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MC 239
United States. War Production Board. Helena District Office
United States War
Production Board. Helena District Office Records
1941-1946
7.5 linear feet of shelf
space
The Helena, Montana, district office of
the United States War Production Board was established in June 1942 to
coordinate production of minerals and other materials for World War II. Records
primarily consist of general office correspondence of district manager Oscar A.
Baarson; Mining Division correspondence of mining technical advisor William M.
Manning and subject files on mine operators in Montana, Idaho, North Dakota,
and Wyoming; and general correspondence of salvage coordinator E. J. Keeley.
Also included are press releases, minutes, reports and general subject files.
English
The United States War Production Board
(WPB) was established in the Office of Emergency Management on January 16,
1942, to continue the work of the Office of Production Management and the
Supply Priorities and Allocations Board. The WPB was assigned the task of
coordinating and directing war procurement and production programs in federal
agencies as well as in the private sector. At the end of World War II, the WPB
was terminated and its functions transferred to the Civilian Production
Administration (CPA). The Helena district office was opened in June 1942 under
the direction of Oscar A. Baarson. The Helena office operated in turn under the
Seattle, San Francisco, Denver, and finally, Minneapolis regional offices.
Baarson's staff included Thomas Caverly, Emergency Coordinator of Mines;
William M. Manning, Technical Advisor for Mining; and E. J. Keeley, coordinator
for the Salvage Division. The primary function of the Helena office was to
coordinate enforcement of federal regulations involving mines in Montana,
Idaho, Wyoming, North and South Dakota, and Washington. Each mine in the state
was required to apply for a serial number authorizing it to purchase equipment
and supplies as a vital war industry. Gold mines were deemed non-essential and
were forced to close under regulation L-208. The Helena office closed in
January 1946.
Content Description:
This collection consists of office
files (1941-1946) for the Helena district office of the United States War
Production Board (WPB). There are three subgroups: general office files, mining
division files, and salvage division files. General office files consist
primarily of the correspondence of district manager Oscar A. Baarson with other
WPB offices, and with companies and individuals around the state. In addition
the subgroup includes a subject file, minutes of various related organizations,
and miscellany. The Mining Division subgroup includes correspondence of
Technical Advisor for Mining William M. Manning with other WPB Mining division
administrators, a subject file on mining operators and strategic minerals, and
a card file on mines. After Manning's death April 1, 1945, Oscar Baarson became
the Acting Technical Advisor for Mining. The Salvage Division subgroup includes
correspondence of E.J. Keeley and the Montana State Salvage Committee with
other WPB salvage operations, and with private companies; correspondence of the
Women's Division; and press releases, reports, and general subject files.
Arrangement:
by subgroup and series
Acquisition Information:
available upon request
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the Montana
Historical Society Archives catalog. Researchers desiring materials about
related topics, persons, or places should search under these terms.
Housing--Montana
Labor
relations--Montana
Manganese mines
and mining--Montana
Mines and
mineral resources--Idaho
Mines and
mineral resources--Montana
Mines and
mineral resources--Oregon
Mines and
mineral resources--South Dakota
Mines and
mineral resources--Washington (State)
Mining
claims--Montana
Salvage (waste,
etc.)--Montana
World War,
1939-1945--Civil defense
World War,
1939-1945--War work
Wyoming
Montana
Idaho
Oregon
Washington (State)
Mines and Mineral Resources
Military
Government and Politics
Detailed Description of the Collection
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in
the collection
District Office
