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1 Montana Public Service Commission, Utilities Division records, Overview of the Collection Creator Montana Public Service Commission. Utilities Division Title Montana Public Service Commission, Utilities Division records Dates (inclusive) Quantity 31.5 linear feet of shelf space Collection Number RS 297 Summary These records consist primarily of annual reports ( ) made by electric utility companies, gas companies, heating utility companies, water companies, telegraph companies, telephone companies, and pipeline companies to the Montana Public Service Commission. There are also accident reports ( ) for electric and gas utilities. Repository Montana Historical Society, Research Center Archives Montana Historical Society Research Center Archives 225 North Roberts PO Box Helena MT Telephone: Fax: Access Restrictions Collection is open for research. Languages Sponsor English Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Biographical Note The Montana Board of Railroad Commissioners was established by the Montana legislature in In 1913 the Board of Railroad Commissioners was made ex officio the newly created Montana Public Service Commission. As such, it was given the authority to regulate a variety of public utilities. In 1971 the Montana Board of Railroad Commissioners was abolished and its work was taken over directly by the Public Service Commission. Content Description These records consist predominantly of annual reports ( ) made by electric utility companies, gas companies, heating utility companies, water companies, telegraph companies, telephone companies, and pipeline companies to the Montana Public Service Commission. The reports include a vast amount of data on the history, financing, corporate ownership, physical plants, and production. Many of the reports are accompanied by rate schedules and regulations. Some of the reports are 1

2 copies of the reports made to the Federal Power Commission and do not directly reflect their Montana operations. In addition there are accident reports ( ) for electric, gas, and telephone utilities; appraisal reports ( ) for several electric utilities; and other reports ( ) for several water companies. Use of the Collection Restrictions on Use The Montana Historical Society is the owner of the materials in the Research Library and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. Written permission must be obtained from the Research Library before any reproduction use. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all of the materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use may require seeking additional authorization from the copyright owners. Preferred Citation Item description and date. Name of Collection. Collection Number. Box and folder number. Montana Historical Society Research Center. Archives. Helena, Montana. Administrative Information Arrangement The collection is arranged by subgroup and then by series. Location of Collection 33:1-2 Acquisition Information Acquisition information available upon request. Processing Note Processed in 2007 Detailed Description of the Collection Electric Power Companies, Container(s) Description Dates Annual Reports 2

3 Box/Folder 1 / 1-2 Anaconda Copper Mining Company Electric Light Department / 3 Ashland Light and Power Company (sold to Tongue River Electric Cooperative) 1 / 4 Black Hills Power and Light Company (copy of report to Federal Power Commission; served Belle Creek Oil Field, Montana) 1 / 5 Bonneville Power Administration (copy of report to Federal Power Commission) 1 / 6 Broadus Power Company (sold to Tongue River Electric Cooperative) 1 / 7 Circle Municipal Light Plant (sold to Rural Electric Administration) / 8 City Light Company (Winnett) / 9 City Light and Power Company (Grass Range; formerly Grass Range Milling Company; sold to Rural Electric Administration) 1 / 10 Cooke Light and Power Company (sold to Shoshone River Power, Inc.) 1 / 11 Cut Bank Electric Light and Power Company (sold to Great Northern Utilities Company) / 12 Deer Lodge Electric Company (rate schedule only) / 13 Ekalaka Light and Power Company / 14 Eureka Electric Company (previously P. L. Howe Lumber Mills; name later changed to Tobacco River Power Company) 1 / 15 Gardiner Electric Light and Water Company (sold to Montana Power Company) 1 / 16 Grass Range Milling Company (becomes City Light and Power Company)

4 1 / 17 Great Falls Power Company (owned by Montana Power Company) 1 / Great Northern Utilities Company (Blackfoot, Browning, Cut Bank, Glacier Park, Kevin, Oilmont, Shelby, Sunburst, Sweetgrass; later some operations sold to cooperatives) / 23 Helming Brothers (Wisdom) / 24 O. B. Hoven Electric Light and Power Company (Antelope; sold to Montana-Dakota Utilities Company) 1 / 25 P. L. Howe Lumber Mills (Eureka; sold to Eureka Electric Company) 1 / 26 V. H. Hungerford (Oilmont; sold to Great Northern Utilities Company) / 27 Ingomar Milling Company / Ingomar Light and Power Company / 28 Ismay Light and Telephone Company / 29 Kootenai Light and Power Company (Troy) / 29 Lincoln Electric Cooperative (Eureka) / 1-3 Montana-Dakota Power Company / 4-9 Montana-Dakota Utilities Company (some are copies of reports to Federal Power Commission) / Montana Light and Power Company (Libby and Troy) / Montana Power Company ( reports include subsidiaries Montana Reservoir and Irrigation Company; Great Falls Water Power and Townsite Company; Great Falls Townsite Company; Rocky Mountain Power Company) 3 / 1-10 Mountain States Power Company (Baker, Elk Basin and Frannie Oil Fields, Forsyth, Kalispell, Libby, et al.; succeeded by Pacific Power and Light) 1914, / Neihart Water Company / Neihart Water and Light Company

