East Helena Smelter Thrives Amid Copper Slump and History
The Butte and Anaconda mines slow as copper prices fall while the East Helena American Smelting & Refining plant runs overtime. Once Wickes in Jefferson county, it evolved through Helena and Wickes to become a modern, best equipped smelter handling northwest ores. The piece notes the 1883 bullion shipment from Wickes and compares past and present operations, linking the plant to Montana’s mining economy and the science of spider webs as a literary aside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte
Anaconda
Great Walls
American Smelting & Refining Company
East Helena
Montana
Wickes
Jefferson County
Montana Company
Alta Montana Company
Helena
C. K. Cole
Helena & Livingston Coke Company
Gegory Consolidates and Banner Mines
Helena Reduction Company of
Tme
Northern Pacific Railroad
Prickly Pear
Staworth
Notice of annual stockholders meeting and assessments
Notice details Bullion Mining Company annual stockholders meeting at Wallace Idaho on November 14 1921 at 10 00 am to elect directors and conduct business. Also Copper Chief Mining Company levies a five mill per share assessment due November 17 1921 with delinquency and sale planned if unpaid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Directors
Copper Chief Mining Company
James TH. Taylor
Shoshone
Wallace, Tolabo
Independence Lead Mines, Limited
Wallace
Idaho
W. E. Cullen, Jr
Hyde Building
P. O
Spokane
Washington
Hyde
Ivy Ellen lode claim seeks U S patent in Idaho mining district
Notice from United States Land Office Coeur d Alene Idaho dated October 14 1921 announces Clark Montana Realty Company represented by Therrett Towles applies for patent for the Ivy Ellen lode mining claim Beaver Mining District Shoshone County Idaho totaling 18.061 acres with 15.685 net acres after conflicts and describes metes and bounds with neighboring claims Sunset lode Big Bug lode Red Dragon lode and Sunset Peaks Lode Two. It records location in Book 13 of Quartz Locations page 222 and notes the claim lies Sunset Peak SEM of Section 29 and SW of Section 4 Township 49 North Range 5 East. Also lists annual stockholders meeting notice for Wallace Mining Milling & Realty Company on October 22 1921 at 7:00 pm and foreclosure sale notice October 29 1921 at 10:15 am for property in Park Addition Wallace Idaho including Lot 6 Block R and Placer Creek verge with sale by Sheriff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Land Office
Coeur A” Alene
Idaho
Clark- Montana Realty Company
Washington
Beaver Mining
Shoshone County
Coeur d'Alene
Carner
Boise
Conner
Red Dragon Lode
Big Bug
Sunset Peaks Lode
Wallace
Sunset Peak
Sunset Lode
Red Dragon
Sunset Peaks
Wallace Mining Milling & Realty Company
Frank P. Hess
Florence R. Penaluna
Alex Penaluna
John A. Lewis
District Court
First Judicial District
State of
Shoshone
Florence Penaluna
Park
Towit
Park Addition
Placer Creek
Bank Street
County of Shoshone
United States
Jesse Verses
John Dolan
Notice of Forfeiture on Idaho Mining Claims
Notice to Lillian McDonnell Alice Moran Clara McCormick and heirs of George Sparenburg of forfeiture due to nonpayment of 1930 mining claim expenditures on Bismark No 1 3 and New York No 1 in Yreka district Shoshone Idaho totaling 300 dollars with 90 day payoff window. other notice to Jed Roundy Quenet Nelson Sam G Brown C C Richie William Fagan G C Kaar and Mike Tinsley heirs regarding various claims in Lalande and Placer Center districts with 700 dollars expended for 1920 and required proportion payments within 90 days. failure will transfer co owners interests per law.
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Lillian McDonnell
Alice Moran
Clara McCormick
George W. Sparenburg
United States
New York No. 1 Lode
Yreka
Shoshone County
Idaho
Jed Roundy
Quenet Nelson
Sam G. Brown
C. C. Richie
William Fagan
G. C. Kaar
Mike Tinsley
Barat
Broken Hill
Blue Bell
Bell
Lalande
Placer Center
State of Idaho
August Nelson
Charles A. Loy
Ramona No. 1
Ramona No. 2
Ramona No. 8
Virginia No. 1
Virginia No. 2
Mountain View
Fanny M
Hilltop No. 1 Lode
Summit
Roller towel law clash in Kansas hotel tale
A salesmanlike inspector, staying at a small town Kansas hotel, discovers a dirty roller towel in the washroom and confronts locals about a longstanding towel rule. The Pretor explains there is no ex post facto law in Kansas, noting the towel tower dates from before the law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Topeka Capita
The Gold Cure and a Hard Diagnosis
An elderly man with a comfortable means is taken through a sequence of doctors from neurologist to psychiatrist and then to a general practitioner. After exhaustive tests and repeated failures, his relatives abandon him citing his crankery, and a cheap dose from a generalist seemingly cures him for a dollar and sixty cents, per Country Gentleman.
Longest Rivers and the Mississippi Missouri System
The text notes Missouri as the longest in the United States and outlines the importance of inland waterways to development. It mentions the Mississippi Missouri system as the world’s longest river system and references a United States Geological Survey compilation of world river lengths, with distances given in approximate hundreds of miles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
United States
United States Geological Survey
Department of the Interior
Notice of unpaid mining claim charges and lost stock certificate
Public mining notices warn owners and heirs of shared claims in Idaho and warn of property transfer if delinquent payments are not made within 30 or 90 days. Names include Sam G Brown C C Richie William Fagan G C Kaar Mike Tinsley and WM Sawyer along with Wm Sawyer and Charles Johnson claims Jumbo Ramona and Virginia in Shoshone county and Pine Creek Milling Company stock certificate 168.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pine Creek Mining & Milling Company
Wm. Sawyer
The
John F Ferguson Accountant Firm Detected
Brief listing shows John F Ferguson as an accountant in Wallace Idaho with services for corporations partnerships and individuals including income taxes located in the Shoshone Building.
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Helena OF
Spider and His
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
New York Herald
Miles
Mississippi
Ef Misouri
Nile
Africa
Amazon
Brazil
Siberia
Yangtze
China
Amur
Kongo
Hwang
Pullion Mining Company, Ltd
Bullion Mining Company, Ltd
No 7 Shoshone
James H. Taylor
Bullion Mining Company
Ea Wallace
Wallace Idaho
Homer Clark Fisher
Homer Clark Wisher
Bank and
Eighth Streets
M. A. Corner
Gan
Etry
Re-Mon Ae Company
Unite States
Langley
Geo. G. Evans
Seriff
Fallace
Wallace Stock Exchange
Mullan
Albert Harper
Eagle Mining
Charles J. Johnson
John F. Ferguson
Wallace, Idaho
Bunker Hill Smelter RR
Bradley, Idaho
Kellogg
Bunker Hill and Sullivan Mining and Concentrating CompAny
Producers
Bunker Hill
Smelter
Frank M. Smith
Paulsen
Spokane, Wash
M. H. Sulivan
J. W. Tabor’s Book & Stationery Store
Aetnaize Rossi Insurance & Investment CO
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