b0292 Ohio Copper Mining Company-Bingham Central Railway Records, 1871-1951 A Register of the Collection at the Utah State Historical Society Utah State Historical Society 2006 Finding aid encode in EAD 1.0 by Craig Ringgenberg using XMetaL 1.0, 2006. Finding aid written in English.

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Summary Description Utah State Historical Society Mss B 292 Ohio Copper Mining Company Ohio Copper Mining Company-Bingham Central Railway Records, 1871-1951 16.75 lin. ft. (29 boxes)

All items in the collection are originals

 The collection includes the correspondence, financial and legal papers of the Ohio Copper Company of Utah and its subsidiary, Bingham Central Railway. Topics: Mining Corporations--Utah Railroads--Utah Persons: Joralemon, Ira B. Kellock, Samuel K. Kittle, Charles A. Kittle, Percy H. Tobelman, Henry A. Organizations: Ohio Copper Mining Company Bingham Central Railway Places: New York Utah Form or Genre: Correspondence, financial papers, legal documents, notes, time cards, payroll Background Background Note

Ohio Copper Mining Company of Utah was a predecessor of U.S. Smelting, Refining & Mining Co. The company was founded in 1903 as the Ohio Copper Company (OCC) and soon thereafter leased the Winnemuck concentrating mill, an old mill that had been used on lead-silver ores in the Bingham mine during the 1870s and 1880s. OCC would operate all its future mines out of Bingham. OCC sought outside financial assistance in 1906, bringing in F. Augustus Heinze. Unfortunately Heinze mismanaged the company and was forced to resign two years after his entry.

In 1910 OCC erected a 2,000-ton concentrating mill in Bingham, and the mill operated intermittently until 1919. Between 1910-1919 the company suffered financial difficulties, including bankruptcy in 1916. In 1912 the company was reorganized as the Ohio Copper Mining Company, and after its bankruptcy in 1914, became Ohio Copper Mining Company of Utah (OCMCU) through reorganization in 1916.

OCMCU began to shift its efforts to recover copper from low-grade porphyry ore in 1919, but the decline in the price of copper led OCMCU to defer the project until 1923, when the company used leaching methods to retrieve the copper. The venture proved successful, saving OCMCU financially. In addition, OCMCU broke the world record for low-cost copper production.

OCMCU continued its leaching operations until 1937, as its profitability began to decline. The company operated a mill and plant to re-treat tailings from earlier milling endeavors. When the company exhausted ores in the area by 1947, it ceased operations. United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company bought OCMCU's leases in 1950.

Much less is written about Bingham Central Railway. Incorporated in Salt Lake City in 1907 to build and maintain a railroad "for the public conveyance of persons and property between Salt Lake City and Bingham," the company at some point became a subsidiary of OCC and its successors.

Scope and Content

The collection includes the correspondence, financial and legal papers of the Ohio Copper Company of Utah and its subsidiary, Bingham Central Railway. The collection has been maintained by the Utah Division of State History for approximately 30 years. However, the collection needed to be processed and placed in acid-free folders and boxes.

The collection is arranged close to its original order, beginning with general correspondence, then continuing with alphabetical files. The alphabetical files included correspondence from and to individuals, whose last names were filed alphabetically. The correspondence in the alphabetical files has not been pulled and reorganized under the general correspondence; rather, the original order was maintained by keeping the individual correspondence files with the alphabetical files.

There appears to have been no original order to the files after the alphabetical files. Legal and financial records were jumbled in a box, folded and stuffed in envelopes and folders. Items concerning Bingham Central Railway were organized alphabetically. The financial and legal records for the Ohio Copper Company, however, were in complete disarray and needed to be separated from each other. The financial and legal documents are arranged alphabetically within each series.

Great care has been taken to ensure the longevity and accessibility of the collection. Its current order should make the collection and its register understandable.

 Series Descriptions

Correspondence

Alphabetical Files

Bingham Central Railway

Ohio Copper Company Financial Records

Ohio Copper Company Legal Records

 Administrative Information Preferred Citation:

Ohio Copper Mining Company-Bingham Central Railway Records, 1871-1951, Utah State Historical Society.

Restrictions on Use

The Ohio Copper Mining Company-Bingham Central Railway Records are the physical property of the Utah Historical Society, Salt Lake City, Utah. Literary rights, including copyright, may belong to the authors or their heirs and assigns. Please contact the Historical Society for information regarding specific use of this collection.

Processing Information: Collection processed by Melissa Ferguson, 2006 Finding aid compiled by Melissa Ferguson, 2006 Finding aid edited by Linda Thatcher, 2006 Collection cataloged by Linda Thatcher, 2006. Finding aid encoded for the World Wide Web by Craig Ringgenberg, 2006. Sources:

Arrington, Leonard and Gary B. Hansen. The Richest Hole on Earth: A History of the Bingham Copper Mine. Logan: Utah State University Press, 1963.

Utah Division of Corporations and Commercial Code. Incorporation Case Files. Series 7184, no. 6542 (Utah State Archives)

United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company. "The U.S. and Lark Mine." Salt Lake City, 1956. Utah State Historical Society, PAM 5742.

 Separations

Photographs have been removed and filed as Mss C 292.

Container list Box Folder Contents Correspondence 1 1 n.d. 1 2 1907 1 3 1908 1 4 1909 2 1 1912 2 2 1913 2 3 1916 2 4 January - June 1917 2 5 July 1917 2 6 August 1917 2 7 October - December 1917 2 8 January - June 1918 2 9 July - December 1918 2 10 January 1919 2 11 February 1919 2 12 March 1919 2 13 April 1919 2 14 May - June 1919 2 15 July 1919 2 16 August 1919 2 17 September 1919 2 18 October 1919 3 1 November 1919 3 2 December 1919 3 3 January 1920 3 4 February - April 1920 3 5 June - August 1920 3 6 September - December 1920 3 7 1921 3 8 1922 3 9 1923 3 10 January 1924 3 11 February 1924 3 12 March 1924 3 13 April 1924 3 14 May 1924 3 15 June 1924 3 16 July 1924 4 1 August 1924 4 2 September 1924 4 3 October 1924 4 4 November 1924 4 5 December 1924 4 6 January 1925 4 7 February 1925 4 8 March 1925 4 9 April 1925 4 10 May 1925 4 11 June 1925 4 12 September - November 1925 4 13 December 1925 5 1 January 1926 5 2 February 1926 5 3 March 1926 5 4 April 1926 5 5 May 1926 5 6 June 1926 5 7 July 1926 5 8 August 1926 5 9 September 1926 5 10 October 1926 5 11 November 1926 5 12 December 1926 5 13 1927 5 14 1928 6 1 January 1929 6 2 February 1929 6 3 March 1929 6 4 April - May 1929 6 5 June - July 1929 6 6 September - December 1929 6 7 January - March 1930 6 8 April 1930 6 9 May - June 1930 6 10 July 1930 6 11 August - December 1930 6 12 January - March 1931 6 13 April - June 1931 6 14 July 1931 6 15 August 1931 6 16 September 1931 6 17 October 1931 6 18 1933 6 19 1940 Alphabetical Files 7 1 Miscellaneous A, 1931-1932 7 2 Accident Reports, 1924-1926 7 3 Accident Reports, 1931 7 4 Accounts Payable, 1939-1943 7 5 Aetna Life Insurance, 1929-1930 7 6 Aetna Life Insurance, 1931 7 7 Annual Meetings, 1943-1947 7 8 Miscellaneous B, 1931-1932, 1950 7 9 Bastian, Elmer P., 1949-1950 7 10 Big Indian Mine, 1943-1944 7 11 Bingham Central Railway, 1917-1919 7 12 Bingham Central Railway, 1923-1924 7 13 The Business Executive, 1945 8 1 Miscellaneous C, 1931-1932, 1938 8 2 Campbell & Kelly, 1943-1944 8 3 Colvocoresses, George M., 1943 8 4 Colvocoresses, George M., 1944 8 5 Combined Metals Reduction Co., 1949 8 6 Miscellaneous D, 1931-1932 8 7 Denver and Rio Grande Railway, 1926 8 8 Denver Equipment Co., 1943-1944 8 9 Denver Fire Clay Co., 1943-1944 8 10 Dey, Hoppaugh, Mark & Johnson, 1926 8 11 Directors' Notices, 1931-1932 8 12 Distribution of Supplies, 1939-1943 8 13 Miscellaneous E, 1932 8 14 Eben-Baxter, 1931 8 15 Eben-Baxter-Harstedt Co., 1932 8 16 Electrolytic Precipitation of Copper from Leach Solutions as Applied to Operations at Ohio Copper Company, n.d. 8 17 Empire Trust Co., 1931 8 18 Empire Trust Co., 1932 9 1 Miscellaneous F, 1931-1932 9 2 Federal Housing Administration, 1944 9 3 First Security Bank of Utah, 1948-1951 9 4 Florence Machinery Co., 1943-1944 9 5 Fogg, Sanford L., Main Clerk, 1949-1950 9 6 Miscellaneous G, 1932 9 7 Garnishments, 1942 9 8 Goodwin, R. J., 1930 9 9 Goodwin, R. J., 1943-1944 9 10 Miscellaneous H, 1931-1932 9 11 Miscellaneous I, 1931-1932 9 12 Miscellaneous J, 1931-1932 Joralemon, Ira B., Correspondence 9 13 January - November 1919 14 March - April 1927 15 May - June 1927 16 July 1927 17 August 1927 18 September 1927 19 October - November 1927 20 December 1927 10 1 January - February 1928 2 March 1928 3 April - May 1928 4 June - July 1928 5 August 1928 6 September - October 1928 7 November - December 1928 8 January - February 1929 9 March - April 1929 10 June - July 1929 11 September 1929 12 November - December 1929 13 February - April, June, September 1930 14 n.d. 11 1 Miscellaneous K, 1931 Kellock, Samuel K., Correspondence 11 2 n.d. 3 July, November - December, 1917 4 January 1918 5 February - March 1918 6 April 1918 7 May 1918 8 June 1918 9 July 1918 10 August 1918 11 September 1918 12 July - December 1919 13 January - April 1919 11 14 Kennecott Copper Corporation, Utah Copper Division, 1948-1949 Kittle, Charles A., Correspondence 12 1 April 1924 2 May 1924 3 June 1924 4 30 October - 14 November 1924 5 16 - 29 November 1924 6 December 1924 7 January 1925 8 1 - 15 February 1925 9 17 - 28 February 1925 10 March 1925 13 1 April 1925 2 May 1925 3 1 - 15 June 1925 4 16 - 30 June 1925 5 1 - 15 July 1925 6 16 - 31 July 1925 7 August 1925 14 1 September 1925 2 October 1925 3 November 1925 4 December 1925 5 January 1926 6 February 1926 7 March 1926 8 1 - 13 April 1926 15 1 17 - 30 April 1926 2 May 1926 3 June 1926 4 July 1926 5 August 1926 6 September 1926 7 October 1926 8 November 1926 9 December 1926 15 10 Kittle, Percy H. (To), 1930s 15 11 Kittle, Percy H. (From), 1930s 16 1 Miscellaneous L, 1931-1932 16 2 Lark Ground Leases, 1931 16 3 Miscellaneous M, 1931-1932 16 4 Metal & Thermit Corporation, 1925-1926 16 5 Metal & Thermit Corporation, 1930 16 6 Mine & Smelter Co., 1944 16 7 Mines Census, 1939 16 8 Miscellaneous, January - June 1943 16 9 Miscellaneous, 1944 16 10 Monthly Development Records, 1927-1930 16 11 Morse Brothers Machinery Company, 1943-1944 16 12 Miscellaneous N, 1932 16 13 The New York Trust Company, To, 1931-1932 16 14 The New York Trust Company (From), 1931 16 15 The New York Trust Company (From), 1932 17 1 Miscellaneous O, 1932 17 2 Ohio Brass Company, 1944 17 3 Ohio Copper Company Employee's Union, 1937-1945 17 4 Ohio Copper Company Directors, 1943-1944 17 5 Office of Price Administration, 1942-1945 17 6 Office of Production Management, 1941 17 7 Office of Production Management, 1941-1943 17 8 Miscellaneous P, 1932 17 9 Peerless Pump Division, 1944 17 10 Peterson Filters, 1944 17 11 Petty Cash Settlements, 1932 17 12 Procurement Offices, 1943 17 13 Miscellaneous R, 1932 17 14 Reed, James, 1943 17 15 Rogers, Hubert E., 1929 17 16 Rogers, Hubert E., 1932 18 1 Miscellaneous S, 1932 18 2 Salt Lake Office (To), 1931 18 3 Savings, Bonds and Purchases, 1942-1943 18 4 Scholefield, Wells & Co., 1929 18 5 Scholefield, Wells & Co., 1931 18 6 Smelter Returns, 1928 18 7 Smelter Settlements, 1929 18 8 Smelter Settlements, 1930 18 9 Snedaker, E. G., 1943-1945 19 1 State Unemployment Termination Reports, 1938-1939 Stockholders' Committee Correspondence 19 2 1924, 1926 3 1930 4 January - June 1938 5 July - December 1938 6 January - March 1939 7 April 1939 8 May - August 1939 9 September - December, 1939 20 1 1940 2 1941 3 1942 4 1947-1949 Miscellaneous Items 20 5 1910s 6 1916 7 1951 20 8 Stop Transfers, 1930s 21 1 Miscellaneous T, 1932 21 2 Telegrams (To), 1932 21 3 Telegrams (From), 1932 Tobelman, Henry A., Correspondence 21 4 January - February 1926 5 March 1926 6 April 1926 7 May 1926 8 June 1926 9 July 1926 10 August 1926 11 September 1926 12 October 1926 13 November 1926 14 December 1926 22 1 1929 22 2 Utah Construction Company, 1948-1950 22 3 Utah Metal Mine Operators Association, 1943-1944 22 4 Union Pacific Railroad Company, 1944 22 5 U.S. Rubber Company, 1944 22 6 Miscellaneous V, 1932 22 7 Wage Negotiations, 1948 22 8 Walker Bank & Trust Co., 1931 22 9 War Production Board, 1943-1944 22 10 Westinghouse Electrical, 1944 22 11 Workman's Compensation Insurance, Public Liability Insurance, 1926 22 12 Workman's Compensation, 1930 22 13 Workman's Compensation, 1931 22 14 Miscellaneous W - Z, 1932 Bingham Central Railway 23 1 Abstracts, Notice of Locations, Deeds, 1906-1920s 23 2 Articles of Incorporation, 1909 23 3 Assets, 1923 23 4 Bound Volume of Miscellaneous Documents, 1910s 23 5 Lark Easement, U.S. Government, 1950 23 6 Miscellaneous, 1920s 23 7 Railroad Mortgage, 1917 23 8 Railway, 1908, 1943 23 9 Stockholders' Meeting Minutes, 1929 Reports 23 10 Financial Report and Operating Statement, August 1924 23 11 Financial Reports and Profit & Loss Statement, January 1st, 1924 23 12 McIntosh, Colin. Report on the Bingham Central Railway in Salt Lake County, Utah, 1 February 1908 23 13 McIntosh, Colin. Report on the Bingham Central Railway in Salt Lake County, Utah, 1 May 1909 23 14 <?xm-replace_text {title}?>Report of Examination of Books & Records of Bingham Central Railway Co. as at September 30th, 1924 Ohio Copper Company Financial Records 24 1 Accounts Payable, 1920s 24 2 American Flag No. 2, 1871-1874 24 3 Assets, 1923 24 4 Assets Realization Co., 1913 24 5 Balance Sheet and General Profit and Loss Statement, 1923 24 6 Balance Sheet and General Profit and Loss Statement, 1924 24 7 Bonds, 1921 24 8 Detailed Distribution of Supplies from Warehouse, Lark, 1944-1945 24 9 Financial Reports, September 1923 24 10 Financial Report and Operating Statement, December 1924 24 11 Financial Report and Operating Statements, January - October 1925 24 12 Financial Report, 1925 24 13 Financial Report and Operating Statement, April 1926 25 1 Inventories, 1938-1944 25 2 Ledger, 1917-1921 25 3 Mortgage, 1919 25 4 Payroll, 1914 25 5 Payroll, 1919 25 6 Payroll, 1940s 25 7 Payroll, 1950 25 8 Proof of Appropriation of Water, 1905 26 1 Receipts, New York, 1910 26 2 Receipts, 1919 26 3 Redmund Stock Certifications, 1920s-1940s 26 4 Release, 1927 26 5 Report of Examination of Books & Records of Ohio Copper Company of Utah as at September 30th, 1924 26 6 Requisition, 1941 26 7 Securities and Exchange Commission, 1940s 26 8 Shipments, 1918, 1940s 26 9 Smelter Returns, June 1918 26 10 Stocks, 1920s 26 11 Supplies, 1917 27 1 Tax Returns, 1926 27 2 Time Book No. 50, September 1948 27 3 Time Checks, 1918-1919 27 4 Miscellaneous Financial Papers, 1919-1920 Ohio Copper Company Legal Records 27 5 Affidavits, 1924-1925, 1929 Agreements 27 6 Agreements between Ohio Copper Company of Utah/Bingham Central Railway Company and United States Smelting Refining & Mining Co., 1920s 7 Agreements between Ohio Copper Company of Utah and United States Smelting Refining & Mining Company, 1930s and 1940s 8 Application for Electric Service, 1933-1934 9 Bankruptcy Case, 1916 10 Bingham Mines Co. Water Agreement, 1930s 11 Briefs, 1916 12 Equipment Rental Agreement, 1937 13 Montana - Bingham Consolidated Mining Co. Agreements, 1927 14 Sykes, Emery H. and Edward McCormick, et al., 1920s 28 1 By-Laws, 1916 28 2-3 Bankruptcy, 1916 Contracts 28 4 American Smelter and Refining Company Ore Contracts, 1927-1933 5 Globe Indemnity Company, 1929 6 Miscellaneous Contracts, 1919, 1929 28 7 Mammoth City v. Edward H. Snow, et al<?xm-replace_text {title}?>., ca. 1925 28 8 Mineral Certificate: The Silver Shield Mining and Milling Company, 1902 28 9 Mineral Patents, 1907-1938 28 10 Mining Quitclaim Deed, 1902 28 11 Mining Record, William G. Ghaliger, 1876 28 12 Minutes, 1916 28 13-14 Negotiations, 1920s-1930s 28 15 Notice of Location, 1899 29 1-2 Original Notes and Data on Tailings Estimate, 1940s 29 3 Patents, 1910, 1919 29 4 Petition: Ohio Copper Company of Utah v. Commission of Internal Revenue, 1928 29 5 Pole Line Easements, 1932, 1936 29 6 Quitclaim Deed, 1926 29 7 Record of Annual Meeting of Stockholders, 1913 29 8 Release, 1927 Reports 29 9 Annual Report, 1923 10 Joralemon, Ira B. "Apex Rights to Low Grade Ore," 10 September 1926 11 Marsh, J. A. "Geological Report on the Lisbon Valley Copper Mine, San Juan County, Utah," n.d. 29 12 Stipulations, 1919-1920 29 13 Subpoena, 1916 29 14 Syndicate Agreement between Edwin S. Hooley & Co., Syndicate managers, and Subscribers, 8 November 1916 29 15 Water, 1928 29 16 Webster Lode, 1907 Miscellaneous Legal Documents 29 17-18 1910s 29 19-20 1930s-1940s