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Leverett S. Ropes papers, 1888-1952

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Ropes, Leverett S. (Leverett Smith), 1868-1953
Title
Leverett S. Ropes papers
Dates
1888-1952 (inclusive)
Quantity
5.5 linear feet of shelf space.
Collection Number
MC 196 (collection)
Summary
Helena, Montana, mining and geological engineer Leverett Ropes (1868-1953) was employed by various mining firms, by the federal government, and as a private consultant. This collection contains papers (ca. 1888-1952) concerning Ropes' mining engineering and geology consulting work and his interest in a variety of political issues. The general correspondence (1928-1952) concerns mines in Lewis and Clark, Jefferson, and Broadwater counties, Fort Peck Dam, his dispute with federal agencies over financing of Montana mining ventures, and issues of personal interest to Ropes such as the repeal of prohibition and New Deal policies. In addition there is biographical material (1935-1946); court papers (1910, 1940); financial records (1936-1951); legal documents (1928-1943) for several mining companies; reports (1929-1952) by Ropes and others on numerous mining properties; speeches and writings (1929-1952) on mining and politics, including the lawlessness (racketeering) caused by prohibition; miscellany (1891-1947); and clippings.
Repository
Montana Historical Society, Library & Archives
Montana Historical Society Research Center Archives
225 North Roberts
PO Box 201201
Helena MT
59620-1201
Telephone: 4064442681
Fax: 4064445297
mhslibrary@mt.gov
Access Restrictions

Collection open for research.

Languages
English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Biographical Note

Leverett S. Ropes was born in Ishpeming, Michigan, on July 21, 1868, the son of Julius and Eunice Rouse Ropes. Julius Ropes was a drug store owner and chemist, who did analytical work for many of the Ishpeming region's mines. He was also the developer of the Ropes Mine, a gold property. Leverett Ropes studied mining geology under his father's tutelage and then attended Michigan College of Mining and Technology, graduating in 1893.

Leverett Ropes' early professional work was in the field of corundum mining and milling. He spent several years in North Carolina and Georgia and a year in Comberemere, Ontario, working with corundum. Using this experience he secured employment with the Montana Corundum Company to develop their mine near Gallatin Gateway. However, his real goal was to move to Montana to get into the quartz mining industry. During the next few years he worked for a number of different mining companies in Montana including the Montana Coal and Coke Company at Gardiner, the Jardine Mining Company at Jardine, the Bald Butte Gold Mining Company at Marysville, the Bullion Mine at Basin, and the Alta Mine at Wickes. In addition to his mining work Ropes worked on the construction of Mystic, Lake Dam near Bozeman and Hauser Dam near Helena. He also served briefly as a mineral inspector for the U.S. General Land Office from 1908 to 1910, and for the U.S. Forest Service in the fall of 1930.

In 1910 Ropes began doing private consulting work in partnership with Robert McIntyre. He incorporated under the name Intermountain Engineering-Development Company in 1919 to seek outside capital to finance Montana mining ventures. In July 1928 Ropes lost all of his mining records, reports, correspondence, survey notes, etc. in the fire which destroyed the Bailey Block and several other buildings in downtown Helena. Since his ability to interest investors in Montana mining properties was based on his extensive knowledge of these properties, the loss of his records crippled his work. During the 1930s and 194Os he gradually rebuilt his files, based partly on memory and partly on re-examination of many properties.

Leverett S. Ropes married Eleanor Husk Deal of Franklin, North Carolina, on December 12, 1894. The couple had four children: Dorothy, John, Judith, and Leverett. Leverett S. Ropes died on May 27, 1953.

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Content Description

This collection contains papers of Leverett S. Ropes concerning his mining engineering and geology consulting work and relative to his interest in political issues. The general correspondence (1928-1952) mostly concerns mines in Lewis and Clark, Jefferson, and Broadwater counties, but also includes files on the Fort Peck Dam, on Ropes' disputes with federal agencies over financing of Montana mining ventures, and on New Deal polities. It also includes letters to and from members of his family, potential mine investors, political figures, government agencies, newspapers, and others about a wide variety of subjects. In addition there are biographical information (1935-1946); court papers (1910, 1940); financial records (1936-1951); legal documents (1928-1943) for several mining companies; reports (1896-1938) by Ropes and others on numerous mining properties; speeches and writings (1929-1952) on mining and politics; miscellany (1891-1947); and clippings (1928-1949).

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Researchers must use collection in accordance with the policies of the Montana Historical Society. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all materials in the collection. In some cases permission for use may require additional authorization from the copyright owners. For more information contact an archivist.

Preferred Citation

Item description and date. Collection Title. Collection Number. Box and Folder numbers. Montana Historical Society Research Center, Archives, Helena, Montana.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Arranged by series. Some material housed in Archives Map Case, Oversize Box, and Archives Rolled Maps. See inventory below for more information.