5 3 / Neihart Water Company / Neihart Water and Light Company / 13 Opheim Electric Company (sold to Northern Electric Co-op Inc.) / Pacific Power and Light Company / 18 Pioneer Garage / Pioneer Electric Company (Jordan; sold to McCone County Electric Cooperative) / Plains Light and Water Company / 1 Plentywood Electric Company / 2 Pony-Harrison Light Company / Pony Electric Light Company / 3-4 Rexford Power and Light Company (sold to Rural Electric Administration) / 5 Richey Electric (sold to McCone County Electric Cooperative) / 6-7 Saltese Electric Light and Water Company / Saltese Electric and Water Works (sold to Montana Power Company) / 8 Shelby Light Plant (sold to Great Northern Utilities Company) / 9 Sunburst Light Company (sold to Great Northern Utilities Company) 4 / Superior Electric Light and Water Works (sold to Montana Power Company) 4 / 12 Sweetgrass Electric Company / Sweetgrass Light, Heat, and Power Company (sold to Great Northern Utilities Company) 4 / 13 Thompson Falls Power Company (owned by Montana Power Company) 4 / Tobacco River Power Company (formerly Eureka Electric Company; sold to Lincoln Electric Cooperative) 4 / 16 Turner Electric Company (formerly Eureka Electric Company; sold to Lincoln Electric Cooperative)

6 4 / Washington Water Power Company (only Montana operation was Noxon Dam; reports are copies of report to Federal Power Commission) / Westby Garage / 25 Wheeler Power and Light Company (sold to Rural Electric Administration, Glasgow) 4 / 26 White Water Motor Company (sold to Big Flat Electric Cooperative) 4 / 27 Whitlash Refining Company (sold to Montana-Dakota Utilities Company) 4 / 28 Winifred Light, Heat and Power Company (sold to Fergus County Electric Cooperative) 4 / Rural electric cooperatives: A-Y (rate schedules only; they were not required to file annual reports) s-1960s Appraisal Reports Box/Folder 4a / 1 Libby Light and Water Company a / 2 Miles City Electric Department a / 3 Mission Range Power Company a / 4 Mission Range Power Company and Flathead Valley Electric Company 1927 Accident Reports These records do not include minor non-utility related accidents such as car accidents, tripping, lifting, etc. Box/Folder 5 / 1 Montana-Dakota Utilities Company ,

7 5 / 2 Montana Power Company , / 3 Pacific Power and Light Company , Gas Utility Companies, Container(s) Description Dates Annual Reports Box/Folder 5 / 4 Bartlett Gas Company (Bartletsville; rate schedule only) / 5-7 Big Horn Oil and Gas Development Company (Hardin) / 8-10 Billings Gas Company / 11 Blue Flame Oil Company (Kevin) / 12 Bowdoin Utilities Company / 13 Chinook Gas Company / 14 Citizens Gas Company (Shelby) / Consumers Gas Company (Sunburst, Ferdig, Oilmont, Sweetgrass) / 1-4 Cut Bank Gas Utilities / Cut Bank Gas Company / 5 Drumheller Field Gas Service (Cut Bank) / 6 Glendive Gas Utility (no report, just notes) / 7-11 Great Falls Gas Company / Great Northern Utilities Company (Shelby; sold to Marias River Electric Cooperative)

8 6 / 15 Havre Natural Gas Company / 16 Hungerford and Frazer (Oilmont; sold to Consumers Gas Company) / 17 K. S. Huso (Ferdig; sold to Consumers Gas Company) / 1-3 Kevin Gas Distributing Company / 4 Marias River Electric Cooperative (their gas department, Shelby) / 5 Missoula Gas and Coke Company / 6-7 Montana-Dakota Power Company (Miles City, Glendive, Terry) / 8-13 Montana-Dakota Utilities Company (Baker, Choteau, Conrad, Valier, Glasgow, Malta, Saco, Havre, et al.) 7 / 14 Montana Petroleum Company (Baker; sold to Montana-Dakota Utilities Company) / 1-5 Montana Power Company / 6 Montana Utilities Service Company (Glasgow, Malta; rate schedule only) 8 / 7 Northern Gas Company (Kevin; sold to Kevin Gas Distributing Company) 8 / 8 Northwest States Utilities Company (Conrad, Choteau, Valier, Havre, Chinook, Gallup City) 8 / 9 Pondera Utilities Company (Conrad, Choteau, Valier, Gallup City; becomes Northwest States Utilities Company) / 10 Saco-Montana Gas Company / Saco Municipal Gas Service / Shelby Gas Association (formerly Marias River Electric Cooperative)

9 8 / 17 H. O. Simmons (Conrad; rate schedule only) / 18 Thompson-Able Oil and Gas Company (Oilmont) 1933 Accident Reports These records do not include minor non-utility related accidents such as car accidents, tripping, lifting, etc. Box/Folder 8 / 19 Montana-Dakota Utilities Company / 20 Montana Power Company Heating Utility Companies, Container(s) Description Dates Annual Reports Box/Folder 9 / 1 Mutual Heating Company / Billings Utility Company / Billings Gas Company , / 2 Butte Steam Heating Department of Montana Power Company / 3 Central Heating Company (Kalispell) / 4 Havre Steam Heating Department of Montana Power Company / 5 Miles City Electric Heat and Power Department (rate schedules only) / 6 Miles Land and Investment Company (Livingston) / 7 Minnesota Northern Power Company (Miles City; rate schedules only) 9 / 8-9 Missoula Steam Heating Department of Montana Power Company

