Special Collections & Archives
Day Mines Group
Records, 1890-1981
The late Henry L. Day of Wallace, Idaho, donated the records of Day Mines, Inc. and its predecessor companies to the University of Idaho in the early 1980s. Grants from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission and the U.S. Department of Education HEA Title II-C program, the University of Idaho, with additional support from the Library Associates of the University of Idaho (recipients of a major bequest from Henry L. Day), and others made possible the processing of nearly 2,000 cubic feet of mining records.
The project director was Terry Abraham, Head, Special Collections at the University of Idaho Library. During 1987/1988, Herman Ronnenberg served as project director. Appraisal, arrangement, and description were begun by Richard C. Davis as project archivist from the end of 1986 into 1989 and carried on by Michael Tarabulski as project archivist in 1991-1992. Among those who worked on the two projects were Doug Carr, Gregory Eisenlein, Harriet Essiam, Susan Hamlin, Jennifer Jenness, Lena Johnson, Dana Miller, Dixie Miller, Judith Nielsen, Kelly Clark O'Brien, Marilyn Sandmeyer, Leslie Smallwood, Clay Williams, and Wilma M. Woods. Advice and comments on the appraisal of mining records were received from Earl H. Bennett, Francis X. Blouin, Jr., Maynard Brichford, William S. Greever, Michael Ostrogorsky, Duane A. Smith, Clark C. Spence, and Glenn Vent. A guide to the records has been published as Day to Day: A Guide to the Records of the Historic Day Mines Group in the University of Idaho Library; edited by Terry Abraham and Richard C. Davis; Moscow: University of Idaho Library, 1992.
The Day Mines collection deposited in the University of Idaho Library is organized into seventy-three manuscript groups and includes the records of over eighty corporations or mining partnerships acquired by, merged with, or established by the Days, or in which the Days at some time held a dominant interest. Each group documents one or more variations on the means of organizing capital and labor for the exploitation of mineral wealth. The corporate records relate to a variety of economic, social, and political topics, such as air and water pollution, the life of the working man, taxation, social welfare, and business organization and capitalization, as well as to the more specific aspects of mineral land acquisition, mine development, mine and smelter technology, metal marketing and the relations between mines and smelter companies from the 1890s into the 1980s. However, there is little related to the Coeur d'Alene mining wars of the 1890s.
Inventories:
- Aetna Mining and Milling Company
- Records, 1915-1938 - 1 cubic foot - Manuscript Group 238
- Amazon-Manhattan Mining Company
- Records, 1917-1941 - 1 cubic foot - Manuscript Group 260
- Ambergris Consolidated Mining Company
- Records, 1901-1950 - 4.5 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 250
- Aurum Mining Company
- Records, 1916-1953 - 15 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 235
- Basin Mining Company
- Records, 1902-1938 - 1 cubic foot - Manuscript Group 239
- Ben Hur Mining Company
- Records, 1907-1940 - 0.66 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 284
- Benton Mining Company
- Records, 1894-1920 - 1 cubic foot - Manuscript Group 271
- Big Eight Group
- Records, 1916-1943 - 0.20 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 323
- Blue Grouse Mining Company, Limited
- Records, 1898-1920- 0.33 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 261
- Bryan Mining Company
- Records, 1907-1931 - 0.33 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 285
- C & R Mining Company
- Records, 1904-1961 - 2 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 281
- Callahan Zinc-Lead Company
- Records, 1910-1948 - 0.33 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 262
- Cincinnati Mining Company
- Records, 1923-1961 - 0.5 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 295
- Coeur D'Alene Mining & Smelting Company
- Records, 1904-1937 - 0.5 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 276
- Copper King Mining and Smelting Company
- Records, 1901-1949 - 5 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 252
- Crystal Lead Mines Company
- Records, 1914-1947 - 2.5 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 279
- Custer Consolidated Mining Company
- Records, 1899-1924 - 1 cubic foot - Manuscript Group 246
- Dakins Company
- Records, 1938-1942 - 1 cubic foot - Manuscript Group 296
- Day Development Company
- Records, 1917-1963 - 5 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 298
- Day Mines, Inc.
