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Lucius Seymour Storrs Papers, 1897-1906
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Storrs, Lucius Seymour, 1869-1906
- Title
- Lucius Seymour Storrs Papers
- Dates
- 1897-190618971906
- Quantity
- .2 linear feet
- Collection Number
- Collection 2121, MtBC, us (collection)
- Summary
- The Lucius Seymour Storrs Papers consists of geological reports, mostly pertaining to coal deposits, and related correspondence pertaining to Storr's work as a geologist for the Northern Pacific Railway Company and its subsidiary, the Northwestern Improvement Company. Montana places surveyed include: Gallatin County, Madison County, Carbon County, Judith Basin, Red Lodge, Chestnut, Ravensdale, Melmont, Roslyn, Livingston, Bull Mountain, and Toston. The papers also include the text of an undated speech Storrs delivered at Montana State College regarding the history of Rocky Mountain coal fields.
- Repository
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Montana State University Library, Merrill G. Burlingame Special Collections
Montana State University-Bozeman Library
Merrill G Burlingame Special Collections
P.O. Box 173320
Bozeman, MT
59717-3320
Telephone: 4069944242
Fax: 4069942851
- Access Restrictions
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This collection is open for research.
- Languages
- English
- Sponsor
- Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Lucius Seymour Storrs was born in Buffalo New York on January 4, 1869, the son of Origen and Janet Rankin Storrs. He attended the University of Nebraska where he graduated in 1890 with a Bachelor of Science degree. Storrs returned to UN to complete his graduate work later in life, earning a doctorate in engineering in 1927. From 1890 to 1894, he worked as an assistant geologist for the Colorado Fuel Company, and was a geologist for the Northern Pacific Railroad and special writer for the U.S. Geological Survey from 1896-1906. He returned east after his work surveying the western coal fields where he engaged in a number of businesses, and after his retirement worked as the chairman for the committee on national defense of the American Electric Railway Association. Storrs married Mary L. Cooper on June 26, 1894, and the couple had at least one child, a daughter Margaret Storrs Grierson, the donor of this collection. Lucius Storrs died in Northampton, Massachusetts on July 4, 1945.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
Geological reports, mostly pertaining to coal deposits, and related correspondence pertaining to Storr's work as a geologist for the Northern Pacific Railway Company and its subsidiary, the Northwestern Improvement Company. Montana places surveyed include: Gallatin County, Madison County, Carbon County, Judith Basin, Red Lodge, Chestnut, Ravensdale, Melmont, Roslyn, Livingston, Bull Mountain, and Toston. Other reports pertain to locations in Washington, North Dakota, Wyoming and Minnesota. The papers also include the text of an undated speech Storrs delivered at Montana State College regarding the history of Rocky Mountain coal fields.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Acquisition Information
Geological papers created or collected by Lucius S. Storrs pertaining to his work in Montana, Washington, North Dakota, and Minnesota were donated to Special Collections by his daughter, Margaret Storrs Grierson of Northampton, Massachusetts on December 14, 1984. Mrs. Greirson donated the balance of her father's papers to the University of Nebraska afterwards.
Processing Note
This collection was processed 2009 April 1
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Report and letterReturn to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/1
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
Report on the Holdings of the Northwestern Improvement
Company in the Mesabi Range, Minnesota.
20 p.
|
July 1905 | |
Letter to Thomas Cooper, Land Commissioner: statement
regarding water power possibilities in Montana, east of the main range of the Rocky
Mountains.
15 p.
|
October 30, 1905 |
LetterReturn to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/2
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
Letter to Thomas Cooper, Land Commissioner: list of
Montana lands for transfer to the Northwestern Improvement Company. Lands of more
value for coal than for any other purpose.
9 p.
|
November 4, 1905 |
ReportsReturn to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/3
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
General Report on the Coal Fields of Lewis County,
Washington.
18 p., plus map.
|
July 1905 | |
Report to Howard Elliott, President, Northern Pacific
Railway Company, on Saint Helens Mining District, Washington.
7 p.
|
September 26, 1904 | |
Preliminary Report upon the Morton (Cowlitz River)
Coal Field, Lewis County, Washington.
4 p.
|
January 1903 |
Letter and descriptionReturn to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/4
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
Letter to Howard Elliott, President: statement on the
holdings of the Northwestern Improvement Company in the coal fields of
Washington.
6 p.
|
February 27, 1904 | |
General Description of the Coal Fields of the
Northwest.
22 p., plus map.
|
1904 |
Reports on mining properties:Return to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/5
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
Red Lodge |
November 3, 1904; July 25, 1904; July 8, 1904 | |
Chestnut |
November 1, 1904; undated | |
Ravensdale, Melmont and Chestnut |
January 19, 1903 | |
Roslyn |
July 25, 1904 | |
Melmont |
June 13, 1904 | |
Ravensdale |
November 16, 1904; June 13, 1904 |
Reports and letterReturn to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/6
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
Report on the Bear Creek Coal Field, Carbon County,
Montana.
