MZFCollection2140.xml Guide to the Granite-BiMetallic Consolidated Mining Company Records 1884-1919 Granite-BiMetallic Consolidated Mining Company Records Kim Allen Scott, 2007 Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Montana State University-Bozeman Library
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Finding aid encoded by ArchProteus2012 Finding aid written in English Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard) 2015 March 23 Additional materials added to collection. External finding aid link removed. Montana State University Library, Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections
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Collection 2140, MtBC, us Granite-BiMetallic Consolidated Mining Company Granite-BiMetallic Consolidated Mining Company Records 1884-1919 .8 linear feet The Granite-BiMetallic Consolidated Mining Company Records consists of records from the Granite Mountain Mining Company followed by records of the Granite-BiMetallic Consolidated Mining Company and some materials of T. H. Kleinschmidt, a mine investor. The papers include copy ledger books; letter and account copy files; a time book; expense bills and receipts from suppliers and shippers; survey information; records of smelting, shipping and purchases of the mined ores; leases, bids, agreements and stockholder communications and some miscellaneous post cards and pay check stubs. Collection materials are in English Historical Note

The Granite-BiMetallic Consolidated Mining Company of Philipsburg, Montana, was formed in April 1898 by the merger of the Granite Mountain Mining Company and the Bi-Metallic Mining Company. In 1881, Charles D. McLure with several St. Louis capitalists, including Charles Clark, Augustus B. Ewing, Lewis M. Rumsey, Moses Rumsey, and Charles Taussig formed a syndicate incorporated as the Granite Mountain Mining Company. In June 1886, another property was incorporated as the Bi-Metallic Mining Company by a syndicate comprised of many of the same owners of the Granite Mountain Mining Company, with the addition of Paul A. Fusz and others. Following the 1898 merger of the two syndicates, the company had several years of profitable operation. After it went into receivership in 1903, the mines were operated primarily on the lease system. They produced sporadically through the 1920s, and in 1934 the Granite-BiMetallic Consolidated Mining Company was dissolved.

The collection consists of records from the Granite Mountain Mining Company followed by records of the Granite-BiMetallic Consolidated Mining Company and some materials of T. H. Kleinschmidt, a mine investor. The papers include copy ledger books; letter and account copy files; a time book; expense bills and receipts from suppliers and shippers; survey information; records of smelting, shipping and purchases of the mined ores; leases, bids, agreements and stockholder communications and some miscellaneous post cards and pay check stubs.

This collection is open for research.

Collection 2140 was received from the Museum of the Rockies in 1985 with other business paper collections and had no individual accession number. In 1970, Marjorie Durand of Phillipsburg, Montana donated accession 886, a group of Granite Mountain Mining Company papers which has been combined with the 2140 collection. Additional materials, arranged as folders 6-12 in Box 2, were donated by Darlene Mills of Lolo, Montana on March 16, 2015.

This collection was processed 2015 March 25

 Kleinschmidt, Theodore H. (Theodore Henry), 1839-1913 Granite Mountain Mining Company Mines and mineral resources-Montana-Granite County Mining corporations-Missouri-Saint Louis Business records Mines and Mineral Resources Montana 1/1 Butte area expense ledger pages 1886-1896

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 1/2 Photocopies of Butte area expense ledger pages 1886-1896 1/3 Letter file book- Granite Mountain Mining Company December 1884-October 1885 1/4 Weekly time sheet book - Granite Mountain Mining Company September 1886 1/5 Expense bills from Northern Pacific Railroad Company shipping 1888 1890 1/6 Granite Mountain Mining Company - assorted bills and receipts 1885-1891 1/7 Survey detail sheets - Granite Mountain Mining Company undated 1/8 Pay check copies - Granite Mountain Mining Company 1889 1/9 Post card telegrams - Granite Mountain Mining Company circa 1880s 1/10 Bullion sheets - Granite Mountain Mining Company 1887-1902 1/11 Assorted papers- leases, bids, agreements - Granite Mountain Mining Company 1889-1892 1/12 Copy account book- Granite Bi-Metallic Consolidated Mining Company 1905-1906 2/1 Purchase records - Garfield Smelter Company from Granite Bi-Metallic Consolidated Mining Company 1908 2/2 Leaser and Company shipments - Granite Bi-Metallic Consolidated Mining Company 1913-1914 2/3 Special stockholder meeting papers - Granite Bi-Metallic Consolidated Mining Company 1917 2/4 Smelting records - Granite Bi-Metallic Consolidated Mining Company 1908 1918-1919 2/5 Kleinschmidt mining papers 1898-1905 2/6 Board minutes 1903 2/7 Board minutes 1904 2/8 Board minutes 1905 2/9 Board minutes 1906 2/10 Miscellaneous correspondence 2/11 Miscellaneous reports 2/12 Printed materials Oversize Map of the Granite Mountain Mine claims and tunnels 1887