 5 / 15
        Location: Hubert Albert Simmons / Miscellany
      • Description: List of artifacts transferred to Museum
        Dates:
        Container: Box/Folder 5 / 16
        Location: Hubert Albert Simmons / Miscellany
      • Description: List of homesteads filed in Carbon County, 1889-1916 (arranged by township and range; includes locator, name, and date filed, parenthetical notations)
        Dates: 1889-1916
        Container: Box/Folder 5 / 17-18
        Location: Hubert Albert Simmons / Miscellany
      • Description: List of land selections of the Northern Pacific Railway rejected by the U.S. Land Office at Billings [in Township 8 South, Range 21 East]
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box/Folder 5 / 19
        Location: Hubert Albert Simmons / Miscellany
      • Description: List of state lands sold in Carbon County (arranged by township and range; includes locator, name of purchaser, and date)
        Dates: 1897-1910
        Container: Box/Folder 5 / 20
        Location: Hubert Albert Simmons / Miscellany
      • Description: Montana Association of County Commissioners resolutions passed at 35th annual meeting
        Dates: 1944
        Container: Box/Folder 5 / 21
        Location: Hubert Albert Simmons / Miscellany
      • Description: Montana Bar Association certificate of 50-year service
        Dates: 1960
        Container: Box/Folder 5 / 22
        Location: Hubert Albert Simmons / Miscellany
      • Description: Montana Bar Association extract of minutes
        Dates: 1942 August
        Container: Box/Folder 5 / 23
        Location: Hubert Albert Simmons / Miscellany
      • Description: Montana ex re. L.C. Howard vs. Elizabeth Ireland, State Superintendent of Public Instruction brief by H.A. Simmons and H.A. Simmons Jr.
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box/Folder 5 / 24
        Location: Hubert Albert Simmons / Miscellany
      • Description: Montana State Tax Conference materials (includes program, etc.)
        Dates: 1934 December
        Container: Box/Folder 5 / 25
        Location: Hubert Albert Simmons / Miscellany
      • Description: Outline of events re county printing controversy between Carbon County Commission and Carbon County News, Frombert Herald, Bridger Times
        Dates: 1938
        Container: Box/Folder 5 / 26
        Location: Hubert Albert Simmons / Miscellany
      • Description: Poems (includes "To our Husbands in the Legislature", "To the Wives at Home", "In Montana: a Land of Contrasts" by Washington Jay McCormick)
        Dates: 1945, 1947
        Container: Box/Folder 5 / 27
        Location: Hubert Albert Simmons / Miscellany
      • Description: Report of Eastern Star Jurisprudence Committee
        Dates: 1936 December
        Container: Box/Folder 5 / 28
        Location: Hubert Albert Simmons / Miscellany
      • Description: "Rules of Practice of the District Court of the Thirteenth Judicial District of the State of Montana in and for the Counties of Yellowstone, Big Horn, Carbon, Stillwater, and Treasure"
        Dates: 1956
        Container: Box/Folder 5 / 29
        Location: Hubert Albert Simmons / Miscellany
      • Description: Seventh Annual Extemporaneous Speaking Contest, Butte, program
        Dates: 1928
        Container: Box/Folder 5 / 30
        Location: Hubert Albert Simmons / Miscellany
      • Description: Hubert A. Simmons campaign material
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box/Folder 5 / 31
        Location: Hubert Albert Simmons / Miscellany
      • Description: "Why State Advertising" (re gasoline tax to fund promotion of tourism in Montana)
        Dates: 1941
        Container: Box/Folder 5 / 32
        Location: Hubert Albert Simmons / Miscellany

    • Clippings

      • Description: Miscellaneous (includes article on Simmons' oratorical abilities; report of county prosecutor; Helen and Margaret Simmons' graduation; legislation; Hubert A. Simmons Jr. graduation from law school and wedding)
        Dates: 1928-1939
        Container: Box/Folder 5 / 33
        Location: Hubert Albert Simmons / Clippings