10 9 / Montana-Dakota Utilities Company (Glendive) / Montana-Dakota Utilities Company (Miles City) / 14 Mountain States Power Company (Forsyth) / 15 Valley Mercantile Corporation (Hamilton) Water Utilities, Container(s) Description Dates Annual Reports Box/Folder 10 / 1 Alberton Water Company (includes rate schedule, ) / 2 Alberton City Water Works / 3 Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Waterworks Department / 4 Anaconda Company. Waterworks Department / 5 Anaconda: Butte Water Company. Anaconda Waterworks Division 10 / 6 Baker, City of, Water Department (includes rate schedule, 1922) , / 7-8 Basin Water Company (includes rate schedule, 1941) / 9 Bear Creek: S. and F. Water Works; Favero Water Works (includes rate schedule, 1916) / 10 Bear Creek Municipal Water System / 11 Belgrade Water Works (includes rate schedule, 1916, 1926) / 12 Bell Creek Utility Company / 13 Belt Municipal Waterworks (includes rate schedule, 1926)

11 10 / 14 Big Fork: Mountain States Power Company (includes rate schedule, 1926) / 15 Big Fork: Pacific Power and Light Company / 16 Big Fork: Red Gate Inc. Water Division / 17 Big Sandy, Town of, Water Department (includes rate schedule, 1926) / 18 Big Timber Water Works (includes rate schedule, 1916) / Billings City Water Department (includes rate schedule, ) / Billings Heights: county water district / 1-4 Black Eagle: Little Chicago Water Company / 5 Boulder Water Department / 6-8 Bozeman City Water Works (includes rate schedule, ) / 9 Bridger Water Department / 10 Broadus Water Department / 11 Broadview Water Department (includes rate schedule, 1916) / 12 Brockton Water Department / 13 Browning Water Department (includes rate schedule, 1926) / Butte Water Company (includes rate schedule, ) / 18 Cascade, Town of (includes rate schedule, 1926) / 19 Charlo: Lake County Dairymen's Association (includes rate schedule, 1941) / 20 Chester, Town of

12 11 / 21 Chinook, City of / 22 Choteau, City of / 23 Circle, Town of / 1 Clyde Park Water Works , / 2 Columbia Falls, City of (includes rate schedules, 1949) / 3 Columbia Falls: Columbia Heights Water Company / Worrell Water Company 12 / 4 Columbia Falls: J. A. Talbott Water Company (rate schedule only) 12 / 5 Columbus Municipal Water Works (includes rate schedules, 1918, 1926) 12 / 6-7 Conrad City Water Department (includes rate schedules, 1917, 1924) 12 / 8-9 Cooke City: Hooser's Water Service / Cooke City Water Users Association , / 10 Culbertson Waterworks / Cut Bank Water Department (includes rate schedules, 1916) / 13 Darby Water System / 14 Deer Lodge City Water Department / 15 Deer Lodge: Citizens Water Company / South Deer Lodge Water Company / Commonwealth Public Service Company (rate schedules only) / 16 Denton, Town of (includes rate schedules, 1919) / Dillon Water Department (includes rate schedules, 1926) / 19 Dodson, Town of

13 12 / 20 Dutton, Town of / 21 East Helena, City of (includes rate schedule, 1930) / 22 Ekalaka, Town of / 23 Ennis, Town of / 24 Eureka, Town of (includes rate schedule, 1916) / 25 Eureka: Midvale Water Supply / 1 Fairfield, Town of (includes rate schedule, 1946) / 2 Fairview City Water Department / 3 Flaxville Water Department / 4 Forsyth City Water Department (includes rate schedules, 1922, 1926) / 5-6 Fort Benton, City of (includes rate schedules, 1926, 1933) / 7 Fortine Water Company (includes rate schedule, 1924) / 8 Froid Water Department / 9 Fromberg, Town of (includes rate schedule, 1922) , / 10 Gardiner Electric Light and Water Company (includes rate schedule, 1920) / 11 Gardiner Park County Water District / 12 Geraldine, Town of 1929, / 13 Geyser Artesian Water Association District / 14 Geyser Rural Improvement District / Glasgow, City of (includes rate schedule, 1919)

14 13 / Glendive, City of (includes rate schedule, 1921) / 19 Glendive: Forest Park Water Corp. / Dawson County Rural Improvement District, #24 13 / 20 Glendive: Highland Park Development Association / Highland Park Utilities Association / Great Falls Water Department (includes rate schedule, / 1 Hamilton: Montana Power Company, Water Department (includes rate schedule, 1926) / 2 Hamilton: Valley Water Company / 3 Hardin City Water Department / 4 Harlem, City of (includes rate schedules, 1920, 1926) / 5-6 Harlowton Water Department (includes rate schedule, 1921) / 7-8 Havre Water Department (includes rate schedules, ) / 9-11 Helena Water Department (includes rate schedules, , 1962) / 12 Hingham: Hill County Water District (also serves Kremlin) / 13 Hinsdale Light and Water / Water and Sewer / Water Department (includes rate schedules, 1920, 1926) 14 / 14 Hot Springs Municipal Water Department (includes rate schedule, 1935) / 15 Hungry Horse Water Company / 16 Hungry Horse: Glacier Water Company / 17 Hunntley Water Association Company / 18 Hysham, Town of (includes rate schedule, 1926) / Joliet, Town of (includes rate schedules, 1923, 1926)

