80.0 linear feet (133 boxes, 25 volumes, and 1 oversize
box)
Collection Number:
Mss
220
Summary:
John Wight was a land speculator and
oil/natural gas developer, primarily in Montana and Wyoming. This collection
contains records relating to his land and natural resource development
companies throughout the American west and central Canada.
Repository:
University of
Montana--Missoula Maureen and Mike
Mansfield LibraryArchives and Special
Collections
Funding for creating this finding
aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Historic Publications
and Records Commission. Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided
through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Biographical Note
John Wight was born in Dover, Arkansas, on December 13, 1889, to
Eugenia (Arnold) and John Fitch Wight. His father emigrated from the Isle of
Wight and was part of the California gold rush. He then moved on to South
Dakota's Black Hills, but settled into ranching and farming instead of mining.
Eugenia, widowed from her first marriage with a son, Frank, married him in
1888.
Wight's father died when he was six, and the family moved to Rapid
City, where his mother married Marshall Coons. He attended school in Rapid
City, South Dakota, but quit at age eleven to work in a sawmill. When he was
fifteen, he began to work in construction and began to mine with his brother,
Edwin. At age seventeen, he started a real estate and insurance office in Rapid
City with his half-brother Frank, which was quite successful; the completion of
the Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Seattle Railroad to Rapid City had started a land
rush. Wight read law to become a land attorney and was appointed U.S.
Commissioner for the U.S. Land Office. He spent time in St. George, British
Columbia, and Alaska looking at land suitable for speculation, but returned to
Oregon. He speculated on land near Medford, Oregon; Spokane, Washington; and
near Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. He closed his Rapid City office and moved to
Spokane, where he owned a number of buildings. He also bought the opera house
in Oakdale, Washington, a sawmill at Mica Peak, Washington, and a drug store in
Cheney, Washington. He maintained some interests in South Dakota and Montana.
After losing most of his assets, he homesteaded in the Miles City, Montana,
area in 1909 and in Powder River Country, Montana, in 1917. He moved to Miles
City in 1921.
In 1919 he and his brother Edwin entered the oil exploration and
production business in eastern Montana with the Capital Gas Corporation. He
drafted and promoted the Oil and Gas Leasing and Right-of-Way Act, which
Congress passed in 1920 and made oil pipes that crossed federal land common
carriers. He formed the Atlantic Pacific Oil Company, then the Capital Gas
Corporation, which bought most of the Atlantic Pacific's assets. The Capital
Gas Corporation went bankrupt in 1943. He was president of the Mondakota Gas
Company of Billings, which he organized in 1942, and in 1927 organized the
Midwest Holding Company, which performed petroleum exploration and drilling in
Montana and Wyoming. Wight also held interest in the Atlantic-Pacific Oil
Company, the Cedar Creek Field, and owned the Soap Creek Refinery of Soap
Creek, Montana, and the Shelby Oil Refinery of Shelby, Montana. He later
reorganized the Shelby Refinery as the Sun Oil Company. In 1949
Oil Reporter named him Oilman of the Year. His daughter
Marvel Lowrance joined him in the business.
Wight forced the federal government to enforce the Common Carrier
Right of Way Act of 1920, in which pipeline companies must carry gas from the
fields of independent producers. He filed suit in 1929 for Mondakota to use the
interstate gas transmission lines of the Montana-Dakota Utilities Company
(MDUC). The Federal Power Commission made its final ruling in favor of
Mondakota in 1949. He was, in general, very involved with federal legislation
concerning the oil and gas industry, and with numerous lawsuits in defense of
his assets.
He married Susan Goeres in 1909; they divorced in the early 1940s, and
he married Theora Hoffman in 1949. He and Susan had four daughters: Patricia
(Kane), Mildred (Beadle), Aileen (Baxter) and Marvel (Lowrance). From 1962 on,
he and his wife lived in Billings, Montana, where he maintained his offices. He
died September 2, 1986, in Billings.
Content Description
This collection contains John Wight's personal correspondence,
financial and legal papers, promotional clippings, as well as correspondence,
financial, legal, and organizational papers from many of the land and natural
resource development companies he wholly owned or was a major investor. The
collection presents a detailed record of the struggles and successes for an
individual speculator within the larger oil, natural gas, land development, and
public utility industries spanning most of the twentieth century.
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Access :
Researchers must use collection in accordance with the policies of
Archives and Special Collections, the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, and
the University of Montana-Missoula.
Restrictions on Use :
Researchers are responsible for using in accordance with 17 U.S.C. and
any other applicable statutes. Copyright not transferred to the University of
Montana.
Preferred Citation :
[Name of document], John Wight Papers, Archives and Special
Collections, The University of Montana-Missoula.
Administrative Information
Arrangement :
The collection is divided into two subgroups and thirty-eight
series:
Sub-Group 1: Personal, 1894-1984, 13.0 linear feet
Series I: Biographical, 1920-1983, 0.75 linear feet
Series II: General Correspondence, 1928-1984, 7.25 linear feet
Series III: Financial, 1934-1980, 0.25 linear feet
Series IV: Legal and Court Papers, 1894-1979, 4.0 linear feet
Series V: Organization, 1935-1950, 2 folders
Series VI: Reports, 1929-1944, 0.25 linear feet
Series VII: Speeches and Writings, 1961-1984, 0.25 linear feet
Series VIII: Clippings, 1929-1958, 3 folders
Sub-Group 2: Business Interests, 1920-1983, 64.0 linear feet, 1
oversize box, 10 oversize volumes, and two artifacts
Series IX: Capital Gas Corporation, 1920-1975, 6.0 linear feet and 3
oversize volumes
Subseries 1: Financial, 1929-1959, 0.25 linear feet and 1 oversize
volume
Subseries 2: Correspondence, 1920-1975, 1.25 linear feet
Subseries 3: Legal, 1921-1966, 3.0 linear feet and 2 oversize
volumes
Subseries 4: Maps, undated, 1 folder
Subseries 5: Minutes, 1928-1951, 4 folders
Subseries 6: Organization, 1928-1951, 0.25 linear feet
Subseries 7: Reports, 1920-1938, 1.25 linear feet
Series X: Desert Cove Properties, Incorporated, 1957-1970, 3
folders
Series XI: Exco, Incorporated, 1941-1974, 0.25 linear feet
Series XII: Industrial Gas Company, Incorporated, 1941-1978, 0.75
linear feet
Subseries 1: Correspondence, 1953-1978, 0.25 linear feet
Subseries 2: Financial and Legal, 1941-1957, 0.5 linear feet
Subseries 3: Organization, 1953-1966, 2 folders
Series XIII: Interior Royalty Corporation, 1949-1970, 4 folders
Series XIV: Interstate Natural Gas Company, 1936-1964, 0.75 linear
feet and 1 oversize volume
Series XV: John Wight, Incorporated, 1920-1983, 12.0 linear feet
Subseries 1: Correspondence, 1929-1983, 5.5 linear feet
Subseries 2: Financial, 1920-1983, 1.5 linear feet
Subseries 3: Legal, 1920-1982, 4.0 linear feet
Subseries 4: Organization, 1929-1980, 1.0 linear feet
Series XVI: Marvel Petroleum Corporation, 1933-1965, 5 folders
Series XVII: Midwest Holding Company, 1924-1976, 6.0 linear feet and 3
oversize volumes
Subseries 1: Clippings, undated, 1 folder
Subseries 2: Correspondence, 1928-1973, 2.0 linear feet
Subseries 3: Financial, 1929-1976, 1.0 linear feet and 3 oversize
volumes
Subseries 4: Legal, 1924-1970, 1.75 linear feet
Subseries 5: Organization, 1929-1968, 0.5 linear feet
Subseries 6: Reports, 1928-1967, 0.75 linear feet
Series XVIII: Modern Oil Company of Montana, Incorporated, 1945-1962,
1.5 linear feet
Subseries 1: Correspondence, 1953-1958, 0.25 linear feet
Subseries 2: Financial, 1945-1962, 0.5 linear feet
Subseries 3: Legal, 1947-1960, 0.5 linear feet
Subseries 4: Organization, 1952-1957, 0.25 linear feet
Series XIX: Mondakota Development Company/Mondakota Gas Company,
1920-1982, 16.5 linear feet and 1 oversize volume
Subseries 1: Correspondence, 1926-1982, 5.25 linear feet
Subseries 2: Financial, 1934-1969, 1.0 linear feet and 1 oversize
volume
Subseries 3: Legal, 1920-1982, 9.0 linear feet
Subseries 4: Organization, 1923-1981, 1.25 linear feet
Series XX: Montana Coin and Gem Company, 1957, 3 folders
Series XXI: Montana Consolidated Gas Companies, 1928, 2 folders
Series XXII: Montana Eastern Pipeline Company, Incorporated,
1926-1973, 1.5 linear feet
Subseries 1: Correspondence, 1926-1968, 0.5 linear feet
Subseries 2: Financial, 1931-1937, 3 folders
Subseries 3: Legal, 1926-1970, 1.0 linear feet
Subseries 4: Organization, 1931-1973, 4 folders
Series XXIII: New Cornelia Extension Copper Corporation, 1957-1976, 4
folders
Series XXIV: Northern Gas Producers Association, 1931, 1 folder
Series XXV: North Star Refining Company, 1947-1959, 2 folders
Series XXVI: Rocky Mountain Pacific Oil Company, 1925-1928, 2
folders
Series XXVII: Rocky Mountain Royalty Company, 1927-1937, 1.0 linear
feet
Series XXVIII: Solar Oil and Refining Company, 1939-1983, 2.0 linear
feet
Subseries 1: Correspondence, 1939-1983, 0.75 linear feet
Subseries 2: Financial, 1939-1963, 0.25 linear feet
Subseries 3: Legal, 1941-1983, 0.25 linear feet
Subseries 4: Organization, 1939-1969 , 0.75 linear feet
Series XXIX: S-W Company, 1934-1980, 0.25 linear feet
Series XXX: Sunray Oil Company, 1939-1945, 2 folders
Series XXXI: Thousand Palms Oasis Development Corporation, 1947-1982,
2.0 linear feet
Subseries 1: Correspondence, 1947-1981, 0.75 linear feet
Subseries 2: Financial, 1957-1975, 0.25 linear feet
Subseries 3: Legal, 1952-1982, 0.5 linear feet
Subseries 4: Organization, 1955, 0.5 linear feet
Series XXXII: Utah Natural Gas Company, 1949-1952, 2 folders
Series XXXIII: Wight Investment and Holding Company, 1981, 2
folders
Series XXXIV: W-L Land and Livestock Company, 1940, 1 folder
Series XXXV: Wight Oil and Refining Company, 1978-1980, 2 folders
Series XXXVI: Lewistown Natural Gas Company, Central Montana Pipe Line
Company, Central Montana Production Company, 1930, 1 bound volume
Series XXXVII: Plat Books, undated, 3 oversize volumes
Series XXXVIII: Artifacts, undated, 2 items
Custodial History :
Most of the materals in the collection were in the possession of Wight
or his daughter, Marvel Lowrance, until time of donation to the Archives. The
family discarded a large quantity of corporate records in the late 1960s; this
collection represents what remained. A portion of family correspondence that
was originally donated to the Montana Historical Society was transferred to the
University of Montana at Wight's request.