Interoffice Correspondence
1 / 1
United States War
Production Board. Bismarck and Fargo, N.D. offices
1944
1 / 2
United States War
Production Board. Denver Office
1942-1944
1 / 3
United States War
Production Board. Field Operations
1942-1945
1 / 4
United States War
Production Board. Helena, Mont. Office, Mining Division (William M. Manning)
1944-1945
1 / 5-6
United States War
Production Board. Minneapolis Office
1942-1945
1 / 7
United States War
Production Board. Office of Civilian Requirements
1944-1945
1 / 8
United States War
Production Board. Priorities Field Service (F.R. McGregor; L. Edward Scriven)
1941-1944
1 / 9
United States War
Production Board. San Francisco Office
1942-1943
1 / 10
United States War
Production Board. Smaller War Plants Corporation
1943-1944
1 / 11
United States War
Production Board. Spokane and Seattle Offices
1941-1945
1 / 12
United States War
Production Board. Washington, D.C. Office
1942-1946
General Correspondence
1 / 13
A
1942-1945
1 / 14
Billings Commercial Club
1942-1945
1 / 15
B-F
1942-1945
1 / 16
Great Falls Chamber of
Commerce Housing Committee
1945
1 / 17
G-L
1942-1945
1 / 18
William M. Manning
Estate
1945
1 / 19
Miles City Chamber of
Commerce Housing Committee
1945
1 / 20
Modified Area Production
Urgency Committee (includes National Housing Agency surveys)
1944-1945
1 / 21
Montana Retail
Lumbermen's Association
1942-1945
1 / 22
James E. Murray
(includes Senate Small Business Committee and Charles Murray)
1942-1945
1 / 23-24
M-T
1942-1945
1 / 25
United States government
(miscellaneous agencies)
1944
1 / 26
Burton K. Wheeler
1943-1946
1 / 27
Wa-Wo
1943-1944
Miscellaneous
Correspondence
1 / 28
James E. Murray,
Jeannette Rankin, Burton K. Wheeler
1942
Minutes
2 / 1
Controlled Materials
Plan meeting, Butte
1942
2 / 2
Modified Area Production
Urgency Committee
1944-1945
2 / 3
United States Senate
Small Business Committee hearing in Kalispell
1944
2 / 4
United States War
Production Board District Managers
1943-1945
2 / 5
United States War
Production Board Operations Council
1943-1944
Press Releases
2 / 6
Press releases: Helena
office
1944-1945
2 / 7
Radio and newspaper
publicity
1941-1944
Organization
2 / 8
District Manager
functions and responsibilities
n.d.
2 / 9
Functional outline
n.d.
2 / 10
Organizational charts,
maps, etc.
1942-1945
2 / 11
Plan of operation:
Bureau of Field Operations
1942
Reports
2 / 12
Regional Director David
J. Winton weekly reports
1945
2 / 13
Semi-monthly workload
reports
1943-1944
Subject File
2 / 14
Anaconda housing survey
1942
2 / 15
Anti-freeze
1944-1945
2 / 16
Army-Navy Star Awards
1944
2 / 17
Budget
1942
2 / 18
Herbalists
1945
2 / 19
Highway machinery
1945
2 / 20
Labor-management
relations
1943-1945
2 / 21
Lumber manufacturers
(includes "Factors affecting lumber production Northern Rocky Mountain Region:
Montana")
1944-1945
2 / 22
Manpower Priorities
Committee of Montana
1944-1945
2 / 23
McCall-Stibnite Access
Road Project, Idaho
1941-1942
2 / 24
Mexican labor
1944
2 / 25
National Production
Urgency List
1943-1944
2 / 26
Office furniture and
supplies (re difficulty of wartime procurement of supplies)
1941-1942
3 / 1
Personnel
1942-1945
3 / 2
Personnel: advice of
personnel action
1943-1945
3 / 3
Personnel: efficiency
ratings
1943
3 / 4
Personnel: job
descriptions
1941-1944
3 / 5
Personnel: salary
receipts (lists of employees)
1942-1945
3 / 6
Political activity by
federal employees (Hatch Act)
1942
3 / 7
Priorities training
sessions
1941-1943
3 / 8
Public water supplies
1942
3 / 9
Records disposition
(includes lists of records transferred to Washington for eventual deposit in
National Archives)
1945-1946
3 / 10
Rent ceilings, Billings
1945
3 / 11
Scrap (re salvage and
recycling of scrap materials)
1943-1944
3 / 12
Selective Service and
draft deferments
1943-1945
3 / 13
Travel
1942-1945
3 / 14
Typewriters
n.d.
3 / 15
War bond sales in office
1942-1945
3 / 16
Work clothes
1944-1945
Miscellany
3 / 17
Certificate of service
[blank]
1945
3 / 18
Field Office mail and
file unit procedure manual
n.d.
3 / 19
List of chambers of
commerce, civic, and commercial organizations in Montana
1941
3 / 20
List of county chairmen
and committee members
n.d.
3 / 21
List of electric
utilities
n.d.
