Jardine Mining Company records,

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1 Overview of the Collection Creator Title Dates Quantity Collection Number Summary Repository Access Restrictions Languages Sponsor Jardine Mining Company (Mont.) Jardine Mining Company records (inclusive) linear feet of shelf space; 29 volumes S6:1-1; S7:Top The Jardine Mining Company was incorporated in 1917, as a gold mining operation at Jardine, near Gardiner, Montana. The bulk of the collection consists of records of the Jardine Mining Company ( ), including financial volumes, reports, correspondence, organizational materials, printed materials, legal documents, etc. There are subgroups for several predecessor companies operating in the Bear Gulch area. Montana Historical Society, Research Center Archives Montana Historical Society Research Center Archives 225 North Roberts PO Helena MT Telephone: Fax: mhslibrary@mt.gov Collection is open for research, with exception of "Personnel records located in boxes 9-13" which are restricted. Contact Archivist for further information. English Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Biographical Note The Jardine Gold Mining and Milling Company was incorporated under Arizona law by W. S. Hunnewell, H. C. Bacorn, and J. E. Healy. The offices were in Butte and the mines at Jardine, Montana. In 1917 it reorganized under Montana law as the Jardine Mining Company. The company consolidated the properties of several earlier companies mining in the Bear Gulch area. Content Description The bulk of the collection consists of records of the Jardine Mining Company ( ), including financial volumes, reports, correspondence, organizational materials, printed materials, legal documents, etc. 1

2 There are subgroups for the Bear Gulch Mining Company ( ), including correspondence, financial records, organizational materials, and production records; for the Kimberly Montana Gold Mining Company ( s), including correspondence, court papers, legal documents, organizational records, and production records; for the King Solomon Quartz and Placer Mining Company ( ), including a stockholder ledger and a tunnel survey; for the Legal Tender Mining Company ( ), consisting of a stockholder journal; for the Montana Consolidated Gold Mining Company ( ), consisting of court papers and a stockholder ledger; for the Rademont Mining Company ( ), consisting of a general journal; and for the Revenue Mining Company (1946), consisting of a stock certificate book. Use of the Collection Restrictions on Use The Montana Historical Society is the owner of the materials in the Research Library and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. Written permission must be obtained from the Research Library before any reproduction use. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all of the materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use may require seeking additional authorization from the copyright owners. Preferred Citation item description and date. Collection Title. Collection Number. and Folder numbers. Montana Historical Society Research Center, Archives, Helena, Montana. Administrative Information Arrangement by subgroup and series Location of Collection S6:1-1; S7: Top Acquisition Information Acquisition information available upon request Processing Note Preliminarily sorted only. A great deal of the material in the collection is duplicative or of transitory value, and will be culled at time of final processing. Detailed Description of the Collection Bear Gulch Mining Company,

3 Outgoing Correspondence 1 / 2 Letterpress volume General Correspondence 1 / 3-10 Miscellaneous (includes various court case records) Financial Records 2 / 1-4 Bank statements, cancelled checks, freight invoices, miscellaneous invoices Volume Vol. 1-8 Check stubs Vol. 9 Legal expenses / 5 Stores distributed Volume Vol. 10 Trial balance (includes property listing and payroll) Organizational Records 2A / 1 Stock certificate stub book; cancelled stock certificates A / 2-4 Stockholder ledger, journal, and dividend book Production Records 3

4 2A / 5-6 Mine and machine reports A / 7 Tank charges A / 8 Mine development and tunnel ore A / 9 Reports from Cyanide Plant 1900 Jardine Mining Company, Container(s) Description Dates General Correspondence 3-7 Alphabetical correspondence, within each year of group of years 1917, / Post Office correspondence / 1-12 Arsenic correspondence / 13 Tungsten correspondence Employment Records 9-12 Personnel files [RESTRICTED] 12 / 46 Employee cards 1930s 12 / Time reports 1930s- 4

5 13 Personnel records and payrolls [RESTRICTED] 1930s- Volume Vol Payroll books Financial Records 14 Articles wanted from storekeeper Volume Vol. 17 Cash book Vol Check registers Vol Cost distributions Cost statements Invoices 1920s- 21 / 1 Invoices 1920s- 21 / 2 Journal entries 1930s- Volume Vol. 24 Ledger / 3 Office expenses