Acquisition Information :
Gift, in part, of John Wight, 1971-1986; gift, in part, of Marvel
Lowrance, 1990, 1991; transferred, in part, from Montana Historical Society,
1983.
Processing Note :
The actions of the original processers are unknown. In 2004, the
collection was re-described; the arrangement of the collection was not
changed.
Related Materials :
The American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming holds a
collection of Wight's papers.
Detailed Description of the Collection
Subgroup 1: Personal, 1894-1984
13.0 linear feet
This sub-group contains the personal papers of John Wight spanning
his career in the oil, natural gas, and land development industries.
Container(s)
Description
Series I: Biographical, 1920-1983
0.75 linear feet
This series contains various biographical materials about John
Wight, his personal interests, professional career, and family.
Box/Folder
1/1
General
1/2
Dictionary of International
Biography, 1972
1/3
Montana Historical
Society
1/4
University of
Wyoming
1/5
With Howard Shaff, 1978
1/6
With Howard Shaff, 1979-1980
1/7
1896, undated
1/8
Biographical
Materials, 1920-1929
1/9
Biographical
Materials, 1930
1/10
Biographical
Materials, 1930-1939
1/11
Biographical
Materials, 1940-1949
1/12
Biographical
Materials, 1950-1959
1/13
Biographical
Materials, 1970-1971
2/1
Biographical
Materials, 1972-1973
2/2
Biographical
Materials, 1974-1977
2/3
Biographical
Materials, 1978-1979
2/4
Biographical
Materials, 1980-1981
2/5
Biographical
Materials, 1982-1983
2/6
Frank Cross, 1980-1982
2/7
Miscellany
Series II: General
Correspondence, 1928-1984
7.25 linear feet
This series contains personal correspondence spanning John
Wight's professional career. Materials include correspondence with his wife and
children, multiple exchanges with state and federal officials, unofficial
correspondence with co-investors in his multiple operations, Wight's writings
on socio-economic issues, and exchanges with friends regarding Wight's hobby
interests.
Box/Folder
2/8
J. H. Adams, 1930-1933
2/9
J. H. Adams, 1934
3/1
Aides, Harry, lease
applications, 1974-1976
3/2
Agate hunting, 1967-1970
3/3
Agate rocks for
sale, 1970
3/4
Ackerly leases, 1957-1963
3/5
Alaska trip, 1954-1968
3/6
Alaska trip, 1973
3/7
American Auto, re:
accident, 1961-1975
3/8
American Express
Company, 1971-1976
3/9
Anderson, Anders, 1964-1974
3/10
Anderson, Jack and Drew
Pearson, 1970
3/11
Aranow bankruptcy
matters, 1959-1971
3/12
Attorneys: Morledge, Cheadle,
Wright, Sheldon, Cedar Creek matter, 1962-1968
3/13
Australian trip, 1970
3/14
Baker, Montana, 1928-1936
3/15
Battin, James, 1964
3/16
Baucus, Max, 1975-1979
3/17
Baucus, Max, 1979-1980
3/18
Baucus, Max, 1980-1981
3/19
Baucus, Max, 1982-1984
4/1
Oler, Bawden, 1978-1979
(re: lease)
4/2
Bear Paw Lands, 1978
4/3
Bear Paw Lands, 1977-1980
4/4
Becker, Frank, 1941-1956
(re: Warner case)
4/5
Berg, Lester O., 1958
4/6
Big Sky Lock, 1975
4/7
Bosworth, Dain, 1959-1982
4/8
Bowen, Earl, 1944-1945
(re: lease)
4/9
Brunton, A.W., 1964-1967
4/10
Brunton, A.W., 1968
4/11
Brunton, A.W., 1969-1970
4/12
Bullis, Milton
(accountant), 1954-1972
4/13
Burnside, Willis E., 1957-1960
4/14
California Real
Estate, 1960-1964
4/15
California Real Estate -
Correspondence, 1965-1969
4/16
California Real Estate (Ridge
and Wild oak Prop.) - Correspondence, 1964-1969
Kiernan, George (Oil Service
Corporation), 1977-1978
9/14
Knowles Dam
controversy, 1962-1964
9/15
La Quinta real estate, trusts,
etc., 1955-1978
9/16
Lareve, Helen, 1978-1981
9/17
Leavitt, 1938-1947
9/18
Leonard, Paul J., 1971-1974
9/19
Lutz, Raymond (Soap
Creek), 1971-1972
9/20
Mansfield, Mike
(Senator), 1959-1966
10/1
Mansfield, Mike, 1967-1972
10/2
Mansfield, Mike, 1973-1974
10/3
Mansfield, Mike, 1975
10/4
Marlenee, Ron
(Rep.), 1977
10/5
Marlenee, Ron
(Rep.), 1977-1979
10/6
Melcher, John
(Senator), 1970-1972
10/7
Melcher, John, 1972-1980
10/8
Melcher, John, 1973-1974
10/9
Melcher, John, 1975-1979
10/10
Melcher, John, 1980-1985
10/11
Metcalf, Lee (Rep.), 1961-1966
10/12
Metcalf, Lee, 1967-1972
10/13
Metcalf, Lee, 1973-1974
10/14
Metcalf, Lee, 1976-1978
10/15
Math formula patent
information
10/16
Milk controversy
Correspondence
11/1
Mining
Correspondence
11/2
Mills, R.A., 1969-1976
11/3
Am and MT Bar Assn., 1962-1967
11/4
Moral re-armament, 1970-1983
11/5
Moshier, S.L., 1936-1947
11/6
Murray, W.D. (Judge;
impeachment), 1964-1967
11/7
Murray, W.D. (Judge;
impeachment), 1964-1979
11/8
National Natural Gas Consumers
Union, 1955-1967
11/9
Noonan, Jerry, 1964-1966
11/10
Norskog, Adolph, 1970-1971
11/11
Northwest crude, 1983
11/12
Oil and gas
business, 1930-1955
11/13
Oil import
regulations, 1966
11/14
1967 Oil Import
Administration, 1966-1969
11/15
Oil import, 1970-1972
(Miscellaneous applications)
11/16
Oil import license, 1972-1974
11/17
National Travel
Club, 1970-1976
11/18
Olsen, Milo V., 1977-1983
11/19
Olympian International
resources, 1977
11/20
Onstad, Clarence, 1970-1973
11/21
Ortt and Company
(CPA's), 1975-1981
11/22
Paine, Patrick (Continental
Oil), 1970-1973
12/1
Patent - condom, 1952-1958
12/2
Patent - condom, 1952-1958
12/3
Pearson, Drew, 1956-1969
12/4
Petroleum Investment
Research, 1976-1978
12/5
Petroleum Investment
Company, 1978-1980
12/6
Political
Correspondence
12/7
Political matters, 1951-1969
12/8
Political matters, 1970-1975
12/9
Political matters, 1976
12/10
Portraits, murals, 1963-1965
12/11
Norbeck, George, 1927-1941
13/1
Norbeck, George, 1927-1941
13/2
Powder River County
(history), 1968
13/3
Property - LaHabra, 1955-1958
13/4
Ranch materials from
1920s
13/5
Reasor, G.L., 1954-1976
13/6
Rawlins and Torry Petro
Engineers, 1961-1975
13/7
Senate letters, 1969-1980
13/8
Sergeant, 1940-1951
13/9
Shelby Engineering
reports, 1933-1947
13/10
Shell Oil Company, 1979-1981
13/11
Smith, Spencer, 1963-1979
13/12
Smith, Spencer, 1968-1974
13/13
Smoking, 1971-1983
13/14
Soap Creek
Association
13/15
Soap Creek geological
data
13/16
Soap Creek, 1961-1965
14/1
Society of California
Pioneers, 1958-1969
14/2
Society of California
Pioneers, 1972
14/3
South Africa, Asia Minor,
Europe Trip, 1974
14/4
State, Dr. Frederick J.