  • Eagle Coal Company

    • General Correspondence

      • Description: Assignments of wages and garnishments
        Dates: 1918-1922
        Container: Box/Folder 6 / 1
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: A (correspondents include A.W. Miles Lumber and Coal Company; Alling Mercantile and Lumber Company; American Mining Congress; American Smelting and Refining Company; Anaconda Coal Company; Anaconda Copper Mining Company Coal Sales Dept.; Argo Beverage; Frank B. Ashworth)
        Dates: 1919-1925
        Container: Box/Folder 6 / 2
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: B (correspondents include Bair-Collins Company; Belgrade Company Ltd.; C.E. Berglund Lumber Company; B. Betor; Big Timber Lumber Company; Birdseye Mercantile Company; Bituminous Code Authority Division V; Bituminous Operators' Special Committee; George Blinn; Bozeman Investment Company; Bridger Coal Mining Company; Broadwater Bottling Works; also includes list of employees liable for city of Bearcreek road tax, 1925)

        RESTRICTED

        Dates: 1919-1927, 1935
        Container: Box/Folder 6 / 3
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: Collections (re "check offs" for physicians, room and board, etc.)
        Dates: 1919-1921
        Container: Box/Folder 6 / 4
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: Consolidated Coal Company, Great Falls
        Dates: 1919-1922
        Container: Box/Folder 6 / 5-7
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: Continental Coal Company, Spokane, Wash. (includes sales agreements)
        Dates: 1932-1943
        Container: Box/Folder 6 / 8-9
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: Continental Oil Company (includes contracts)
        Dates: 1922-1928
        Container: Box/Folder 6 / 10
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: C (correspondents include Cascade Co-operative Association; H. Earl Clack Company; Clyde Park Mercantile Company; John H. Cole; Consumer Coal Company; Crocker Coal Company; Crystal Ice and Fuel Company)
        Dates: 1919-1928
        Container: Box/Folder 7 / 1
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: Robert I. Defenderfer
        Dates: 1922-1923
        Container: Box/Folder 7 / 2
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: D (correspondents include Jack Danens; O.H. Davidson Equipment Company; James Derham; A.A. Dinsdale; H.O. Doering; Dogden Farmers Elevator and Mercantile Company; Dunham Elevator Company; E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Company)
        Dates: 1919-1926
        Container: Box/Folder 7 / 3
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: E (correspondents include East Butte Copper Mining Company; East Side Service Station, Missoula; Eastern Montana Light and Power Company; Egland Lumber Company; Electrical Equipment Company; Elliston Lime Company; Equity Co-operative Association [of Brady, Bynum, Cut Bank, Glasgow, Harlem, and Valier])
        Dates: 1919-1926
        Container: Box/Folder 7 / 4
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: John T. Flaherty (includes personal correspondence; federal income tax returns, etc.)

