MTLjardine.xml Preliminary Guide to the Jardine Mining Company Records 1898-1959 Jardine Mining Company records Finding aid prepared by Ellie Arguimbau, 2008; edited by Rich Aarstad 2018 Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Montana Historical Society Research Center 2018
Helena, MT
Finding aid encoded by Ellie Arguimbau 2008 Finding aid written in English. Finding aid based on DACS ( Describing Archives: A Content Standard)2nd Edition. Montana Historical Society Archives S6:1-1; S7:Top Jardine Mining Company (Mont.) Jardine Mining Company records 1898-1959 75 linear feet of shelf space; 29 volumes The Jardine Mining Company was incorporated in 1917, as a gold mining operation at Jardine, near Gardiner, Montana. The bulk of the collection consists of records of the Jardine Mining Company (1917-1949), including financial volumes, reports, correspondence, organizational materials, printed materials, legal documents, etc. There are subgroups for several predecessor companies operating in the Bear Gulch area. S6:1-1; S7: Top English Historical Note

The Jardine Gold Mining and Milling Company was incorporated under Arizona law by W. S. Hunnewell, H. C. Bacorn, and J. E. Healy. The offices were in Butte and the mines at Jardine, Montana. In 1917 it reorganized under Montana law as the Jardine Mining Company. The company consolidated the properties of several earlier companies mining in the Bear Gulch area.

The bulk of the collection consists of records of the Jardine Mining Company (1917-1949), including financial volumes, reports, correspondence, organizational materials, printed materials, legal documents, etc.

There are subgroups for the Bear Gulch Mining Company (1898-1903), including correspondence, financial records, organizational materials, and production records; for the Kimberly Montana Gold Mining Company (1899-1930s), including correspondence, court papers, legal documents, organizational records, and production records; for the King Solomon Quartz and Placer Mining Company (1899-1904), including a stockholder ledger and a tunnel survey; for the Legal Tender Mining Company (1899-1900), consisting of a stockholder journal; for the Montana Consolidated Gold Mining Company (1898-1914), consisting of court papers and a stockholder ledger; for the Rademont Mining Company (1946-1947), consisting of a general journal; and for the Revenue Mining Company (1946), consisting of a stock certificate book.

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Preliminarily sorted only. A great deal of the material in the collection is duplicative or of transitory value, and will be culled at time of final processing.