15 14 / 21 Jordan Water System / 1 Judith Gap Water Department / 2-3 Kalispell Water Works Department (includes rate schedules, 1917, 1926) 15 / 4 Kalispell: Green Acres Water Association (articles of incorporation and bylaws / 5-6 Kalispell: Sunset Development Company / 7 Kevin, Town of , / 8 Keystone: Wilson and McHeffey / 9-10 Laurel Water Department (includes rate schedules, 1921, 1926, 1931) / Lewistown Water Works / Libby: Mountain States Power Company (includes rate schedules, 1916, 1954) 15 / Libby: Pacific Power and Light Company (includes rate schedules, ) / 17 Lima, Town of (includes rate schedule, 1922) / Livingston Municipal Water Works / 1 Livingston Municipal Water Works (includes rate schedules, 1919, 1926) / 2 Lodge Grass Water Department / 3 Malta Water Department (includes rate schedule, 1926) / 4 Manhattan Water Works / 5-6 Martin City Water Company 1948,

16 16 / 7 Marysville: Beuschlein Water Works / 8 Medicine Lake Water Works (includes rate schedules, 1916, 1926) , 1958, / 9 Melstone Water Department , , / Miles City Water Department (includes rate schedules, 1916, 1926) 16 / 12 Milltown: Matt Lehti / Aileen Lehti Anderson (includes rate schedule, 1926) / 13 Missoula: Farviews Development Company / Missoula Water Department of Montana Power Company (includes Superior from ; rate schedule, 1916) 16 / 17 Moore Municipal Water Works (includes rate schedules, 1916, 1926) 16 / 18 Musselshell Water Works (also named Musselshell Rural Special Improvement District) , 1936, / 19 Musselshell Water Company (also named New Water System) / 20 Nashua Water Department / 21 Neihart Water and Light Company (includes rate schedule, 1926) / 22 Neihart Water Company (municipal) 1951, / 1 North Gardiner: Scott Water Plant (includes rate schedule, 1924) / 2 North Gardiner: Bigelow Water Company / 3 Noxon Water Association / Community Gravity Water Company (municipal; includes rate schedule, 1932)

17 17 / 4 Opheim Water Department / 5 Paradise: Northwestern Improvement Company / 6 Paradise: Cuyuna Realty Company / 7 Philipsburg Water Department , / 8 Plains Water Department of Montana Power Company (includes rate schedule, 1916) / 9 Plains: Valley Water Company / 10 Plains Water System / 11 Plentywood Water Works (includes rate schedules, 1916, 1927) / 12 Plevna, Town of / 13 Polson Water Department (includes rate schedules, 1917, 1926) 17 / 14 Pony: Morris State Bank and Leah Mendenhall (includes rate schedule, 1916) / 15 Poplar Water Department (includes rate schedules, 1926, 1945) / Red Lodge Water Department (includes rate schedule, 1926) / 18 Rexford Water Company (includes rate schedules, 1923, 1930) / 19 Rexford Fire District (includes rate schedule, 1940) / 20 Ronan, City of (includes rate schedules, 1921, 1926) / 21 Roundup Water Department (includes rate schedules, 1916, 1919, 1930) 17 / Rudyard Water and Sewer Association / Rudyard Service and Improvement Association (includes rate schedule, 1954)

18 17 / 24 Ryegate Water System (includes rate schedule, 1921) , / 25 Saco Water District (includes rate schedule, 1923) / 1 St. Ignatius Water Works (includes rate schedule, 1940) / 2 Saltese Electric Light and Water Company (includes rate schedule, 1916) / 3 Saltese Electric and Water Works / Saltese Water Works / 3-4 Saltese Electric and Water Works / Saltese Water Works / 5 Sand Coulee: Nelson Coal Company (includes rate schedule, 1939) / 6 Sand Coulee Water Works / 7 Sand Coulee Water Users Association / 8 Scobey Water Department (includes rate schedule, 1921) , / 9 Seeley Lake-Missoula County Water District (includes rate schedule, ) 18 / Shelby Water Department (includes rate schedules, 1916, 1926) , / 12 Sheridan Water Department (includes rate schedule, 1917) , / 13 Sidney Water Department (includes rate schedule, 1926) / 14 Somers Water Company / 15 Square Butte Water Committee (bylaws) / 16 Stanford Water Department (includes rate schedule, 1928) / 17 Stevensville Municipal Water System (includes rate schedules, 1922, 1927)

19 18 / 18 Stockett Water Company (rate schedule and letters only) / 19 Sunburst Water Department / 20 Superior Electric Light and Water Works (includes rate schedule, 1926) 18 / 21 Superior Water Department of Montana Power Company (included in Missoula report, ) , / 22 Sweetgrass Rural Special Improvement District / 23 Thompson Falls Water Department (includes rate schedule, 1917) a / 1 Three Forks Water Department (includes rate schedule, 1924) , a / 2 Townsend Water Department (includes rate schedule, 1916) , a / 3-4 Tracy Water Users Corporation / 1 Trout Creek: Water Service Inc / 2 Troy Water Department (includes rate schedule, 1926) / 3 Twin Bridges Water Works / Water Department (includes rate schedules, 1923, 1926) , 1953, / 4 Twodot: Big Elk Water Company (includes rate schedule, 1919) / 5 Valier, Town of (includes rate schedules, 1921, 1926) , / 6 Vaughn Cooperative Association / 7 Virginia City Water Company / 8 Virginia City Water Department / 9 Washoe: Montana Coal and Iron Company (includes rate schedule, 1933)