        RESTRICTED

        Dates: 1922-1925
        Container: Box/Folder 7 / 5
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: F (correspondents include Farmers Cooperative Elevator Company; Farmers Educational and Cooperative Union of America; Farmers Grain Company; Farmers Grain and Fuel Company; Farmers' Marketing Department; Fobes Supply Company; Foerschler's Garage; Forsyth Lumber Company)
        Dates: 1919-1927
        Container: Box/Folder 7 / 6
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: Goodman Manufacturing Company
        Dates: 1920-1927
        Container: Box/Folder 7 / 7
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: Great Northern Railway Company
        Dates: 1919-1923
        Container: Box/Folder 7 / 8
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: G (correspondents include Gackle Grain Company; Gallatin Laundry Company; Gallatin Lumber Company; Givens Coal Company; Granite BiMetallic Consolidated Mining Company; Great Falls Retail Dealers' Association)
        Dates: 1919-1926
        Container: Box/Folder 7 / 9
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: H.M. Yaw Company
        Dates: 1932, 1927
        Container: Box/Folder 7 / 10
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: Helena Adjustment Company (re T.J. DeLaHunt; R.I. Diefenderfer; Montana Transfer Company; Interstate Coal and Dock Company, etc.)
        Dates: 1921-1924
        Container: Box/Folder 7 / 11-12
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: Ha-He (correspondents include Charles R. Hadley Company; H.P. Harmon; James E. Harrington; J.F. Harvey, Coal and Metal Mining Equipment; Hastings Grain Company; Helena Fuel Company; Helena Fuel Dealers Association; Helena Light and Railway Company; Hellekson Lumber Company; Hendrie and Bolthoff Manufacturing and Supply Company)
        Dates: 1919-1928
        Container: Box/Folder 7 / 13-14
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: Ho-Hu (correspondents include T.J. Hocking; Hoffman Coal Company; Al Holland; Holly Sugar Corporation; T.R. Holmes Lumber Company; W.W. Hurd; Wilkinson F. Hutton)
        Dates: 1921-1927
        Container: Box/Folder 8 / 1
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: I (correspondents include Imperial Elevator Company; Independent Elevator; Ort Irons)
        Dates: 1920-1923
        Container: Box/Folder 8 / 2
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: R.J. Johannes, agent for Eagle Coal (includes correspondence between Johannes and his customers)
        Dates: 1919-1924
        Container: Box/Folder 8 / 3-6
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: J (correspondents include William Jarvis; Johnson and Johnson; C.L. Jones Coal Agency; Jud Community Consumers Club)
        Dates: 1919-1924
        Container: Box/Folder 8 / 7
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: Kraft Coal Company (re coal sales agreement)
        Dates: 1938-1942
        Container: Box/Folder 8 / 8
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: K (correspondents include Karnak Farmers Elevator Company; P.J. Kelly; Kenyon-Noble Lumber Company [on stationery advertising Bozeman and its rodeo]; Kessel and Lippert; M. Knisel; Krein Electric Company; Frank Kyle)
        Dates: 1919-1924
        Container: Box/Folder 8 / 9
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: Lindrooth, Shubart and Company, Mining and Material Handling Machinery (includes drawing of a swiveling, loading and picking boom for box and gondola cars)
        Dates: 1919-1927
        Container: Box/Folder 8 / 10
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: L (correspondents include H. La Barre; L.H. Labbitt; John J. Lally; John T. Lamb Estate; William Larkin; Louis Larson Company; Swan Larson; A. Leschen and Sons Rope Company; Linwell Company; Lobdell Rubber Company; Ewin Lockridge; August Lund)
        Dates: 1918-1924, 1932
        Container: Box/Folder 8 / 11
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: Mine and Smelter Supply Company
        Dates: 1920-1927
        Container: Box/Folder 9 / 1
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: Montana Coal and Iron Company
        Dates: 1919-1945
        Container: Box/Folder 9 / 2-4
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: Montana Industrial Accident Board (includes Inspector of Coal Mines, monthly reports of employment, accident reports, etc.)
        Dates: 1919-1930, 1935, undated
        Container: Box/Folder 9 / 5
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: Montana state agencies (includes Montana Attorney General; Montana State Auditor; Montana Board of Equalization; Montana State Forester; Montana Governor Joseph M. Dixon; Montana Board of Railroad Commissioners; Montana Secretary of State; Montana State Treasurer)
        Dates: 1919-1935
        Container: Box/Folder 9 / 6
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: Montana, Wyoming and Southern Railroad Company
        Dates: 1919-1928
        Container: Box/Folder 9 / 7
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: Montana-Wyoming Association of Credit Men
        Dates: 1923-1925
        Container: Box/Folder 9 / 8
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: Ma-Mi (correspondents include Malta Mercantile Company; McCaull-Webster Elevator Company; McCurdy Lumber Company; P.S. McGuire, Mid-Continental Equipment and Machinery Company; Miles City Light and Power Department; Miles City Hospital; Miners State Bank of Bearcreek; Mining Association of Montana; Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie Railway Company; G.N. Mires; Missoula Fuel Company; Missoula Laundry Company; J.E. Mitchell)
        Dates: 1919-1926, 1938, 1943
        Container: Box/Folder 9 / 9
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: Mo-Mu (correspondents include Model Clothing House; Monahan Coal Company; Montana Association of Commercial Organization Secretaries; Montana Coal and Transfer Company; Montana Electric Company; Montana Grain Growers; Montana Mining Association; Montana Sash and Door Company; Montana-Wyoming Coal Operators; Morse Brothers Mercantile Company; M.J. Murphy)
        Dates: 1919-1926
        Container: Box/Folder 9 / 10
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: Northern Pacific Railway Company
