A. Hopper - Wagons &
Carriages (Salt Lake City, Utah)
Letterhead from A. Hopper & Co., Salt Lake City. According to
an add placed in "THE UTAH EVANGELIST" Vol. 2 No.
1, July 1884, A. Hopper & Co. were
"Manufactures and dealers in Wagons and Carriages of
every description. General repairing and blacksmithing of all kinds. Painting and trimming promptly attended to."
Also known as the Salt Lake Carriage & Wagon Works, the company was located on "Second
South 1 1/2 blocks east of the Elephant store." (123 East). These letterhead date from 1885 and 1886.
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A. Leschen & Sons Rope Company (St. Louis, Missouri)
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A. M. Grant - Building Inspector (Salt Lake City, Utah)
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A. N. Iverson - Lumber, Mining Timber,
etc...
(Park
City, Utah)
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Abbot A. Hanks - Chemist, Assayer (San Francisco, California)
Letterhead from Abbot A. Hanks Company - Chemist, Assayer &
Metallurgist from San Francisco, California. Though not a Utah company, mines in Utah utilized the services of such companies
all over the west. This sample deals with work done for the Daly-West Mining Company of Park City.
The letterhead is a great example of a memorable company letterhead, the egyptian motif,
and a great custom engraved image. This sample dates from 1904.
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Adams & Sons Co., Contractors
& Builders (Nephi, Utah)
Letterhead from the Adams & Sons Co., Contractors
and Builders. Mining companies needed lumber. Lumber for buildings, ore bins, timbering, and such. One company that provided
this material to the mines of the Tintic and Mt. Nebo Districts was Adams & Sons. Located in Nephi and Eureka, they had
yards at each place and delivered promptly. A nice letterhead that details just a portion of their products and services.
This sample is from 1885.
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Aetna Powder Company (Chicago, Illinois)
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Alaska Mining Company - Tintic District,
Utah
(Salt Lake
City, Utah)
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Alaskan Co-operative Gold Mining Company
(Mercur, Utah)
Little is known of this company other than it
operated in West Dip, Utah, near Mercur. The letterhead is fantastic! and in 30 years of collecting, the only one I have ever
seen. This sample dates from 1898.
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Alice Gold & Silver Mining Company (Walkerville, Montana)
Letterhead from the Alice Gold and Silver Mining
Company. Though mining operations were in Montana, the company was organized in Utah with very close ties to Utah. This first
sample is very fancy with a distinctive custom banner print. It dates from 1880. The second letterhead is simple but elegant,
with a fine line brush script. This second sample dates from 1885.
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Allis-Chalmers Company (Salt Lake City, Utah)
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Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company (Salt Lake City, Utah)
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Alta Silver Mining Company (Gold Hill, Nevada)
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Amalgamated Oil Company (Los Angeles, California)
Not a Utah company, but look close at the top left and you see the
name J. E. Bamburger as one of the Directors of the company. A prominent Utah mining man from a prominebt Utah mining family.
This sample dates from 1905.
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American Carbolite Sales Company (Duluth, Minnesota)
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American Flag Mining Company (Park City, Utah)
Shown below is Letterhead from the American Flag Mining Company.
Though headquartered in Salt lake City, the workings were located near the Judge Mining Company and other notable properties
above Park City. The Letterhead is simple, but communicates officer information. This sample dates from 1903.
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American Foundry & Machine Co.
(Salt Lake City, Utah)
Letterhead from the American Foundry & Machine
Company. Established in 1913, with offices and works on 4th West between 8th and 9th South. The works, as listed on the letterhead,
worked in all matter of metal processing and fabricating. The exact date of this letterhead is not known as it is not used.
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American Institute of Mining Engineers
(New York, New York)
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American Mine Door Company (Canton, Ohio)
Based in Canton, Ohio, this company provided
doors to some of Utah's later mines. The Park Utah mine was just one customers of their products. The letterhead is custom
and colorful. It dates from 1943.
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American Mining Congress (Washington, D. C.)