20 19 / 10 West Yellowstone: Yellowstone Water Company / 11 Westby Water System / 12 White Sulphur Springs Water Works (includes rate schedule, 1949) 19 / Whitefish Water Department (includes rate schedules, 1917, undated) / 15 Whitehall, Town of (includes rate schedule, 1926) / 16 Wibaux Water Department (includes rate schedule, 1926) / 17 Winnett Water Department (includes rate schedule, 1924) / 18 Wolf Point Water Department / 19 Wyola: Big Horn County Special Improvement District (includes rate schedule, 1953) Special Reports Box/Folder 19 / 20 Butte Water Company: valuation report / 21 Columbia Falls: "Preliminary studies and report for water system improvements" / 22 Libby Water and Electric Company: engineering report / 23 Philipsburg: "Preliminary studies and report for water supply and distribution" / 24 Whitefish Water Department: engineering report 1922 Telegraph Companies, Container(s) Description Dates Annual Reports 20

21 Box/Folder 20 / 1-2 Continental Telegraph Company (affiliated with Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company; includes rate schedules, ) 1921, / 3 Miles City - Jordan Wireless Company / 4-5 Postal Telegraph Cable Company of Montana (includes rate schedules, ) / 6-16 Western Union Telegraph Company / 1-16 Western Union Telegraph Company a / 1-8 Western Union Telegraph Company Telephone Companies, Container(s) Description Dates Annual Reports Box/Folder 22 / 1-7 Statewide: Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company (based in Denver, gradually acquired telephone companies around the state; many of the larger towns, such as Billings, Great Falls, and Helena, were covered by Mtn. States Tel. and Tel. throughout the period of these reports) 22 / 8 Absarokee Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, ; sold to Treasure State Utilities Corporation) 22 / 9 Absarokee: Treasure State Utilities Corporation (moved to Big Timber) 22 / 10 Alder: Ruby Valley Telephone Company (includes rate schedules, 1926, 1934) 22 / 11 Alma: Farmers' Mutual Telephone Company of Hill County (located in Joplin, ; includes rate schedule, 1917) , ,

22 22 / 12 Antelope Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, 1926) / Armstead: Lemhi Telephone Company (connection to Salmon, Idaho) 22 / 15 Augusta Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, 1925; joined Three Rivers Telephone Co-op) , / 16 Augusta: Henry Bruckert (includes rate schedule, 1930) / 17 Bainville: Service Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, 1925) 22 / 18 Baker: Golden Valley Telephone Company (service from Beach, S.D.; includes rate schedule, 1926) 22 / 19 Baker and Ollie: Big Hill Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, 1926) / 209 Ballantine: Home Telephone Company / 21 Belfry: Clark Fork Farmers Telephone Company (sold to Treasure State Utilities Corporation, Absarokee) / 22 Belgrade: Dry Creek Telephone Company / 23 Belgrade: Springhill Telephone Company / 24 Belgrade: Bozeman Pass Creek Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, 1926) 22 / 25 Belgrade: Reese Creek Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, 1926) / 1 Belt to Tiger Butte Telephone Company / 2 Big Sandy: Chouteau County Telephone Company (includes rate schedules, 1920, 1926) 23 / 3 Big Sandy Telephone Exchange (includes rate schedule, 1949; sold to Triangle Telephone Association of Havre)

23 23 / 4 Big Timber Home Telephone Company (includes rate schedules, 1926, 1960) / 5 Big Timber: Dry Creek Telephone Company 1914, / 6 Big Timber: Otter Creek Telephone Company 1914, 1918, / 7 Big Timber: Gibson Telephone Company (includes rate schedules, 1921, 1926) 23 / 8 Big Timber: Treasure State Utilities Company (includes Absarokee, Belfry, Browning, Chester, Ekalaka, Reed Point, St. Ignatius, etc.) 23 / 9 Big Timber: Montana Telephone Company (includes Ennis, Hysham, Harrison, Big Sky; merged into Continental Telephone Company) 23 / 10 Big Timber: Continental Telephone Company (includes Absarokee, Belfry, Browning, Chester, Ekalaka, Reed Point, St. Ignatius, Ennis, Hysham, Harrison, Big Sky, etc.; sold to Central Montana Telephone Company) 23 / 11 Big Timber: Central Montana Telephone Company (correspondence only) 23 / 12 Billings: Intermountain Telephone and Power Company (business phones only) / 13 Broadview: Farmers Mutual Telephone Company / 14 Browning: St. Mary's International Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, 1926) 23 / 15 Browning Telephone Company (includes rate schedules, ) / 16 Buffalo: Farmers Mutual Telephone Company / 17 Carlyle: Beaver Valley Telephone Company (includes rate schedules, 1916, 1918)