(fluoride, cereal), 1970
14/5
Sullivan, Dr. Robert E. (UM,
legal improvement), 1971-1972
14/6
Swanson, John, 1963-1976
(refinery deal)
14/7
Talmadge, 1951-1960
(Bowdoin lease)
14/8
Texstar Corporation
Correspondence
14/9
Thompson, William, 1971
14/10
Timbers for house terracing,
etc., 1968-1973
14/11
Tomlinson, Jim, 1970
14/12
Torrey, Paul, 1961-1976
14/13
Torrey, Paul, 1965-1972
14/14
Urban development, 1969
14/15
Wheeler F.R. (Engineer - with
Paul Torrey, Soap Creek), 1966
14/16
Welsh, H.L., 1930
14/17
Wheat lease deal, 1953-1970
14/18
Winans, Hank, 1964-1968
(Miscellaneous)
14/19
Windfall profit
taxes, 1980-1982
14/20
Wingert and Brewely, 1937-1940
14/21
Winter, Ann, 1960-1967
14/22
"Write to again", 1947-1970
14/23
Yogo Mine, 1961-1962
(Miscellaneous)
14/24
Yogo Sapphire (Mike
Atragchi), 1967
14/25
Yucca, 1948
(Soap Weed)
14/26
United States Corporation
Company
Series III: Financial Records:, 1934-1980
0.25 linear feet
This series contains John Wight's personal financial papers
including tax records, personal tracking of investment details, and records
from investment firms managing aspects of Wight's finances.
Box/Folder
15/1
Accounts -
Miscellaneous
15/2
Brunton, A.W.
15/3
First National Bank of Denver
(Trust), 1964-1972
15/4
Halle and Stieglitz
Brokers, 1956-1957
15/5
Individual income
tax, 1964-1975
15/6
Leases, Ratliff and New
Cornelia, 1957-1960
15/7
List of (former) Wight
Assets, 1947-1980
15/8
Personal checking, 1972-1974
15/9
Personal checks and
stubs
15/10
Piper, Jaffray and
Hopwood, 1966-1969
15/11
Shell oil exhibit, unit
agreement. Cedar Creek Field
15/12
Stock records
15/13
Taxes payable, etc., 1956-1971
15/14
Walker, L.M. -
M.D.U., 1934-1955
15/15
Wight, Theora, CA land
dealings, 1959-1963
15/16
UNA wood, oil lease
matters, 1963-1974
Series IV: Legal Documents, 1894-1979
4.0 linear feet
This series contains John Wight's extensive personal legal
records, primarily lease agreements and court proceedings.
Box/Folder
15/17
Miscellaneous
agreements, 1934-1940
15/18
Miscellaneous
agreements, 1925-1931
15/19
Alden, Fred (Soap
Creek), 1942-1953
16/1
U.S. vs. AMS Ranch, 1979
16/2
Assignment of
Royalty
16/3
Big Timber Ranch, 1947
16/4
Broadview Ranch matters -
mortgage and deed
16/5
Brunton, A.W., 1961-1970
16/6
California
properties, 1954-1960
16/7
California real
estate, 1965-1967
16/8
Campbell Contracts,
etc., 1949-1952
16/9
Cedar Creek Lands - title
search data
16/10
Coachella Valley
property, 1954-1963
16/11
Common Carrier
matters, 1948
16/12
Cooke - M.C. papers, 1932-1935
16/13
Cooke City mining
data, 1932-1959
16/14
Miscellaneous deeds,
contracts, 1919-1946
16/15
Embarcadero Ranchos
matters, 1959-1962
16/16
Fillner, Russell K.
(attorney), 1968-1977
17/1
Friedman, I.C., 1962-1973
(filings, drawings)
17/2
Grant deeds, quit claim deeds,
etc., 1916-1949
17/3
Jimason, George F. "Power of
Attorney", 1937
17/4
Hyler, King, 1945-1950
17/5
Keye, Cora, 1924-1970
17/6
Keye, Leighton S., 1927-1937
17/7
Lease matters, 1930-1957
17/8
Leases, agreements,
assignments, 1928-1929
17/9
Leases, agreements,
assignments, 1928-1929
17/10
Leases and deeds, 1958-1969
17/11
Lease matters: Stokes, Ralph
Arnold, 1928-1929
17/12
Lease matters: old ranch and
land contracts, 1923-1942
17/13
Lease (1949), operating
agreements, 1934-1935
18/1
Legal documents,
Miscellaneous, October 3, 1894
18/2
Leighton Keye; assignment,
permits, etc., 1927
18/3
Lewistown contracts, 1930
18/4
Lewistown gas project
franchise, 1912-1931
18/5
Lewistown gas
project
18/6
Lowrance, Marvel
(case)
18/7
Lowrance/Wight, 1973-1974
18/8
Pending Miscellaneous
legislation, 1920-1967
18/9
Miscellaneous
legislation
18/10
Miscellaneous pooling and
syndicate agreements
18/11
Lease matter - old Minneapolis
transactions
18/12
Oler leases, 1929-1938
18/13
L.A. trust deeds/some
litigation
18/14
Memorandum of agreement/Capital
Gas Corporation, July 1928
18/15
Miscellaneous
18/16
Miscellaneous
18/17
MDU (Montana-Dakota Utilities)
vs. John Wight, 1959-1964
18/18
MDU vs. John Wight, undated
18/19
MDU vs. John Wight, 1955
18/20
Appeal to Supreme Court
(Montana-Dakota Utilities), 1940-1966
18/21
McClellan vs. Montana-Dakota
Utilities, 1951
(deposition)
19/1
McClellan vs. Montana-Dakota
Utilities, 1951
(deposition)
19/2
MDU judgment
matters, 1957-1965
19/3
Montana-Dakota Utilities
(4454), 1966
19/4
Montana-Dakota Utilities
(4454)
19/5
Montana-Dakota Utilities
(4454), 1966
20/1
Montana-Dakota Utilities
(4454), 1966
20/2
Montana-Dakota Utilities
(4454), 1966
20/3
MDU settlement, 1935-1967
20/4
MDU settlement, 1935-1967
20/5
MDU - general settlement
agreement, 1968
20/6
John Wight vs.
Northrup
20/7
Persion and Levin vs. Richland,
Wight, 1960-1966
21/1
Clippings, lease
agreement, 1927-1939
21/2
Lease Agreements I
21/3
Lease Agreements II
21/4
Lease Agreements
III
21/5
Lease Agreements IV
21/6
Lease Agreements V
21/7
Lease Agreements VI
21/8
Lease Agreements
VII
21/9
Powers of Attorney; lease
agreements I
21/10
Powers of Attorney; lease
agreements II
21/11
Powers of Attorney; lease
agreements III
21/12
Powers of Attorney; lease
agreements IV
21/13
Powers of Attorney; lease
agreements V
22/1
Powers of Attorney, lease
agreements VI
22/2
Powers of Attorney, lease
agreements VII
22/3
Royalty Assignments (Kelly vs.
Wight), 1931-1974
22/4
Miscellaneous Shelby Refinery
agreements, 1977
22/5
Crow leases; Soap
Creek, 1979
22/6
Smith, Spencer - Land Office
file, 1963-1972
22/7
State school land
lease, 1946-1953
22/8
Stokes, Herbert, 1930-1937
22/9
Thompson, Harry, 1973-1974
22/10
Warranty deeds, 1913-1939
22/11
Lease/Warren and
Dousman, 1930-1935
22/12
Instructions for directors in
event of death, 1974
22/13
Wood, Una, 1963-1973
(oil lease matters)
Box
112
Legal Documents
Box
113
Legal Documents
Box
114
Legal Documents
Box
115
Legal Documents
Box
116
Legal Documents
Box
117
Legal Documents
Box
118
Legal Documents
Box
119
Legal Documents
Box
120
Legal Documents
Box
121
Legal Documents
Box
122
Legal Documents
Box
123
Legal Documents
Box
124
Legal Documents
Box
125
Legal Documents
Box
126
Legal Documents
Box
127
Legal Documents
Box
128
Legal Documents
Box
129
Legal Documents
Box
130
Legal Documents
Box
131
Legal Documents
Box
132
Legal Documents
Series V: Organization, 1935-1950
2 folders
This series contains 2 folders of organizational papers
regarding John Wight's personal endeavors.
Box/Folder
22/14
Corporate records, W-L Land and
Livestock Company
22/15
Oil Ranch matters, 1935-1950
Series VI: Reports, 1929-1944
0.25 linear feet
This series contains investment reports John Wight collected as
potential projects.
Box/Folder
22/16
Bird Creek Mining
Company, undated
22/17
Cedar Creek
chronology, undated
22/18
Federal Power
Commission, 1938
22/19
Goleta Oil Field, 1935
22/20
Lewistown gas
project, 1929-1931
23/1
Mt. St. Helens Consolidated
Mining Company
23/2
Papago Chief Mine, 1944
23/3
Soap Creek analysis
Series VII: Speeches and Writings, 1961-1984
0.25 linear feet
This series contains John Wight's public writings, mostly op-ed
pieces for local newspapers, regarding contemporary political and economic
issues.