        Dates: 1919-1924
        Container: Box/Folder 10 / 1
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: Nugent's Transfer and Storage
        Dates: 1919-1925
        Container: Box/Folder 10 / 2
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: N (correspondents include National Coal Association; Nelson Coal Company; Nora Farmers Elevator Company; Northern Grain and Warehouse Company; Northwest Coal Company; Northwestern Improvement Company; R.D. Nuttall Company)
        Dates: 1919-1925
        Container: Box/Folder 10 / 3
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: O (correspondents include Fanny E. Officer, Hunters Hot Springs; A.W. Olson; O'Malley Lumber and Coal Company; Ottumwa Box Car Loader Company; Ottumwa Iron Works; R.B. Overhuls)
        Dates: 1919-1930
        Container: Box/Folder 10 / 4
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: Pioneer Coal Company (R.J. Johannes, general manager)
        Dates: 1922-1925
        Container: Box/Folder 10 / 5
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: P (correspondents include Peabody Coal Company; Pekin Co-operative Elevator Company; C.T. Perry and Company; Perry Fuel and Cement Company; Perry-Ullman Lumber Company; P.F. Pettibone and Company; Philipsburg Mining Company; Pillsbury Farmers Elevator Company; Pioneer Store; Piper-Howe Lumber Company; Pittsburgh and Ashland Coal and Dock Company; Portland Cement Association; M.V. Potter; T.C. Power and Brother)
        Dates: 1919-1927
        Container: Box/Folder 10 / 6
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: Thomas B. Quaw
        Dates: 1921-1923
        Container: Box/Folder 10 / 7
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: R (correspondents include Red Trail Transfer; Regional Fuel Distributor for Montana; Reliant Milling Company; Riba Lumber Company; Harry Riis; Rochdale Society of Fargo; Royal Typewriter Sales Company)
        Dates: 1919-1927
        Container: Box/Folder 10 / 8
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: Hubert A. Simmons (re contract with Montana Coal and Iron Company)
        Dates: 1929
        Container: Box/Folder 10 / 9
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: Sturm and Yaw, wholesale distributor of coal and lumber
        Dates: 1921-1925
        Container: Box/Folder 10 / 10-14
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: S (correspondents include Sacred Heart Church, Glendive & Miles City; St. Anne's Hospital, Anaconda; St. Anthony and Dakota Elevator Company; St. Joseph's Hospital, Deer Lodge; St. Joseph's Rectory, Butte; St. Luke's Hospital, Aberdeen S.D.; St. Mary's Academy, Deer Lodge; St. Mary's Church, Columbus; St. Vincent's Hospital, Billings; Peter Schierts; Schroeder Brothers Company; Security Adjustment Company; Shattuck Commercial Company; Silver Bow County Commissioners; Silver Bow Fuel Dealers' Association; John Skadberg; State Elevator Company; State Milling Company; State Nursery and Seed Company; William Steele and Company; F.J. Steidl; Cleve M. Straight)
        Dates: 1919-1924
        Container: Box/Folder 11 / 1
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: T (correspondents include Talmage-Sayer Company; Temvik Farmers Elevator Company; Texas Company; Thompson Farmers Co-operative Elevator Company; Thompson Lumber Company; Thompson Yards Inc.; Traffic Underwriters Association; Trail Garage; Twin Bridge Lumber Company)
        Dates: 1919-1925
        Container: Box/Folder 11 / 2
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: United Mine Workers of America, Local #4457 (includes membership applications and hospital fee deductions)
        Dates: 1919-1927
        Container: Box/Folder 11 / 3
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: United States Coal Commission
        Dates: 1922-1923
        Container: Box/Folder 11 / 4
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: United States Bureau of Mines and United States Geological Survey (includes reports)
        Dates: 1919-1934
        Container: Box/Folder 11 / 5
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: United States Fuel Administrator (includes list of retail coal dealers and wholesale coal consumers of Montana)
        Dates: 1918-1922
        Container: Box/Folder 11 / 6
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: United States Treasury Department (includes map of Eagle Coal Company mines and financial information)
        Dates: 1920-1928
        Container: Box/Folder 11 / 7-8
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: U (correspondents include United Creditors' Association; United States Army; United States Forest Service; United States National Bank of Red Lodge)
        Dates: 1921-1925
        Container: Box/Folder 11 / 9
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: Vanadium Corporation (re proposed sale of 35 mining claims near Shoup, Idaho)
        Dates: 1930
        Container: Box/Folder 11 / 10
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: V (correspondents include G. Venhuizen; Valley Lumber Company)
        Dates: 1920-1922
        Container: Box/Folder 11 / 11
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: W.B. Innes and Company
        Dates: 1919-1921
        Container: Box/Folder 11 / 12
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: Westinghouse Electrical and Manufacturing Company
        Dates: 1922-1927
        Container: Box/Folder 11 / 13
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: W (correspondents include G.L. Walker; Walkerville Mercantile Company; J.E. Walsh; Watt Mining Car Wheel Company; J.H. Wead; W.F. Weibke; J.J. Welch; Western Coal Producers Association; Western Weighing and Inspection Bureau; Ira Wilber; Frank Woody)
        Dates: 1919-1927
        Container: Box/Folder 11 / 14
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: Y (correspondents include Chris Yegan; Yellowstone Co-Operative Association)
        Dates: 1920-1922
        Container: Box/Folder 11 / 15
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence
      • Description: Zimmerman and Doggett
        Dates: 1920-1921
        Container: Box/Folder 11 / 16
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / General Correspondence

    • Financial Records

      • Description: Account ledgers
        Dates: 1918-1925
        Container: Box/Folder 12 / 1-5
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Financial Records
      • Description: Annual statements
        Dates: 1922-1923, 1925
        Container: Box/Folder 13 / 1
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Financial Records
      • Description: Assignments and attachments of wages
        Dates: 1922-1943
        Container: Box/Folder 13 / 2-9
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Financial Records
      • Description: Bills of sale (includes indenture made with John T. Flaherty and Martin Flaherty for mine and proposal to exchange property for stock)
        Dates: 1919, 1925
        Container: Box/Folder 13 / 10
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Financial Records
      • Description: "Bituminous, semibituminous, subbituminous (including lignite) and semianthracite coal and coke special report: schedule for licensees" (includes amount of coal mined, rate, and total; miners' names etc.)
        Dates: 1918-1919
        Container: Oversizebox 22
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Financial Records
      • Description: Carbon County assessment list of property subject to taxation

        RESTRICTED

        Dates: 1920-1933
        Container: Box/Folder 13 / 11
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Financial Records
      • Description: Carbon County road and poll tax deductions from wages (lists employees)

        RESTRICTED

        Dates: 1921
        Container: Box/Folder 13 / 12
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Financial Records
      • Description: Cash book
        Dates: 1921-1928
        Container: Volume 1
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Financial Records
      • Description: Cash book / cash in banking accounts (United States National Bank of Red Lodge; Red Lodge State Bank; Midland National Bank, Billings)
        Dates: 1919-1934
        Container: Box/Folder 13 / 13-15
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Financial Records
      • Description: Coal sales
        Dates: 1918-1920
        Container: Box/Folder 13 / 16
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Financial Records
      • Description: Employee check-off for union dues and hospital care (includes names of union members, names of attending physician, etc.)
        Dates: 1921-1943
        Container: Box/Folder 14 / 1-3
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Financial Records
      • Description: General ledgers
        Dates: 1919-1939
        Container: Box/Folder 14 / 4-5
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Financial Records
      • Description: Inventory and approximate value of Eagle Coal Company property at the mine
        Dates: 1929 March
        Container: Box/Folder 14 / 6
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Financial Records
      • Description: Journals
        Dates: 1919-1921
        Container: Box/Folder 14 / 7-8
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Financial Records
      • Description: Journal voucher and coal sales (includes sales record, date, name of customer, destination, carrier, rate, type and amount of coal; etc.)
        Dates: 1921-1934
        Container: Volume 2
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Financial Records
      • Description: Journal voucher
        Dates: 1932-1939
        Container: Box/Folder 14 / 9
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Financial Records
      • Description: Miners' miscellaneous earnings books (includes name, amount mined, rate, and total paid)
        Dates: 1922-1933
        Container: Box/Folder 15 / 1-3
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Financial Records
      • Description: Miners' supply book (includes daily records of fuses and powder used)
        Dates: 1922-1929
        Container: Box/Folder 15 / 4
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Financial Records
      • Description: Montana coal mining license tax returns

        RESTRICTED

        Dates: 1919-1926
        Container: Box/Folder 15 / 5
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Financial Records
      • Description: Montana corporation license tax returns (includes balance sheets)

        RESTRICTED

        Dates: 1919-1947
        Container: Box/Folder 15 / 6
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Financial Records
      • Description: Montana State Board of Equalization assessments of net proceeds
        Dates: 1919-1943
        Container: Box/Folder 15 / 7
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Financial Records
      • Description: Mortgage of Eagle Coal Company real estate to H.A. Simmons
        Dates: 1920
        Container: Box/Folder 15 / 8
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Financial Records
      • Description: Orders register (includes order number, date received, customer, destination, kind of coal, price, carrier, date of shipment, amount of coal)
        Dates: 1921-1926
        Container: Box/Folder 15 / 9
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Financial Records
      • Description: Payroll
        Dates: December 1918
        Container: Box/Folder 15 / 10
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Financial Records
      • Description: Payrolls
        Dates: 1920-1934
        Container: Box/Folder 16 / 1-3
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Financial Records
      • Description: Payroll (includes name, amount earned, deductions for hospital, rent, union, etc.)
        Dates: 1937-1938
        Container: Oversizebox 22
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Financial Records
      • Description: Payrolls (annual wages and salaries; includes name, marital status, and amount paid)
        Dates: 1938-1940
        Container: Box/Folder 16 / 4
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Financial Records
      • Description: Payroll check registers (1919-1927 includes sundry expenses)
        Dates: 1919-1933
        Container: Box/Folder 16 / 5-8
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Financial Records
      • Description: Payroll check registers
        Dates: 1941-1943
        Container: Box/Folder 17 / 1
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Financial Records
      • Description: Payroll voucher register (includes name and occupation; tons of mine run coal; days; rate; deductions for supplies, union, tool sharpening, etc.) [OVERSIZE: See Archives Map Case folder MC 199-215]
        Dates: 1920-1921
        Container: Oversize Folder MC 199-215
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Financial Records
      • Description: Promissory notes
        Dates: 1920, 1926
        Container: Box/Folder 17 / 2
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Financial Records
      • Description: Sales book
        Dates: 1920-1921
        Container: Volume 2a
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Financial Records
      • Description: Tonnage book (includes miners' names, daily amount mined, rate, amount paid; also includes list of accidents, 1933; and "Statement of Total Mine Run Tonnage, Total Local Coal Sales, Tons Shipped and Amounts Shipped for the Year 1933")
        Dates: 1922-1934
        Container: Box/Folder 17 / 3
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Financial Records
      • Description: Trial balances of customer and general ledgers, bank account reconciliations
        Dates: 1919-1947
        Container: Box/Folder 17 / 4-5
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Financial Records
      • Description: U.S. capital stock tax returns

        RESTRICTED

        Dates: 1919-1945
        Container: Box/Folder 17 / 6
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Financial Records
      • Description: U.S. corporate income tax returns

        RESTRICTED

        Dates: 1919-1947
        Container: Box/Folder 17 / 7
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Financial Records
      • Description: Western Coal and Iron Company account
        Dates: 1920-1928
        Container: Box/Folder 17 / 8
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Financial Records

    • Legal Documents

      • Description: Agreement [unsigned] with Montana Coal and Iron Company for lease and option to purchase Eagle Coal Company mining properties
        Dates: 1933
        Container: Box/Folder 18 / 1
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Legal Documents
      • Description: Agreements with Western States Coal Company and Hubert A. Simmons (re sale of coal)
        Dates: 1920, 1928-1931, 1938
        Container: Box/Folder 18 / 2
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Legal Documents
      • Description: Assignments of debts
        Dates: 1920, 1922
        Container: Box/Folder 18 / 3
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Legal Documents
      • Description: Assignments of leases
        Dates: 1919-1930
        Container: Box/Folder 18 / 4
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Legal Documents
      • Description: General provision by Coal Operators Association; agreement between United Mine Workers of America District #27 and Eagle Coal Company
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box/Folder 18 / 5
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Legal Documents
      • Description: Insurance policies
        Dates: 1926-1927
        Container: Box/Folder 18 / 6
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Legal Documents
      • Description: National Bituminous Coal Commission certificate of registration in the Bituminous Coal Code; certificate of registration as a registered distributor of bituminous coal
        Dates: 1936, 1940
        Container: Box/Folder 18 / 7
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Legal Documents

    • Maps

      • Description: Map of mine tunnel; Eagle Coal Company's Spring Creek claims, Mineral Hill District Lemhi County, Idaho [OVERSIZE: See Archives Map Case folder MC 199-215]
        Dates: 1927, 1930
        Container: Oversize Folder MC 199-215
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Maps
      • Description: List of maps transferred to the Library Map Collection
        Dates:
        Container: Box/Folder 18 / 8
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Maps

    • Minutes

      • Description: Minutes and resolutions
        Dates: 1919, 1926-1927, 1930
        Container: Box/Folder 18 / 9
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Minutes