24 23 / 18 Carter County: West River Cooperative Telephone Company (offices and most of service in South Dakota) 23 / 19 Charlo Telephone System (includes rate schedule, 1948; sold to Blackfoot Telephone Company, Missoula) 1962, / 20 Chester: Marias River Telephone Company / 21 Chester Telephone Company (includes rate schedules, ; sold to Treasure States Utilities Corporation, Big Timber) / 22 Chinook Cleveland Telephone Company / 23 Chinook: Northfork Telephone Company / 24 Chinook Telephone Company (includes rate schedules, ; sold to Triangle Telephone Co-operative Association, Havre) 23 / 25 Circle: Farmers and Ranchers Telephone Company (includes rate schedules, ) 23 / 26 Circle: Mid-Rivers Telephone Cooperative (covers McCone, Richland, Garfield, Prairie, and Dawson counties; includes rate schedule, 1952) 23 / 27 Coffee Creek: Bert J. Akerley; J. B. Leach d/b/a Coffee Creek Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, 1930) 23 / 28 Creston: East Side Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, ; sold to Pacific Power and Light Company) 23 / 29 Culbertson: Dakota-Western Telephone Company (offices in Williston, N. D.) 23 / 30 Culbertson: South Side Co-operative Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, 1918) a / 1 Cut Bank Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, 1919) a / 2 Cut Bank: Pleasant Valley Telephone Company ,

25 23a / 3 Dagmar Medicine Lake Telephone Company a / 4 Darby Wisdom Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, 1926) 1916, a / 5 Dell Telephone Company a / 6 Dillon: Southern Montana Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, 1926; service in Big Hole area, moved to Wisdom) a / 7 Edgar: Pryor Telephone Line (includes rate schedule, 1926) a / 8-9 Ekalaka Telephone Company (includes rate schedules, ) / 1 Ennis: Bozeman Norris Telephone Company (includes rate schedules, ; company formerly located at Norris and Pony) 24 / 2-3 Ennis: Madison Valley Telephone Company (company formerly located at Harrison; sold to Montana Telephone Company, Big Timber) 24 / 4 Eureka Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, ) 24 / 5 Fairfield Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, ; sold to Three Rivers Rural Telephone Cooperative) 24 / 6-7 Fairfield: Three Rivers Rural Telephone Cooperative (includes rate schedule, 1956; also includes service at Simms, Augusta, Fort Shaw, Power) 24 / 8 Fairview: Sioux Pass Farmers Exchange Company (includes rate schedules, ; some years offices were located at Sioux Pass, 20 miles northwest of Fairview) / 9 Farmington Co-operative Telephone Company / 10 Fife-Wayne Farmers Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, 1917) 24 / 11 Fishtail: West Rosebud Cooperative Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, 1926) ,

26 24 / 12 Floweree Mutual Telephone Company / 13 Forest Grove Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, 1926; service taken over by Mountain States Telephone Company) 24 / 14 Forks: Mutual Telephone Company of Saco (formerly in Whitewater; moved to Saco and Malta) 24 / 15 Forsyth: Range Telephone Cooperative Inc. (rate schedules and correspondence) 24 / 16 Fort Benton: Benton Highwood Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, 1915) / 17 Fort Benton: Pleasant Valley Farmers Telephone Company / 18 Frazer: North Star Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, 1926) 24 / 19 Froid: Farmers Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, 1926) / 20 Froid Telephone Exchange (includes rate schedule, 1926) / 21 Gage Telephone Company / 22 Glasgow: Valley Rural Telephone Cooperative (includes rate schedule, 1953; map) 24 / 23 Glendive: Eastern Montana Light and Power Company (includes rate schedule, 1918) 24 / 24 Glendive: Pioneer Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, 1926) / 25 Grass Range Telephone System (includes rate schedule, 1926) / 26 Hall Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, 1926) / 27 Harlowton: Meagher County Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, 1926)

27 24 / 28 Harrison-Pony Telephone Exchange (includes rate schedule, 1934) 24 / 29 Harrison: Madison Valley Telephone Company (moved to Ennis) 24 / 30 Havre: Box Elder Telephone Company (includes rate schedules, ) 24 / 31 Havre: Northern Montana Telephone Company (includes rate schedules, ) 24 / 32 Havre Telephone Department of the Montana Power Company (sold to Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company) 24 / Havre: Triangle Telephone Association (includes correspondence and bylaws) a / 1 Hilger Telephone Company (purchased from Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company , a / 2 Hingham Telephone Company (rate schedule only, 1919) a / 3 Hot Springs: Flathead Mutual Telephone Company a / 4 Hot Springs Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, 1934) a / 5 Howie Telephone Company / 1-2 Hysham Independent Telephone Company (named changed to Hysham Telephone Company, 1964) 25 / 3 Hysham: Sarpy Mutual Telephone Company / Sarpy Farmers Rural Telephone Company , / 4 Hysham Telephone Company / 5 Intake Telephone Company (includes rate schedules, ) / 6 Inverness: Farmers Telephone Company