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American Mining Congress - Utah Chapter
(Salt Lake City, Utah)
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American Smelting & Refining Company (Salt Lake City, Utah)
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American Stoker Company (Salt Lake City, Utah)
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Anaconda Copper Mining Company (Anaconda, Montana)
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Anchor Mining Company (Park City, Utah)
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Anderson Lumber Company (Ogden, Utah)
Letterhead from the Anderson Lumber Company.
This company operated in Utah from the early 1900's and operates in the state still. While they primarily supplied the construction
industry, they also provided lumber and timber products of all kinds to the mines and mills of Utah. This letterhead sample
dates from the mid 1940's.
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April Fool Gold Mining & Milling
Company
(Salt Lake City, Utah)
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Argus Publishing Company (Salt Lake City, Utah)
Letterhead from the Argus Publishing Company.
Publisher of several Utah newspapers including the Stockton Sentinel and the Mercur Miner, both Utah mining camps. The company
operated from offices in the Felt Building in downtown Salt Lake City. This sample is from a Statement issued for printing
mining notices of the Big Cottonwood Consolidated Mining Company. The sample dates from 1914.
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Atlas Powder Company (Salt Lake City, Utah)
Letterhead from the Atlas Powder Company, Salt
Lake City. Dealers in Atlas and Giant powder products and "Everything
for Blasting" that local mining men might need. A nice letterhead with simple printing and company
logo's. This sample dates from 1936.
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Auerbach Company (Salt Lake City, Utah)
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B. F. Goodrich Company (Denver, Colorado)
Here we have letterhead from a company that today is far more closely
associated with automobile tires than anything else. However, then as now, B.F. Goodrich provides a wide variety of products.
In the past, this included belting for conveyors, mounts to reduce vibration on machinery, and a wide variety of other products.
This document was address to the Ontario Silver Mining Company of Utah in matters related to rubber valves for the mill. The
letterhead dates from 1903.
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Bagley
Meat & Grocery Company
Letterhead from the Bagley Meat & Grocery
Co. The company operated in Big Cottonwood Canyon, Utah, and provided grocery and dry goods needs to most of the mining operations
in the canyon. This sample dates from 1911.
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Bailey & Sons Company - Grains, Seeds &
Bags
(Salt
Lake City, Utah)
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Baker & Hamilton (Sacramento,
California)
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Baldwin Radio Company (Salt Lake City, Utah)
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Bamburger & Co. (Salt
Lake City, Utah)
Involved directly with Utah mining, The Bamburger family also operated
and controlled a number of other businesses. One of them, Bamburger & Co. as shown here. This sample dates from the 1880's.
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Bamburger Coal Company (Salt Lake City, Utah)
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Bamberger DeLamar Gold Mines Company
(DeLamar,
Nevada)
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Bamburger & Mc Millian - Mines
and Investments
(Salt Lake City, Utah)
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Bamberger Railroad Company (Salt
Lake City, Utah)
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Bank of Heber City (Heber City, Utah)
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Becker Brewing & Malting Company (Ogden, Utah)
Letterhead from the Becker Brewing & Malting
Company in Ogden, Utah. Becker was probably the largest brewer ever in Utah. Founded in 1890, the company would operate until
1917 when it was split into two separate companies; the Becker Products Company which continued to operate in Ogden, and Becker
Brewing Company which operated in Evanston, Wyoming. The sister companies operated until late in the 1960's.
A huge cache of Becker recorde were found years ago in an abandoned warehouse. Letterhead,
billing statements, notes, and other paperwork from this company can be found in museums, antique stores, private collections,
and coin shows in Utah and across the west. A number of items can be located on ebay from time to time as well.
Within this cache are document showing that
Becker provided products to every operating mining camp in the state during the life of the company. The style of the letterhead
changed over time as well. These samples date from 1895, 1904, and 1910. More samples will be added in the future.
Becker Products Company (Salt Lake City, Utah)
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Bennett Glass & Paint Company (Salt Lake City, Utah)
Letterhead from the Bennett Glass & Paint
Co., "Importers and Dealers in Paints, Oils, Brushes, Plate and Window Glass", Salt Lake City, Utah. Incorporated
in 1900 by members of the Bennett family, the company provided products to homes and industries across the state. This letterhead
dates from 1908.
