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Kali-Inla Coal Company Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: WHC-M-332

Scope and Contents

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Coal mining company. Correspondence, financial reports, leases, legal reports, and general reports, all dated 1903–1944, regarding the operation and management of the Kali-Inla Coal Company of Hartshorne, Indian Territory, and Oklahoma, and that of its subsidiary coal companies and related firms. Special correspondence files include those regarding labor union activity, mining accidents, company housing, relations with railroads, and insurance. Also included in this collection are equipment catalogs (ca. 1910–1944) containing advertisements and information regarding miner and mining supplies. In addition to reflecting the mining industry in Oklahoma, the collection also contains information on mining operations in Colorado, West Virginia, and Arkansas. Kali-Inla Coal Company Photograph Collection also in repository.

Dates

  • 1903-1944

Restrictions on Access

Available for public access.

Biographical / Historical

History of the Company: The Kali-Inla Coal Company was located near Hartshorne in southeastern Oklahoma, in the heart of the McAlester mining district. It represented an affiliation of several Oklahoma and Arkansas companies including the Bache-Denman Company organized about 1903 by Franklin Bache and Heber Denman. This original Bache-Denman was later taken over by Sam Mitchell, Gerald S. Riedt, and G.A. Riedt, who consolidated it with other companies namely Mammoth Vein, Prairie Creek, Hartford, and Coronado. This consolidated company controlled a major part of the coal industry in southeastern Oklahoma for almost half a century. The combined records make the Kali-Inla Collection an extensive, descriptive, and very significant body of materials for regional economic history.

About the Collection: The Kali-Inla Coal Company Collection contains correspondence and papers arranged under such sub-headings as accidents, labor disputes, and mine supplies; personal correspondence of Franklin Bache, Heber Denman, and Clyde Finley; eleven minute books of stockholders' and directors' meetings of the several companies; a significant series of scrapbooks of newspaper clippings relating chiefly to labor disputes; comprehensive employment and financial records including daily sheets, payroll sheets, annual reports, bills of lading, claims, orders, vouchers, and invoices; legal papers such as copies of district court decisions and Federal District Court depositions; inventories; maps; photographs; and informational copies of printed materials.

Extent

219 ft. (219 ft.)

Language of Materials

English

Ownership and Custodial History

Gift of Sam W. Mitchell, Gerald Reidt and Gustavas A. Reidt.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Records: Source of acquisition--Mitchell, Sam W., Gerald Reidt and Gustavas A. Reidt. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1950.

    Subject Box #
    Accidents 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 284, 349
    Alderson Coal Co. 10
    American Anti-Boycott Association 10
    Arkoal Co. 11, 491
    Bache, Franklin 12, 13, 346
    Bache, T. 2
    Bache-Denman Coal Co. 3, 15, 29, 346 - 347
    Bates Coal Co. 14
    Boone Realty Co. 15
    Branner Coal Co. 74
    Briquettes (briquetting) 19, 20
    Bureau of Census, Geological Survey 21
    Canadian Red Cross 32
    Cars, railroad 23, 24
    Cars, mine 23, 24
    Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Co. 65, 74, 99
    Claims, compensation 3, 4, 9
    Coal Production 108 - 109
    Coal sales 25, 26, 27
    Coal shipments 50
    Complaints, general 22
    Consolidated Sales Co. 30
    Coronado Coal Co. 60, 72, 77, 83, 296B, 312, 314, 318 - 320, 491
    Coronado Coal Co. vs. UMWA 61, 62, 77, 132 - 134, 136, 137
    Denman Coal Co. 2, 490
    Denman, Coal Co., West Virginia 34
    Denman, Heber 35
    Employee relations 35, 53, 59 - 62, 77 - 79
    Employment reports 304
    Engineers' inspections 54
    Engineers' reports 36, 37, 225
    Evans, W.A. 37
    Federal Trade Commission 38, 304
    Finley, C.H. 10, 12, 13, 14, 39-45, 318-320, 347
    Galveston Coal Co. 47
    Gulley, Jr. Ransom 50, 51
    Harris, John 4
    Hartford Valley Coal Co. 67, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 76, 93, 306, 355, 490
    Hendren, J.E. 12
    Henryetta mine dispute 13
    Hilliard, H.P. 13
    Hilliard & Finley vs. UMWA 130, 131
    Hilling, J.B. 70
    Interstate Coal Operators' Assn. 416
    Kali-Inla Coal Co. vs. UMWA 77
    Labor, rural child 94
    Labor unions 59-62, 130-137, 388-390, 416
    LeForce lease 67, 75
    Ledbetter, F.W. 3
    Legal 77-79, 130-146
    Mammoth Vein Coal Co. 36, 37, 62, 71, 76, 78, 83, 91, 300, 312, 316, 351, 355, 490
    Market conditions 88
    Maryland coal lands 284
    McAlester Fuel Co. 90
    McAlpine Coal Co. 89
    McCloud, John 12, 13
    Midland Coal Co. 90
    Mine fires 46
    Mine reports 100-102, 287
    Mine surveys 36
    Mine workers 13
    Mine workers, strikes 36, 77-79, 130-146, 388-390
    Mine workers, check off lists 80
    Mine inspections 15
    Mitchell, S.W. 89
    National Recovery Administration 91
    Oklahoma Coal Marketing Co. 309
    Oklahoma Corporation Commission 489
    Payrolls 97, 98, 107, 147-182, 218-219, 382-387, 402
    Prairie Creek Coal Co. 68, 301, 312, 317, 490
    Prairie Creek Coal Co. riot case 60, 61, 310-311
    Prospecting 98
    Railroads 99, 113, 348
    Red Oak Mine 15, 310-311, 351
    Redwine, W.N. 8
    Reports 284, 305-307
    Reports, annual 285-286
    Riot 53, 59-62
    Smith, Bessie M. 105
    Southern Coal Co. 106, 491
    Spradling Coal Co. 19
    State Industrial Commission 6, 7, 284
    Strikes 59-62, 77-79, 130-146, 388-390, 416
    Stripping 112, 302-303
    Sullivan Machinery Co. 350
    Tenants 13
    United States Coal Commission 284
    United Mine Workers of America 14, 45, 59-62, 77-79, 130-146
    Valley Smokeless Coal Co. 350
    Vinita Coal lands 115
    Western Weighing Assn. 120
    Yellow Dog Contract 77

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Repository Details

Part of the Western History Collections Repository

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