17 p., plus 2 maps.
|
May 1900 | |
Letter to J. W. Kendrick, General Manager, Northern
Pacific Railway Company: report on Rocky Fork Coal Mine.
6 p., plus 2 diagrams, plus 5 p.
|
March 17, 1898 | |
Report on the Clark's Fork Fraction of the Yellowstone
Coal Field in Montana.
21 p.
|
October 1897 |
ReportsReturn to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/7
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
Report upon the Western End of the Livingston-Bozeman
Coal Field, Montana.
1 p., plus 5 plates.
|
July 1902 | |
Preliminary Report upon the Livingston-Bozeman Coal
Field
17 p.
|
October 1901 |
MemorandumReturn to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/8
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
Memorandum for Consideration in Arriving at Final
Report on Scheme for Tie Treatment.
20 p.
|
undated |
Reports and lettersReturn to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/9
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
A General Paper on the Preservation of Wood, by C. W.
Berry, Superintendent, Wood Preserving Plant, Union Pacific Railroad Company, Laramie,
Wyoming.
20 p.
|
undated | |
Letter to Howard Elliott, President, and H. J. Horn,
General Manager: report on water purification with recommendations as to the
installation of such an operation on the First District of the Dakota
Division.
16 p.
|
March 6, 1905 | |
Letter to H. J. Horn, General Manager: organization of
a test department.
7 p.
|
May 20, 1905 | |
Report on the Trail Creek Coal Field,
Montana.
6 p., plus map.
|
July 1898 |
ReportReturn to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/10
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
Report on the Horr Coal Field.
18 p., plus map.
|
April 1900 |
ReportReturn to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/11
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
Report on the Bull Mountain Coal Field, Yellowstone
County, Montana.
13 p., plus 3 plates.
|
August 1900 |
ReportsReturn to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/12
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
Report on the Bituminous Coal Field near Toston,
Montana.
5 p., plus map.
|
June 1898 | |
Report on the Coal Lands near Toston,
Montana.
3 p.
|
November 1897 | |
Report on the Coal Lands in the Vicinity of Missoula,
Montana.
3 p.
|
October 1897 | |
Preliminary Report on the Judith Basin Coal Field of
Montana.
5 p., plus map.
|
February 1904. |
ReportReturn to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/13
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
Report on the Resources of the Madison Valley,
Montana.
22 p., plus 3 maps.
|
September 1903 |
Reports, examination, and letterReturn to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/14
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
Preliminary Report on the Green River Coal Field,
Washington.
10 p.
|
April 1900 | |
Preliminary Examination of a Portion of the Wilkeson
Coal Field, Washington.
9 p.
|
April 1900 | |
Letter to B. F. Bush, General Manager, Northwestern
Improvement Company: examination of coal lands near Wenatchee, Washington.
4 p.
|
March 2, 1900 | |
Report on the Mount Baker Coal Field, Whatcom County,
Washington.
7 p.
|
December 1898 | |
Report on the Coal Lands in the Vicinity of Palmer,
Washington.
5 p.
|
December 1898 |
Letter and reportsReturn to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/15
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
Letter to Howard Elliott, President: report on
prospecting in the Cuyuna Iron Range, Minnesota.
6 p.
|
October 13, 1904 | |
Preliminary Report on Corundum Deposits of Gallatin
County, Montana.
11 p.
|
February 1905 | |
Report on a Portion of the Colville Indian
Reservation.
13 p., plus map.
|
December 1904 |
ReportReturn to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/16
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
Draft of Report on Raging River Coal Field; by Colin
Napier.
15 p.
|
August 1888 |
Reports and letterReturn to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/17
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
Diamond Drill Hole: Fargo, North Dakota; Allard,
Montana; Medora, North Dakota; Dickinson, North Dakota. |
||
Letter to C. M. Levey, Assistant to President: table
of estimated available tonnage of the various properties owned by the Northwestern
Improvement Company.
3 p.
|
November 1, 1904 | |
Diamond Drill Hole: Sully Springs, North
Dakota. |
LetterReturn to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/18
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
Letter to B.F. Bush, Vice-President, Western Coal and
Mining Company, St. Louis, Missouri: examination of the plant of the New Jersey
Briquetting Company, Brooklyn.
8 p.
|
May 23, 1906 |
ReportReturn to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/19
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
L. S. Storrs. The Rocky Mountain Coal Fields; extract
from the 22nd annual report of the U.S. Geological Survey, 1900-1901. Washington:
Government Printing Office |
1902 |
PaperReturn to Top
Container(s): Box-folder 1/20
| Container(s) | Description | Dates |
|---|---|---|
A Brief History of the Coal Fields of the Rocky
Mountain States. Paper read at Montana State College, Bozeman. |
undated |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Coal-Geology-Minnesota
- Coal-Geology-Montana
- Coal-Geology-North Dakota
- Coal-Geology-Rocky Mountains
- Coal-Geology-Washington (State)
- Coal-Geology-Wyoming
- Geologists-United States
Corporate Names
- Northern Pacific Railway Company
- Northwestern Improvement Company
Kim Allen Scott, 2009
July 26, 2017
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