Biesnger & Beck Mining Company (Salt Lake City, Utah)
Letterhead from the Biesnger & Beck Mining
Co., Salt Lake City, Utah. I have done little research on this company as of yet, and certainly it is not a famous property
or company. I can find is notice of one assesment issued in 1900. Still, With the Beck name and the Cannon family in as officers
& directors, it certainly was noticed by prominent Utah mining men. This sample is from 1901.
Big Cottonwood Consolidated Mining
Company
(Salt
Lake City, Utah)
Letterhead from the Big Cottonwood Consolidated
Mining Company, Salt Lake City, Utah. Dated 1916, this letterhead is very simple compared to other samples from larger more
profitable operations.
Bingham Coal & Lumber Company
(Bingham Canyon, Utah)
Letterhead from the Bingham Coal & Lumber
Company. Along with coal and lumber, this company provided mining timbers, cement, ore hauling & freighting among other
services. Located in Bingham Canyon, the company, for the most part, worked the mines of Bingham Canyon and the West Mountain
District, but also provided to other areas as well. This custom letterhead dates from 1916.
Bingham Consolidated Mining &
Smelting Co. (Bingham, Utah)
Bingham Consolidated Mining &
Smelting Company (Salt Lake City, Utah)
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Bingham Mines Company (Salt Lake City, Utah & Boston, Mass.)
Letterhead from the Bingham Mines Company. Like
many later companies formed to mine the riches of Utah, this company was not a Utah Corporation, but rather a corporation
of Maine. Adding to the multi-state flavor is the fact that company offices were headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. This
sample dates from 1909.
Blackman & Griffin Co. (Ogden, Utah)
Blackstone Mining Company (St. Charles, Idaho)
Blake Mining & Milling Company (Lake City, Colorado)
Though not a Utah company, Blake provided mill machinery to a few
of Utah's operations. This sample dates from 1904.
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Blyth-Fargo Company, General Merchants
(Park City,
Utah)
Letterhead from the Blyth-Fargo Company, Park
City, Utah. Partners Thomas Blyth, Lyman Fargo, and Sherman Fargo created one of the most successful general merchandise stores
in Park City. Suppling not only the Park City area mines, but both Cottonwood canyons, and American Fork Canyon properties
as well. This simple letterhead dates from 1907.
Bogan Silver Mining Company (Salt Lake City, Utah)
Bogue Lead Company (Denver, Colorado)
Boston Consolidated Mining Company (Bingham Canyon, Utah)
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Elder County, Utah
Letterheads from Box Elder County, Utah. Box
Elder was home to a number of Utah mining districts as well as the railroad meeting place of Promontory Summit where the Central
Pacific and Union Pacific railroads met on May 10, 1869. The coming of the railroad assisted in greatly expanding early Utah
mining operations. The first letterhead dates from 1899, the second from 1927, the third from 1935.
Boyle Hardware Company (Ogden, Utah)
Letterhead from Boyle Hardware Company, Ogden,
Utah, provided all manner of hardware needs including being "Sole Agents - Great Majestic Ranges". This billing
statement issued to the Becker Brewing & Malting Company also of Ogden, dates from 1906.
Brittan,
J.W. & Co., Mining Tools (Austin, Nevada)
Letterhead from the J.W. Brittan Co., Hardware
& Mining Supplies. Mining companies needed hardware of all kinds. Brittan & Co. is one of those companies that provided
it. Though many companies would begin providing this material in time, in 1865, there were very few in the Salt Lake City
area. It was not unusual to have material brought in from Colorado, California, Nevada and other places. This provider, was
based in Austin, Nevada. As noted, this is a very early sample, dating from 1865.
Broderick & Bascom Rope Company
(St. Louis Missouri)
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Brown, T.G., - Staple and Fancy Groceries
(Promentory,
Utah)
Letterhead from T.G. Brown, Staple and Fancy
Groceries dealer, in Promontory, Utah. Though not a direct mining town, it was a railroad town, as such, a fair amount of
trade passed through the town. This letterhead dates from 1901.