6 22-23 Orders for supplies 1930s- 24 / 1 Orders for supplies 1930s- 24 / 2 Outstanding checks / 3-4 Petty cash / 5 Miscellaneous book / 6-7 Rent ledgers , 1945 Volume Vol Vouchers registers Miscellaneous (includes check registers, Miners Union records, payroll) 26 Miscellaneous (includes shipping invoices, injury reports, financial statements) 27 Miscellaneous (includes accounts, financial reports, taxes, monthly working papers) 28 Miscellaneous (includes freight invoices, timber accounts, fund remittances, Charles Hardy Market Reports, inventories, cash flow, fire extinguishers, lumber, etc.) 1930s-1930s 1930s s- 29 Orders for supplies Court Papers 6

7 30 / 1 Dreyfus vs. Jardine Mining Company (includes testimony of Moise Dreyfus, John Mocker, and James McNamara re stock certificates and ore thefts by miners) / 2-4 Sackett vs. Jardine Mining Company / 5 Hearings on arsenic tariff / 6 Hearings on Northern Pacific Railway service curtailment Legal Documents 30 / 7 Mine location certificates / 8 Miscellaneous (includes correspondence re legal matters and court cases with either Bacorn brother) 1900s-1930s 30 / 9 Wage contract proposal 1944 Organizational Records 31 Stockholder material (includes proxies, correspondence, securities listings and stock sales, lists of stenographer's notes, stock certificate stubs) 32 Stockholder material (includes lists of stockholders, stock ledgers) 33 Stockholder material (includes stock ledgers, proxies, reports, proposed reorganization plans) 1910s-? 1917-? 1910s-1930s Production Records 34 / 1 Assay reports / 2 Daily mine reports

8 34 / 3 Ore delivery to mill / 4 Miscellaneous reports undated 35 Contract work done / 1 Desk calendars / 2 Engineers' notebooks / 3 Engineers' notebooks / 4 Tungsten mill notebooks / 5 Equipment inventory undated 36 / 6 Description of work cards [probably cull?] 1930s- 37 Mine and mill reports 1930s 38 Ore delivery to mill reports undated 39 Mine reports Tramming reports 1930s Reports 40 / 1-15 Annual reports to stockholders / 16-? Monthly and weekly financial reports 8

9 41 Monthly and weekly financial reports Subject Files 42 / 1 Chris Romel / 2 Bacorn (miscellaneous) 1920s 42 / 3 Mechanical drawings undated 42 / 4-5 Power ditch 1930s- 42 / 6 Meters 42 / 7 John Roper undated 42 / 8 Railway Express Agency 42 / 9 Telephone, fire, and water systems 42 / 10 Alphabetical files (D-W; largely equipment advertising sent to company) 42 / Operations (correspondence of Mining Engineer Newton Emmons to President William Hax [in New York]) / 14 Housing floor plans and correspondence 42 / 15 Montana Mining Association (correspondence re dues, newspaper articles, etc.) 42 / 16 Timber contracts (includes special use permits, correspondence, contracts) s- 42 / 17 Wage hour data (correspondence) 43 Alphabetical files (A-V; includes correspondence, financial, subject, etc.) 1930s- 9

10 44 Alphabetical files (U-Z) and invoices Alphabetical files (B-S; re equipment advertising from companies selling JMC products, correspondence, invoices, bills from manufacturers and businesses, Bacorn Suit, and mostly hundreds of files with few documents, by individual and company name) 46 Miscellaneous (re equipment advertising, invoices, correspondence, houses, reports, including reports to stockholders [will need to be added to reports, above box 66]) 47 Miscellaneous (including orders for equipment, freight bills, loose material re mining claims, annual reports, JMC vs. Jardine Mine and Millmen's Union, 1944; and personnel) Miscellaneous (including equipment orders, personnel files, advertising, invoices, mine safety equipment, trucks, machinery, inventory of buildings and contents) 50 Miscellaneous (including early Bacorn correspondence, invoices arranged by company) 51 Miscellaneous (including correspondence overflow; forms, catalogues; brochures; job openings; boarding house; cash receipts and disbursements; crude and custom ore shipments; Federal Power Commission, including articles of incorporation and amendments, ) 52 Miscellaneous (including arsenic notebooks, orders, inventory, stock records, personnel files) 53 Miscellaneous (including furnace, loose papers, invoices, orders, arsenic, taxes, gross proceeds of mine forms, supplies, time books, requisitions) 54 Miscellaneous (including correspondence with companies, cash receipts and disbursements, rent cards, advertising, Jardine Office correspondence, U.S. Forest Service timber sales) 1920s s- 1922, 1930s s- 1930s- 55 Miscellaneous (including invoices, receipts and disbursements) 56 Miscellaneous (including invoices A-Z)

