Mines and Mining in Montana photograph collection

Mines and Mining in Montana photograph collection, 1867-1971

Overview of the Collection

Title: Mines and Mining in Montana photograph collection
Dates: 1867-1971 (inclusive)
18671971
Quantity: 6 boxes
555 photographic prints
17 nitrate negatives
3 vintage safety negatives
69 negatives made from loaned photographs
Collection Number: Lot 026
Summary: This collection consists of views of Montana placer mining, hard rock mines and mills, coal mines, and kilns primarily between the years 1867 – 1920. Well-represented are early views of placer mining in Alder Gulch and in the Rimini mining district, larger-scale hard rock mining in the Marysville mining district, and mines and smelters in Butte. The collection also includes views of coal mining operations in Carbon, Fergus, Gallatin, Park, Powder River, and Sheridan counties.
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 is open for research.
Languages: No textual or other language materials are included in the collection. Captions are in English.

Historical NoteReturn to Top

The first gold discovered in Montana was mined in small quantities at Gold Creek in Deer Lodge County in the 1850’s. More notable claims were staked elsewhere in the following decade, largely concentrated in a geographic area extending from Marysville in the north, south to Virginia City, and west to Philipsburg. In May of 1863, a group of prospectors came upon significant quantities of placer gold in Alder Gulch, located just west of Virginia City, and by the end of 1864, the entire gulch was claimed and organized into districts. Considerable strikes also took place at Last Chance Gulch in Helena, and profitable quartz and placer claims were developed in the area extending from Rimini north to Marysville. In addition, quartz mines thrived in the Philipsburg area in the late 1860’s. Placer mining in the Butte Mining District was initially unproductive, but once rich veins were discovered below the surface, a hard rock mining boom began, this time for silver. In the 1880’s, Butte mines profited from an escalating demand for copper and by 1892, copper production overtook silver and gold production in the district.

Placer mining involved the recovery of natural accumulations of gold or other precious metals deposited in and around waterways. Miners used pans, rockers, or sluices to sift out metal deposits. Later, they employed hydraulic mining, creating ditches and flumes to redirect water into monitors, which delivered high-pressure jets of water to loose sediment from hillsides. Quartz mining followed, and involved the recovery of precious metals from quartz ore found in the bedrock. This method required larger-scale underground mining operations. At mills, this ore was crushed and the minerals recovered. Later, other mineral-bearing ores were retrieved through hard rock mining. These ores were concentrated and smelted at reduction works to obtain refined metals.

The United States General Mining Act of 1872 permitted private individuals and businesses to establish mining claims for metallic minerals on federal land. Locally, miners established government in the form of mining districts, quasi-municipal organizations that governed in areas not covered by federal or territorial law. Each district agreed upon its own customs and laws concerning such things as the location, size, and amount of work necessary to establish a mining claim. In Montana, miners established over two hundred mining districts, concentrated mostly in the southwest portion of the state.

Coal mines were established in the eastern two-thirds of Montana. The earliest mines were opened in the vicinity of Chestnut in 1867, and some of the most significant mines arose in the coal fields of Carbon County (Red Lodge and Bearcreek) and Cascade County.

Charcoal kilns were built to produce charcoal to fuel the smelting process. The Canyon Creek Charcoal Kilns in the Beaverhead National Forest were associated with the Hecla Consolidate Mining Company’s silver and lead smelters, located at Glendale.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

This collection consists of views of Montana hard rock mining and mills, placer mining, coal mining, and kilns from 1867 to the 1920s. It is arranged into three series. Most of the photographs in Series I, Metallic Minerals Mining, document early hard rock and placer mining in the Butte, Marysville, Rimini, and Virginia City mining districts, although 50 districts are represented in the collection. The hard rock mining views include overviews of mine complexes, headframes and hoists, portals, ore transport, mills, smelters, tailings dumps, mining equipment, and some underground views of miners operating drills and driving trams. The placer mining views are primarily of hydraulic mining including flumes, miners panning and operating monitors and sluices, and dredges. Most of these are from 1867 – 1871 in Alder Gulch. Series II, Coal Mining, consists primarily of views of mining complexes, of the aftermath of a mine disaster at the Foster Mine in Carbon County, of underground mining at the Smith Mine in Carbon County including cutting and ore conveyors, and of the Montana Coal and Coke Company aerial cable tram located at Electric. Series III, Kilns, is comprised of four photographs of charcoal kilns at Canyon Creek in the Beaverhead National Forest and one view of lime kilns at Grizzly Gulch near Helena.

This artificial collection consists of photographs related to Montana’s mining industry that were donated to Montana Historical Society in the years prior to 1974 from many individual donors.

In some instances, a photograph was loaned to Montana Historical Society for copying and a negative was created for the Photo Archives collection. Prints were made from the negatives and are included in this collection. The copy negatives are the vintage images for these loaned photographs.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

The Montana Historical Society is the owner of the materials in the Photograph Archives collections and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. Written permission must be obtained from the Photograph Archives before any reproduction use. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all of the materials in its collections. In some cases, permission for use may require seeking additional authorization from the copyright owners.

Preferred Citation

Mines and Mining in Montana photograph collection. Lot 026. [Box, folder number, and photograph number.] Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives, Helena, Montana.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

This collection is arranged into three series. Series I, Metallic Mineral Mining, is arranged into subseries by mining district and within the district organized by mine or location name. If a mining district is documented with photographs of both hard rock and placer mining, this distinction is made. Hard rock mining views include underground mines, shafts, adits, open pit mines, mills, and smelters. Placer mining views are of surface mining including sluicing, panning, hydraulic mining, flumes and dredges, and some underground mining of placer deposits including small drifts and shafts. There are a few photographs of mining equipment at the end of Series I. Series II, Coal Mining, is arranged into subseries by county and then by the name of the mine. Series III, Kilns, is organized by location.

The mining district boundaries, alternate names, and locations were obtained from the Montana Department of Environmental Quality Abandoned Mines Reclamation Bureau website: https://discover-mtdeq.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/MTDEQ::montana-abandoned-mine-lands-hard-rock-mining-districts

Also, the following map displays historical mining districts in the state of Montana: http://nris.mt.gov/gis/gisdatalib/downloads/ab45.pdf

Acquisition Information

Acquisition information available upon request.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Series I: METALLIC MINERALS MININGReturn to Top

This series is arranged into subseries by mining districts, then by type of mining (hard rock or placer), and finally by mine or location name. At the end of the series there are a few photographs of equipment used in the metallic minerals industry.