28 25 / 7 Ismay: Earlingburt Mercantile Company / Golden Valley Telephone Company / 8 Ismay: Fulton Ranch Company (includes rate schedule, / 9 Ismay Light and Telephone Company (includes rate schedules, ; named changed to Ismay Telephone Company, 1925) 25 / 10 Joliet: Carbon County Farmers Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, 1926) / 11 Joplin Telephone Company (rate schedule only) / 12 Judith Gap Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, 1939; service taken over by Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company) 25 / 13 Judith Gap: Western Farmers Mutual Telephone Company (includes rules for using party line, 1915) 25 / 14 Kalispell: Northern Idaho and Montana Power Company (rates for service in Big Fork and Somers, 1913) 25 / Kalispell: Mountain States Power Company includes rate schedules, ; merged into Pacific Power and Light Company; also includes Big Fork, Columbia Falls, Polson, Whitefish, etc.) 25 / Kalispell: Pacific Power and Light Company (also includes Big Fork, Columbia Falls, Polson, Whitefish, etc.) 25 / 20 Kalispell: Niarada Telephone Company / Pine Grove and Grandview Telephone Association , / 21 Kevin Telephone Exchange (includes rate schedule, 1927) / 22 Lambert: Three Buttes Co-Operative Telephone Company / 23 Lavina Mutual Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, 1926; sold to Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company) / 24 Lewistown: East Fork Telephone Company

29 25 / 25 Libby Telephone Company / Pier Telephone Company / Libby- Troy Telephone Company (includes rate schedules, ) 25 / Libby: Interstate Utilities Company (includes rate schedule, 1926; based in Spokane; also includes Troy; named changed to General Telephone Company of the Northwest) 26 / 1-6 Libby: General Telephone Company of the Northwest (includes Troy and Eureka) 26 / 7-8 Lincoln and Helena Telephone Company (includes rate schedules, 1922, 1948) 26 / 9 Lindsay: Farmers Mutual Telephone Company of Lindsay Montana 26 / 10 Malta-Zortman Telephone Company (includes rate schedules, ) / 11 Manhattan: Gallatin-Madison Telephone Company / 12 Marysville: Intermountain Telephone and Electric Company (includes rate schedules, ) / 13 McLeod: Main Boulder Telephone Company 1914, / 14 Miles City: Eastern Montana Telephone Company (includes rate schedules, 1921, 1927; sold at sheriff's sale and renamed Miles City-Broadus Telephone Company) 26 / 15 Miles City and Eureka Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, 1926) / 16 Miner Rural Telephone Company / 17 Missoula: Montana Communications / 18 Mocassin: Farmers Mutual Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, 1926) / 19 Monida: Centennial Telephone Company

30 26 / 20 Musselshell Telephone Exchange (includes rate schedule, 1919) / 21 Ollie: Shepherd Telephone Exchange , / 22 Ovando: Blackfoot Commercial Company (includes rate schedules, ) 26 / 23 Ovando: Blackfoot Telephone Lines (includes rate schedule, 1951; name uncertain) 26 / 24 Philipsburg: Flint Creek Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, 1915) 26 / 25 Plevna: Lame Jones Telephone Company (named for creek about 18 miles SSW of Plevna) 26 / 26 Plevna: G. E. Wilson Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, 1926) / 27 Plevna Telephone Company / 28 Plevna Telephone Exchange / 29 Pony: Citizens Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, 1920; some years located in Norris; renamed Bozeman-Norris Telephone Company, moved to Ennis, 1925) / 30 Pony: South Boulder Mutual Telephone Company , / 31 Poplar-Nickwall Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, 1919) 1919, / 32 Potomac Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, 1922) / 33 Power: Plainview Telephone Company / 34 Reed Point: White Bear Telephone Company / 35 Reed Point Mutual Telephone Company , / 36 Reed Point: Farmers Cooperative Telephone Company

31 27 / 1-2 Ronan: Flathead Independent Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, 1926) 27 / 3 Rosebud Mutual Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, 1926; includes Lame Deer) 27 / 4 Rudyard: Goldstone, Rudyard, Brinkman Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, 1926; renamed Rudyard Telephone Company) / 5 Ryegate: Central Montana Telephone Company / 6 Saco and Malta: Mutual Telephone Company of Saco / 7 St. Ignatius Telephone Company (includes rate schedules, ; sold to Treasure State Telephone Company / 8 St. Ignatius: Treasure State Telephone Company 1967, / 9 Savage: Midway Telephone Company / 10 Scobey: Northeastern Montana Telephone Cooperative (includes rate schedule, 1954) / 11 Shelby: Northern Telephone Association / 12 Sheridan: Mill Creek Telephone Company 1918, 1924, / 13 Simms Telephone Company / 14 Springdale: Duck Creek Telephone Company 1914, 1923, / 15 Stevensville: Sage Brush Telephone Company / 16 Sunburst Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, 1928; sold to Northern Telephone Association) / 17 Sunburst: Northern Telephone Association / 18 Superior: A. P. Johnston Local Telephone Line (includes rate schedule, 1926; sold by his estate at sheriff's sale)