- Records, 1921-1985 - 59 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 306
- Dayrock Mining Company
- Records, 1923-1953 - 17.5 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 272
- Diem Mines Limited
- Records, 1949-1967 - l cubic foot - Manuscript Group 305
- Doro Company
- Records, 1939-1941 - 0.5 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 297
- Duluth Mining Company
- Records, 1909-1947 - 1 cubic foot - Manuscript Group 278
- East Standard Mining Company
- Records, 1911-1953 - 0.5 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 299
- Fern Mining Company
- Records, 1946-1968 - 1 volume - Manuscript Group 320
- Gertie Mining Company
- Records, 1900-1944 - 1.5 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 253
- Gold Hunter Mines
- Records, 1918-1966 - 3 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 283
- Guelph Mining and Milling Company, Limited
- Records, 1900-1929 - 2.5 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 243
- Happy Day Mining Company
- Records, 1899-1947 - 1 cubic foot - Manuscript Group 277
- Hercules Mining Company
- Records, 1892-1947 - 73 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 236
- Homestake Mining Company
- Records, 1909-1943 - 1 cubic foot - Manuscript Group 258
- Honolulu Mining Company
- Records, 1906-1924 - 1 volume - Manuscript Group 244
- Hornsilver Mining and Milling Company
- Records, 1901-1960 - 1.5 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 282
- Howard Mining Company
- Records, 1939-1942 - 0.5 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 300
- Humming Bird Mining Company
- Records, 1898-1936 - 3 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 237
- Idaho and Eastern Mining and Milling Company
- Records, 1903-1938 - 1 cubic foot - Manuscript Group 240
- Idora Mining Company
- Records, 1906-1929 - 0.33 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 263
- Imperial Mining Company
- Records, 1904-1945 - 4.5 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 254
- Kanaka Corporation
- Records, 1937-1940 - 1 cubic foot - Manuscript Group 319
- King Mining Company
- Records, 1908-1961 - 2.5 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 251
- Laclede Mining Company, Limited
- Records, 1903-1950 - 2 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 242
- Last Chance Copper Mining Company
- Records, 1907-1940 - 1 cubic foot - Manuscript Group 286
- Marsh Mines Consolidated
- Records, 1888-1947 - 5 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 255
- Mines Contracting Company
- Records, 1936-1944 - 1 cubic foot - Manuscript Group 301
- Monitor Mining Company
- Records, 1937-1947 - 12 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 259
- National Copper Mining Company
- Records, 1906-1944 - 4 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 256
- Northport Smelting and Refining Company
- Records, 1898-1936 - 38 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 234
- Option Mining Company
- Records, 1925-1951 - 1 cubic foot - Manuscript Group 274
- Oreano Mining Company
- Records, 1902-1929 - 1.5 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 270
- Orofino Group
- Records, 1925-1945 - 0.20 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 324
- Pennsylvania Smelting Company
- Records, 1899-1943 - 3 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 294
- Phoenix Mining and Milling Company
- Records, 1905-1955 - 0.5 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 280
- Portland Mining Company
- Records, 1912-1947 - 1 cubic foot -Manuscript Group 264
- Potosi Placers
- Records, 1935-1941 - 0.5 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 302
- Puritan Mining Company
- Records, 1905-1940 - 1 cubic foot - Manuscript Group 248
- Ray-Jefferson Mining Company
- Records, 1909-1951 - 5 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 265
- Roanoke Mining Company
- Records, 1907-1938 - 1 cubic foot - Manuscript Group 241
- Roxbury Placers
- Records, 1930-1946 - 2.5 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 303
- Sherman Development Company
- Records, 1916-1922 - 0.5 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 269
- Sherman Lead Company
- Records, 1918-1953 - 23.5 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 268
- Snowy Peak Mining Company
- Records, 1906-1916 - 0.5 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 249
- Sonora Mining and Milling Company
- Records, 1897-1944 - 3 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 257
- Stanley Mining Company
- Records, 1900-1947 - 1 cubic foot - Manuscript Group 292
- Strattons Mines Company
- Records, 1923-1930 - 1 cubic foot - Manuscript Group 273
- Success Mining Company
- Records, 1906-1953 - 16 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 291
- Sunset Lease
- Records, 1940-1966 - 1.5 cubic foot - Manuscript Group 304
- Sunshine Mining Company
- Records, 1907-1943 - 0.5 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 275
- Tamarack & Chesapeak Mining Company
- Records, 1897-1915 - 3.5 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 245
- Tamarack & Custer Consolidated Mining Company
- Records, 1907-1948 - 76 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 247
- Treasure Vault Mining Company
- Records, 1906-1947 - 1 cubic foot - Manuscript Group 290
- Trinum Company
- Records, 1935-1939 - 1 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 293
- Tuscumbia Mining Company
- Records, 1911-1941 - 0.5 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 266
- West Sunset Mining Company
- Records, 1911-1931 - 0.5 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 267
- Western Union Mining Company
- Records, 1917-1951 - 4.5 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 289
- Wilbur Mining Company
- Records, 1906-1930 - 0.5 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 288
- Woodburn Mining Company
- Records, 1937-1940 - 0.5 cubic feet - Manuscript Group 287
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