    • Organizational Records

    • Production Records

      • Description: Cars loaded and shipped (includes type and weight of coal, carrier, etc.)
        Dates: 1920-1934
        Container: Box/Folder 18 / 12-15
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Production Records
      • Description: Daily mine weight record
        Dates: 1929-1934
        Container: Oversizebox 23
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Production Records
      • Description: National Recovery Administration [NRA] Bituminous Coal Forms A-D ("Production and Distribution Costs"; " Summary of Costs for Each Operating Company"; "Data on Man-Hours of Piece Workers"; "Individual Mine Report")
        Dates: 1933-1934
        Container: Oversizebox 23
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Production Records

    • Reports

      • Description: Annual report of the Eagle Coal Company to Montana Secretary of State
        Dates: 1919
        Container: Box/Folder 18 / 16
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Reports
      • Description: "Report of a Mine Explosion that Occurred at the Smith Mine, Washoe, Montana, on February 27, 1943" by J.M. Freeman and W.A. Romer
        Dates: 1943 June
        Container: Box/Folder 18 / 17
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Reports
      • Description: Summary of reports to federal and state agencies
        Dates: 1934-1935
        Container: Box/Folder 18 / 18
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Reports

    • Subject Files

      • Description: Bituminous Coal Producers Board for District #22, National Bituminous Coal Commission (includes tonnage report; list of coal producers by county; list of code members; price schedules; bylaws; etc.)
        Dates: 1937
        Container: Box/Folder 18 / 19-21
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Subject Files
      • Description: Bituminous Coal Producers Board for District #22, National Bituminous Coal Commission (includes rules of practice)
        Dates: 1938
        Container: Box/Folder 18 / 22-24
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Subject Files
      • Description: Bituminous Coal Producers Board for District #22, National Bituminous Coal Commission (includes termination of coal production by Eagle Coal company; proposed uniform rules)
        Dates: 1938
        Container: Box/Folder 19 / 1
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Subject Files
      • Description: Bituminous Coal Producers Board for District #22, National Bituminous Coal Commission (includes lists of code members; price schedules; etc.)
        Dates: 1940-1942
        Container: Box/Folder 19 / 2
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Subject Files
      • Description: Bituminous Coal Producers Board for District #22, National Bituminous Coal Commission (financial records)
        Dates: 1937-1939
        Container: Box/Folder 19 / 3
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Subject Files
      • Description: Bituminous Coal Producers Board for District #22, National Bituminous Coal Commission (minutes)
        Dates: 1937-1938
        Container: Box/Folder 19 / 4-6
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Subject Files
      • Description: Bituminous Coal Producers Board for District #22, National Bituminous Coal Commission (news releases)
        Dates: 1937-1938
        Container: Box/Folder 19 / 7
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Subject Files
      • Description: Bituminous Coal Producers Board for District #22, National Bituminous Coal Commission (orders)
        Dates: 1937
        Container: Box/Folder 19 / 8
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Subject Files
      • Description: Bituminous Coal Producers Board for District #22, National Bituminous Coal Commission (orders)
        Dates: 1937-1941
        Container: Box/Folder 20 / 1
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Subject Files
      • Description: Bituminous Coal Producers Board for District #22, National Bituminous Coal Commission (report to Secretary of District #22 on production, 1913-1936; list of coal consumers; bids and awards for federal buildings; etc.)
        Dates: 1938
        Container: Box/Folder 20 / 2
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Subject Files
      • Description: Coal sales with Montana Coal and Iron Company
        Dates: 1936-1940
        Container: Box/Folder 20 / 3
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Subject Files
      • Description: Deer Creek gold claims lease, Sweetgrass County
        Dates: 1933
        Container: Box/Folder 20 / 4
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Subject Files
      • Description: Dissolution of Eagle Coal Company
        Dates: 1947-1948
        Container: Box/Folder 20 / 5
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Subject Files
      • Description: Montana Coal Operators' Association (includes tonnage reports; meetings with United Mine Workers; report on dues and assessments by Eagle employees; decisions in labor disputes; labor contract with Eagle Coal Company; financial reports)
        Dates: 1919-1934
        Container: Box/Folder 20 / 6
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Subject Files
      • Description: Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company locomotive contract
        Dates: 1922
        Container: Box/Folder 20 / 7
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Subject Files

    • Miscellany

      • Description: Minutes of special meeting of stockholders of Montana Coal and Iron Company
        Dates: 1918 December
        Container: Box/Folder 20 / 8
        Location: Eagle Coal Company / Miscellany

  • Owl Mining Company [Lemhi County, Idaho]

  • W. B. Innes and Company

  • Western States Coal Company


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