Location of Collection

12:1-6

Location of Collection

37:2-5 (oversize box 1)

Location of Collection

M2:2-1 (rolled map 1)

Acquisition Information

Acquisition information available upon request

Separated Materials

Printed material, most maps, photographs, and artifacts have been transferred to the Library, Library Map Collection, Photograph Archives, and Museum respectively. See inventory below for more information.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Detailed Description of the Collection

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection

  • Biographical Materials

    • Description: Resumes and other autobiographical writings
      Dates: 1935-1946, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 1
      Location: Biographical Materials

  • General Correspondence

    • Description: Air mail contract system
      Dates: 1934
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 2
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Alhambra Gold Mines, Inc., Jefferson County (re Fleming, Pilot, Katie, Golden Gate mines, Warm Springs Creek; correspondents include Mike Sullivan, James R. Brophy, J.W. Goldsbury, C.R. Bralzier, Harfield Conrad, Gerald Conrad)
      Dates: 1929-1934, 1939-1946
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 3
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Alta Corbin Mines Co., Wickes (Ann Randall)
      Dates: 1932
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 4
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Alta Mine, Wickes (correspondents include R.T. Walker, C.V. Brennan, Paul E. Flynn, Isle Royal Copper Co., Blair W. Stewart, Harvey Mudd, L.W. Wickes)
      Dates: 1928-1950
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 5
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Alta Mine, Wickes (re dumps; correspondents include E.R. Willis, E.W. Hyde, Frank Book)
      Dates: 1947-1949
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 6
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Alta Mine, Wickes (re equipment, etc.)
      Dates: 1947-1948
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 7
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Alta Mines Corporation, New York, Wickes (correspondents include Clyde Weed, L.E. Whicher, Ted Thorbergson, Floyd O. Small)
      Dates: 1938-1952
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 8-10
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Alta Mines Inc., Portland, Oregon, Wickes (correspondents include E.W. Hyde, Helen Hyde, E.B. MacNaughton, H.B. Christopher, George S. Reid, Alfred G. Rouse, W.N. Brown, Maurice Hudson)
      Dates: 1946-1950
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 11-13
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Alta Ruby and K. and H. Mining, Wickes (correspondents include Mrs. A.E. Raines; includes claim lease)
      Dates: 1946-1950
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 14
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: American Flag Mine, Holmes Gulch, Jefferson County (Frank F. Raitt)
      Dates: 1934
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 15
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: A
      Dates: 1930-1951
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 16
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: G.A. Bailey (re gold prospects in Montana)
      Dates: 1934-1935
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 17
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Bald Butte Mining and Milling Company, Marysville (William M. Belcher)
      Dates: 1930, 1933
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 18
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Baltimore Mine, Boulder (Louis P. Donovan)
      Dates: 1935
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 1
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Barite (correspondents include Amos Roberts, A.H. Raymond, R.C. Tarrant, Montana Oil Journal)
      Dates: 1946
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 2
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Bell Boy Gold Mining Company, Marysville (re Bell Boy and Towsley mines; correspondents include Mike Savage, W.H. Abel)
      Dates: 1932-1942
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 3
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Francis A. Bell (re Ropes family legal matters)
      Dates: 1942-1943
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 4
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Belmont Mines, Inc., Marysville (re Thomas Cruse Mining and Development Company, Mt. Belmont Gold Mines, Bald Butte Mines, etc.; correspondents include Marry Hickey, Clement Quinn, J. Cleveland Haas, Joseph Hyman, James R. Thomas, George Arnott, Roy C. Tarrant)
      Dates: 1925-1941
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 5-7
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Belt Mountain Lead Mining Company (re Silver and Bell Mine, Barker Mining District; correspondents include R.W. Wilson, Lars Carlson)
      Dates: 1931-1932, 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 8
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Big Blackfoot Gold Mine, Lincoln (J.A. Rowand, W.S. Norman)
      Dates: 1931-1932, 1936
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 9
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Big Chief Mine, Broadwater County (W.L. Barrett, Herschel James, A.F. Mavity)
      Dates: 1930-1937
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 10
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Birds Eye Claim, Elkhorn (re Heagan claim; correspondents include Lillian McKereghan)
      Dates: 1932-1933
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 11
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Blackjack Mine, Corbin (Edith Dunn Keith)
      Dates: 1934
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 12
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Blizzard Mine, Wickes (J.L. Penner, J.P. Hiebert)
      Dates: 1936, 1938-1939
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 13
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Blue Bird Mine, Wolf Creek (Karl Herter)
      Dates: 1929
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 14
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Blue Cloud Placer Mine, Helena (re tungsten and scheelite; correspondents include Blanche Keller, S.M. Anderson)
      Dates: 1930, 1940-1943
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 15
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: "Blueprint" (re misuse of word)
      Dates: 1943
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 16
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Boulder Belle Mining Company, Elkhorn (re C & D and Louise mines; correspondents include John C. Sloss, C.A. Clarke, Dutton Clarke)
      Dates: 1909, 1932-1949
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 17-19
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: James F. Brophy and James R. Brophy (re Bald Butte, Penobscot, Dobler and other mines)
      Dates: 1933-1937, 1942
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 20
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: B
      Dates: 1929-1947
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 21
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Canada Dept. of Mines and Resources (re Canadian corundum mine)
      Dates: 1945
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 22
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Canyon Ferry Dam (John L. Savage)
      Dates: 1946, 1949
      Container: Box/Folder 2 / 23
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Capital Consolidated Mining Company, Holmes Gulch, Jefferson County (correspondents include Weston Clarke, Dutton Clarke, L.B. Sandblast; also includes draft of application to Reconstruction Finance Corp.)
      Dates: 1932,, 1934, 1942-1948
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 1
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Capital Oil Well, Winston (H.C. Barth)
      Dates: 1930
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 2
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Carbonate Mine, Silver Camp (correspondents include J.A. Rowand, Blackfoot Silver Lead Mining Company, C.L. Holmberg, Tonopah Mining Company, Hunter Williams, Clement K. Quinn)
      Dates: 1926-1932, 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 3
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Channel Gold Mines, Ltd. (re Channel Gold Mines, Bald Butte; correspondents include Belle Channel, H.R. Pettijohn, Like Chapman, S.H. Fairweather, J.F. Dyche)
      Dates: 1932-1941
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 4
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Coal (correspondents include Samuel Ford, Montana Record Herald)
      Dates: 1942, 1948
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 5
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: E.E. Collins (re legal matters)
      Dates: 1942-1943
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 6
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Co-op Gold Mine, Helena (correspondents include Educational Cooperative Publishing Company, J.B. Bentley)
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 7
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Charles Cummings (re talc, marble, Michigan mines)
      Dates: 1930-1935
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 8
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Custer Mine, Winston (Walter Harvey Weed, Albert C. Fisher)
      Dates: 1932
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 9
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: C
      Dates: 1928-1951
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 10
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Davis Placer, Townsend (Frank O. Davis)
      Dates: 1932-1934
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 11
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: S.R. Davis (re Little Goldie, Western Hope, and Shield's Last Stand mines, Boulder)
      Dates: 1945
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 12
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Dobler Mine, Clasoil (correspondents include Rudolph Dobler, Martin Naddy, W.L. Honnold, Louis P. Donovan, H.B. Chessher, Harry Tilton)
      Dates: 1931-1938
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 13
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Drumlummon Extension Mine, Marysville (correspondents include Edward J. Dailey, Scott Calhoun, Associated Gold Mines Company)
      Dates: 1932-1935
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 14
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Dunlap claims, Magpie Gulch, Broadwater County (H.W. Turner)
      Dates: 1934
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 15
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: D
      Dates: 1929-1948
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 16
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: East Pacific Mine, Winston (correspondents include R.M. Anderson, H.W. Carver, U.S. War Production Board)
      Dates: 1937, 1942-1943
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 17
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Elk Creek corundum mine, Gallatin County (correspondents include Edmund G. Toomey, Engineering and Mining Journal, U.S. War Production Board, Reconstruction Finance Corp., American Abrasive Company, U.S. Public Roads Administration)
      Dates: 1907, 1932, 1942-1943
      Container: Box/Folder 3 / 18
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Elk Creek corundum mine, Gallatin County (correspondents include U.S. War Production Board, Reconstruction Finance Corp., Federal Loan Agency, Metals Reserve Company, American Abrasive Company, Bausch and Lomb Optical Company, Flying D. Ranges, Inc., U.S. Bureau of Mines, George Sinton, Defense Minerals Administration; also includes Bureau of Mines reports annotated by Ropes)
      Dates: 1944-1951
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 1-4
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Engineering and Mining Journal (re article, letters to the editor, etc.)
      Dates: 1929-1950
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 5
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: John E. Erickson (re appointment to U.S. Senate)
      Dates: 1933
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 6
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Eureka Mining Company, Marysville (correspondents include Lide Chapman, charles Gibbons)
      Dates: 1938-1939
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 7
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: E
      Dates: 1932-1950
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 8
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Fleming Mine, Alhambra (correspondents include James F. Brophy, Newbourgh Mining and Milling Company)
      Dates: 1933, 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 9
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Fort Peck Dam
      Dates: 1934-1939
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 10
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Fort Peck Dam hydroelectric project and World War II
      Dates: 1942
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 11
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Frankenfield claims, Dry Gulch, Helena (correspondents include Cecil Murphy, W.A. Smith)
      Dates: 1932
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 12
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Freedom of press (re corporate control of Montana press and U.S. Post Office complicity)
      Dates: 1933-1934
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 13
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: F
      Dates: 1931-1948
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 14
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Geology of Helena Valley (U.S. Public Works Administration)
      Dates: 1936
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 15
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Gibson and Lambert Associates (re Who's Who in Engineering account)
      Dates: 1933-1934
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 16
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Gold (re gold standard, gold miners' code under National Recovery Act, etc.)
      Dates: 1933-1934, 1937, 1949
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 17
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Gold Bug Mine [Weatherwax Mine], Yogo (Walter C. Lehman)
      Dates: 1944-1947
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 18
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Gold Canyon Mining Company (re Gold Canyon Group, Channel Gold Mine, and Granite Butte mines, Gould; correspondents include Belle Channel, Fred J. Anderson)
      Dates: 1929-1931
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 19
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Gold King Mining Company, Winston (correspondents include E.J. McCabe, Charles P. Day)
      Dates: 1937-1939
      Container: Box/Folder 4 / 20
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Gold Strike Mining Company, Hassel (re Morning Glory Mine)
      Dates: 1932
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 1
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Golden Crown Mine, Scratchgravel Mining District (correspondents include R.M. Elder Walter L. Morgan, John Howard, Patented Mines Company, Ed Jennings)
      Dates: 1934-1940
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 2
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Golden Curry Mine, Elkhorn (correspondents include A.A. Pelletier, E.E. Esselstyn, H.B. Chessher, A.C. Johnson, Lillian McKereghan, C.L. Holmberg, Ford Johnson; also includes copy of 1912 report on mine)
      Dates: 1930-1934
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 3
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Golden Jack Mine, Fergus County (correspondents include E.W. Carmichael, F.V.H. Collins, J.M. Bair, J.T. Skinner; includes prospectus and assays for mines)
      Dates: 1929-1931
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 4