32 27 / 19 Superior Telephone Company (name changed to Superior Electric and Water Works) / 20 Superior: Telephone Utility of the Montana Power Company / 21 Sweetgrass Telephone Company (includes rate schedules, 1926, 1930) , / 22 Townsend: Upper Valley Telephone Company / 23 Troy Telephone Company (service taken over by Libby-Troy Telephone Company) 27 / 24 Valier: Francis Heights Telephone Company (exempted from annual reports, 1926) 27 / 25 Vida-Wolf Point Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, 1926) 27 / 26 Westby Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, 1939; sold to Northeast Montana Telephone Cooperative Association) 27 / 27 White Sulphur Springs: Springs Exchange (includes rate schedule, 1926) 27 / 28 Whitlash: Sweet Grass Hills Telephone Company (includes rate schedules, ) 27 / 29 Whitewater: Mutual Telephone Company of Saco (includes rate schedules, 1926; moved to Forks) 27 / 30 Wibaux: Golden Valley Telephone Company (includes contracts, ; service from Beach, UNDATED) 27 / 31 Wilsall: East Flathead Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, 1926) 27 / 32 Wilsall Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, 1917, 1926) / 33 Wilsall: Bohart Telephone Company / 34 Winnett: Burt Sisters (includes rate schedule, 1926)

33 27 / 35 Wisdom: Southern Montana Telephone Company (moved from Dillon) / 36 Wise River: Dewey Telephone Company , / 37 Worden: Farmers Telephone Company (includes rate schedule, 1915) 27 / 38 Worden: Riverside Telephone Company (includes rate schedules, ) 1913, / 39 Worden: Project Telephone Company Accident Reports Box/Folder 27 / 40 Statewide: Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company , Telephone Answering Services, Paging Services, and Mobile Phone Companies, Container(s) Description Dates Reports: largely rate schdules Box/Folder 27a / 1 Able Answering Service (Great Falls; becomes Aircall Inc.) a / 2 Advanced Electronics Inc. (Billings) a / 3 Aircall Inc. (Great Falls) a / 4 Answering by Birken / Birken's Radio Service (Billings) a / 5 Beaverhead Electronics (Dillon) a / 6 Business Communications Company (Great Falls) a / 7 Capital Answering Service (Helena)

34 27a / 8 Capital Communications (Helena) a / 9 Communication Services (Billings) a / 10 Conrad Communication (Conrad) a / 11 Datacom (Madison, Wisc.) a / 12 Havre Answering Service (Havre) a / 13 Industrial Electronics and Automation Company (Billings; becomes Treasure State Mobile Phone) a / 14 Mathews Telephone Answerings Service (Great Falls) a / 15 27a / 16 Missoula Communications Service (Missoula; becomes Montana Communications) Montana Communications (Missoula; becomes Industrial Electronics and Automation Company) a / 17 MTI (Mountain Telecommunications Inc., Butte; reseller) a / 18 NR Recording and Communications Inc. (Great Falls) a / 19 Omnicom (Missoula) a / 20 PacWest Telecomm Inc. (Stockton, Calif.) a / 21 Richards Answering Service (Helena; taken over by Capital Answering Service) a / 22 Tel-Com Paging (Glendive) a / 23 Tel-Com Systems (Miles City; d/b/a Cottage Fone Answering) a / 24 Tri-Star Communications (Plevna) a / 25 West Montana Mobile Telephone (Missoula) a / 26 Wolf Point Answering Service (Wolf Point)

35 27a / 27 Worland Services (Worland, Wyo.) a / 28 Wymo Communications (Billings) Oil Pipeline Companies, , Container(s) Description Dates Reports: Annual Reports and Monthly Statements of Operations Box/Folder 28 / 1 Big West Oil Company of Montana (natural gas pipeline, Kevin) / 2-4 Cenex Pipeline Company ( are monthly statements of operations) 28 / 5-15 Continental Pipe Line Company ( are monthly statements of operations) / 16 Crude Oil Pipeline Inc / 17 Darling Gathering System (sold to Producers Pipeline Company) / 18 Deep Rock Oil Corp / 19 Exxon Pipeline Company (formerly Humble Pipe Line Company; monthly statements of operations only) / 20 Gallatin Natural Gas Company (pipeline company) / Glacier Pipe Line Company / 24 Homestake Oil and Gas Company / Humble Pipe Line Company (becomes Exxon Pipeline Company; are monthly statements of operations) / 30 Hunt Petroleum Corp. Pipe Line

36 29 / 1 Husky Pipeline Company / 2-3 Interstate Oil Pipe Line Company (merged into Humble Pipe Line Company) / 4 Johnston's Fuel Lines Inc / 5 Kent Oil Company / 6-8 Marathon Pipe Line Company ( are monthly statements of operations) / 9 Ohio Oil Company (rates and valuations) / Phillips Petroleum Company ( are monthly statements of operations) 29 / 24 Powderriver Pipeline Company (succeeded by Crude Oil Pipeline Company) 29 / 25 Producers Pipe Line Company (sold to Western Pipeline Company) / 26 Roughrider Pipeline Company (correspondence only) / 27 Shoshone Pipelines Ltd. (rates and valuations) / 28 Teton Pipe Line Corp / Texas Pipe Line Company ( are monthly statements of operations) / 36 Toronto Pipe Line Company (rate schedules) / 1 Treasure State Pipe Line Company (Toole County) / 2-4 Western Oil Transportation Company (monthly statements of operations only) 30 / 5-8 Yellowstone Pipe Line Company ( are monthly statements of operations)

37 Names and Subjects Subject Terms : Electric utilities--montana. Gas companies--montana. Pipelines--Montana. Public utilities--montana. Telegraph--Montana. Telephone companies--montana. Water utilities--montana. Geographical Names : Montana--Commerce. Finding aid prepared by Ellie Arguimbau, This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License: Creative Commons Licenses in Archives West: