University of Wyoming
Combined Metals Reduction Company (CMR) was a mining company organized on October 5, 1923, as a Utah company. It was principally engaged in the development of flotation processing for complex lead-zinc ores of the Pioche Mining District in the vicinity of Pioche, Nevada, and its Park-Bingham mine at Bingham. The Combined Metals company had a mill at Bauer, Utah with a capacity of 1,000 tons per day and a mill at Caselton, Nevada with a capacity of 1,600 tons a day. Pioche, Lincoln County, Nevada milling operations ceased in 1957 and by the early 1970s CMR filed for bankruptcy.
E.H. Snyder was a mining economist and engineer. He joined Combined Metals, Inc. in 1915, and in 1923 he became president and general manager when control of the company was purchased by National Lead and changed to Combined Metals Reduction Company. In 1943, he advanced to President and in 1963, he became Chairman of the Board, a post he held until his death in 1967.
Collection contains business files, field notes, mill and drill ledgers, mine reports, correspondence, financial records, contracts, technical drawings, blueprints, maps, newspaper clippings, legal documents, and publications regarding the operations and business interests of the Combined Metals Reduction Company. The collection also contains E.H. Snyder business files, manager for Combined Metals Reduction Company in the 1920s and 1930s, regarding the Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam) and the Lincoln County Power District No. 1.
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This material was received from Carroll Hummel in 1971 and Combined Metals Reduction Company (CMR) in 1979.
Combined Metals Reduction Company records, ACCN 0493, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.
E. H. Snyder family mining papers, ACCN 3121, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.
Edward Harrison Snyder photograph collection, P2214, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, The University of Utah.
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