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Great Eastern and Great Western claims, Emigrant (K.L. Kearns)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 5
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Louis Green's mine, Townsend
      Dates: 1942-1944
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 6
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: G
      Dates: 1930-1947
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 7
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: H & A Manufacturing Company (re "serpentine" heating unit)
      Dates: 1945
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 8
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Hall Mining Company, Rimini (re Peerless Jennie and Crescent mines; correspondents include W.A. Hall, M.O. Wilkins)
      Dates: 1949
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 9
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: John D.M. Hamilton (re Republican National Committee)
      Dates: 1936-1937
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 10
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: E.G. Harris (re Silver Bell, Smith and Harris, Prince Group, and Florence mines, Maiden)
      Dates: 1934-1938
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 11
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Frank A. Hazelbaker (re campaign for Governor)
      Dates: 1932
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 12
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Helena-Jefferson Mines Company (correspondents include P.H. Whiting, Timber Butte Milling Company, Charles Hussey, R.T. Walker, W.G. Smart, Northwest Mines Investment Company, W.J. Croze)
      Dates: 1926-1930, 1942
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 13
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Helena schools
      Dates: 1929, 1932, 1936-1938
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 14
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Helena street system
      Dates: 1941-1943, 1950
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 15
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Helena water supply (includes Charles T. Main reports, opinion in J.V. Weber vs. City of Helena, proceedings of Helena City Council)
      Dates: 1929-1943
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 16
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Henderson Gulch Placer Mines, Granite County (correspondents include J.M. Thomas, W.S. Dawson)
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 17
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Hilger Placer Mine (J.G. Hilger, John M. Thomas)
      Dates: 1932, 1942
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 18
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Home Mining and Milling Company, Marysville (re Towsley Gulch claims, Hardgrove-Williamson lease; correspondents include Hugh P. Evans, Dave Evans, F.P. Hixon; also includes report on company, 1888)
      Dates: 1888, 1937-1950
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 19-21
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Homestake Mining Company, Lead, S.D. (Lawrence Wright, B.C. Yates)
      Dates: 1931
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 22
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Hoover Dam (Compressed Air Magazine)
      Dates: 1930-1942
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 23
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: H
      Dates: 1930-1950
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 24
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Ideal Mining Company, Anaconda (re Conshohoken group of mines; correspondents include A.J. White)
      Dates: 1929
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 25
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Intermountain Engineering-Development Company, Helena (correspondents include T.O. Hammond, E.B. Gibbs, E.E. Wager, Martin Woolston)
      Dates: 1929-1932
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 26
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Iron Ore newspaper, Ishpeming, Michigan (re Ropes Mine, western mining politics)
      Dates: 1931-1950
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 27
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Ishpeming Gold Mining Company, Ishpeming, Michigan (re Ropes Mine; correspondents include J.H. Trebilcock)
      Dates: 1932
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 28
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: I
      Dates: 1931-1942
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 29
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: George R. Jackson (re family matters)
      Dates: 1942-1943
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 30
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Josephine Gold Mining Company, Norris (A. Doornbos)
      Dates: 1936-1937, 1944
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 31
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: J
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 5 / 32
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Khern Lode, Montana City (Louis A. Jaffer)
      Dates: 1933
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 1
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: H.G. Kleinschmidt property and Mike Horse Mine, Lincoln
      Dates: 1929-1931, 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 2
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Korisek Mine, Canyon Ferry (William H. Sandstrom, Edgar H. Blair)
      Dates: 1939, 1948
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 3
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: K
      Dates: 1929-1942
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 4
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Alf M. Landon (re presidential election)
      Dates: 1936
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 5
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Last Chance Gulch Mining Association
      Dates: 1943-1950
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 6
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Agnes Lewis (re pipeline on ranch on Warm Springs Creek, Jefferson County)
      Dates: 1933
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 7
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: L.A. and M.T. Leydig (re house in Lenox Addition, mining, etc.)
      Dates: 1932-1933
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 8
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Little Ox and Big Ox mines, marysville (Lou W. Kreicker)
      Dates: 1932-1933
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 9
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: L
      Dates: 1932-1942
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 10
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: MacDonald Pass
      Dates: 1929
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 11
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Mammoth Mine, Eagle Creek, Broadwater County (Charles Johnson, H.K. Bickford, A.V. Bergland)
      Dates: 1934
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 12
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Mammoth Mines Corporation, Twin Bridges (Earl R. Pulver)
      Dates: 1936-1941
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 13
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Manganese property, Jefferson City (William Delenais, Arthur and Henry Madison)
      Dates: 1942-1945
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 14
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Marietta Mine, Townsend (correspondents include Al Dance, Herschel James, R.D. Mott and Company, Gold Butte Mining Company)
      Dates: 1936-1942
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 15
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Mascotte Mine, Nevada Creek, Powell County (Harry F. Stone)
      Dates: 1930
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 16
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: McClelland Creek water, Elkhorn Mountains (James E. Keys, Peter Hilger)
      Dates: 1930