11 57 Miscellaneous (including invoices A-Z, insurance on property and buildings, power plant blueprints for water wheel) 58 Miscellaneous (including Federal Power Commission correspondence, arsenic contracts, W. H. Hax personal file, H. W. Blumenthal personal file, inventory of company buildings and land, Irving Idler) 59 Miscellaneous (including invoices, loose papers, Diamond Drilling Company proposals) 60 Miscellaneous (including alphabetical files, War Assets Administration, vacation records, invoices, chronological files, contract with Jardine Miners and Millmen's Union, power plant blueprints and inventories) 61 Miscellaneous (including correspondence, tailing disposal, mill equipment, Cyanide Plant, taxes, Power House, Sullivan Equipment catalogues, orders # , war production, alphabetical files G-Mc) 62 Miscellaneous (including correspondence of Mabel Tremblay, DuPont safety posters, invoices, loose paper 1922, Bacorn alphabetical correspondence, , alphabetical M-P, railroad rate books, payrolls) 63 Miscellaneous (including electrical equipment blueprints and inventories, wage adjustment forms, coal, Henry R. Coons personal, blueprints of Anaconda Copper Mining Company and Timber Butte Mining Company) s- 1900s- Volume 29 Blueprints of Arsenic Plant and others of Jardine Mining Company and Anaconda Copper Mining Company) 1910s-1930s 64 Miscellaneous (including vouchers, correspondence, order books, alphabetical M and S-T, Roseborough Timber, employee transportation) 65 Miscellaneous (including vouchers, correspondence, arsenic, Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Wage Hour Act, receipt 1930s- 11

12 and disbursement statements, annual report to stockholders, 1938, alphabetical N-P) 66 Miscellaneous (including loose correspondence 1920s-, gold and silver forms, orders) 1920s- 67 Miscellaneous (including equipment advertising, tungsten) Miscellaneous (including equipment transfer, Power House, mining contracts, desk calendar, employee files, account book pages) 69 Miscellaneous (including equipment transfer, War Manpower Commission, orders, Assay Office) 70 Miscellaneous (including equipment transfer, Crushing Plant blueprints, explosives) Miscellaneous (including materials set aside by Joy Moseley for Toneybeth Clark, kilowatt chart, pipe, Fagergren Flotation Machine, appraisal of buildings and contents, map of mining claims, hand drawings) 1930s- Printed Material 73 Monographs and articles on mines and mining) 1930s- 74 Mining equipment catalogues 1930s- Kimberly Montana Gold Company, Container(s) Description Dates General Correspondence 75 / 1-4 Miscellaneous Court Papers 12

13 75 / 5 George A. Baird, et al. vs. Kimberly Montana Gold Mining Company, et al Legal Documents 75 / 6 Miscellaneous Organizational Records 76 / 4 Stock transfer journal 1899 Production Records 75 / 7 Miscellaneous King Solomon Quartz and Placer Mining Company, Container(s) Description Dates Organization 75 / 8 Stockholder ledger Production Records 75 / 9 Tunnel surveying 1904 Legal Tender Mining Company,

14 Organization 75 / 10 Stockholder transfer journal Montana Consolidated Gold Mining Company, 1898, 1914 Container(s) Description Dates Court Papers 76 / 1 Gregory Ackerman vs. Montana Consolidated Gold Mining Company transcript 1914 Organization 76 / 11 Stockholder ledger Rademont Mining Company, Container(s) Description Dates Financial Records 76 / 2 General journal Revenue Mining Company, 1946 Container(s) Description Dates Organizational Records 14

15 76 / 3 Stock certificate book 1946 Names and Subjects Subject Terms : Mines and mineral resources--montana--jardine. Geographical Names : Jardine (Mont.) Finding aid prepared by Ellie Arguimbau, 2008; edited by Rich Aarstad This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License: Creative Commons Licenses in Archives West: