Anaconda Copper Mining Company store ledger 1939-1946

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Anaconda Copper Mining Company store ledger 1939-1946

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This company store ledger, 1939-1946, includes records for employee purchases from the company store at the Flathead Mine located eight miles northeast of Niarada, Montana. The purchases mostly consist of items to be used working in the mine and tobacco products.

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University of Montana--Missoula Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library Archives and Special Collections

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Anaconda Copper Mining Company

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The Anaconda claim was located in 1875. In 1881 Marcus Daly discovered the copper vein that began copper mining in Butte, Montana. The Anaconda Copper Mining Company was organized on June 18, 1895 in Butte and it dominated the early industrial history of Montana. In 1903 nearly three-quarters of the wage earners in the state were either directly or indirectly working for the company. In 1917 there was a general miners' strike, and much worker/owner tension stirred up by the war, the I.W.W., and ...