Box/Folder
23/4
C.L. Clark/Carlton
Press, 1978-1981
23/5
Court improvement
23/6
Equitable tax, 1968
23/7
Letters to the editor,
Billings Gazette, 1961-1969
23/8
Letters to the
editor, 1970-1974
23/9
Letters to the
editor, 1975-1978
23/10
Letters to OPERA and
Billings Gazette, 1978
23/11
Moral re-armament/natural gas
struggles
23/12
"New Method for Dividing
Fractions", 1962
23/13
1978-1984
Series VIII: Clippings:, 1929-1958
3 folders
This series contains 3 folders of newspaper and magazine
clippings regarding John Wight and the projects he conducted.
64.0 linear feet, 1 oversize
box, 10 oversize volumes, and two artifacts
This sub-group contains correspondence, financial, legal, and
organizational papers from many of the land and natural resource development
companies John Wight wholly owned or was a major investor.
Container(s)
Description
Series IX: Capital Gas
Corporation, 1920-1975
6.0 linear feet and 3
oversize volumes
This series includes correspondence, financial, legal, and
organizational papers for the Capital Gas Corporation, an oil and natural gas
development company headquartered in Billings, Montana. Among its many
investments, the Capital Gas Corporation operated a natural gas distribution
network in Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, and Saskatchewan,
Canada.
Subseries 1: Financial Records, 1929-1959
Box/Folder
23/17
Atlantic-Pacific; Montana
Eastern, 1932-1936
25/5
1929-1939
25/6
1938-1959
25/7
Trial Balances
Volume
10
General ledger, 1929-1942
Volume
11
Lease record
Volume
12
Lease record
Volume
13
General ledger, 1929-1942
Subseries 2: General
Correspondence, 1920-1975
Box/Folder
23/18
1928-1954
23/19
J.A. Anderson
Company, 1931-1939
23/20
Anderson, Anders, 1920-1967
23/21
Armstrong, Melvin, 1927-1937
24/1
Bleecker, John D.
(stock-cert. questions)
24/2
Cross, Cash, 1927-1951
24/3
Dengler, Gertrude, 1929-1938
24/4
Dohm, John
24/5
Findlater, John, 1933-1939
24/6
Oler, Gertrude
(lease), 1931-1969
24/7
Norbeck, George, 1928-1937
24/8
Norbeck, George, 1928-1934
24/9
Norbeck, George, 1926-1929
24/10
Norbeck, George, 1930
24/11
Norbeck, George, 1929-1930
24/12
Norbeck, George, 1931-1933
24/13
Norbeck, George, 1934-1954
24/14
Norskog, 1931-1965
25/1
Norskog, 1966-1969
25/2
Scott, Roy
(027644)
25/3
Warner Case, 1933-1975
25/4
Wood, G.C.
(027575)
Subseries 3: Legal Documents:, 1921-1966
Box/Folder
25/8
Agreements, 1931-1955
25/9
Armstrong, Melvin, 1929-1934
25/10
Old Atlantic
Pacific
25/11
Power of Attorney
records, 1928-1938
25/12
Anderson, Anders
S., 1921-1964
25/13
Atlantic Pacific Oil
Company, 1932
25/14
Atlantic Pacific Oil Company
vs. Gas Development Company, 1935-1937
25/15
Bills of sale, 1923
25/16
I, 1929-1966
26/1
II, 1929-1966
26/2
I, 1928-1954
26/3
Old contracts, 1928-1931
26/4
Anderson, Anders, 1924-1963
26/5
Cedar Creek, 1935-1937
26/6
Old Cedar Creek - affidavits,
titles, etc., 1921-1955
Well notices and reports, C.
G. Corporation, 1929-1935
30/10
Well notices and reports,
Daley, 1930-1935
30/11
Well notices and reports,
Duncan, 1929-1934
31/1
Well notices and reports,
Keye, 1929-1934
31/2
Well notices and reports,
Norskog, 1930-1934
31/3
Well notices and reports,
Oler, 1930-1934
31/4
Well notices and reports,
Sartwell, 1930-1935
31/5
Well notices and reports,
Scott, 1930-1935
31/6
Well notices and reports,
Talmadge, 1930-1936
31/7
Well notices and reports,
Anderson, 1920-1934
31/8
Well notices and reports,
Armstrong, 1930-1936
31/9
Land lists
Series X: Desert Cove Properties
Incorporated, 1957-1970
3 folders
This series contains organizational papers for Desert Cove
Properties, Incorporated, a real estate development company operating in
Riverside County, California.
Box/Folder
31/10
Articles of
Incorporation, 1957
31/11
Stock book, 1958-1970
31/12
Miscellany
Series XI: Exco, Incorporated, 1941-1974
0.25 linear feet
This series contains organizational papers for Exco,
Incorporated, an oil exploration and refining company headquartered in Carson
City, Nevada.
Box/Folder
31/13
Minutes, 1951-1953
32/1
Capital stock, 1968-1974
32/2
Corporate records, 1941-1951
32/3
Stock certificates, 1951-1953
32/4
Stock record, 1951-1952
32/5
Stock record, 1952-1953
Series XII: Industrial Gas Company,
Incorporated, 1941-1978
0.75 linear feet
This series includes correspondence, financial, legal, and
organizational papers for Industrial Gas Company, Incorporated, an oil and
natural gas development company headquartered in Carson City, Nevada. The
company maintained offices in Denver, Colorado and Billings, Montana.
Series XIII: Interior Royalty
Corporation, 1949-1970
4 folders
This series contains organizational papers from the Interior
Royalty Corporation, an oil and natural gas asset holding company headquartered
in Carson City, Nevada.
Box/Folder
34/2
Articles of
Incorporation, 1950
34/3
Stock book, 1950
34/4
Records, 1950-1968
34/5
Annual reports, 1949-1970
Series XIV: Interstate Natural Gas
Company, 1936-1964
0.75 linear feet and 1
oversize volume
This series includes correspondence, financial, legal, and
organizational papers from the Interstate Natural Gas Company, an oil, natural
gas, and coal development company headquartered in Carson City, Nevada.
Box/Folder
34/6
Hutchinson, H. L.
34/7
Montana Secretary of
State
34/8
State of Montana, oil and gas
lease
34/9
Dougherty lease, 1936-1964
34/10
vs. El Paso, 1948-1950
34/11
vs. El Paso, 1948-1950
34/12
vs. El Paso, 1950
34/13
vs. El Paso, 1948-1953
34/14
Judge William. M. Byrne
opinion
34/15
Legal Documents, 1948-1956
34/16
Minutes, 1949-1953
34/17
Articles of
Incorporation, 1947
34/18
Stockholders
34/19
Records, 1947-1951
34/20
Miscellany, 1947-1955
Box
19
Stock certificates
(1-50), 1947-1950
Box
20
Stock certificates
(1-100), 1951-1957
Volume
21
General journal, 1951
Series XV: John Wight,
Incorporated, 1920-1983
12.0 linear feet
This series includes correspondence, financial, legal, and
organizational papers for John Wight, Incorporated, John Wight's personal
holding corporation with headquarters in Carson City, Nevada.
Subseries 1: General
Correspondence, 1929-1983
Box/Folder
35/1
AAA silver mines, 1971-1973
35/2
Allen, Donald, 1980-1981
35/3
Allen, Donald, 1983
35/4
Amoco Production
Company, 1972-1977
35/5
Baker lots, 1949-1976
35/6
Brown-Tara, 1971-1974
35/7
Buck, Foster
35/8
California Time Oil
Company, 1971
35/9
Cedar Creek date, U.S. Land
Office, 1929-1970
35/10
Cedar Creek oil and
gas, 1968-1974
35/11
Cedar Creek Oil
Company, 1975
35/12
Cedar Creek, MDU, 1958-1972
35/13
Old Cedar Creek,
Carter-Stevens
35/14
Cedar Creek/Fallon County
data, 1935-1963
35/15
Carter Oil, 1956-1960
35/16
William- Clark Development
Credit Corporation, 1970
35/17
Clerk and
Recorder, 1959-1981
35/18
Clerk and
Recorder, 1955-1965
36/1
Crow Agency lease, 1940-1943
36/2
Crow Agency, 1978-1981
36/3
Crow Agency Indian lease
sale, 1961
36/4
Dalton, Eugene, 1972-1973
36/5
Defense fuel supply
bids
36/6
Divestiture of oil
companies
36/7
Dalthrop, George, attorney
for MDU, 1972-1978
36/8
Dygert and Gunn,
attorney, 1964-1969
36/9
Earl Industries, 1966-1969
36/10
Engebregson,
Daryl, 1959-1968
36/11
Engebregson,
Daryl, 1964-1969
36/12
Engebregson, 1966-1968
36/13
Engebregson, 1969
36/14
Federal Oil, Muelling,
Rickley, 1968
36/15
Fox, Edwards,
attorneys, 1973-1980
37/1
Gjerdevig, Donald, 1970
37/2
Green, Ron - West Gas,
Incorporated, 1975
37/3
Hodgson, George
C., 1971
37/4
Hoiness-LaBar
Insurance, 1974-1980
37/5
Import Appeal
Board, 1966-1972
37/6
Independent Refiners
Assn., 1967-1968
37/7
Independent Refiners
Assn., 1968-1971
37/8
Interior Royalty Corporation
of Wyoming
37/9
International Trust
Company, 1934-1972
37/10
Interstate -
Dougherty, 1949-1959
37/11
Lease, 1978
37/12
Lewis, Ed
37/13
Litigation vs. Marvel
Lowrance
37/14
Lowrance, Marvel, 1957-1977
37/15
Lund, Gordon, 1974-1982
37/16
Luning, Leonard - oil and gas
lease, 1977-1981
37/17
Miller, Duncan - Stag Oil
Company, 1969-1971
37/18
MDU story, 1967-1969
37/19
Mansfield and Metcalf -
Mondakota relief bill matters
Series XVI: Marvel Petroleum
Corporation, 1933-1965
5 folders
This series contains correspondence, legal, and organizational
papers from the Marvel Petroleum Corporation, oil and natural gas development
company headquartered in Billings, Montana.
