Howard R. Dix photographs 1952-1953

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Howard R. Dix photographs 1952-1953

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This collection includes color glass slide images of Anaconda Company logging sites in Montana and Idaho, ACM Camp #9 and #12, parts of a mill probably in Bonner, Montana including the mill dam at high and low water, log slips, loaded rail cars, and other logging images, 1952-1953.

46 color glass slide images

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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 ...

Dix, Howard R., 1900-1997

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Howard Rolland "Ron" Dix was born November 6, 1900. He graduated from the University of Montana's School of Forestry in Missoula in 1929. He lived in Montana for most of his life, working for the Anaconda Copper Mining Company in Helena, Stevensville, Annaconda, Butte, and Bonner, Montana. In 1952 he was the sales manager for the Anaconda Copper Mining Company Lumber Department in Bonner. By the early 1960s he resided in Missoula, Montana, where he served on the board of directors f...