Canisteo Mining Company records
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the Canisteo Mining Company president's office's executive activities for the Canisteo Mining Company from 1904 to 1932. The collection contains correspondence, leases and related negotiation memorandums, exploration records, statements: expense, inventory, labor, payroll, property taxes, and royalty documents all pertaining to Mesabi Iron Range (Minnesota) properties.
Record Series 1. Financial records, including payroll, invoices and receipts for operations, invoices and expenses for W. G. Swart (Mining Engineer), royalty account statements, tax assessments and receipts.
Record Series 2. Correspondence concerning Oliver Mining Company leases in 1904-1905 and 1911-1912.
Record Series 3 is General items and includes washing test reports, operations reports, indentures and information on leasing land for the Trout Lake concentrator, reports for bovey Mine #2 on shipment and non-shipment of ore and reports on Mining Leases.
Dates
- 1904 - 1931
Creator
- Canisteo Mining Company (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Permission to publish material from the Canisteo Mining Company records, MSS-261, must be obtained from the University Archivist. The University Archivist may be reached by phone at 906-227-1225, or e-mail, archives@nmu.edu. The University Archivist may also be reached in Room 126 of the Learning Resource Center, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI.
Biographical/Historical
Chester Adgate Congdon (1853-1916), lawyer and capitalist, served as a United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota (1881-1886) and as a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (1909-1913), in addition to his work as the primary owner and president of the Canisteo Mining Company, which was located on the Mesabi Iron Range in Minnesota. The papers in this collection come from Congdon's executive offices. In 1929 Cleveland Cliffs Industry (CCI) leased the Canisteo Mine, and Canisteo Mining Company would later become a subsidiary of U.S.Steel. Most of the business activities found in the collection relate to Itasca County, Minnesota, but some documents are connected to Ishpeming, Michigan.
Extent
1 Cubic Feet (1 Archival box)
Language of Materials
English
- Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company
- Congdon, Chester A. (Chester Adgate)
- Correspondence. Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Financial Statements. Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Hospitals. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Inventories. Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Iron miners. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Iron mines and mining. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Leases. Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Memorandums. Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Mesabi Range (Minn.). Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Payrolls. Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Receipts (financial records). Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Tax Records. Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Upper Peninsula (Mich.). Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Creator
- Canisteo Mining Company (Organization)
- Title
- Canisteo Mining Company records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Karen Kasper
- Date
- 10/7/2016
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Central Upper Peninsula and Northern Michigan University Archives Repository
Harden Learning Resources Center 126
1401 Presque Isle Ave
Marquette 49855 United States
906-227-1225
906-227-1333 (Fax)
archives@nmu.edu