Container(s)	Description
	Subseries 1: Alhambra Mining District (aka Warm Springs, Golconda, Hot Springs) [southeast of Helena]
Box/Folder
1/1	Hard Rock Mining-Legal Tender Mine – miners and two women standing near mine buildings near Clancy with windlass, ore car on rails, and other equipment Placer Mining-Gold dredge and Monighan crane working on Little Prickly Pear Creek between Montana City and junction with Golconda Gulch
	Subseries 2: Bannack Mining District [Beaverhead County]
Box/Folder
1/2	Hard Rock Mining-Bannack-Apex Mining Company – log building with sign “Office Bannack-Apex Mining Company” near a road with other mine buildings on the hill behind (c. 1920); mine buildings on hillside in snow (c. 1920) -Bannock Gold Mill – buildings on hillside with stack and men and mules on tram track (1890)
1/3	Placer Mining-Jerusalem Canyon – men standing next to flume carrying water into creek along a hillside near Bannack (taken by A. F. Thrasher) -A. F. Graeter dredge working in water along a hillside near Bannack -Fielding L. Graves gold dredge at Bannack (“first gold dredge in U.S.A., second in world”) – men and women (including Mrs. Herman Reiling) standing on the dredge and in a row boat next to the dredge with town buildings on the river bank behind (1895) (taken by Hazeltine); men standing on dredge with a barge of cut timber alongside (1895); men on dredge working in water near buildings and flume carrying water from Buffalo Creek; Joe Gauthier, ”cleaner-up on electric dredge in 1895,” leaning over a section of flume using a gold pan and shovel (1895)
	Subseries 3: Basin Mining District (aka Jefferson) [Jefferson County]
Box/Folder
1/4	-Jib Consolidated Mining Company at Basin – buildings, stack, hoist frame, railroad tracks, and equipment on hillside -White Elephant Mine at Basin – Henry Shire and (?) Wilson (wearing a hard hat) stand next to ore hoist (June 1925)
	Subseries 4: Blue Wing Mining District [Beaverhead County]
Box/Folder
1/5	-New Departure Mine – small abandoned building and other structures on hillside
	Subseries 5: Boulder River Mining District (aka Independence) [Sweet Grass County]
Box/Folder
1/6	-Milwaukee-Montana Natural Bridge Gold and Copper Mining Company – ore bucket on cable tram near log building at ore unloading facilities at mill (taken by Farnsworth, Big Timber Pioneer]; ore bin and tracks on hillside
	Subseries 6: Bryant Mining District (aka Hecla, Glendale) [Pioneer Mountains]
Box/Folder
1/7	-Lion City/Lion Mountain – people and rail/stair tracks on a rock hillside in the distance (taken by O.C. Bundy)
	Subseries 7: Butte Mining District (aka Summit Valley, Lost Child, Independence, Rocker, Browns Gulch) [Butte, Walkerville, Anaconda, Rocker, Meaderville]
Box/Folder
1/8	Hard Rock Mining-Panoramic view of Butte mines including East Butte, Speculator, Tropic, Sarsfield, Ticoh, Butte Main Range, Tuolumne, Butte and London, Gem, North Butte Ext., Granite Mountain, Rainbow, Black Rock No. 2, Calumet, Belinda, Col. Sellers, Black Rock No. 1, and Pilot Butte mines, mills, and smelters; “Montana Silver Statue at the World’s Fair” collage showing Black Rock Mine, Calusa Parrott Mine, Butte Reduction Works, and “bird’s eye view” of Anaconda; view looking west toward Meaderville with Anaconda Copper Mining Company stacks, headframes, buildings, and tailings piles on the hillside; Butte smelter stacks and buildings looking north from Butte toward Woodville (cyanotype); “Heinze smelters” buildings, stacks, headframe, tracks, and equipment (c. 1905)
1/9	-Alice and Moulton Mines – town of Walkerville (including the home of Charles W. Hanscom and buildings with signs reading “Head Quarters,” “Rainbow Saloon” and “Foster & Murphy”) with the Moulton and Alice mills on the hill behind (1883) (taken by C.R. Savage); buildings at the town of Walkerville with the Mouton and Alice Mines beyond (cyanotype) (taken by F. A. Greenleaf); two men in a horse-drawn wagon with buildings and equipment at the Alice Mine and Mill behind; town of Walkerville with Alice Mine and Mill on the hill behind the town (1878)
1/10	-Anaconda Mine – engraving on medallion showing hoist building and boiler house -Anselmo Mine – fence, parking lot, headframe and buildings (c. 1940); headframe, buildings, ore cars, cable spools, and timber piles in mine yard (c. 1947); headframe, hoist house, and ore in rail cars (c. 1945) (taken by Al’s Photo Shop) -Berkeley Pit – aerial view of trucks working in the pit and of Butte Hill -Bluebird Mine – men and horse-drawn buggy at mill building at Rocker with sign reading “Blue Bird Mining Company Ltd.” (c. 1895) -Colorado Smelter – Peter Hanson, foreman, standing inside smelter building next to furnace doors (taken by Butte Photograph and View Co.); group of men, including foreman Peter Hanson, posed in front of a brick building at the smelter (c. 1890s)
1/11	-Corra Mine/United Copper Company – headframe, hoist house, ore tracks, and buildings in snow -East Colusa Mine – work sheds and other structures; man standing next to wooden elevator inside building; men standing on wooden trestle with tracks for ore cars -Gagnon Mine – men standing in front of hoist works with ore car on tracks and other buildings behind (c. 1885) (taken by Butte Photograph and View Co.); two men standing in mine yard with hoist works, timber piles, and town buildings (one with a bell tower) behind (1886); men and women holding candles standing next to hoist inside the hoist house (1892) (taken by A. J. Dusseau); men posed with ore bucket behind a large cable spool inside the hoist house (taken by Butte Photograph and View Co.) (1885)
1/12	–Ida and Montana Mine – mine buildings, stacks and rock pile on hillside; group of miners, some with metal pails, standing next to a headframe and building in winter; mine buildings, stacks, ore cars, headframe, rock pile, and timber piles in snow
1/13	-Kelley Mine (taken by Al’s Photo Shop) – headframe, building, and power plant at Kelley Mine and Block Caving Mine; headframe, rail cars, tracks, automobiles, and buildings at Kelley Mine -Leonard Mine – headframe and ore bin (under construction); headframe, mine buildings, and idling towers inside a fence with a “Flying A” and “Silver Gas” station and pumps on the road outside the fence; miners standing in front of hoists at #2 shaft (taken by F. Ward); five men, including Roy Glover, Tim J. Suthern (?), Joseph Kinsey Howard, Ed McGlove, and Charles Wise, wearing hardhats standing in front of hoist (caption “Would be Miners”)(December 1947) -Lexington Mill – buildings, stacks, and rock pile at Walkerville (cyanotype) -Minnie Healy Mine/United Copper Company – headframe, stacks, tracks, and mine buildings in winter
1/14	-Montana Ore Purchasing Smelter/United Copper Company – mine buildings and stacks in winter with mountains in the background; interior of smelter with man and woman observing converters; men standing next to blast furnace -Moulton Mill – mine buildings, stacks, and equipment at Walkerville (taken by F. A. Greenleaf) -Mountain Con Mine – men standing by headframe and mine building (taken by Al’s Photo Shop) -Never-Sweat Mine – mine buildings, headframe, stacks, and ore bins (taken by B.E. Calkins); large group of miners, some with pails and candlesticks, in front of a train car, stack and mine building (c. 1902); headframe and mine buildings with town of Butte in background (c. 1941) -North Butte Mine – headframe and idling towers at Butte (taken by B.E. Calkins)
