Kenneth Forbes Ross Papers 1922-1972

Toole, John W.

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Big Blackfoot Milling Company.

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On August 1, 1882, Andrew Hammond, Richard Eddy, E. L. Bonner, and others incorporated the Montana Improvement Company to exploit the timber resources in western Montana. The company acquired the sawmills of Eddy, Hammond and Company, a Missoula general store operation that had entered the lumber business under contract to provide lumber for the construction of the Northern Pacific Railroad. In March 1886, the government of the United States brought suit against the Montana Improvement Company f...

Ross, Kenneth Forbes, 1863-1933

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Kenneth Ross was born in 1863 and came to Montana in 1883; his parents were from Nova Scotia. Ross was steel erection superintendent on the Northern Pacific Railroad's Marent Trestle and raised cattle on the Mild River until the winter of 1886-1887. He was manager of Marcus Daly's timber operations after 1890; he became general manager of the Anaconda Company's Lumber Department, from which he retired in 1926. He died in 1933. From the guide to the Kenneth Forbes Ross Papers, 1922-19...

Anaconda Company

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Anaconda Mining Company incorporated 1892; in 1895 renamed Anaconda Copper Mining Company; in 1955 reorganized as Anaconda Company; sold to Atlantic Richfield Co., 1979, and operations shut down in 1983; engaged in mining, smelting, and refining of copper, lead, zinc, and other ores, with subsidiaries in mining, lumber, coal, foundry, and other industries; headquartered in Anaconda, Mont., with major mines in Butte, Mont., area. From the description of Records, 1876-1974. (Montana Hi...