Brundage Mining & Reduction Company
(Leeds (Silver Reef), Utah)
This letterhead is a rare sample of the Brundage Mining & Reduction
Company of Silver Reef, Leeds District, Utah. The letterhead is custom and shows a profile image of the company mill and workings
on White Reef in addition to a wide variety of other company information.
This specific letter addressed payment to the Ontario Silver Mining Company for a number
of flasks of quicksilver sold to the mill for use in processing its ores. This letterhead dates from 1903.
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Bullion Beck & Champion Mining
Company
(Eureka,
Utah)
Below are a portion of three separate letterhead
from the Bullion-Beck & Champion Mining Company. The letterhead date in order from 1891, 1894 and 1901. Each is different
in style and font, with the last showing an image of the mine workings in Eureka, Utah.
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Bully Boy Mines Corporation (Marysvale, Utah)
Letterhead from Bully Boy Mines Corporation. A later corporation working,
as indicated, in Bullion Canyon, near Marysvale, Utah. This sample dates from 1924.
C. H. T. Gold Mines Company (Pine, Idaho)
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C. R. Savage, Photographer - Art Bazar
(Salt Lake City, Utah)
C.R. (Charles
Roscoe) Savage, 1832-1909 C.R. Savage was not only a well known photographer in Utah, but across the early west
as well. Landscape and portrait photography were his specialty. Born in England where he first learned the skills of a photographer,
Savage emigrated to Utah in 1860 after joining the Mormon church. Upon his arrival in Salt Lake City he made business arrangements
with Marsena Cannon, an established daguerreotype photographer with a studio on East Temple (Present day State Street).
In 1862, with Cannon's
departure to St. George, Utah, Savage formed a partnership with George Martin Ottinger. When that partnership disolved in
1870, Savage formed the Pioneer Art Gallery. In 1875, the gallery expanded and the name was changed to the "Art Bazar".
On 26 June 1883, his Art Bazar burned to the ground. The fire consumed the building, but more tragically, all of his
negatives to that date.
After his death in February 1909, another fire, in 1911, destroyed all of the negatives created
since the first fire 28 years earlier. His sons continued to operate the business for another 15 years, doing studio portraits
as well as making negatives from previous prints created by their father, then re-issuing the images. The Art Bazar closed
forever the last day of December 1926.
The statement below dates from 1886, just three years after the first fire.
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C.T. Van Winkle - Mining
Engineer (Salt Lake City, Utah)
California Powder Works (San Francisco, California)
Letterhead from the California Powder Works,
San Francisco, California. This company provided products to a number of Utah mining operations. The first letterhead dates
from 1891, and is issued from the San Francisco office. The second, dates from 1905 and is issued from the offices of the
company located in Denver, Colorado.
Capitol Building & Manufacturing
Company
(Salt
Lake City, Utah)
Carbon
County, Utah
Letterhead from the County of Carbon, State
of Utah. More noted for its coal mining over precious metal mining, as the use of coal increased in mines and mills, it was
Carbon County that provided much of it. Brought at first by wagon, and later by rail, the mines of carbon county are still
in operation today. This letterhead sample dates from 1908.
Carey-Lombard Lumber Company (Salt Lake City, Utah)
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Carisa Copper & Gold Mining Company
(Salt Lake City, Utah)
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Carriage Shops (Salt
Lake City, Utah)
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Centennial Eureka Mining Company (Salt Lake City, Utah)
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Chalk Creek Timber Company (Coalville, Utah)
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Charles T. Prisk Company - Stationery,
etc.
(Park City, Utah)
Chief Consolidated Mining Company (Salt Lake City, Utah)
Letterhead from the Chief Consolidated Mining Company, headquartered
in Salt Lake City, with operations in the Tintic District of Juab and Utah counties. This sample dates from 1919.
Clark, Eldredge & Co., Hardware
(Salt Lake City, Utah)
Letterhead from Clark, Eldredge & Co., Hardware,
Glassware, & Groceries in downtown Salt Lake City. A beautiful sample of the printers art showing not only the fancy herald
and scriptwork, but a fine rendering of the buildings housing the store as well. The first sample dates from 1885, The second
sample, very similar in style and content, is from ten years later in 1895.
