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Lot 026
Mines and Mining in Montana photograph
collection
1867-1971
6 boxes
555 photographic prints
17 nitrate negatives
3 vintage safety negatives
69 negatives made from loaned
photographs
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.
No textual or other language
materials are included in the collection. Captions are in
English.
Historical Note
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.
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.
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
Collection is open for research.
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.
Mines and Mining in Montana photograph collection. Lot 026. [Box, folder number, and
photograph number.] Montana Historical Society Photograph Archives, Helena,
Montana.
Acquisition information available upon request.
Placer mining
Hard rock mines and
mining.
Coal mines and
mining.
Charcoal kilns
Hydraulic mining
Aerial tramways
Steam-engines
Headframes
(Mining)
Gold mines and
mining.
Miners--Montana
Mines and mineral
resources
Flumes
Gold--Milling
Mine railroad
cars
Butte (Mont.)
Alder Gulch (Madison
County, Mont.)
Photographs
Mines and Mineral
Resources
Montana
Missoula
Helena
Photographs
Detailed Description of the Collection
Series I
METALLIC MINERALS MINING
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.
Subseries 1
Alhambra Mining
District (aka Warm Springs, Golconda, Hot Springs) [southeast
of Helena]
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]
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]
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]
1/5
-New Departure Mine – small abandoned
building and other structures on hillside
Subseries 5
Boulder River Mining
District (aka Independence) [Sweet Grass County]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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)
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
4/5
-Pioneer Gulch – water wheel northwest
of Deer Lodge
Subseries 36
Pony Mining
District (aka Mineral Hill)
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]
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]
4/8
Mayflower Mine – mine buildings,
trestle and headframe
Subseries 39
Revenue Mining
District (aka Upper Hot Springs) [Madison County]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
4/17
-Gold Reef Mill – mine buildings,
stacks, and tramway in snow (1901)
Subseries 45
Stillwater Mining
District [Stillwater County]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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
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 MINING
This series is arranged into subseries by county and then by the name of the
mine.
Subseries 1
Carbon
County
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
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
6/7
-Number 1 Mine – mine buildings,
stacks, tracks, and equipment at Roundup
Subseries 4
Park
County
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
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)
6/10
-Phelps Coal Mine at Wolf Creek – men
and horse teams working in rocks near Redstone (1913)
Series III
KILNS
This series is organized by the location of the kiln.
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