John Janney collection

Series I: Ely Valley Mines Company The first series, Ely Valley Mines Company, primarily contains reports, such as Foreman's Daily Reports, Daily Explosives Reports, Shift Reports, Truck Operation Reports, Daily Timber Reports, and Daily Drill Reports. Also, pertaining to Ely Valley Mines Company, are Assay Certificates, Requisition for Supplies forms, time cards, financial records, production estimates, and other technical figures. Included are letters to and from supply companies, stockholders, company officers, and legal firms. Also in this series, are letters to and from John Janney and wife, Alice Janney in Box 57 (3).

Series II: Mountain View Hotel The Mountain View Hotel series, mostly consists of invoices, receipts, statements, and tax records from various supply and utility companies. This series is roughly organized chronologically. The few letters in this section concern a Redflash boiler leak at the hotel.

Series III: Oriental Refining Company The third series mostly includes correspondence, memoranda, notes, and statements concerning two lawsuits: Oriental Refining Company, Plaintiff, vs. American National Bank of Denver, Defendant and Richard K. Baker, as Trustee, Francis G. Shaw and Richard K. Baker, as Trustees, Wallace M. Scudder, James B. Thayer, Augustus Hemenway, and Francis G. Shaw, Plaintiffs, vs. Max P. Zall, E. M. Stringer, H. L. Jewell, and Oriental Refining Company, Defendants.

Series IV: Amalgamated Pioche Mines and Smelting Corporation:The Amalgamated Pioche Mines and Smelting Corporation series primarily consists of invoices, receipts, and statements from various supply and utility companies from the late 1930s to early 1940s.

Series V: Pioche Mines Company and Pioche Mines Consolidated, Inc. This series is roughly divided into two parts. The first part concerns Pioche Mines Company from the early 1900s to late 1920s. The second part relates to Pioche Mines Consolidated, Inc., which incorporated in December 1928. Both sections contain business correspondence to and from supply companies, stockholders, company officers, and legal firms. Additional subject matter related to Janney includes Twin Falls, Idaho, anti-communism, constitutional limitations, and monetizing silver. Box 239 consists of newspaper clippings related to civil rights and right wing politics. Also, there are correspondence, countersuits, drafts, memoranda, notes, and statements concerning two major lawsuits: Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company, Trustee et al., Plaintiffs, vs. Pioche Mines Consolidated, Inc. Pioche Mines Company, and John Janney, Defendants and Helen Dolman, Lawrence Rust Lee, E.P.R. Duval, Katherine Hansbrough, and James Keith Marshall, Jr., Plaintiffs, vs. Ely Valley Mines, Inc., Pioche Mines Consolidated, Inc., and John Janney.

Series VI: Pioche Power and Light Company The Pioche Power and Light Company series primarily consists of correspondence, documents, printed matter, and reports addressed to and from the Public Services Commission of Nevada. Also, there are tax related material, financial records, and work orders. Box 222 consists of mostly retained carbons to customers.

Series VII: Randsburg California Mines In this series, there are agreements, correspondence, deeds, financial records maps, notes, reports, and test results related to Randsburg mining district and Goler Canyon Placer. The bulk of the letters are between John Janney and his agent, Samuel M. Mingus.

Series VIII: Tenabo Mining and Smelting Company There is only one box in this series. The contents include letters and documents concerning Charles D. Bates, Complainant vs. Tenabo Mining and Smelting Company, Defendant. There are three ledgers: Minutes from the "First Meeting of the Incorporators and Stockholders", a blank receipt book, and a transfer of capital ledger. Box 237 (6) consists of copies of telegrams regarding the sale of Tenabo property.

Series IX: Miscellaneous This series consists of material related to all the mines in the previous sections. There are business and personal correspondence, financial records, ephemera, shorthand notes, and other material related to Janney's life as a businessman and a devout American capitalist. Boxes 286-290 contain additional material related to the Helen Dolman, Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Company, Pioche Mines Consolidated, Inc. and Ely Valley Mines Company lawsuits. There are two oversize boxes consisting of rolled blueprints, drawings, and maps.

Series X: Oversize There are 29 oversize ledgers and two oversize folders related to Ely Valley Mines Company, Pioche Power and Light Company, and Tenabo Mining and Smelting Company. One folder consists 26 drawings of the Pioche floatation mill and the other depicts mining shafts.