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Cliff Mining Company (Ophir, Utah)
Coalville Times - Newspaper (Coalville, Utah)
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Colorado Iron Works (Denver, Colorado)
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Colorado Iron Works Company (Denver, Colorado)
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Colorado School of Mines (Golden, Colorado)
Columbia Powder Company (Tacoma, Washington)
The Columbia Powder Company was based in Tacoma,
Washington but supplied many of the mines in Utah by the 1930's and 40's. This document dated from March of 1940. Simple text
and printing, very basic.
Columbian Electrical Supply Company
(Park City, Utah)
Originally located in Salt Lake City, Columbian Electrical Supply
Co. opened offices in Parkc City. This letterhead shows the lined out change in the company letterhead showing that move.
This sample dates from 1905.
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Columbus Consolidated Mining Company (Salt Lake City, Utah)
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Commercial Mining Company (Rye Valley, Oregon)
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Commonwealth of Utah - Executive Chamber
(Salt Lake City, Utah)
Extremely rare "Commonwealth of Utah" letterhead. I don't
know much about this one. As far as I know, Utah has always been a state, not a commonwealth. Do you know something of this?
Please share. This rare document is in fine condition and dates from 1908.
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Consolidated Kansas City Smelting
& Refining Company (Argentine, Kansas)
Letterhead from the Consolidated Kansas City
Smelting & Refining Company. Though operations were not in Utah, the company processed ore from a number of Utah properties.
This very nice Multi-colored printed specimen shows the company offices in Argentine, Kansas. This document relates to ore
from the Mammoth mine in Juab County, Utah, and dates from 1899.
Consolidated Mercur Gold Mines (Salt Lake City, Utah)
Though heavily overwritten, this rare letterhead is from the Consolidatd
Mercur Gold Mines Company of Mercur, Utah. Though operations were in Mercur, company offices were located in Salt Lake City.
This sample dates from 1913.
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Consolidated Wagon & Machine Company
(Salt Lake City,
Utah)
Letterhead from the Consolidated Wagon &
Machine Company. Billed as the "Largest Implement House in the World". Company officers included prominent Utah
men such as W.S. McCornick and Joseph F. Smith among others. A simple letterhead with single color ink, black, on white plain
white paper. This sample dates from 1915.
We recently came across this earlier version
of the company letterhead. This one dates from 1905.
Continental Oil Company (Salt Lake City, Utah)
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Continental Oil & Transportation
Co. (Salt Lake City, Utah)
Contractors Plant Mfg. Co. (Buffalo, New Jersey)
Letterhead from Contractors Plant Manufacturing Company, Buffalo,
New Jersey. Though not a Utah company, they provided hoisting machines to a number of mines in the west, including many in
Utah. The image on this letterhead leaves no doubt as to what this company provides. In this case a fine looking horse whim.
A great item and great letterhead from the period. This sample dates from 1893.
Copperopolis Mining Company (Salt Lake City, Utah)
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Croesus Gold Mining Company (Hailey, Idaho)
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Culmer, G.F. & Bros. (Salt Lake City, Utah)
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Cunnington & Co. Inc., Mining
Outfitting Depot
(Salt
Lake City, Utah)
Letterhead from Cunnington & Company, Inc.
A supplier to the mines of Utah since 1870, they incorporated in 1885. They billed themselves as the "Mining Outfitting
Depot". The distinctive elephant mascot is unique among mining supply houses in the west, and earned the appropriate
nick-name "The Elephant Store". The first sample below dates from 1887 and the lower two from 1889.
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Cutler, John C., & Brothers (Salt Lake City, Utah)
Letterhead from John C. Cutler & Brothers,
manufacturers & distributers. Based in Salt Lake City at 36 South East Temple Street (now called State Street) in the
Constitution Building, the company also was closely associated with Provo Woolen Mills and was a direct agent for them. This
beautiful and custom letterhead was typical of this earlier period in Utah business. This sample dates from 1895.
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