3 / 22
List of Montana prime
contractors
1942
3 / 23
List of Montana sawmills
1942
3 / 24
List of U.S. Dept. of
Agriculture county war boards
1943
3 / 25
Mailing lists: business
and industry
1943
3 / 26
Mailing lists: civic
organizations
1942-1944
3 / 27
Mailing lists: local
government officials
1941-1942
3 / 28
Mailing lists: news
releases
1944
3 / 29
Sen. James E. Murray
speeches, etc.
1943-1944
3 / 30
Revocation lists of
W.P.B. Orders
1945
3 / 31
Monsignor Emmet J. Riley
reception
1945
Clippings~
3 / 32
Miscellaneous
1943-1944
Mining Division
Interoffice Correspondence
4 / 1
United States Office of
Production Management. Administrator of Mine Priorities (Wilbur A. Nelson)
1941-1942
4 / 2-4
United States War
Production Board. Denver Office Assistant Deputy Director for Metals and
Minerals/Mine Production (Edward H. Rott)
1942-1945
4 / 5
United States War
Production Board. Denver Office Deputy Director for Metals and Minerals/Mine
Production (James Reed Lane)
1943-1945
4 / 6-7
United States War
Production Board. Mining Division Deputy Director (Marcellus H. Stow) (includes
1942 "Report on the Running Wolf Iron Properties [Little Belt Mountains]")
1942-1945
4 / 8
United States War
Production Board. Priorities Coordinator (Donald M. Nelson)
1941-1942
4 / 9
United States War
Production Board. Salt Lake City and Ogden, Utah
1943-1945
General Correspondence
4 / 10
B-C
1941-1945
4 / 11
E. Byers Emrick
1941
4 / 12
E-K
1941-1943
4 / 13
Mining Association of
Montana (Carl Trauerman)
1941-1945
4 / 14
Pit and Quarry
Publications
1941
Outgoing Correspondence
5 / 1-19
William M. Manning,
Regional Technical Advisor for Mining
1942-1943
6 / 1-15
William M. Manning,
Regional Technical Advisor for Mining
1944-Mar
1945
6 / 16
Ben H. Chestnut, Acting
District Manager; Oscar A. Baarson, Acting Technical Advisor for Mining
Apr.
1945
Diaries
7 / 1
Office diary: William M. Manning
Feb.-Mar.1945
Organization
7 / 2
Regional Mining Division functions
1943-1944
Reports
7 / 3
"Brief Memoranda Concerning War Minerals in Montana"
Montana School of Mines (includes antimony, bentonite, chromite, manganese,
sapphires, tungsten, vermiculite)
Apr. 1941
7 / 4
Metals Reserve Company reports on various Montana mines
and smelters
1945
Subject File
7 / 5
Aluminum
1943
7 / 6
American Mining Congress Metal Mine War Conference
1942
7 / 7
Antimony
1942-1943
7 / 8-10
Applications of mining companies
to Office of Defense Transportation
1942-1945
7 / 11
Arsenic
1944
7 / 12
Asbestos
1945
7 / 13
Barium
1942
7 / 14
Bentonite
1943
7 / 15
Beryl and beryllium
1942-1944
7 / 16
Bismuth
1943-1944
7 / 17
Calcite crystals
1943-1944
7 / 18
Charcoal
1943
7 / 19
Chrome
1944
7 / 20
Classification of small mines
1945
7 / 21
Coal mines
1943-1944
7 / 22
Copper
1943-1945
7 / 23
Copper rivets for harness repair
1945
7 / 24
Corundum
1943-1945
7 / 25
Critical metals and minerals
1942-1945
7 / 26
Custom mills
1943
7 / 27
Field report forms
1943
7 / 28
Flourspar and fluorite
1942-1943
7 / 29
Garnet
1943-1944
7 / 30
Geodes
1943
7 / 31
Graphite
1943
7 / 32
Gypsum
1942
7 / 33
Iron ore
1943-1945
7 / 34
Lead
1943-1945
7 / 35
Limitation Order L-208 (re closing of gold mines)
1942-1945
8 / 1
Manganese
1942-1943
8 / 2
Mercury
1943-1944
8 / 3
Mica
1942-1945
8 / 4
Mine operator quotas
1942-1943
8 / 5
Mine operators: Allied Copper Company (Moffat and
Johnson Mine, Sheridan)
1943-1945
8 / 6
Mine operators: American Gem Mines (Philipsburg)
1942-1945
8 / 7
Mine operators: American Smelting and Refining Company,
East Helena Plant (E.M. Tittmann, manager)
1942-1945
8 / 8
Mine operators: American Smelting and Refining Company,
East Helena Plant reports of ore receipts and processing
1944-1945
8 / 9
Mine operators: American Smelting and Refining Company,
Gregory Mine
1941-1944
8 / 10-11
Mine operators: Anaconda Copper
Mining Company (Butte) (includes strike, May 1944)
1941-1945
8 / 12
Mine operators: Anaconda Copper Mining Company chrome
mine (Columbus)
1942-1944
8 / 13
Mine operators: Anaconda Copper Mining Company reports
of ore receipts and processing
1944-1945
8 / 14
Mine operators: Anderson Phosphate Mines (Garrison)
1941-1945
8 / 15
Mine operators: Peter Antonioli (Butte)
1941-1945
8 / 16
Mine operators: Armstrong Mining Syndicate (Rimini)
1942-1945
8 / 17
Mine operators: A-Az
1942-1945
8 / 18
Mine operators: Bair-Collins Company (Roundup)
1941-1945
8 / 19
Mine operators: Bell and Bukvich (Butte)
1942-1944
8 / 20
Mine operators: Belrust Mining Company (Philipsburg)
1942-1943
8 / 21
Mine operators: Bennett Mining Company (Neihart)
1943-1945
9 / 1
Mine operators: Boaz Mine (Norris)
1942-1945
9 / 2
Mine operators: Boss Tweed-Clipper Mines, Inc. (Pony)
1942-1945
9 / 3
Mine operators: Broadwater Consolidated Mines
1942
9 / 4
Mine operators: Broadwater Zinc and Lead Mines (Iron
Mask Mine, Hassel)
1942-1945
9 / 5
Mine operators: Brophy Coal Company (Red Lodge)
1941-1945
9 / 6
Mine operators: Butte Mines Merger Corporation
1942-1945
9 / 7
Mine operators: Tom Byrd (January Mine, Winston)
1942-1943
9 / 8-9
Mine operators: B-Bz
1941-1945
9 / 10
Mine operators: Calone and Johnson (Belt)
1941-1942
9 / 11
Mine operators: Gust Carlson (Helena core drilling)
1943-1945
9 / 12
Mine operators: P. Carter (Miles City; Atlantic City,
Wyo.)
1942-1943
9 / 13
Mine operators: H.W. Carver (East Pacific Mine,
Winston)
1941-1945
9 / 14
Mine operators: Leo J. Coady (Clyde Park calcite
crystals)
1943-1945
9 / 15
Mine operators: Consolation Mining and Milling Company
(Lincoln)
1942-1943
9 / 16
Mine operators: Consolidated Mining Company (Sterrett
Napton, Missoula)
1943-1945
9 / 17
Mine operators: Contact Mines Corporation (Philipsburg)
1941-1943
9 / 18
Mine operators: E.K. Coyner (Meagher County)
1941
9 / 19
Mine operators: Crystal Graphite Mining Company (Ruby
Mountains) [formerly R.F.L. Graphite Company]
1941-1945
9 / 20
Mine operators: C-Cu
1941-1945
9 / 21
Mine operators: Kenneth Davis (Pioneer)
1944-1945
9 / 22
Mine operators: Domestic Manganese and Development
Company (Butte; Philipsburg)
1942-1943
9 / 23
Mine operators: Dunn, Hayes and Malin (Bannack)
1943-1944
9 / 24
Mine operators: Da-Dz
1942-1945
10 / 1
Mine operators: East Belt Coal Mine
1941-1945
10 / 2
Mine operators: Ernest C. Ecklesdafer (Flagstaff Mine,
Avon)
1943
10 / 3
Mine operators: Elliston Lime Company
1943-1945
10 / 4
Mine operators: Empire Mines, Inc. (Marysville)
1931
10 / 5
Mine operators: W.P. and E.L. Enders (limestone quarry,
Carbon County)
1941-1945
10 / 6
Mine operators: Ermont Mines, Inc. (Dillon)
1941-1943
10 / 7
Mine operators: Ea-Ez
1941-1945
10 / 8
Mine operators: Joseph T. Farrow (Two Percent Mine,
Philipsburg)
1942-1945
10 / 9
Mine operators: Fisher-Katzer Investment Company
(includes report, 1935, on Midas Gold Mining and Milling Company properties
near Libby)
1942
10 / 10
Mine operators: Florence Company
(Neihart)
1941-1943
10 / 11
Mine operators: Forest Rose
Mining and Milling Syndicate (Jens)
1941-1945
10 / 12
Mine operators: Fa-Fu
1941-1945
10 / 13
Mine operators: Camilla Gage
(Emma Mine, Twin Bridges)
1942-1944
10 / 14
Mine operators: Gerber Coal
Company (Stockett)
1941-1943
10 / 15
Mine operators: John Giulio
(Boulder)
1942-1944
10 / 16
Mine operators: Gold Creek
Mining Company (Ennis)
1941-1943
10 / 17-18
Mine operators: Golden Messenger
Corporation (Helena) (includes "Report on the Golden Messenger Property [York
Mining District]" by J.C. Archibald and diamond drill log)
1941-1945
10 / 19
Mine operators: Fred Gooden
(Silver Wave Mine, Townsend)
1942-1945
10 / 20
Mine operators: Great Northern
Railway Company (Giffen Coal Mine, Cascade County)
1941-1943
10 / 21
Mine operators: Green Campbell
Mining Company (Silver Star)
1941-1943
10 / 22
Mine operators: Green Mountain
Mining Company (Dixon)
1941-1945
10 / 23
Mine operators: Grey Blanket
Coal Company (Lodge Grass)
1941-1944
10 / 24
Mine operators: Ga-Gru
1941-1945
10 / 25
Mine operators: H and H Mines
(Drummond)
1942-1945
10 / 26
Mine operators: Helena Sand and
Gravel Company
1942-1945
10 / 27
Mine operators: Hopkins and Sons
Mining Company (Elliston)
1942-1945
10 / 28
Mine operators: Ha-Hu
1941-1945
11 / 1
Mine operators: Industrial Minerals Corporation (Fuller
Corundum Mine, Gallatin Gateway)
1944-1945
11 / 2
Mine operators: Irma Mines, Inc. (Cooke City)
1941-1945
11 / 3
Mine operators: I-Iz
1941-1945
11 / 4-5
Mine operators: Jardine Mining
Company
1941-1945
11 / 6
Mine operators: Jeffries Coal Company (Roundup)
1941-1945
11 / 7
Mine operators: Jennison Coal Company (Fairview)
1941-1945
11 / 8
Mine operators: Ja-Ju
1941-1945
11 / 9
Mine operators: Kennedy Creek Mining Company (Missoula)
1942-1944
11 / 10
Mine operators: Klies Mining
Company (Neihart)
1941-1945
11 / 11
Mine operators: Ka-Ku
1942-1945
11 / 12
Mine operators: Ed Lahey
(Bluebird Tailings, Rocker)
1944
11 / 13
Mine operators: Walter Lehman
(Gold Bug Mine, Yogo)
1941-1945
11 / 14
Mine operators: Lexington Mining
Company (Big 7 Mine, Neihart)
1941-1944
11 / 15
Mine operators: Liberty Montana
Mines Company (Jefferson Island)
1942-1944
11 / 16
Mine operators: Lincoln Placers
Associates, Inc. (Lincoln)
1942-1945
11 / 17
Mine operators: Little Ben
Mining Company (Landusky)
1941-1943
11 / 18
Mine operators: G.D. Lyon and
Company (McQuarrie)
1942-1945
11 / 19
Mine operators: La-Lz
1941-1945
11 / 20
Mine operators: M. and M. Mining
Company (Ohio-Keating Mine, Radersburg)
1941-1945
11 / 21
Mine operators: Marie Leasing
Company (Philipsburg)
1942-1945
11 / 22
Mine operators: Marietta Mines
(Townsend)
1941-1944
11 / 23
Mine operators: Maronick
Limestone Company (East Helena)
1941-1945
12 / 1
Mine operators: Martin Brothers (Liberty County)
1942-1944
12 / 2
Mine operators: Stuart McKee (Elkhorn)
1942-1944
12 / 3
Mine operators: McLaren Gold Mining Company (Cooke
City)
1941-1945
12 / 4
Mine operators: Metals Reserve Company (purchase depot,
Butte)
1942-1945
12 / 5-6
Mine operators: Mike Horse
Mining and Milling Company (Lincoln) (includes report, Nov. 1943)
1941-1945
12 / 7
Mine operators: Mines Operating Company (Empire Mine,
Marysville) [formerly Martin Mining Company] [maps in OVERSIZE FOLDER]
1943-1945
12 / 8
Mine operators: Minmont Company (East Pacific and
Spring Hill mines, Broadwater and Lewis and Clark counties)
1941-1943
12 / 9
Mine operators: Missoula-Lincoln Metals Company
1941-1943
12 / 10
Mine operators: Monongahela-Mt.
Washington Mining Company (Helena)
1941-1945
12 / 11
Mine operators: Montana Coal and
Coke Company (Washoe)
1941-1945
12 / 12
Mine operators: Montana Leasing
Company (Neihart)
1943-1945
12 / 13
Mine operators: Montana
Phosphate Products Company (Garrison)
1942-1945
12 / 14
Mine operators: Montana Rainbow
Mining Company (Drumlummon Mine, Marysville)
1941-1945
12 / 15
Mine operators: Moorlight Mining
Company (Granite County)
1941-1945
12 / 16-17
Mine operators: Mountain Talc
Company (L.F. Teutsch, Ennis)
1942-1945
13 / 1
Mine operators: Ma-Mu
1941-1945
13 / 2
Mine operators: Nancy Lee Mines, Inc. (Mineral County)
1943-1945
13 / 3
Mine operators: Neihart Mine and Milling Company
[formerly Klies Mining Company]
1943-1945
13 / 4
Mine operators: Nettie Mining Company (Butte)
1943-1945
13 / 5
Mine operators: Newman Brothers (Elliston)
1941-1945
13 / 6
Mine operators: North Butte Mining Company (Butte)
1943-1945
13 / 7
Mine operators: North Mocassin Mines Syndicate
(Kendall)
1941-1943
13 / 8
Mine operators: Northwest Mining Company/Rex Mining
Company (H.E. Luderer, lessee, Empire Mine, Marysville)
1941-1943
13 / 9
Mine operators: Northwestern Improvement Company
(Colstrip)
1941-1945
13 / 10
Mine operators: N-O
1941-1945
13 / 11
Mine operators: Perry-Schroeder
Mining Company (Missouri River sapphires)
1941-1944
13 / 12
Mine operators: Philipsburg
Mining Company
1941-1944
13 / 13
Mine operators: Porter Brothers
(Helena and Flagstaff dredge mines, Avon)
1943-1944
13 / 14
Mine operators: Pa-Pu
1941-1944
13 / 15
Mine operators: Quartz Hill
Mining Company (Dewey)
1941-1945
13 / 16
Mine operators: Queen Leasing
Company (Neihart)
1941-1942
13 / 17
Mine operators: Republic Coal
Company (Roundup)
1941-1945
13 / 18
Mine operators: Rice and Wegener
(Faithful Mine, Divide)
1942-1944
13 / 19-20
Mine operators: Roundup Coal
Mining Company
1941-1943
14 / 1
Mine operators: Ra-Ru
1941-1945
14 / 2
Mine operators: Saranac Mine and Mill (Ray L. Lucier,
lessee, Maxville)
1941-1944
14 / 3
Mine operators: Silver Crescent, Inc. (Marysville)
1941-1943
14 / 4
Mine operators: Silver Star Chrome Company (J. Vernon
Davis, Silver Star)
1942-1944
14 / 5
Mine operators: Silver Star Gold Mining Company (Peter
Antonioli, Silver Star)
1941-1944
14 / 6
Mine operators: A.O. Smith Corporation/Marvin F.
Riebhoff (Golden Sunlight Mine, Whitehall)
1941-1945
14 / 7
Mine operators: Southern California Minerals Company
(Ennis; Dillon)
1941-1945
14 / 8
Mine operators: Spring Hill Mine (Helena)
1944
14 / 9
Mine operators: St. Joseph Lead Company (Block P Mine,
Hughesville)
1941-1945
14 / 10
Mine operators: Standard
Silver-Lead Mining Company (Gould Mine, Wilborn; Sunshine Mine, Libby)
1941-1945
14 / 11
Mine operators: Ray J. Stanfield
(Orphan Boy and Washington groups, Broadwater County)
1942-1944
14 / 12
Mine operators: Star Mine
(Neihart)
1942-1944
14 / 13
Mine operators: Star Pointer
Exploration Company (Bearmouth)
1942-1943
14 / 14
Mine operators: Sunshine Mining
Company (Philipsburg)
1942-1945
14 / 15
Mine operators: Surmi Mines,
Inc. (Great Falls)
1942-1945
14 / 16
Mine operators: Swansea Mines,
Inc. (Stemple)
1941-1945
14 / 17
Mine operators: Sa-Swanson)
1941-1945
14 / 18
Mine operators: T
1941-1945
14 / 19
Mine operators: U. S. Bureau of
Mines
1942-1944
14 / 20
Mine operators: United Mines
Company (Butte)
1942-1943
14 / 21
Mine operators: U-V
1941-1945
14 / 22
Mine operators: Winston Brothers
Company (Jefferson and Broadwater counties)
1941-1944
14 / 23
Mine operators: Wa-Wo
1941-1945
14 / 24
Mine operators: Y
1943-1944
15 / 1
Mine production
1944-1945
15 / 2
Mineral Resources Survey (Carl Trauerman, supervisor)
1941
15 / 3
Molybdenum
1943
15 / 4
Nickel
1943
15 / 5
Non-metallic minerals
1942
15 / 6
Non-serialized mines
1944
15 / 7
Out-of-state mine operators: Idaho Emergency
Coordinator of Mines (includes list of Idaho mines)
1942
15 / 8-9
Out-of-state mine operators:
Idaho (A-Z)
1942
15 / 10
Out-of-state mine operators:
North Dakota (Truax-Traer Coal Company)
1942-1945
15 / 11
Out-of-state mine operators:
North Dakota (B-W)
1943-1944
15 / 12
Out-of-state mine operators:
Oregon (Porter Brothers, Bandon)
1942-1943
15 / 13
Out-of-state mine operators:
Oregon (B-W)
1942
15 / 14-15
Out-of-state mine operators:
Washington (A-Z)
1942
15 / 16
Out-of-state mine operators:
Wyoming (B-C)
1944
15 / 17
Preference Rating Order P-56 and
interpretations
1942-1944
15 / 18
Premium Price Plan (re bonus
metal prices)
1943-1944
15 / 19
Pumice
1944
15 / 20
Quartz crystal
1942-1943
15 / 21
Quicksilver (mercury)
1943
15 / 22
Sheelite
1942
15 / 23
Silicious ore for fluxing
1943
15 / 24
Spodumene deposits in South
Dakota
1944
16 / 1
Talc (L.E. Griffith prospect)
1943
16 / 2
Tin
1942-1943
16 / 3
Tungsten
1942-1945
16 / 4
Uranium
1944
16 / 5
Vermiculite
1942-1944
16 / 6
Xanthite
1944
16 / 7
Zinc
1944-1945
16 / 8
Zircon
1942
16 / 9
Zonolite
1944
Miscellany
16 / 10
Lists of mine operators (by
town)
16 / 11
Lists of mines operating in
Montana under PD-119
1942
16 / 12
Lists of mines operating in
Montana under Preference Order P-56 (by serial number)
1941-1945
16 / 13
Lists of mines priorities
16 / 14
Lists of ore shippers to
Anaconda copper and zinc plants and to American Smelting and Refining Company
(these lists were used as the initial basis for establishing what mines were
operating in Montana)
1941
16 / 15
Lists of PRP applications by
mining companies
n.d.
16 / 16
Lists of quartz mines (by
county)
1941
Miscellany
17 /
Mine operators card file (includes alphabetical and
serial number files for Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming) [card
box]
1941-1945
Miscellany
16 / 17
Mineral classification lists
1944-1945
16 / 18
Urgency lists
1945
Salvage Division
General Correspondence
16 / 19-21
Chronological of E.J. Keeley
(includes Montana State Salvage Committee)
1942-1945
16 / 22
Chronological of Women's
Division
1944
Press Releases
16 / 23
re salvage drives and collection
results
1942-1945
Reports
16 / 24
Reports re scrap paper, rags,
and metal shipments; salvage operation report
1943-1944
Subject File
16 / 25
Conserve Critical Resources
Program
1943
16 / 26
Iron and steel scrap
1941
16 / 27
Montana Industry Committee for
Industrial Salvage
1944
16 / 28
Salvage priority rating P-136
1942-1944
Miscellany
16 / 29
Miscellaneous including fact
sheets, GPO War Production Board instruction sheets, and lists of county
salvage chairmen
1943, n.d.
Clippings
16 / 30
Helena Independent Record
article on scrap collection drives
1945