1/15	-Ophir Mine (taken by Hawes Cabin Studio) – buildings, headframe, stacks, and mine yard at Butte in winter (1907); underground drift and ledge at 500-foot level (1907); Worthington Duplex pump and ore cars at 500-foot station (1907); Corliss compound steam engine inside building (1907)
1/16	-Parrot Smelter – mine yard, equipment, and men in front of a building at Butte; mine buildings and stacks on hillside (c. 1899); mine buildings and stacks for Parrot and Never-Sweat mined; buildings (one with “Parrott” sign), stacks, and rock pile; group of men in front of brick buildings with caption “Crew at Parrot Smelter, 1888”; smelter smokestack at Renova built for Parrot Silver and Copper Mining Company -Pennsylvania Mine – buildings and rock pile with headframe on hillside behind and St. Lawrence Mine in background -Rarus Mine – headframe and mine yard at Butte; mine buildings, stacks, ore bins, and headframe on hillside
1/17	-Rocker Framing Plant – men, equipment, and timber pile inside plant-St. Lawrence Mine – mine buildings, stacks, and rock pile on hillside with Anaconda Mine and town of Butte in background (c. 1885) (taken by F. A. Greenleaf) -Speculator Mine – mine buildings, stack, headframe and timber pile (copy of screened postcard); headframe (“The Big Derrick on the new engine pit”) and ore car tracks; horse-drawn wagons in excavated ditch under trestles going to waste dump - Stewart Mine – headframe with flag at Butte (c. 1947) -Tramway Mine – electric pump at 1800-foot level at Butte (taken by B.E. Calkins)
2/1	-Unidentified mines in Butte Mining District – stack, headframe, buildings, tailings pile, and equipment; road and flume on hillside below mine buildings, stacks, headframe, flagpole and tailings piles; buildings, ore cars and log piles with hills in the distance; buildings, stacks, power lines on hillside with town buildings in the valley below
2/2	-Unidentified mines in Butte Mining District – headframe, ore cars, stacks and mill buildings; two men, one with an axe, shoring timbers inside a mine shaft (taken by F. Ward); man operating a R-72 drifter in a mine shaft; man standing on a box in a mine shaft operating a Number 248 drifter mounted on a single-screw column; man operating a Number 38 stoper in a copper mine shaft; man operating an L-74 drifter in a mine shaft; man driving a mule-drawn ore car in a mine shaft under a sign reading “Miners are Prohibited from Eating Lunch on Stations” (caption “Old Way of Hauling Ore, Butte”) (taken by B.E. Calkins); men riding on electric ore cars in mine shaft (caption “New Way of Hauling Ore, Butte”) (taken by B.E. Calkins); miner drinking water from spigot on water tank inside mine shaft; interior of power house with Ingersoll Rand turbo engines; smelter power house interior with Ingersoll Rand 26x26x18 PRE compressors; man operating Ingersoll Rand drill sharpener
2/3	-Unidentified mines in Butte Mining District – three men at a scrapyard sorting and punching tin cans and scrap iron for use in precipitating tanks (taken by Ewing Galloway); turbines and tanks inside “Butte Hoist Compressor Plant” (taken by B.E. Calkins); eight men next to a brick building with caption “Butte Hoist Comm. Plant Steamfitters, 1914”; Sue Larabie, Janet Warren, Eva Larabie, Nellie Bell Pinkerton, and D.M. Warren (the “Belgian Contingent”) wearing miner’s pants, jackets and hats standing near a headframe (c. 1907); stacks, buildings, headframes, hoists, and equipment for several mines in Butte Placer Mining-Missoula Gulch – men, equipment, and flume on hillside with buildings behind (1885) (taken by A. W. Barnard)
	Subseries 8: Castle Mountains Mining District [southwest of White Sulphur Springs]
Box/Folder
2/4	-Cumberland (Cumberlin) Mine – sketch of mine buildings, stacks, and log piles (information with photo “1st discovery of ore in Castle Mountains patented in 1886 by F.L., J.M., & J.F. Hensley”)
	Subseries 9: Clancy Mining District (aka Lump Gulch, Buffalo Creek) [Jefferson County]
Box/Folder
2/5	-Lump Gulch – mine buildings and tailings piles; gold dredge in winter at Jefferson City (1971) (taken by Peter J. Meloy)
	Subseries 10: Colorado Mining District (aka Wickes, Corbin, Gregory, Prickly Pear Creek) [Jefferson County]
Box/Folder
M-1 (oversize)	Hard Rock Mining-Alta Mining Company Smelter – buildings, stacks and equipment on hillside at Wickes in winter (1880)
2/6	-Alta Mine – buildings, stacks, powerline in distance on hillside at Wickes (1909); mill buildings and stack at Corbin; ruins at Wickes including three stone stacks (1939) -Blue Bird Mine – large group of men (“crew of the Blue Bird Mine”) including Alex MacDonald (with axe), William Story Dallas (young boy), and a young girl near a wooden structure (c. 1900)
2/7	-Gregory Mine and Mill – woman walking near collapsed mine building with smelter stack on the hill behind; two men standing in a crater in the main waste dump with ruins of mill buildings and smelter stack in the background; waste dump and tailings with ruins of mill buildings on the hill behind; two men standing at bottom of tailings dumps (Main and Banner) with ruins of mine buildings on the hill behind; mine building surrounded by tailings dumps (Lone, Belleville, Banner); car parked near tailings dumps (Main, Lone, Banner, Belle of Belleville) with sample cuttings in the dumps; Banner dump with tree- covered hillside behind
2/8	-Helena-Jefferson Mining Company – G.F. Loughlin, F.C. Schrader, L.S. Ropes, Thomas D. Paull, Walter C. Mendenhall, and J.T. Pardee standing at portal tunnel with track and ore car; Beaverton Creek, abandoned Northern Pacific Railroad grade, Helena-Butte highway, and Canyon Ferry-Butte power line; man standing at portal tunnel in winter; man standing outside a tunnel cave-in; portal, tracks, chute, timber pile, and tailings dump; two men loading ore from tunnel chute into a truck -Wickes Mine and Smelter – workers and young boys at smelter building (c. 1899)
2/9	Placer Mining-Prickly Pear Creek Flume – turbine engines inside power house; powerhouse, pole line, and other buildings in distance; horse-drawn wagon outside powerhouse with creek in foreground; trestle and feeder at Weimar Gulch; flume at Anderson Siphon/Siphon Gulch Siphon; tree stumps along flume; flume along hillside and through trees; dam and head of flume
	Subseries 11: Combination Mining District (aka Henderson, Black Pine) [Granite County]
Box/Folder
2/10	-Henderson Gulch – stone monument with carved pick, shovel, and gold pan honoring Pat McHenry, Thomas Roach, James Fletcher, James Grimes, William O’Hara, Ed McClusky, and James Jones, miners who died during 1867-1872
	Subseries 12: Confederate Gulch Mining District (aka Becker, Canton, Diamond City) [Big Belt Mountains]