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 17
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: McKay Mine, Marysville (William J. Stratton)
      Dates: 1930
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 18
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Michigan Collete of Mining and Technology (re alumni)
      Dates: 1931-1949
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 19
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Mike Horse Mine, Lincoln (correspondents include Sterling Mining and Milling Company, E.E. Wager, Hunter Williams, Sam Stampfly, Tonopah Mining Company)
      Dates: 1924-1939
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 20
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Frank J. Miller (re suit involving claims in Sheep Eater Mining District, Jardine; includes mining claim certificates, 1938-1941)
      Dates: 1944
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 21
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Minah Mine, Wickes (correspondents include Henry M. Lancaster, Continental Gold Mines, Inc., Minah Consolidated Mines Corporation)
      Dates: 1930-1936, 1942
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 22
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Mines Operating, Inc., Canyon Creek (re Home Mining and Milling Company, Earthquake and Skokapee mines; correspondents include Hugh P. Evans, F.P. Hixon)
      Dates: 1946
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 23
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Mining Association of Montana (re meetings, St. Louis Mining and Milling Company)
      Dates: 1934
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 24
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Mining equipment (correspondence with vendors: A-W; blueprints of ore crushing and reduction mill in OVERSIZE FOLDER)
      Dates: 1931-1937
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 25-26
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: blueprints of ore crushing and reduction mill [Oversize: See Archives Map Case]
      Dates: 1931-1937
      Container: Oversize Folder 1
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Mining Truth, Spokane (re Rimini Mining District and Silver Camp, Lincoln)
      Dates: 1930
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 27
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Monetary policy (re silver)
      Dates: 1933-1934, 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 28
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Montana-Chicago Mining Company, Mitchell Gulch, Jefferson County (re Last Hope, Starret, and Eureka mines; correspondents include Edmund G. toomey, Samuel Horwitz)
      Dates: 1936
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 29
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Montana Geological Survey (re proposed bill)
      Dates: 1929
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 30
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Montana Oil and Mining Journal (re Marysville mining properties)
      Dates: 1934-1939, 1943
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 31
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Montana Power Company
      Dates: 1932-1942
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 32
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Montana-Silver Tip Mining Company, Wickes (re Silver Tip, Redding and Madison mines; correspondents include Henry Madison, R.A. Davidson, W.G. Swart, C.L. Holmberg, J.H. Pearce, George Redding)
      Dates: 1928-1930
      Container: Box/Folder 6 / 34
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Montana State Auditor, State Land Board, Industrial Accident Board, et al. (re mineral leasing, Capitol dome, Fort Peck, etc.)
      Dates: 1929-1934
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 1
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Monte Christo Mine, Vipond Mining District (A.H. Johnson, James Sherman)
      Dates: 1945-1946
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 2
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Mulgrew claims, Rimini (Anne Kirk Whitlock)
      Dates: 1951
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 3
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: M
      Dates: 1929-1948
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 4
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: New Departure Mines, Inc., Dillon Harry Hickey, Wade V. Lewis)
      Dates: 1925-1949
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 5
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: New World Mining District, Cooke City
      Dates: circa 1905
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 6
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Nimrod lead mine, Missoula County (Frank O. Davis, Paul E. Flynn)
      Dates: 1941-1948
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 7
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: N
      Dates: 1931-1946
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 8
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Occidental Mining Company, Wickes (E.H. MacDonald, Harrison B. Martin)
      Dates: 1934-1935
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 9
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Oil lease policy
      Dates: 1929
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 10
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Oker Mine, Flesher Pass (Joseph Oker, S.W. Wilson)
      Dates: 1929
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 11
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: O
      Dates: 1931-1942
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 12
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Pedro Mine, Helena (S.E. Howard)
      Dates: 1939
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 13
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Penobscot Mine, Marysville (re Penobscot and Bald Butte mines; correspondents include H.H. Naftalin, Keith Mackay, H.G. Washburn, J.H. Longmaid; also includes copy of Frank Longmaid's 1894 report)
      Dates: 1932-1934, 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 14
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Platner Mine, Prineville, Oregon (re mercury mine; correspondents include Mrs. Frank Platner, H.B. Chessher)
      Dates: 1933-1934
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 15
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Prohibition repeal
      Dates: 1933-1934
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 16
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: P
      Dates: 1929-1948
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 17
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Quincy Mining Company (re Bald Butte Mine; correspondents include William M. Belcher)
      Dates: 1930-1933
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 18
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Reinig Placer Mine, Marysville (correspondents include Edward Reinig, Chauncey A. Graves, Edward P. Scallon, J. Cleveland Haas, G.S. Mobley, E.K. Davis)
      Dates: 1932-1938
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 19
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Franklin D. Roosevelt administration
      Dates: 1934, 1938-1941
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 20
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Ropes family (re family matters, Michigan and Montana mining ventures; correspondents include Louella, George, Judy, Jack, and Nora Ropes)
      Dates: 1909-1910, 1930-1939
      Container: Box/Folder 7 / 21-22
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Ropes family (re family matters, Michigan and Montana mining ventures; correspondents include Judy, Louella, Jack, and Leverett Ropes)
      Dates: 1940-1951
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 1-2
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Ropes Mine, Ishpeming, Michigan (correspondents include Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Copper Company, James McNaughton, Joe St.Germain, George Curry, Emmet Smith)
      Dates: 1888, 1927-1934, 1941
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 3
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: R
      Dates: 1931-1948
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 4
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: St. Louis Drumlummon Mines, Inc. (re Reconstruction Finance Corporation loan, Marysville mines lease, Helena earthquakes, Ropes' background; correspondents include O.B. Suck, John J. Finley, Henry Sartorius, Kathryn Sullivan, John Way, H.G. Ferguson, C.A. Graves, Wilbur H. Grant, R.M. Elder, Edmund G. Toomey)
      Dates: 1935-1946
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 5-9
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: St. Louis Mining and Milling Company, Marysville (C.H. Wittenberg)
      Dates: 1930-1932
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 10
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Saturday Evening Post
      Dates: 1933-1946
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 11
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Sillimanite and corundum (correspondents include Champion Porceline Company, champion Sillimanite, Inc., U.S. War Production Board)
      Dates: 1929-1944
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 1
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Silver and Bell Mine, Barker (correspondents include United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Exploration Company)
      Dates: 1931
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 2
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Southern Montana Abstract Company (re Beaverhead County township plats; correspondents include Frank Hazelbaker, Keuffel and Esser Company, KLM Process Company)
      Dates: 1930-1931
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 3
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Spokane Silver and Lead Mine, Custer, South Dakota
      Dates: 1931
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 4
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: John Stansfield (re flotation process)
      Dates: 1931-1934
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 5
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Stemwinder Mine, Fort Harrison (T.S. Pryse, C.O. Hartin, J.P. Hiebert, Fred Reynolds)
      Dates: 1930-1938
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 6
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Strikes and labor unions (correspondents include Joseph W. Martin, Robert A. Taft, House Committee on Un-American Activities)
      Dates: 1942-1947
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 7
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Charlotte Strobel (re mines in Coeur d'Alene District, Idaho)
      Dates: 1939-1948
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 8
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Summit Mine, Deep Creek Mining District (correspondents include John Dimeling, Mendota Mining Company)
      Dates: 1930
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 9
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: S
      Dates: 1930-1950
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 10
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Talc mines (re McKelvey Mine south of Helena; correspondents include John Dimeling, Mendota Mining Company)
      Dates: 1930
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 11
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Timberline Lode, Corbin (C.R. Stranahan)
      Dates: 1947
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 12
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Tin mines (W.S. Larssen)
      Dates: 1942
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 13
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Towley Mines, Marysville (re Shakopee, Home, and other mines; correspondents include Will Rimping, Hugh P. Evans, Armor Martin, Geln G. Hayes)
      Dates: 1940-1942, 1947-1949
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 14
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: T
      Dates: 1934-1946
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 15
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: U.S. Forest Service, Federal Reserve Board, U.S. General Land Office
      Dates: 1930-1948
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 16
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Industrial Advisory Board, U.S. Dept. of Labor
      Dates: 1933-1949
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 17
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: U.S. National Recovery Administration
      Dates: 1933-1934
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 18
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: U.S. Reconstruction Finance Corporation (re job application, St. Louis Drumlummon Mines, Inc., loan application)
      Dates: 1935-1936, 1942
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 19
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: U.S. Reconstruction Finance Corporation (re Corporation's policies towards small mines, fluorite; correspondents include Paul Flynn, Joseph W. Pahl, Charles Henderson)
      Dates: 1942-1952
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 20
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: U.S. Senate War Investigating Committee (re malfeasance of Reconstruction Finance Corporation decisions on corundum, etc.)
      Dates: 1945
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 21
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: U.S. Supreme Court (re "court packing"; correspondents include Arthur Vandenburg, Burton K. Wheeler, United States News)
      Dates: 1945
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 22
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: U.S. Treasury Department; U.S. War Production Board
      Dates: 1941-1943
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 23
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: United Gold Mines Corporation, Marysville (re Bald Butte and Penobscot mines; correspondents include Edward P. Scallon, Clement K. Quinn)
      Dates: 1932-1933
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 24
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: United States News
      Dates: 1936-1942
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 25
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: U
      Dates: 1931-1950
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 26
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Victory Mine, Ophir Mining District (correspondents include A.H. Johnson, Empire Mining Company, Manley R. McGill, L. Lore Wartes)
      Dates: 1938, 1943-1948
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 1
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Vosberg Mining Company, Winston (re Vosberg and Gold Bug mines; correspondents include Ed Vosberg, C.W. Lanaway, Frank Rose, Ray Johnson, James K. Sloan)
      Dates: 1927, 1936, 1938
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 2
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: V
      Dates: 1930
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 3
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Who's Who in Engineering; Who's Who in Montana; Who's Who in the Northwest; Who's Who in the Western Hemisphere; Who's Who in the World
      Dates: 1932-1949
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 4
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Willard Mine, Warm Springs Gulch, Jefferson County (Robert Connell, A.N. Lund, C.M. Roos)
      Dates: 1913, 1936-1937
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 5
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Joseph T. Wilson (re attracting Eastern capital to Montana mining)
      Dates: 1947-1948
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 6
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: W
      Dates: 1929-1949
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 7
      Location: General Correspondence
    • Description: Z; unidentified
      Dates: 1941-1948
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 8
      Location: General Correspondence

  • Court Papers

    • Description: In the matter of the birth of John Lyman Ropes
      Dates: 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 9
      Location: Court Papers
    • Description: Ropes vs. Bald Butte Mining Company, statement of Leverett S. Ropes
      Dates: 1905
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 10
      Location: Court Papers
    • Description: St. Louis Mining and Milling Company vs. Montana Mining Company, Ltd., certificate of sale
      Dates: 1910
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 11
      Location: Court Papers

  • Financial Records

    • Description: Income taxes

      RESTRICTED

      Dates: 1943-1951
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 12
      Location: Financial Records
    • Description: Miscellaneous (includes bills, checkstubs, rent receipts, payroll deductions, tax receipts, etc.)

      RESTRICTED

      Dates: 1930-1949
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 13
      Location: Financial Records

  • Legal Documents

    • Description: Dobler Mines, Inc. lease agreements
      Dates: 1931-1933, 1943
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 14
      Location: Legal Documents
    • Description: Elk Creek corundum mine lease agreement
      Dates: 1943
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 15
      Location: Legal Documents
    • Description: Rent and purchase of house from Fred Hooper
      Dates: 1933-1934
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 16
      Location: Legal Documents
    • Description: Thomas Cruse Mining and Development Company trust agreements
      Dates: 1932
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 17
      Location: Legal Documents

  • Maps

    • Description: List of maps transferred to Library Map Collection
      Dates:
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 18
      Location: Maps

  • Photographs

    • Description: List of photographs transferred to Photo Archives
      Dates:
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 19
      Location: Photographs

  • Printed Material

    • Description: List of printed material transferred to Library
      Dates:
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 20
      Location: Printed Material

  • Reports

    • Description: Alta Mine, Wickes
      Dates: 1922
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 21
      Location: Reports
    • Description: Basin Gold and Silver Mining Company
      Dates: 1920
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 22
      Location: Reports
    • Description: Calumet Group, Marysville
      Dates: 1925
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 23
      Location: Reports
    • Description: Easter Farm, Jordan
      Dates: 1927
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 24
      Location: Reports
    • Description: "Gold Fields of Montana"
      Dates: 1932
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 25
      Location: Reports
    • Description: "Gold Trail" by Julius Ropes (re Ropes Mine, Ishpeming, Michigan, also includes clippings)
      Dates: circa 1890
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 26
      Location: Reports
    • Description: Mt. Belmont Gold Mines, Marysville
      Dates: 1933
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 27
      Location: Reports
    • Description: New Departure Mine, Blue Wing Mining District, by George R. Metlen
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 28
      Location: Reports
    • Description: "Ore deposits of the Little Rocky Mountains, Montana," by Walter Harvey Weed
      Dates: 1896
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 29
      Location: Reports
    • Description: Patented Mines Company property, Scratchgravel Hills, by C. Standish
      Dates: 1938
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 30
      Location: Reports
    • Description: Report on work as mineral surveyor on Lolo National Forest (includes correspondence, field notes, etc.)
      Dates: 1930
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 31
      Location: Reports
    • Description: St. Louis Drumlummon Mines, Inc. (reports on Marysville, St. Louis, Drumlummon, blue Bird, and Hickey Mines, tailings, etc.)
      Dates: 1935
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 32
      Location: Reports
    • Description: St. Louis Mining and Milling Company (copies of reports by Walter P. Jenney and John R. Parks)
      Dates: 1899, 1901
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 33
      Location: Reports
    • Description: Towsley Mines, Marysville
      Dates: 1919
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 34
      Location: Reports

  • Speeches

    • Description: "Geology of the Helena Mining District" (speech to Kiwanis Club)
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 1
      Location: Speeches
    • Description: Helena Mining Region (speeches to Rotary Club)
      Dates: 1929
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 2
      Location: Speeches

  • Writings

    • Description: "Agricultural Vagaries" (re Agricultural Adjustment Administration)
      Dates: 1934
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 3
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "The Chicken and the Egg, Which Came First?" (re atomic physics)
      Dates: 1946
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 4
      Location: Writings
    • Description: Comment on "Ore Deposits of the Boulder Batholith" (American Institute of Mining Engineers)
      Dates: 1947
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 5
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Corundum"
      Dates: 1929, 1946
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 6
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Helena Earthquakes"
      Dates: 1935
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 7
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Is It a Fair Deal?" (re low bid process)
      Dates: 1941
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 8
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Keno Hill Ice Veins," Yukon territory (drafts of article for Engineering and Mining Journal)
      Dates: 1932
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 9
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Lawlessness" (re prohibition)
      Dates: 1933
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 10
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Looking Backward!" (re Roosevelt Administration)
      Dates: 1934
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 11
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "The Marysville District" (Montana Oil and Mining Journal)
      Dates: 1936
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 12
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Mechanics of Ore Injection"
      Dates: 1929
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 13
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "The New Deal"
      Dates: 1934
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 14
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Notes on [Harold] Ickes' Proposed Metal Mine Leasing"
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 15
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Origin & Deposition of Economic Minerals"
      Dates: 1929
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 16
      Location: Writings
    • Description: "Reversing the Land Policy"
      Dates: 1934
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 17
      Location: Writings