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Mines and mineral resources--Montana--Jardine. Jardine (Mont.) Mines and Mineral Resources Montana Detailed Description of the Collection Bear Gulch Mining Company 1898-1903 Outgoing Correspondence 1 / 2 Letterpress volume 1901-1902 General Correspondence 1 / 3-10 Miscellaneous (includes various court case records) 1898-1902 Financial Records 2 / 1-4 Bank statements, cancelled checks, freight invoices, miscellaneous invoices 1899-1902 Vol. 1-8 Check stubs 1899-1902 Vol. 9 Legal expenses 1902-1907 2 / 5 Stores distributed 1900-1902 Vol. 10 Trial balance (includes property listing and payroll) 1899-1902 Organizational Records 2A / 1 Stock certificate stub book; cancelled stock certificates 1898-1902 2A / 2-4 Stockholder ledger, journal, and dividend book 1898-1903 Production Records 2A / 5-6 Mine and machine reports 1900-1902 2A / 7 Tank charges 1900 2A / 8 Mine development and tunnel ore 1901-1902 2A / 9 Reports from Cyanide Plant 1900 Jardine Mining Company 1917-1949 General Correspondence 3-7 Alphabetical correspondence, within each year of group of years 1917, 1920-1935 7 / 11-14 Post Office correspondence 1928-1929 8 / 1-12 Arsenic correspondence 1925-1935 8 / 13 Tungsten correspondence 1925-1935 Employment Records 9-12 Personnel files [RESTRICTED] 1940s 12 / 46 Employee cards 1930s 12 / 47-102 Time reports 1930s-1940s 13 Personnel records and payrolls [RESTRICTED] 1930s-1940s Vol. 11-16 Payroll books 1937-1948 Financial Records 14 Articles wanted from storekeeper 1937-1945 Vol. 17 Cash book 1916-1922 Vol. 18-21 Check registers 1917-1936 Vol. 22-23 Cost distributions 1941-1946 15 Cost statements 1938-1941 16-20 Invoices 1920s-1940s 21 / 1 Invoices 1920s-1940s 21 / 2 Journal entries 1930s-1940s Vol. 24 Ledger 1917-1921 21 / 3 Office expenses 1918 22-23 Orders for supplies 1930s-1940s 24 / 1 Orders for supplies 1930s-1940s 24 / 2 Outstanding checks 1924-1935 24 / 3-4 Petty cash 1936-1938 24 / 5 Miscellaneous book 1931-1937 24 / 6-7 Rent ledgers 1934-1937, 1945 Vol. 25-28 Vouchers registers 1923-1937 25 Miscellaneous (includes check registers, Miners Union records, payroll) 1930s-1930s 26 Miscellaneous (includes shipping invoices, injury reports, financial statements) 1930s 27 Miscellaneous (includes accounts, financial reports, taxes, monthly working papers) 1936-1944 28 Miscellaneous (includes freight invoices, timber accounts, fund remittances, Charles Hardy Market Reports, inventories, cash flow, fire extinguishers, lumber, etc.) 1920s-1940s 29 Orders for supplies 1940s Court Papers 30 / 1 Dreyfus vs. Jardine Mining Company (includes testimony of Moise Dreyfus, John Mocker, and James McNamara re stock certificates and ore thefts by miners) 1916 30 / 2-4 Sackett vs. Jardine Mining Company 1925-1927 30 / 5 Hearings on arsenic tariff 1930 30 / 6 Hearings on Northern Pacific Railway service curtailment 1924-2925 Legal Documents 30 / 7 Mine location certificates 1927 30 / 8 Miscellaneous (includes correspondence re legal matters and court cases with either Bacorn brother) 1900s-1930s 30 / 9 Wage contract proposal 1944 Organizational Records 31 Stockholder material (includes proxies, correspondence, securities listings and stock sales, lists of stenographer's notes, stock certificate stubs) 1910s-1940s? 32 Stockholder material (includes lists of stockholders, stock ledgers) 1917-? 33 Stockholder material (includes stock ledgers, proxies, reports, proposed reorganization plans) 1910s-1930s Production Records 34 / 1 Assay reports 1947 34 / 2 Daily mine reports 1937 34 / 3 Ore delivery to mill 1937-1941 34 / 4 Miscellaneous reports undated 35 Contract work done 1943-1948 36 / 1 Desk calendars 1940-1946 36 / 2 Engineers' notebooks 1932-1936 36 / 3 Engineers' notebooks 1932-1936 36 / 4 Tungsten mill notebooks 1917-1918 36 / 5 Equipment inventory undated 36 / 6 Description of work cards [probably cull?] 1930s-1940s 37 Mine and mill reports 1930s 38 Ore delivery to mill reports undated 39 Mine reports 1933-1934 39 Tramming reports 1930s Reports 40 / 1-15 Annual reports to stockholders 1921-1947 40 / 16- ? Monthly and weekly financial reports 1940s 41 Monthly and weekly financial reports 1940s Subject Files 42 / 1 Chris Romel 1940-1941 42 / 2 Bacorn (miscellaneous) 1920s 42 / 3 Mechanical drawings undated 42 / 4-5 Power ditch 1930s-1940s 42 / 6 Meters 1940s 42 / 7 John Roper undated 42 / 8 Railway Express Agency 1940s 42 / 9 Telephone, fire, and water systems 1940s 42 / 10 Alphabetical files (D-W; largely equipment advertising sent to company) 1940s 42 / 11-13 Operations (correspondence of Mining Engineer Newton Emmons to President William Hax [in New York]) 1934-1937 42 / 14 Housing floor plans and correspondence 1940s 42 / 15 Montana Mining Association (correspondence re dues, newspaper articles, etc.) 1940-1942 42 / 16 Timber contracts (includes special use permits, correspondence, contracts) 1930s-1940s 42 / 17 Wage hour data (correspondence) 1940s 43 Alphabetical files (A-V; includes correspondence, financial, subject, etc.) 1930s-1940s 44 Alphabetical files (U-Z) and invoices 1935-1945 45 Alphabetical files (B-S; re equipment advertising from companies selling JMC products, correspondence, invoices, bills from