Box/Folder
2/11	Placer Mining-Confederate Gulch – man standing at top of gulch as water pours in; workers standing in and near flume carrying water into the gulch (c. 1860s); men, one using hydraulic equipment, and horse standing in gulch as water pours in
	Subseries 13: Cowles Mining District (aka Haystack, Boulder, Independence) [Absaroka Mountains near Big Timber]
Box/Folder
2/12	-Cowles Mining Camp (taken by Farnsworth) – Boulder River with mine buildings, flume, and roads on hillside behind; man standing next to log building with “Assay Office” and “Notary Public” signs; group of men and two dogs near log building
	Subseries 14: Elkhorn Mining District (aka Wilson-Tizer) [Jefferson County]
Box/Folder
2/13	-C & D Smelter – mine buildings, stacks, and tailings dump -Elkhorn Mine and Mill – men in suits, including D.K. Regar, Samuel Daust, Joseph Ivey, James L. Buskett, C.L. Vawter, J.W. Pender, W. P. Parker, R. A. Kerr, George Jackson, William F. Kett, W.E. Richardson, and Charles W. Herwig (wearing an apron) on the sidewalk in front of a building with a sign reading The Elkhorn Mining Company Superintendent’s office (1888); mine and mill buildings, tailings dumps, and stacks (c. 1908) (taken by Edward M. Reinig); mine and mill buildings with locomotive turntable in foreground; workers in front of and on roof of Reduction Works buildings (c. 1890); Reduction Works buildings and stacks in winter; mill buildings, stacks, and timber piles with hills behind (1889); line of men inside building sorting ore (c. 1908) (taken by Edward M. Reinig); large group of men and three young boys posed outdoors; abandoned mill buildings (1971) (taken by Peter J. Meloy)
	Subseries 15: Elmo Mining District (aka Chief Cliff, Dayton Creek) [Lake County]
Box/Folder
2/14	-Unidentified mine – three men (including Oscar Myre and Hans Hoistade) working with a hoist and horse whim near Pot Holes west of Elmo with caption “Gold Prospecting in the Big Draw” (c. 1910)
	Subseries 16: Emery Mining District (aka Zosell) [Powell County]
Box/Folder
2/15	-Aldemore Gamanche Mine – mine buildings, stacks, and equipment (1901) -Emery Mine and Mill – man moving ore car on tracks near mill buildings (1902); group of men posed outside with tree and stumps behind
	Subseries 17: French Gulch Mining District [south of Anaconda]
Box/Folder
2/16	-Ebby Smith Mine – tram trestle going to mine buildings (1946)
	Subseries 18: Gould-Stemple Mining District (aka Fool Hen, Poorman) [Continental Divide, Lewis and Clark County]
Box/Folder
3/1	-Jay Gould Mine – in the distance, mine buildings, road, and other buildings in winter; mine buildings (including mill, bunk house, and cook shack) and road surrounded by trees (one view hand-colored); automobile and mine buildings in snow; house and trees in snow; man riding ore cars on tracks pulled by a mule near a wooden fence and a building; group of men (including Mr. Van Guisan and Frank Warren) standing in front of a log building (1912)
	Subseries 19: Helena Mining District (aka Last Chance, Spring Hill, Unionville, Owyhee)
Box/Folder
3/2	Hard Rock Mining-Sultana Gold Mining Company – nine men (one wearing a fur coat, one wearing an apron, and two men with shovels) standing in deep snow in front of log building (caption “Boarding House)(taken by Dusseau) Placer Mining-Last Chance Gulch – frames, tailings, and flume at Taylor Thompson diggings with the town of Helena in background (taken by F.A. Greenleaf; one cyanotype); pile of cobble stones from placer washings at Helena; Jerry Embrey panning for gold in stream near Park City (1898) (taken by Maud Davis Baker); Bob Hale flume over road to Unionville up Dry Gulch; horse and buggy standing by trestle at Chessman’s flume (taken by F.A. Greenleaf)
3/3	-Porter Brothers dredge – gold dredge at Last Chance Gulch in the Helena Valley (1930) (taken by John Maloney)
	Subseries 20: Hellgate Mining District (aka Magpie Gulch) [Meagher County, Big Belt Mountains]
Box/Folder
3/4	-Thompson Gulch – flume, pipes, and equipment (caption “Placer mining in Thompson Gulch near White Sulphur Springs”)
	Subseries 21: High Ore Mining District (aka Comet, Cataract) [Jefferson County]
Box/Folder
3/5	-Comet Mine – tailings dump with buildings, road, and equipment behind (1906); tailings dump, mine buildings, and town of Comet in the background (1906)
	Subseries 22: Independence Mining District [Sweet Grass County, Absaroka Range]
Box/Folder
3/6	-Independence Mine and Mill – man standing near boiler and ruins of stamp at mill; trees and remains of log buildings at mill site; entrance to mine on hillside above shack where wagons were loaded with ore; automobile and sheepherder’s wagon on road near abandoned log buildings, including the Independence store; mountains (including Monument, Pilot and Index peaks) and forest in Independence area; man standing among rocks near Buffalo Fork of Slough Creek and Hell Roaring Creek -Solomon City -- buildings and surrounding area
	Subseries 23: Iron Mountain Mining District (aka Superior) [Mineral County]
Box/Folder
3/7	-Iron Mountain Mill – headframe, stack and other mine buildings on hillside at Flat Creek, north of Superior; men on horse-drawn wagons hauling concentrates on the street with buildings behind -Amadon Mine – men on Amadon Railway car loaded with mining equipment at Cedar Creek (1919) -Pardee – ore cars on tracks with mill buildings, tailings dump, and men with wagons on hillside behind
	Subseries 24: Jardine Crevasse Mining District (aka Bear Gulch, Sheepeater) [Park County]
Box/Folder
3/8	-Pole Creek Claims at Jardine – Barney Hanlon and John Howell (one holding a skillet) sit next to a barn with shovels, a transom, and log building nearby
	Subseries 25: Little Rockies Mining District (aka Zortman, Landusky) [Phillips County]
Box/Folder
3/9	-Beaver Creek Mill – men and steam shovel working near locomotive driving material up track in Little Rockies; mill buildings with stacks and tram track in background -Little Ben Mill – mine buildings with horses, men, and equipment in mine yard (1946) -Ruby Mine and Mill – rocks and tailings showing mine impact on mountainside with mill buildings in the distance; mill buildings on the hillside (1907, 1916)
	Subseries 26: Marysville Mining District (aka Bald Butte, Ottowa) [Lewis and Clark County]
Box/Folder
3/10	Hard Rock Mining-Bald Butte Mill (taken by Edward M. Reinig) – mill buildings, stacks, and trestle at Marysville; man standing by outdoor cyanide vats; outdoor cyanide vats -Bald Mountain Mine (Cruse) – mine buildings and cabins in the distance on hillside at Marysville (c. 1913); group of men (holding drill, candlesticks, and pickaxe) at portal to #4 level entrance (sign above entrance reads “No Admittance Keep Out Thomas Cruse”) (c. 1906); group of men (including Oscar Fread, Fred John, Frank Myaski, Dick O’Connell, Charlie Gilbault, Jess Cannon, Mike Millan, George Kockler, Hugh Mullin, Nig, Steve Surman, Mike Colar, Frank Nyeski, George Shank, Mike Hurley, Louis Haley, Louis Nyeski, and Pete Prince) standing outside and on top of mine portal (c. 1910) -Belmont Mine – dayshift crew at Marysville (1899) (taken by G. W. Miller) -Big Ox Mill – men, young boys, and a dog standing next to a building with sign reading “No Admittance” (c. 1890) (taken by William Hall)
3/11	-Drumlummon Mine and Mill – men standing at 60-stamp mill building (with sign reading “Cruse Mill”) with equipment and lumber in the mine yard (1884); mill buildings (including assay office, electric light plant, 50-stamp mill, and air compressor building) and pond with mine buildings and Cruse Tunnel behind (c. 1880s) (one view taken by William Hall); group of men, women and children (some with umbrellas) gathered around the mill pond watching ducks and two men swimming in the water; men and mule-drawn ore cars in front of building at portal to 400-foot level tunnel (notice above tunnel reads ”Positively No Person Allowed Inside this Tunnel Unless Employed in the Mine”) (taken by William Hall); crew at portal 400-foot level tunnel entrance; mill pond and buildings; mill buildings, road, and waste dump (1941); mill buildings in snow (c. 1967) (taken by Mike Meloy); locomotive pulling men and equipment with mill buildings and waste dump on the hill behind; saddle-tank steam locomotive on bridge hauling tailings from dredging operation near Marysville; engineer William Panik, a man identified as “main boss at Drumlummon Mine,” two women, two children, a dog, and a goat stand beside a locomotive near Marysville; men and horse-drawn slag carts at waste dump loading tailings onto train cars from bridges crossing over the tracks
3/12	-Drumlummon Mine – crystal formations taken from the mine
3/13	-Empire Mine and Mill – mine buildings, stacks, tailings dump at Whippoorwill crosscut tunnel on hillside near Marysville; group of men at stamp mill during construction with mill buildings, ore tram, horses, wagons, ladders, and stacks (c. 1888); men, woman (Mrs. Sharp), young girl, and dogs at log building, the home of Jim and Barney Kelly -Piegan-Gloster Mine and Mill (taken by Edward M. Reining) – mine buildings, headframe, tailings, and equipment; view of mine looking downhill along power lines; mill building; mill buildings and town of Marysville in distance -Penobscot Mine – shaft house and tailings near Marysville -Shannon Mine – mine buildings and flag pole near Marysville; mine buildings in snow (1917) -Silver City – mine buildings, stacks, and timber pile in winter (1886) Placer Mining-Silver City – dredge operating among tailings dumps
	Subseries 27: McClellan Mining District (aka Mitchell Creek) [Jefferson County]
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3/14	-Rosenfield Mine and Mill – abandoned mine buildings, powerhouse, and gallows frame near East Helena (possibly Economy Mine operated by the Rosenfield Brothers) (1971) (taken by Peter J. Meloy)
	Subseries 28: Missouri River Mining District (aka Canyon Ferry) [Lewis and Clark County]
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3/15	-Spokane Bar – men digging and working with hydraulic equipment with flumes on hill behind; men standing near flume with Missouri River behind (taken by E. H. Train) -Dana’s Bar – men (one on bridge) working at trench surrounded by rock piles (taken by E. H. Train)
	Subseries 29: Montana City Mining District [Lewis and Clark County and Jefferson County]
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3/16	-Big Indian Mine and Mill – men and horse-drawn wagons at stamp mill during construction near Helena; man in foreground with stamp mill, wooden tanks, and other buildings behind
	Subseries 30: Natural Bridge Mining District [Beartooth Mountains, Park County]
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3/17	-Standard Mining Company – men, woman, and child in front of mill building and tramway near Big Timber
	Subseries 31: Neihart Mining District (aka Montana) [Little Belt Mountains, Cascade County]
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3/18	-Broadwater Mine – mine buildings on hillside near Great Falls and rails at base of the hill (c. 1900) (taken by E. R. Shepard)
	Subseries 32: North Moccasin Mining District (aka Kendall) [Fergus County]
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4/1	-Barnes-King Mine – men, including engineers, standing by hoist and building (c. 1903) (taken by George Carolus); enclosed headframe and hoist house (1910) (taken by Glenn C. Morton); two men with horse-drawn ore train on trestle across Dog Creek Canyon (1909) (taken by Glenn C. Morton); mine and mill buildings (including hoist engine and compressor house, gallows frame, ore bunk), tramway and trestle to waste dump (c. 1911) (taken by Charles E. Morrow Company); mill buildings, stacks, and trestle (1909) (taken by Glenn C. Morton); exhibit of gold bullion (1766 ounces) processed at Barnes- King Mill (1904) (“compliments of The Western Mining and Real Estate Bureau”)
4/2	- Kendall Mine and Mill – “birds eye view” of plant including mill, heating plant, assay office, bunk house, office, dining hall, mine shaft, hoist engine house, shops, and timber shed (1909) (taken by Glenn C. Morton); cyanide refining mill, tramway from the Santiago Mine, and the “open cut” where gold ore was mined (1909) (taken by Glenn C. Morton); mill buildings, trestle, and tramway; “new” electrically operated cyanide mill (complete in 1902), powerhouse, waste tailings, bunkhouse and other buildings (c. 1903) (taken by George Carolus); interior of mill with men standing in leaching tanks, including Henry Kendall and son (c. 1900); “gold link shaft” and other buildings on hillside; man with “single jack” compressed air drill (called a Bumble Bee) at 600-foot level of mine (taken by Glenn C. Morton); men at ruins of the gallows frame over the mine shaft (1964) -Santiago Mine – John Montgomery and others using a bulldozer to cover the mine shaft with timbers (1964)
	Subseries 33: Park Mining District (aka Indian Creek, Townsend) [Broadwater County]
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4/3	-Blacker Mine – two miners underground at 235-foot level using Little Wonder drill
	Subseries 34: Philipsburg Mining District (aka Flint Creek, Granite) [Granite County]
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4/4	-Bimetallic Mine and Mill – mill buildings, stack, and roads at Kirkville (later known as Clark) (1888) (taken by Hower); men and horses freighting a boiler to mine building at Granite (c. 1903) -Granite Mountain Mine and Mill – buildings, stack, and tramway at Rumsey mill (1888) (taken by Hower); sketch of mill; men and twelve-horse team transporting freight (including a boiler) to mine -Philipsburg Mining Company – caterpillar steam tractor pulling ore wagons at mine (c. 1925); abandoned ore wagon in Philipsburg
	Subseries 35: Pioneer Mining District (aka Gold Creek) [Powell County]
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4/5	-Pioneer Gulch – water wheel northwest of Deer Lodge
	Subseries 36: Pony Mining District (aka Mineral Hill)
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4/6	-Hollow Top – W.F. Tinsley (from Pony) on horse pulling small ore sled with a woman, man, automobile, and abandoned buildings behind
	Subseries 37: Radersburg Mining District (aka Cedar Plain, Crow Creek) [Elkhorn Mountains, Broadwater County]
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4/7	-Black Friday Mine – group of miners (including Tom Sherlock) and headframe at Radersburg (c. 1908) (taken by Hawes) -Ohio-Keating Mine – abandoned mine buildings and road at Radersburg (1971) (taken by Peter J. Meloy)
	Subseries 38: Renova Mining District (aka Bone Basin, Mayflower, Cedar Hollow) [Tobacco Root Mountains, Madison County]
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4/8	Mayflower Mine – mine buildings, trestle and headframe
	Subseries 39: Revenue Mining District (aka Upper Hot Springs) [Madison County]
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4/9	-Galena Mine – men, women, and horses at mine buildings and cabins at Sterling, with rock formations behind; Peter Jackson home at Sterling with barn, corral, and wagon; men (some with candles), young girl, and horse by mine buildings and track (1902) -Clark & Upson – mill buildings and timber pile for Clark & Upson quartz mill and New York & Montana Mining & Discovery mill at Sterling (1867) (taken by A. C. Carter, Montana Picture Gallery); road to Sterling with buildings and tailings (c. 1904)
	Subseries 40: Rimini Mining District (aka Lewis and Clark, Ten Mile, Vaughn, Colorado, Bear Gulch) [Lewis &Clark County]
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4/10	Hard Rock Mining-Josephine Mine (1894) (taken by George T. Mekes) – mine buildings, timber pile, and tailings with men and horse-drawn wagon in background; men sitting in hoist house near the hoist with a wheelbarrow and ladder in the photo; mine buildings and road from distance -Lee Mountain Mine/George Barbour Mine (taken by Lyle) – four men, mine buildings, stack, and track; mine building and tailings on hillside in distance; five men with tools and lights underground; two men working underground using a drifter -Peerless Jennie Mine – mine buildings and shafts in distance
4/11	Placer Mining-Jim Woodruff placer mine (above Rimini) (1894) (taken by J.H. Farmer) – two men, dog, tripod with a camera, and a wagon in front of log buildings; man sitting on flume in rocky area; two girls and a boy standing on road surrounded by dead trees; two men standing on flume in rocky area with trees and hills behind
4/12	-Nelson Gulch – Jerry Robinson, Dan Dutro and another man with flume and hydraulic equipment (c. 1905) (taken by Dan Dutro and Calso; hand-colored); two men and a woman sitting in front of a log cabin with two large canvas bags and a rock and timber structure behind them (1884); Jerry Robinson and Ike Newcomer panning for gold (taken by Dan Dutro; one hand-colored); gold nugget from Nelson Gulch on scale, weighing 116 oz. (hand-colored carte de visite)
4/13	-Beaver Creek – flume going into creek bed at Rimini showing damage by flood water from dam failure (1886) -Ten Mile Summit – two men with horse-drawn wagon on road; view from summit of Ten Mile looking north (1886); portrait of Walter S. Corwin (who staked the Little Sampson claim) seated on rocks with mining tools (taken by E. H. Train)
	Subseries 41: Rochester Mining District (aka Rabbit) [Highland Mountains, Madison County]
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4/14	-Rochester Mine – six men, including Dude Claridge, John Mutch, and Homer Rumans, with pails and candle at mine building (c. 1900); large group of men with pails and candles at a mine building (c. 1890) -Thistle Mine – men (one dumping an ore cart), dog, and horse-drawn wagon at mine building and tailings dump in Rochester (1897) -Watseka Mine – abandoned building and boilers; tailings dump; cyanide tanks in the distance -Rochester Gulch – two men working on a waterwheel (c. 1930)
	Subseries 42: Scratchgravel Hills Mining District (aka Grass Valley) [Lewis and Clark County]
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4/15	-Franklin Mine/Cruse Consolidated Mining Company (taken by S. J. Culbertson) – three men standing on ore tram tracks at stope portal with another man and building above (c. 1916); man, buildings, headframes, and tailings; surface workings including headframe, stack, and buildings in Grass Valley
	Subseries 43: Sheridan Mining District (aka Mill Creek, Brandon, Indian Creek, Ramshorn, Quartz Hill, Bivin Gulch, Wisconsin Gulch) [Ruby Valley, Madison County]
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4/16	-Leiterville Mine – group of men (one on horseback and some wearing raincoats) at ore tram at Wisconsin Creek near Twin Bridges (c. 1890) -Lyter Mine (possibly Leiter Mine) – log cabins (one with washing on the line) near forest with mountains in the background
	Subseries 44: South Boulder Mining District (aka Princeton, Cleek, Mount Powell) [Fergus County]
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4/17	-Gold Reef Mill – mine buildings, stacks, and tramway in snow (1901)
	Subseries 45: Stillwater Mining District [Stillwater County]
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4/18	-Benbow Mine – log cabin, tracks, other buildings, and timber piles at first chrome mine in Beartooth Mountains on Rock Creek (1913)
	Subseries 46: Tidal Wave Mining District (aka Twin Bridges, Dry Boulder Creek, Bear Gulch, Goodrich Gulch, Dry and Wet Georgia Gulches) [Tobacco Root Mountains]
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5/1	-Twin Bridges smelter – men (Ed McNeal, Otto Larson, William Owsley, Jim Kimblery, and Doug Gillis) outside of smelter building with slag carts, steam tractor, ore wagon, and horse-drawn wagons (1900)
	Subseries 47: Virginia City Mining District (aka Browns Gulch, Granite Creek, Williams Gulch, Barton Gulch, Summit, Pine Grove, Highland, Fairweather, Nevada, Junction, Alder Gulch) [Madison County]
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5/2	Hard Rock Mining-Easton Mine – mine buildings on hillside in snow -High Up Mine – mine buildings, ore tracks, log piles, and equipment -Kearsage Mill/Millard Mill – large tent and mill buildings (construction on roof) in snow with headframe in background; W.B. Millard house at Summit (1946); stamp mill building and creek at head of Alder Gulch (1900) (taken by E.R. Shepard) -Virginia City area – two men with ore cart and other equipment at mine portal; George F. Wicks and two other men inside mine with bucket, winch, and other equipment; men competing in drilling contest as other men look on (1906)
5/3	Placer Mining-Alder Gulch (taken by W. H. Jackson during the 1869-1871 Hayden Survey) – man crouched in stream with gold pan; man in rocks using mining rocker; Chinese men working at sluice box; men with hydraulic equipment, gin pole, and flume -Alder Gulch area – hydraulic equipment and tent; gulch with buildings in the background (1896)
5/4	-Alder Gulch – flume in middle of the gulch with town buildings behind (1904); men and ore cart on tracks in gulch with flume beyond; two men with gold pan and shovels working in creek in Virginia City area; tent and retort over campfire near Nevada where Garrison and Delay families mined (1908); James Garrison, Billie Garrison, Bernard J. Garrison, and Mr. Delay with gold pans and wash tubs (1908); men and women from the Garrison and Delay families at sluice box (1908); wooden structure with cables, possibly an aerial tramway tower, at dredging area; man and horses at power house for aerial tram; four men with tools at sluice box near a log cabin and horse-drawn wagon; man and automobile on road near rock pile left from dredging (c. 1920); students from Western Montana College touring the gulch; man standing next to pile of stones marking point where gold was discovered in the gulch; monument to May 26, 1863 discovery of gold by William H. Fairweather, Henry Edgar, Thomas W. Cover, Michael Sweeney, Harry Rodgers, and Barney Hughes, dedicated in honor of Andrew J. Davis (one taken by Ross Madden; one taken by C. W. Rank)
5/5	-Conrey Placer Mining Company – dredge #1 operating in winter; man with a tripod and camera standing by pond and dredge #2 with the town of Ruby in the background; dredge #3, abandoned; dredge #4 in operation; man standing next to bucket from dredge #4; man standing next to screen for dredge #4; men operating Keystone Driller Company prospecting drill (1900)
5/6	-Maggie Gibson dredge – dredge in operation at Alder Gulch (1899); dredge in operation at Bannack, dredge building at Alder Gulch; dredge at Ruby Valley (c. 1916); dragline in operation at Virginia City
	Subseries 48: Warmsprings Mining District (aka Gilt Edge, Maiden, Gold Hill) [Fergus County]
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5/7	Hard Rock Mining-Cumberland Mill – mill building at head of Maiden Canyon (1935) (taken by Glenn C. Morton) -Maginnis Mine and Mill – buildings, pond, tailings piles, and road with cordwood for firing engines stacked alongside at Maiden; abandoned mill buildings (including the long “L” shack), tailings, and road (1951) -New Year Mill – mill buildings, stack, tailings pile, and road Placer Mining-Whiskey Gulch – abandoned mill buildings and tailings pile in Judith Mountains (1932); three men with shovels and picks working at a flume near Maiden (1888) (taken by W.H. Culver)
	Subseries 49: Winston Mining District (aka Beaver Creek) [Broadwater County, Elkhorn Mountains]
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5/8	-Custer Mining Syndicate – nineteen men (including foreman John D. Pope; miners, J. Coughlin, H. Detour, J. Olney, A. Peterson, J. Wallace, Aug. Stahl, J. Locwich, A. Kanoke, T. Northey, F. Goudy, Jim Blow, and G. Kramer; superintendent H. P. Clark; teamster Bob Jackson; assayer R. Prosser; blacksmith J. McDonald; timberman Josh Slates; and Neil Clark, “the kid”) in front of the syndicate’s office building at Winston (July 1806) -East Pacific Mine – building and tailings piles on hillside near Winston with buildings in the valley below -Iron Age Mine – log building and water wheel on Beaver Creek near Winston (1897) (taken by Mrs. H. P. Clark) -Stray Horse Mine – mine buildings, tailings, and road on hillside -Winston miners’ picnic ground – granite block used for drilling competitions (1972) (taken by Peter J. Meloy)
	Subseries 50: York Mining District (aka Dry Gulch) [Big Belt Mountains]
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5/9	-Old Amber Mine & Mill – mill buildings and stack in snow with large piles of cordwood alongside a road at junction of New York Gulch and Rattlesnake Gulch, southeast of York -York – group of men and a horse outside a mine building -Trout Creek – flume across Trout Creek (by W. H. Jackson during the 1869-1871 Hayden Survey)
	Subseries 51: Unidentified mining locations
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5/10	Hard Rock Mining-Alice Copper Mine – men with shovels, picks, and an ore car at the mine portal (1902); two men standing by a log building (1902); mine buildings and stack on hillside (1902) (taken by Taylor) -Warhorse Mine – two men (possibly mine owners Berkin and Sanders; one holding a rifle) and a dog at a windlass with horses in the trees behind (1888); three men at a log cabin with horses, a tent, and a wagon also in the camp (1888)
5/11	-Unidentified mine (taken by W.H. Taylor of Helena) – men (some in suits, ties, and hats) with tools and an ore car at mine portal among trees; men, women, and young girl in front of a log cabin; men and horse-drawn wagons at a water wheel; men and tents on hillside
5/12	-Unidentified mines – two men standing outside a mine portal with caption “the door to our fortune” (1921); road, mill buildings, stacks, and tailings dump, possibly near Basin; mine buildings, stack, and hoist in Jefferson County; mine buildings, stacks, tailings dumps, cordwood piles, and other structures at Basin; smelter building with brick stacks, possibly near Helena (taken by F. A. Greenleaf); log buildings and road below tailings dump, possibly in the Helena vicinity (one a cyanotype); men standing outside mine building and one man at the top of a ladder on the roof by the stack holding a hose (taken by Thomas H. Rutter at Butte City); men working on platform at mine buildings in winter; buildings, headframe, tailings dump in winter; mining camp in snow with buildings and bridge behind; August Koch and Ernest Koch (one with a cat on his lap) sitting by a wood stove inside their cabin in Helena
5/13	Placer Mining-Unidentified mines – hydraulic mining operation with flume and tailings dump, possibly near Radersburg; three men with windlass hoist, tailings piles, and log buildings; man operating a windlass hoist next to a long tom (flume); two men sitting on logs with water from flume coming into gulch behind them; men operating monitor with water from flume coming into gulch; men with picks and shovels at flume running through a gulch; three men on a river bank panning for gold; two men, with a dog and a horse, panning for gold in winter; flume running down a gulch along rocks, possibly near Helena (taken by F.A. Greenleaf); flume running into gulch with a tent camp in the background; flume crossing gulch with men and hydraulic mining operation behind; flume in a rocky gulch with buildings on hill above
6/1	-Unidentified mines – J. A. R. Nelson, J. Z. Miller, and dog Tige, standing in drift dug into hillside; miner in rocky area with a mining pan, pick, mortar, pestle, and shovel nearby (one photo with caption “I have struck it” and another with caption “The mine is played out”) (1897) (taken by Dan Dutro); man holding a skillet kneeling on ground with a dog and horse packed with pick and other tools behind (caption “A Montana Pioneer”) (c. 1910) (taken by W. S. Hawes)
6/2	Mining Equipment-Abandoned arrastra (waterwheel operated horizontally) laying in the snow in canyon north of Bearmouth (1910); hoisting cage sitting on slats in a field; skip loaded with an ore cart; assayer’s furnace with sign “made in England 1638”; men and horse-drawn wagon hauling freight with buildings in the background; men and horse teams on road, with one six-horse team pulling a wagon loaded with machinery (possibly the Missouri River Power Company) (taken by W. H. Taylor)

Series II: COAL MININGReturn to Top

This series is arranged into subseries by county and then by the name of the mine.

Container(s)	Description
	Subseries 1: Carbon County
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6/3	-Foster Mine (Bearcreek) – miners and collapsed timber sets in tunnels following the “Great Pash” mining accident; steam shovel in operation; man standing outdoors in front of coal formation, underground in front of coal seam; mine buildings, rail cars, and equipment -Foster Creek Mine (Washoe) - Northern Pacific rail cars in front of mine buildings (July 1920) (taken F.C. Mekel [?])
6/4	-Smith Mine/Montana Coal and Iron Company – miners underground standing next to a conveyor moving coal; worker clearing coal from underground rail; miner on locomotive underground moving ore cars; miners underground loading ore into cars from conveyor; underground ventilation system; loaded coal cars on underground railway; miner on locomotive moving ore cars above ground; miners underground using equipment including a Sullivan 7 cutter and Cincinnati cutter bar, chains and bits; Goodman loader operating in a tunnel; inscriptions on wood written by miners trapped in the mine
6/5	-Smith Mine/Montana Coal and Iron Company – man standing on rail line looking at the remains of mine buildings after a fire (1916); mine buildings, stack, ore car trestle, rail lines, and road (July 1920); mine buildings, ore cars on tracks, tailings dumps, and automobiles (in parking lot); mine buildings and ore cars on rails in winter; conveyor and Northern Pacific rail cars filled with coal; coal tipple and equipment; belt conveyor equipment in mine yard; vice president J. M. Freeman and manager Bill Romek standing outside with mine buildings in the distance
	Subseries 2: Gallatin County
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6/6	-Morningside Mine – mine buildings, rail line, and loading facilities near Chestnut (c. 1904) -Mountain Side Mine – mine buildings, stack, tram line, and tunnel outlet at Chestnut (c. 1904) -Timberline – group of men outside of a wooden building (1898) -Washoe Coal and Development Company (near Chestnut and Storrs) – mine buildings and long line of brick coke ovens (1902, 1904) (one photo taken by George Carolus)
	Subseries 3: Musselshell County
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6/7	-Number 1 Mine – mine buildings, stacks, tracks, and equipment at Roundup
	Subseries 4: Park County
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6/8	-Kountz Mines – mine buildings and bridge with cars loaded with coal on railway near Hoffman (c. 1904) -Montana Coal and Coke Company (Electric and Aldridge) (photos are labeled Edward A. Bartl, general manager) – tension station #2 structure for aerial tram #2; young boy holding an American flag and sitting in an ore bucket on aerial tram #1; ore buckets traveling along tram cable on aerial tram #2, 275 feet above ground; ore bucket and tension towers on aerial tram #3 in winter; tension towers and ore buckets on aerial tram #1; men and horse team stretching cable for aerial tram #2; men operating steam-powered Calyx Davis drill erecting tower; man outside of engine and boiler house at Foster Ope (September 17, 1907); generators inside power house (July 9, 1907); “Lueric” coal washery in buildings at Aldridge (July 9, 1907); five women members of Pythians (wearing furs, caps and pit lamps) sitting in an ore car at the portal to #4 mine
	Subseries 5: Powder River County
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6/9	-Peerless Coal Mines – man standing at mine portal going into hillside near Broadus; man standing on hillside in front of large coal deposit
	Subseries 6: Sheridan County (then Valley County)
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6/10	-Phelps Coal Mine at Wolf Creek – men and horse teams working in rocks near Redstone (1913)

Series III: KILNSReturn to Top

This series is organized by the location of the kiln.

Container(s)	Description
Box/Folder
6/11	-Lewis and Clark County – ruins of Grizzly Gulch lime kilns on Park City Road south of Helena with buildings in the background (taken by DeCamp) -Beaverhead National Forest – charcoal kiln in field at Kelly Reservoir (1964); several charcoal kilns/burners at Greenwood, a smelter town between Glendale and Hecla near Canyon Creek (one photo is color); men with transom and equipment standing at entrance to kiln at Greenwood

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

Aerial tramways
Charcoal kilns
Coal mines and mining.
Flumes
Gold mines and mining.
Gold--Milling
Hard rock mines and mining.
Headframes (Mining)
Hydraulic mining
Mine railroad cars
Miners--Montana
Mines and mineral resources
Placer mining
Steam-engines

Geographical Names

Alder Gulch (Madison County, Mont.)
Butte (Mont.)

Form or Genre Terms

Photographs

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