  • Miscellany

    • Description: Alta Mines, Inc. prospectus (includes extracts from reports by L.S. Ropes and S.T. Hauser, 1922)
      Dates: 1947
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 18
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Free Enterprise Uranium Mine, Boulder, (speech by Wade V. Lewis, Elkhorn Mining Company to Exchange Club, Butte)
      Dates: 1952
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 19
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Gold Mining Association of America registration card
      Dates: 1933
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 20
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Ishpeming Hotel Company stockholder meeting notices
      Dates: 1946-1947
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 21
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: List of artifacts transferred to Museum
      Dates:
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 22
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: List of mines operating or accessible in Helena vicinity
      Dates: 1937
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 23
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Mining Association of Montana membership application, description of organization, program
      Dates: 1945, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 24
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Montana Corundum Company stock certificate
      Dates: 1901
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 25
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Montana-Silver Tip Mining Company legal agreements
      Dates: 1928, 1930
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 26
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Montana Society of Engineers membership list
      Dates: circa 1935
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 27
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: Notebook (re Ropes' Michigan School of Mines thesis on Dead River geology)
      Dates: 1891
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 28
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: St. Louis Drumlummon Mines, Inc. annual financial statements
      Dates: 1936-1941, 1946, 1949
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 29
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: St. Louis Drumlummon Mines, Inc. stock certificate and stock receipt
      Dates: 1935
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 30
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: St. Louis Drumlummon Mines, Inc. survey notes
      Dates: 1935, 1940
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 31
      Location: Miscellany
    • Description: St. Louis Mining and Milling Company deed (includes list of claims)
      Dates: 1934
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 32
      Location: Miscellany

  • Clippings

    • Description: Fort Peck Dam
      Dates: 1934, undated
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 33
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Government programs, politics, etc.
      Dates: 1931-1949
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 34
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Mineral industry
      Dates: 1931-1949
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 35
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Mines (Marysville, Wickes, Rimini, Michigan)
      Dates: 1928-1949
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 36
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Mining Association of Montana
      Dates: 1935-1945
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 37
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: L.S. Ropes letters to editor
      Dates: 1935-1936
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 38
      Location: Clippings
    • Description: Miscellaneous (re science, education, politics, religion, alcohol)
      Dates: 1934-1949
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 39
      Location: Clippings

  • Maps

    • Description: mining related maps [Oversize box]
      Dates: undated
      Container: Oversizebox 1
      Location: Maps
    • Description: mining related maps [Archives Rolled Map Shelves]
      Dates: undated
      Container: Oversize rolled 1
      Location: Maps

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Corundum mines and mining--Montana
  • Dams--Montana.
  • Earthquakes--Montana--Helena
  • Geologists--Montana
  • Geology--Montana
  • Gold mines and mining--Montana
  • Lead mines and mining--Montana
  • Manganese mines and mining--Montana
  • Mine brokers--Montana
  • Mines and mineral resources--Montana--Beaverhead County
  • Mines and mineral resources--Montana--Broadwater County
  • Mines and mineral resources--Montana--Cascade County
  • Mines and mineral resources--Montana--Fergus County
  • Mines and mineral resources--Montana--Gallatin County
  • Mines and mineral resources--Montana--Jefferson County
  • Mines and mineral resources--Montana--Judith Basin County
  • Mines and mineral resources--Montana--Lewis and Clark County
  • Mines and mineral resources--Montana--Madison County
  • Mines and mineral resources--Montana--Missoula County
  • Mines and mineral resources--Montana--Park County
  • Mines and mineral resources--Montana--Powell County
  • Mines and mineral resources--Idaho
  • Mines and mineral resources--Michigan
  • Mines and mineral resources--South Dakota
  • Mining claims--Montana
  • Mining engineering--Montana
  • Mining machinery--Design and construction
  • Prohibition
  • Silver mines and mining--Montana
  • Strikes and lockouts--Montana
  • Talc industry--Montana
  • Uranium mines and mining--Montana

Personal Names

  • Ropes, Leverett S. (Leverett Smith), 1868-1953 (creator)

Geographical Names

  • Beaverhead County (Mont.)
  • Broadwater County (Mont.)
  • Carbonate Mine (Lewis and Clark County, Mont.)
  • Dobler Mine (Clasoil, Mont.)
  • Drumlummon Mine (Marysville, Mont.)
  • Elk Creek Corundum Mine (Gallatin Gateway, Mont.)
  • Elkhorn (Mont.)
  • Empire Mine (Marysville, Mont.)
  • Fergus County (Mont.)
  • Fort Peck Dam (Mont.)
  • Free Enterprise Uranium-Radon Mine (Boulder, Mont.)
  • Gold Bug Mine (Yogo Gulch, Mont.)
  • Golden Curry Mine (Elkhorn, Mont.)
  • Helena (Mont.)
  • Helena (Mont.)--Earthquake, 1935
  • Jefferson County (Mont.)
  • Judith Basin County (Mont.)
  • Lewis and Clark County (Mont.)
  • Lolo National Forest (Mont.)
  • Madison County (Mont.)
  • Marietta Mine (Townsend, Mont.)
  • Marysville (Mont.)
  • Mike Horse Mine (Mont.)
  • Missoula County (Mont.)
  • Mount Belmont Gold Mines (Marysville, Mont.)
  • Park County (Mont.)
  • Penobscot Mine (Marysville, Mont.)
  • Powell County (Mont.)
  • Reinig Placer Mine (Lewis and Clark County, Mont.)
  • Towsley Mines (Marysville, Mont.)
  • Victory Mine (Ophir Gulch, Mont.)
  • Wickes (Mont.)

Finding aid prepared by Ellie Arguimbau, 1989, updated 2005, 2015.
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