manufacturers and businesses, Bacorn Suit, and mostly hundreds of files with few documents, by individual and company name) 1920s-1940s 46 Miscellaneous (re equipment advertising, invoices, correspondence, houses, reports, including reports to stockholders [will need to be added to reports, above box 66]) 1935-1945 47 Miscellaneous (including orders for equipment, freight bills, loose material re mining claims, annual reports, JMC vs. Jardine Mine and Millmen's Union, 1944; and personnel) 1930s-1940s 48-49 Miscellaneous (including equipment orders, personnel files, advertising, invoices, mine safety equipment, trucks, machinery, inventory of buildings and contents) 1940s 50 Miscellaneous (including early Bacorn correspondence, invoices arranged by company) 1922, 1930s-1940s 51 Miscellaneous (including correspondence overflow; forms, catalogues; brochures; job openings; boarding house; cash receipts and disbursements; crude and custom ore shipments; Federal Power Commission, including articles of incorporation and amendments, 1917-1935) 1917-1940s 52 Miscellaneous (including arsenic notebooks, orders, inventory, stock records, personnel files) 1921-1943 53 Miscellaneous (including furnace, loose papers, invoices, orders, arsenic, taxes, gross proceeds of mine forms, supplies, time books, requisitions) 1930s-1940s 54 Miscellaneous (including correspondence with companies, cash receipts and disbursements, rent cards, advertising, Jardine Office correspondence, U.S. Forest Service timber sales) 1930s-1940s 55 Miscellaneous (including invoices, receipts and disbursements) 1940s 56 Miscellaneous (including invoices A-Z) 1945-1947 57 Miscellaneous (including invoices A-Z, insurance on property and buildings, power plant blueprints for water wheel) 1938-1940s 58 Miscellaneous (including Federal Power Commission correspondence, arsenic contracts, W. H. Hax personal file, H. W. Blumenthal personal file, inventory of company buildings and land, Irving Idler) 1940s 59 Miscellaneous (including invoices, loose papers, Diamond Drilling Company proposals) 1940s 60 Miscellaneous (including alphabetical files, War Assets Administration, vacation records, invoices, chronological files, contract with Jardine Miners and Millmen's Union, power plant blueprints and inventories) 1940s 61 Miscellaneous (including correspondence, tailing disposal, mill equipment, Cyanide Plant, taxes, Power House, Sullivan Equipment catalogues, orders #1816-2200, war production, alphabetical files G-Mc) 1940s 62 Miscellaneous (including correspondence of Mabel Tremblay, DuPont safety posters, invoices, loose paper 1922, Bacorn alphabetical correspondence, 1916-1917, alphabetical M-P, railroad rate books, payrolls) 1910s-1940s 63 Miscellaneous (including electrical equipment blueprints and inventories, wage adjustment forms, coal, Henry R. Coons personal, blueprints of Anaconda Copper Mining Company and Timber Butte Mining Company) 1900s-1940s 29 Blueprints of Arsenic Plant and others of Jardine Mining Company and Anaconda Copper Mining Company) 1910s-1930s 64 Miscellaneous (including vouchers, correspondence, order books, alphabetical M and S-T, Roseborough Timber, employee transportation) 1940s 65 Miscellaneous (including vouchers, correspondence, arsenic, Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Wage Hour Act, receipt and disbursement statements, annual report to stockholders, 1938, alphabetical N-P) 1930s-1940s 66 Miscellaneous (including loose correspondence 1920s-1940s, gold and silver forms, orders) 1920s-1940s 67 Miscellaneous (including equipment advertising, tungsten) 1939-1940s 68 Miscellaneous (including equipment transfer, Power House, mining contracts, desk calendar, employee files, account book pages) 1940s 69 Miscellaneous (including equipment transfer, War Manpower Commission, orders, Assay Office) 1940s 70 Miscellaneous (including equipment transfer, Crushing Plant blueprints, explosives) 1940s 71-72 Miscellaneous (including materials set aside by Joy Moseley for Toneybeth Clark, kilowatt chart, pipe, Fagergren Flotation Machine, appraisal of buildings and contents, map of mining claims, hand drawings) 1930s-1940s Printed Material 73 Monographs and articles on mines and mining) 1930s-1940s 74 Mining equipment catalogues 1930s-1940s Kimberly Montana Gold Company 1899-1909 General Correspondence 75 / 1-4 Miscellaneous 1906-1908 Court Papers 75 / 5 George A. Baird, et al. vs. Kimberly Montana Gold Mining Company, et al. 1909 Legal Documents 75 / 6 Miscellaneous 1906-1908 Organizational Records 76 / 4 Stock transfer journal 1899 Production Records 75 / 7 Miscellaneous 1906-1908 King Solomon Quartz and Placer Mining Company 1899-1904 Organization 75 / 8 Stockholder ledger 1899-1900 Production Records 75 / 9 Tunnel surveying 1904 Legal Tender Mining Company 1899-1904 Organization 75 / 10 Stockholder transfer journal 1899-1900 Montana Consolidated Gold Mining Company 1898, 1914 Court Papers 76 / 1 Gregory Ackerman vs. Montana Consolidated Gold Mining Company transcript 1914 Organization 76 / 11 Stockholder ledger 1899-1900 Rademont Mining Company 1946-1947 Financial Records 76 / 2 General journal 1946-1947 Revenue Mining Company 1946 Organizational Records 76 / 3 Stock certificate book 1946