Box/Folder
55/9
Correspondence, Walker,
Morgan, 1957-1958
55/10
vs. MDU, 1933-1965
55/11
Prospectus, 1955
55/12
Miscellany, undated
Series XVII: Midwest Holding
Company, 1924-1976
6.0 linear feet and 3
oversize volumes
This series includes publicity, correspondence, financial,
legal, and organizational papers for the Midwest Holding Company, an oil and
natural gas asset holding company located in Billings, Montana.
Subseries 1: Clippings, undated
Box/Folder
55/13
Clippings
Subseries 2: Correspondence, 1928-1973
Box/Folder
55/14
General
Correspondence, 1944-1957
55/15
General
Correspondence, 1957
55/16
General
Correspondence, 1929-1939
55/17
Aides, Harry and Milo
Tipton, 1951-1960
55/18
Billings 021068, Anders
Anderson, 1928-1962
56/1
Bannatyne, Pelowitz
lease, 1953-1965
56/2
Boeckl, William, 1958-1959
56/3
Boone, Raymond C., 1963-1964
56/4
Bruhns, Edwin, 1958-1959
56/5
Chessher, H. B., 1959-1962
56/6
Chessher, H. B., 1963-1967
56/7
Cross, Cash R., 1928-1931
56/8
Cross, Cash R., 1932
56/9
Crusader Oil, J. Paul
Ratliff, 1958
56/10
Crusader Oil, J. Paul
Ratliff, 1959
56/11
Crusader Oil, J. Paul
Ratliff, 1960-1964
57/1
Ross, Cash R., 1933-1957
57/2
Dolve, Elmer,
attorney
57/3
Elk Basin, Gertrude
Oler, 1935-1936
57/4
Elk Basin, 1937-1945
57/5
Engebregson,
Daryl, 1962-1965
57/6
Friedman, I. C., 1959-1971
57/7
Government oil lease
drawings
57/8
Government water
well, 1959
57/9
Gravem, Axel B., 1950-1959
57/10
Haney, W. B., 1934-1961
57/11
Hansen, Al,
Attorney, 1931-1935
57/12
Heckley, Jule M., 1944-1954
57/13
Heckley, Jule M., 1937-1959
57/14
Hutchinson, H. L., 1942-1957
57/15
Huntington, F. G., 1937-1943
57/16
Interstate Natural
Gas, 1948-1960
57/17
James, George N., Pontiac
dealer, 1963-1964
57/18
Richard, Kelley, 1963-1965
58/1
Keye, L. S., 1930-1947
58/2
Keye, L. S., 1948-1949
58/3
Keye, L. S., 1950-1956
58/4
Kraeger lease, 1949
58/5
Lease matters, 1957-1963
58/6
Lease information
58/7
Oil, gas lease
applications, 1969
58/8
Miscellaneous old date on oil
leases, 1949-1973
58/9
New Mexico
development, 1959-1969
58/10
Old letters re. gas
sales, 1928-1955
58/11
McLaughlin, J. L., 1945-1958
58/12
Mobil Producing
Company, 1953-1961
58/13
Muelling, Earl, 1964-1971
58/14
Nebraska-Texas simultaneous
filings, 1960-1969
58/15
Pepper Tank
Company, 1949-1964
58/16
Reinstatement
charter, 1969-1970
58/17
Sawyer, Edith, 1957-1959
58/18
Sawyer, Edith, 1958-1961
58/19
C. L. Seargent
lease, 1934-1944
58/20
Sellwood royalty
deal, 1949-1959
59/1
Sha-Wa Petroleum
Corporation, 1931-1938
59/2
Shell Oil Company
59/3
Shell Oil Company (attorneys
contacted regarding)
59/4
Shell Oil Company, 1951-1973
59/5
Shell Oil Company, 1955-1966
59/6
Albert Introcaso simultaneous
filings/drawings, 1960-1968
Series XVIII: Modern Oil Company of Montana,
Incorporated, 1945-1962
1.5 linear feet
This series includes correspondence, financial, legal, and
organizational papers for Modern Oil Company of Montana, Incorporated, an oil
and natural gas development company located in Billings, Montana. The company
declared bankruptcy in 1954 and continued operations after reorganization.
Subseries 1: General
Correspondence, 1953-1958
Box/Folder
67/11
Modern Oil
Company, 1953-1954
67/12
Modern Oil Company
bankruptcy, 1954-1958
67/13
Modern Oil bills, creditor
Correspondence, 1953-1956
67/14
Tom Brown, 1953-1955
67/15
Great Northern Railway
freight rates, 1956-1957
67/16
Kelleher vs.
Brown, 1954-1957
Subseries 2: Financial, 1945-1962
Box/Folder
67/17
Modern Oil
Company, 1945-1956
67/18
Modern Oil
Company, 1945-1956
68/1
Modern Oil, check
stubs, 1952
68/2
Modern Oil, check
stubs, 1953
68/3
Modern Oil, check
stubs, 1953
68/4
Modern Oil, check
stubs, 1955
68/5
Modern Oil, financial
records, 1952-1954
68/6
Financial and tax
statements, 1952-1955
68/7
Inventory, 1946-1956
68/8
Modern Oil, trustee in
bankruptcy, 1954-1962
Subseries 3: Legal, 1947-1960
Box/Folder
68/9
Agreements, assignments,
contracts, 1950-1955
68/10
Carter Oil vs.
Wight, 1956-1960
68/11
Great Falls National Bank vs.
Modern Oil, 1954-1958
69/1
Modern Oil, Miscellaneous
litigation, 1955-1959
69/2
Modern Oil, 1947-1954
69/3
Modern Oil, 1954
69/4
Modern Oil, 1952-1957
69/5
Modern Oil vs. Stanolind
Oil, 1959
69/6
Modern/Murphy
Corporation, 1954-1959
Subseries 4: Organization, 1952-1957
Box/Folder
69/7
Modern Oil
minutes, 1952-1955
69/8
Modern Oil
minutes, 1952-1957
69/9
Modern Oil, incorporation,
papers, bylaws, minutes, 1952-1957
70/1
Organization, 1952-1957
70/2
Reports, 1952, 1954
70/3
Annual, 1954
Series XIX: Mondakota Development
Company/Mondakota Gas Company, 1920-1982 and undated
16.5 linear feet and 1
oversize volume
This series includes correspondence, financial, legal, and
organizational papers for Mondakota Gas Company, an oil and natural gas
development company located in Billings, Montana. The company was originally
organized as the Mondakota (Montana-Dakota) Development Company and reorganized
as the Mondakota Gas Company in 1942.
Subseries 1: General
Correspondence, 1926-1982
Box/Folder
70/4
General
Correspondence, 1941-1955
70/5
General Correspondence,
I, 1941-1943
70/6
General Correspondence,
II, 1941-1943
70/7
Attorney General, 1958-1965
70/8
General
Correspondence, 1941-1964
70/9
General
Correspondence, 1942-1943
70/10
General
Correspondence, 1943-1969
70/11
General
Correspondence, 1943-1945
71/1
General
Correspondence, 1944-1947
71/2
General
Correspondence, 1948-1967
71/3
General
Correspondence, 1948-1952
71/4
General
Correspondence, 1950-1959
71/5
General
Correspondence, 1950-1958
71/6
General
Correspondence, 1952-1958
71/7
Annual reports, 1958-1963
71/8
Askin, George F., 1940-1941
71/9
Attorneys, 1950-1958
71/10
Becker, I, 1930-1950
71/11
Becker, II, 1930-1950
71/12
Becker, McElroy, Reed,
etc., 1941-1960
72/1
Becker, I, 1946-1966
72/2
Becker, II, 1946-1966
72/3
Becker, III, 1946-1966
72/4
Becker vs.
Mondakota, 1952-1953
72/5
Bockensted, Frank, 1928-1952
72/6
Brown, Sande and
Forbes, 1952-1957
72/7
Cedar Creek lands, 1933-1952
72/8
Cedar Creek lands, 1953-1958
72/9
Cheadle, E. K. /Montana
Eastern vs. MDU and Shell, 1961-1964
72/10
Derry, Judge Guy, 1967-1969
72/11
Engebregson, 1935-1968
72/12
Erickson, Leif, 1954
72/13
Fairbanks, Alice
72/14
Federal Land Bank, 1950
72/15
Federal Land Bank, 1947-1954
73/1
Finances
73/2
Gas buyers, 1935-1954
73/3
Gas buyers, 1946-1954
73/4
Gas fight, 1949-1963
73/5
Griffith, John, 1951-1956
73/6
Hammer, John L., 1961-1966
73/7
Haney, W. B., 1954-1958
73/8
Herriott, Ralph
L., 1957-1958
73/9
Huntington - MDU, 1936-1954
73/10
Hutchinson/Mike
Mansfield/Mondakota relief
73/11
Hutchinson, H. L., 1951-1956
73/12
Hutchinson
73/13
Income tax, 1954-1966
74/1
Industrial Gas
Company, 1955-1956
74/2
Interstate Gas
Company
74/3
Interstate Gas
Company, 1949-1955
74/4
Interstate Gas
Company, 1949-1955
74/5
Letters to Washington,
D.C., 1955-1966
74/6
Mosk, Fred, 1951-1970
74/7
McElroy
74/8
McElroy
74/9
Mondakota vs. E. R.
McElroy
74/10
McElroy, E. R.
74/11
McElroy, 1951-1953
74/12
McElroy, list of
leases, 1952-1956
74/13
Miscellaneous Mondakota
matters
74/14
Miscellaneous data useful for
proposed litigation
75/1
McElroy, Industrial Gas
Company, quit claims, 1953-1954
75/2
Miscellaneous MDU
matters
75/3
MDU, 1931, 1936, 1940, 1970, 1974
75/4
Mondakota vs. MDU, 1932-1946
75/5
MDU rate matters, 1940-1941
75/6
Mondakota vs. MDU, 1948-1952
75/7
Mondakota vs. MDU, 1952
75/8
Mondakota vs. MDU, 1953
75/9
Mondakota vs. MDU, 1957-1962
75/10
MDU Miscellaneous, 1931-1950
75/11
MDU tariff
matters, 1933-1953
75/12
Merlin, L. E., 1948-1959
75/13
Miscellaneous
correspondence, 1947-1974
75/14
Miscellaneous
correspondence, 1931-1962
76/1
Norskog case, 1950-1971
76/2
North Dakota common carrier
laws, 1933-1935
76/3
Pipeline right of
way
76/4
Picotto, attorney, 1965-1969
76/5
Railroad, 1926-1951
76/6
Rate matters, 1949-1966
76/7
Rates, 1944-1969
76/8
Relief bill, 1978-1980
76/9
RFC loan
application, 1949-1950
76/10
Reed, Collins - Fillner,
Pitet
76/11
Reed, Collins
76/12
Reed, Collins, 1950-1979
76/13
Reed, Collins, 1963-1980
76/14
Government relief
legislation
76/15
Government relief
legislation
76/16
Government relief bill,
S-1802
76/17
Government relief
legislation
77/1
Government relief
legislation, 1951-1962
77/2
Government relief
legislation, stockholders, 1949-1974
77/3
Sanders, C. T.
(attorney), 1953-1956
77/4
Government relief
info./Melcher Correspondence, 1953-1982
77/5
SEC, 1941-1944
77/6
SEC, I, 1942-1943
77/7
SEC, II, 1942-1943
77/8
SEC, III, 1942-1943
77/9
Shell Oil Company, 1950-1963
77/10
Shell Oil Company, 1954-1966
77/11
Singleton, Oliver
(AFL-CIO), 1966-1968
77/12
SBA, 1963
78/1
Papers from Chadwick Smith to
Warner case, 1959-1964
Becker, Frank - assignments,
contracts, etc., 1943-1966
81/15
Becker - contract
82/1
Becker, Cedar
Creek, 1940-1969
82/2
Becker, 1941-1953
82/3
Becker, 1941-1973
82/4
Becker, 1964-1968
82/5
Becker, I, 1940-1942
82/6
Becker, II, 1940-1942
82/7
Becker, transcript on
appeal, 1967
83/1
Bonds, 1949-1954
83/2
Bowen, Earl, 1942
83/3
Brief of Industrial Gas
Company, 1954
83/4
Cedar Creek
83/5
Cedar Creek, 1956-1969
83/6
Cedar Creek, 1930-1957
83/7
Cedar Creek, 1934, 1953, 1959
83/8
Cedar Creek, 1930-1963
83/9
Cedar Creek vs.
Fidelity, 1951-1953
83/10
Case #1530, civil case
#571
83/11
Case #16736,
Becker, 1941
83/12
Culbo fee, 1946-1952
84/1
Complaints and
judgments
84/2
Contracts/Tarries
84/3
Contracts and
amendments, 1951-1954
84/4
Contracts, Becker,
etc., 1945-1954
84/5
Court decisions and
litigation matters
84/6
Demand and
inspection, 1950-1958
84/7
Dougherty state
lease, 1935-1961
84/8
Dougherty lease, 1949-1954
84/9
Duncan, Richard, 1920-1965
84/10
Engebregson,
Daryl
84/11
Federal Land Bank, 1947
84/12
Federal Land Bank, 1951-1952
84/13
Federal Power
Commission
84/14
Federal Power
Commission, 1935-1936
84/15
Federal Power
Commission, 1938-1949
84/16
Federal Power
Commission, 1948
84/17
Gas, Federal Power Commission
orders, 1938-1967
85/1
Federal Power Commission,
I
85/2
Federal Power Commission,
II
85/3
Federal Power
Commission
85/4
Federal Power
Commission, 1934-1952
85/5
Federal Power
Commission, 1939-1967
85/6
Federal Power Commission,
rate matters, 1949-1950
85/7
Federal Power Commission,
releases, 1942-1954
85/8
Federal Power
Commission, 1953-1954
85/9
Federal Power Commission,
Capital Gas, 1938-1959
85/10
Federal Power
Commission, 1948-1951
85/11
Federal Power
Commission, 1944
86/1
Griffith, et. al., 1950-1952
86/2
Federal Power Commission,
Industrial Gas, 1949-1955
86/3
Heckley, Jule M., 1942-1949
86/4
Heckley, Jule M., 1942-1950
86/5
Heckley, Jule M., 1940-1958
86/6
Industrial Gas, data and
litigation materials, 1954, 1956
86/7
Industrial Gas, FPC
briefs, 1920-1955
86/8
Industrial Gas,
complaints, 1954-1955
86/9
Industrial Gas, 1953-1966
86/10
Industrial Gas, 1954-1959
86/11
Industrial Gas, 1942-1965
86/12
Industrial Gas/Walker
lease, 1953-1954
86/13
Watt, Joyce, 1946-1952
86/14
Kreager lease, 1945-1947
86/15
Lease information
86/16
Lease, I, 1926-1957
87/1
Lease, 1950-1954
87/2
Oil and gas
leases, 1945-1969
87/3
Leases, 1939-1952
87/4
Lease, II, 1926-1957
87/5
Lease agreements, 1948-1954
87/6
Lease agreements,
I, 1936-1954
87/7
Lease agreements,
II, 1936-1954
87/8
Lease agreements, 1950-1953
87/9
Lease matters and
assignments, 1936-1967
87/10
Lease matters and
assignments, 1931-1963
88/1
Oil lease matters
88/2
Oil lease matters, 1926-1961
88/3
Oil lease
matters/contracts
88/4
Lease, 1942-1950
88/5
Matters pending before Judge
Smith
88/6
McElroy matters, 1952-1953
88/7
McElroy matters,
I, 1949-1954
88/8
McElroy matters,
II, 1949-1954
88/9
McElroy matters,
III, 1949-1954
89/1
McElroy
89/2
McElroy - Collins
Reed
89/3
McElroy - Markey, 1940-1956
89/4
McElroy matters, 1953-1971
89/5
McElroy, 1953-1959
89/6
Meridian lease, 1945
89/7
Miscellaneous
cases
89/8
Materials selected by JM for
examination
89/9
Miscellaneous
matters, 1943-1973
89/10
Miscellaneous, 1949-1953
89/11
John Wight
deposition, 1957
89/12
John Wight deposition, Vol.
II, 1949
90/1
John Wight deposition, Vol.
I, 1949
90/2
John Wight deposition, Vol.
II, 1949
90/3
MDU
90/4
MDU
90/5
MDU
90/6
Wight exhibition, 1937-1940
90/7
MDU, 1939-1966
90/8
MDU, 1939-1966
90/9
MDU, 1939-1966
91/1
MDU, 1964
91/2
MDU
91/3
MDU
91/4
MDU
91/5
MDU
91/6
MDU (common carrier
issues)
91/7
MDU (reply brief), 1944
91/8
MDU (FPC opinion), 1946
91/9
MDU, 1946-1950
91/10
MDU, 1949
91/11
MDU, I, 1950-1951
91/12
MDU, John Wight deposition,
Vol. I, 1949
92/1
MDU, John Wight deposition,
Vol. II, 1949
92/2
MDU, John Wight
deposition, 1949
92/3
MDU, transport of natural gas
and fixing reasonable rate
92/4
MDU, affidavits of John
Wight, 1939-1966
92/5
MDU, 8th circuit court
decision, 1948
92/6
MDU, 1957-1965
92/7
MDU, II, 1950-1951
92/8
MDU, 1943-1947
92/9
MDU, 1935-1962
92/10
MDU, 1962
92/11
MDU court opinions,
decisions, orders, 1946-1953
92/12
MDU, FPC rate matters,
I, 1949-1955
92/13
MDU, FPC rate matters,
II, 1949-1955
93/1
MDU, 1950-1960
93/2
MDU, 1941-1949
93/3
MDU, FPC proceedings,
I, 1939
93/4
MDU, FPC proceedings,
II, 1939
93/5
MDU, FPC proceedings,
III, 1939
93/6
Miscellaneous legal
documents, 1969-1976
93/7
vs. Norskog, 1966-1968
93/8
North Dakota CC pipeline
laws, 1946-1964
93/9
Northern Pacific
Railroad, 1943-1947
94/1
Norskog matters, 1962-1969
94/2
Ohlrich, Walter, 1941-1952
94/3
Old rate matters, 1947
94/4
operating
agreements, 1927-1964
94/5
Petitions for
rates, 1950-1962
94/6
"Plevnall assignments and
leases, 1936-1953
94/7
Reed, Collins, 1934-1965
94/8
Releases, assignments,
agreements
94/9
Reed, Collins, 1964-1966
94/10
Reed, Collins
94/11
Reed, Collins, MDU, Shell
OI1, 1952-1965
94/12
Reed, Collins, 1964-1982
95/1
Repeal of common carrier
provisions, 1957
95/2
Smith, 1937-1952
95/3
Smith, H. C.
95/4
Smith, Russell, Federal
Judge
95/5
SEC, Snively deposition,
I, 1943
95/6
SEC, Snively deposition,
II, 1943
95/7
San Francisco Circuit Court
of Appeals, 1949-1965
95/8
Service contracts,
MDU, 1940-1951
95/9
Smith, Chadwick, 1959-1963
95/10
Stanolind oil and Gas/Karl
and Eliz. Hepperte, 1950-1951
95/11
Supreme Court and other court
decisions, rate fights, 1948, 1950-1951
95/12
Swallow, George, 1953-1962
95/13
Thompson, Don, 1954-1970
95/14
Voting trust
agreements, 1942-1954
95/15
Walker lease, 1927-1969
96/1
vs. Frank A.
Warner
96/2
Warner case
exhibits
96/3
Warner case - Mondakota vs.
Becker
96/4
MDU, 1920-1954
96/5
Williams, H.
DeWorth, 1965-1972
96/6
C. W. Smith
affidavit
Subseries 4: Organization, 1923-1981
Box/Folder
96/7
Minutes, 1941-1981
96/8
Minutes, 1979-1981
96/9
Organization
96/10
Stockholders, 1942-1954
96/11
Organization, 1941-1943
96/12
Organization, 1944
96/13
Organization, 1944
96/14
Organization, 1945-1947
97/1
Notices to
stockholders, 1949-1954
97/2
Organization, 1940-1957
97/3
Organization, 1940-1954
97/4
Articles of
Incorporation
97/5
Organization
97/6
Organization
97/7
Organization
97/8
Organization, 1953-1955
97/9
Organization
97/10
Organization, 1953-1962
97/11
Prospectus
97/12
Stock certificate
schedule, 1949
97/13
Stockholder lists, 1942-1969
97/14
Reports, 1950
97/15
Reports, 1977-1979
97/16
E. Byers Emrick, consulting
geologist
98/1
Federal Power
Commission, 1938-1945
98/2
History, natural gas
transportation, 1950
98/3
Lease rentals due, 1940-1954
98/4
Leases, lists, 1923-1951
98/5
Reply to Janofsky
report, 1953
98/6
Reports, 1953-1954
98/7
MDU, 1953-1954
98/8
Stockholders, 1981
98/9
Stockholders, 1950-1955
98/10
Reports, 1963-1968
98/11
Gas pipeline
fight, 1949-1952
98/12
Clippings, 1922-1962
98/13
Miscellany
Series XX: Montana Coin and Gem
Company, 1957
3 folders
This series contains organizational papers for the Montana Coin
and Gem Company, a company buying and selling a variety of collectible items.
The company was organized in Billings, Montana, in 1957.
Box/Folder
99/1
Minutes
99/2
Organization
99/3
Miscellany
Series XXI: Montana Consolidated Gas
Companies, 1928
2 folders
This series contains organizational papers for the Montana
Consolidated Gas Companies, an oil and gas prospecting and development company
headquartered in Great Falls, Montana.
Box/Folder
99/4
Agreement, 1928
99/5
Articles of
Incorporation
Series XXII: Montana Eastern Pipeline
Company, 1926-1973
1.5 linear feet
This series includes correspondence, financial, legal, and
organizational papers for Montana Eastern Pipeline Company, Incorporated, an
oil and natural gas development and transportation company located in Billings,
Montana.
Subseries 1: General
Correspondence, 1926-1968
Box/Folder
99/6
1928-1931
99/7
1931-1951
99/8
1934
99/9
1940-1943
99/10
Engebregson, 1965
99/11
Atlantic Pacific, 1935-1936
99/12
Barstow, J. L., 1931-1940
99/13
Carter, Clarence
W., 1928-1955
99/14
Cedar Creek, 1955-1963
99/15
Common carrier, 1933-1968
99/16
Daly, Margaret, 1926-1939
99/17
Department of Interior, rate
matters, 1931-1951
99/18
MDU, 1930-1936
99/19
MDU, 1939
99/20
MDU, 1955
100/1
Natural gas matters,
I, 1930-1946
100/2
Natural gas matters,
II, 1930-1946
100/3
MDU, 1933
100/4
MDU, 1937-1939
100/5
Rate matters, 1933-1935
Subseries 2: Financial, 1931-1937
Box/Folder
100/6
1931-1935
100/7
1931-1937
100/8
Operating
agreements, 1934-1935
Subseries 3: Legal, 1926-1970
Box/Folder
100/9
Miscellaneous
100/10
Miscellaneous
100/11
Legal Documents, 1931-1937
100/12
Legal Documents, 1931-1941
100/13
Legal Documents, 1942-1970
100/14
Cheadle, 1964
100/15
Contracts, 1931-1961
100/16
DeCosse Blue Printing
agreement, 1927-1930
100/17
Fidelty Gas Company
agreement, 1934
101/1
Findlater, John, 1933-1935
101/2
Gas purchase
agreements, 1926-1963
101/3
Litigation, 1934, 1935, 1940, 1963, 1967
101/4
Litigation
matters, 1928-1959
101/5
vs. MDU, 1938
101/6
vs. MDU, 1935-1944
101/7
vs. Shell Oil
Company, 1928-1966
101/8
vs. Shell Oil
Company, 1928-1966
101/9
vs. Shell Oil
Company, 1934-1963
101/10
vs. Shell Oil
Company, 1962-1964
101/11
vs. Shell Oil
Company, 1965
101/12
Talmadge, Nolan
101/13
Talmadge, Nolan
101/14
Teters, Percy, 1931-1963
101/15
Teters, Percy
101/16
Teters, Percy E.
Subseries 4: Organization, 1931-1973
Box/Folder
102/1
1931-1940
102/2
1937-1968
102/3
Capital stock
certificates, 1932-1940
102/4
Organization, 1973
Series XXIII: New Cornelia Extension Copper
Corporation, 1957-1976
4 folders
This series contains correspondence from the New Cornelia
Extension Copper Corporation, a mineral exploration and extraction company
centered in Lovell, Wyoming.
Box/Folder
102/5
Hoyt, 1957-1958
102/6
Ratliff, 1958-1975
102/7
Olsen, Milo, 1963-1976
102/8
State of Wyoming, 1957-1958
Series XXIV: Northern Gas Producers
Association, 1931
1 folder
This series contains organizational records from the Northern
Gas Producers Association, a natural gas development and delivery enterprise
operating in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Box/Folder
102/9
Organization
Series XXV: North Star Refining
Company, 1947-1959
2 folders
This series contains organizational records from the North Star
Refining Company, an oil and gas development and refining operation head
quartered in Billings, Montana.
Box/Folder
102/10
Shelby refinery, 1952-1959
102/11
Shelby refinery, 1947
Series XXVI: Rocky Mountain Pacific Oil
Company, 1925-1928
2 folders
This series contains correspondence and organizational records
from the Rocky Mountain Pacific Oil Company, an oil prospecting company
centered in Billings, Montana, but developing resources throughout North
America.
Box/Folder
102/12
Zinn, A. 0. and Ralph
Arnold, 1925-1928
102/13
Organization
Series XXVII: Rocky Mountain Royalty
Company, 1927-1937
1.0 linear feet
This series contains organizational papers for the Rocky
Mountain Royalty Company, an asset holding company centered in Miles City and
Billings, Montana.
Box/Folder
102/14
Stock certificates
102/15
Organization, 1927-1929
102/16
Annual, 1932
Volume
1
Stock certificates
(1-100), 1927
Volume
2
Stock certificates
(101-200), 1927
Volume
3
Stock certificates
(201-304), 1927-1928
Volume
4
Stock certificates
(305-404), 1928-1929
Volume
5
Stock certificates
(405-504), 1928-1929
Volume
6
Stock certificates
(505-607), 1929
Volume
7
Stock certificates
(608-705), 1929
Volume
8
Stock certificates
(706-716), 1929-1937
Series XXVIII: Solar Oil and Refining
Company, 1939-1983
2.0 linear feet
This series includes correspondence, financial, legal, and
organizational papers for the Solar Oil and Refining Company, an oil and
natural gas development operation located in Billings, Montana. Solar Oil and
Refining Company purchased the assets of the Sunray Oil Company (Series XXX) in
1946.
Subseries 1: General
Correspondence, 1939-1983
Box/Folder
103/1
Alden, Fred, 1942-1966
103/2
Barry and Richardson,
engineers, 1961-1962
103/3
Brooke, Bob, 1960-1961
103/4
Butterfield, Mary,
I, 1953-1970
103/5
Butterfield, II, 1969-1974
103/6
Butterfield, III, 1952-1969
103/7
Butterfield, IV, 1961-1979
103/8
Butterfield,
Gordon, 1976-1977
103/9
Drew, Carl, 1954
103/10
Drilling contract, well
logs, 1939-1960
103/11
Foster, Charles, Soap
Creek, 1961-1977
103/12
Fuller, Frank, 1962
103/13
Hoover, David P., Soap
Creek, 1942-1969
103/14
Luther, Glenn, 1959-1961
103/15
McGlothlin, 1950-1959
103/16
McGlothlin, 1950-1960
103/17
McGlothlin drilling
deal, 1959-1961
103/18
Norsworthy,
Clarence, 1962-1965
103/19
Petroleum Products Refining
and Producing, 1947-1955
103/20
Scoville, Soap
Creek, 1960-1966
104/1
Scoville, H. J., 1964-1983
104/2
Soap Creek
drilling
104/3
Soap Creek field, 1942-1963
104/4
Soap Creek well, 1960-1983
104/5
Soap Creek, old and
Miscellaneous
104/6
Soap Creek
operations, 1959-1961
104/7
Soap Creek, Phillips
Petroleum Company, 1950
104/8
Taylor, George, 1959-1960
104/9
Wagner, Edward, Shelby
plant, 1961-1964
104/10
Miscellaneous
Subseries 2: Financial, 1939-1963
Box/Folder
104/11
Statements, 1947-1951
104/12
Check stubs, 1956
104/13
Check stubs, 1939-1955
104/14
Check stubs, 1948-1955
104/15
Check stubs, 1952-1963
105/1
Statements, 1950-1943
105/2
Statements, 1950-1953
105/3
Statements, 1962
Subseries 3: Legal, 1941-1983
Box/Folder
105/4
Assignments, Soap
Creek, 1959-1960
105/5
Legal Documents, 1950
105/6
Big Snowy
Drilling, 1962
105/7
Caney, Donald G., 1961
105/8
King, George, 1950-1952
105/9
Fernando Oil and Refinery
Company, 1958-1959
105/10
Chessher, H. B., 1961-1964
105/11
Crow reservation mining
lease, 1954
105/12
Indian office, Soap Creek
matter, 1941-1949
105/13
Petroleum Products Refining
and Producing Company, 1950-1956
105/14
Property taxes/Butterfield
account, 1952-1975
105/15
Scoville, Soap
Creek, 1960-1966
105/16
Scoville, H. J., 1964-1983
105/17
Spring Mont Oil Corporation,
Soap Creek, 1954-1955
105/18
Texas-Calgary
Company, 1950-1955
105/19
vs. Tex Star, 1965
105/20
Treasure State
Oi1, 1947-1950
Subseries 4: Organization, 1939-1969
Box/Folder
105/21
Minutes, 1949-1954
105/22
Minutes, 1949-1968
106/1
Minutes, 1967-1969
106/2
Articles of Incorporation and
stockholder list
106/3
Annual reports, 1968-1969
106/4
Organization, 1939-1946
106/5
Organization, 1940-1942
106/6
Stock
certificates, 1969
106/7
Stock
certificates
106/8
Photographs
106/9
Reports, 1963
Series XXIX: S-W Company, 1934-1980
0.25 linear feet
This series includes financial and organizational papers from
the S-W Company, a property holding company located in Billings, Montana.
Box/Folder
107/1
Shell Oil Company, 1951-1966
107/2
MDU, 1962-1963
107/3
Tax information, 1960
107/4
Cedar Creek
anticline, 1934-1942
107/5
Coop unit plan of development,
Cedar Creek anticline
107/6
Oil and gas
assignments, 1935-1968
107/7
vs. Shell Oil
Company, 1973-1974
107/8
vs. Schwenk, Shell oil
Company
107/9
Reports, 1956-1980
Series XXX: Sunray Oil Company, 1939-1945
2 folders
This series contains two folders of legal papers regarding the
Sunray Oil Company, an oil and natural gas development operation located in
Billings, Montana. All company assets were sold to the Solar Oil and Refining
Company in 1946.
Box/Folder
107/10
Legal documents, Pepperdine,
George, 1941-1945
107/11
Legal documents, Pepperdine,
George, 1939-1942
Series XXXI: Thousand Palms Oasis Development
Corporation, 1947-1982
2.0 linear feet
This series includes correspondence, financial, legal, and
organizational papers from the Thousand Palms Oasis Development Corporation, a
resort property development operation in Palm Springs, California.
Subseries 1: General
Correspondence, 1947-1981
Box/Folder
107/12
Brochures and development
information
107/13
Lewis, Ed, 1958-1960
107/14
Lewis, Ed, 1957-1963
107/15
Lewis, Ed, 1960-1971
107/16
Lewis, Ed, 1956-1975
108/1
Dart resorts, 1977-1981
108/2
Dart Industries
108/3
Dude ranch, investment
inquiries, 1953
108/4
Delaware Secretary of
State
108/5
Gray, Michael M., Nationwide
Features Syndicate, 1957
108/6
Resort inquiries
108/7
Silver, Bill, 1958-1965
108/8
Stock resale, 1968
108/9
Subdivision
project, 1957-1962
108/10
Tax information, 1981
108/11
U.S. Corporation
Company, 1954-1959
108/12
Wilhelm, Paul, 1954-1960
108/13
Wilhelm, Paul, 1953-1957
108/14
Wilhelm, Paul, 1947-1973
108/15
Wilhelm, Paul, 1953-1973
108/16
Wilhelm, Paul, 1953-1973
109/1
Wilhelm, Paul, 1958-1980
109/2
Investment
inquiries
109/3
Water rights-Turf Club
Track
Subseries 2: Financial, 1957-1975
Box/Folder
109/4
Accounting data, 1957-1961
109/5
Statements, 1958-1974
109/6
Statements, 1969-1975
109/7
Financial Records, 1957-1975
109/8
Tax returns, 1957-1975
Subseries 3: Legal, 1952-1982
Box/Folder
109/9
Legal Documents, 1981-1982
109/10
Contracts, 1958-1974
109/11
Dissolution
109/12
Dissolution
109/13
Legal Documents
110/1
Legal Documents
110/2
Lease and deed
matters, 1952-1974
110/3
Lease and deed
matters, 1957-1968
110/4
Water rights
Subseries 4: Organization, 1955
Box/Folder
110/5
Minutes
110/6
Minutes
111/1
Organization
111/2
Stock
certificates
111/3
Clippings
111/4
Miscellany
111/5
Maps, data
111/6
Miscellany, 1955
Series XXXII: Utah Natural Gas
Company, 1949-1952
2 folders
This series contains two folders of organizational papers for
the Utah Natural Gas Company, natural gas prospecting and development operation
centered in Carson City, Nevada.
Box/Folder
111/7
Stock certificates, 1949-1952
111/8
Organization, 1949-1952
Series XXXIII: Wight Investment and Holding
Company, 1981
2 folders
This series contains two folders of legal and organizational
papers for the Wight Investment and Holding Company, a general holding company
for real estate, agricultural supply, and mining exploration investments around
Billings, Montana. The corporation was originally organized as the Wight
Investment Company in 1931 and was reorganized as the Wight Investment and
Holding Company in 1981.
Box/Folder
111/9
Legal Documents, 1981
111/10
Organization, 1981
Series XXXIV: W-L Land and Livestock
Company, 1940
1 folder
This series contains one folder of organizational papers for the
W-L Land and Livestock Company, a general holding company for real estate,
agricultural supply, and mining exploration investments around Billings,
Montana.
Box/Folder
111/11
Organization
Series XXXV: Wight Oil and Refining
Company, 1978-1980
2 folders
This series contains two folders of financial and organizational
papers for the Oil and Refining Company, a corporation John Wight organized
late in 1978 to consolidate several of his lingering investment holdings. The
company was centered in Billings, Montana, and consolidated a variety of
investments ranging from oil and gas leases, refining operations, and resort
property developments.
Box/Folder
111/12
Sale of Shelby
Refinery, 1980
111/13
Organization, 1978
Series XXXVI: Lewistown Natural Gas Company,
Central Montana Pipe Line Company, Central Montana Production
Company, 1930
1 bound volume
This series consists of one bound volume containing legal
correspondence, mineral and property lease agreements, articles of
incorporation, and by-laws for the Lewistown Natural Gas Company (parent
corporation), the Central Montana Pipe Line Company (utility distribution), and
the Central Montana Production Company (natural gas refining). The Lewistown
Natural Gas Company negotiated contracts to locate and develop natural gas
reserves in central Montana, supply natural gas utilities to the town of
Lewistown, and manage the area distribution network.
Volume
22
Articles of Incorporation,
etc., 1930
Series XXXVII: Plat Books, undated
3 oversize
volumes
This series contains three oversize plat books of Montana
properties owned or leased by John Wight and his various investment
ventures.
Volume
23
Various Montana
holdings
24
Various Montana
holdings
25
Various Montana
holdings
Series XXXVIII: Artifacts, undated
2 items
This series contains two company seal stamps, the Capital Gas
Corporation and the Rocky Mountian Royalty Company.
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online
catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or
places should search the catalog using these headings.
Subject Terms :
Gas companies --
Montana
Petroleum industry and
trade--Montana
Petroleum pipelines--Law
and legislation--United States
