Mark P. Miller Milling Company records
Content Description
The records of the Mark P. Miller Milling Company span the years 1940 to 1959, with the bulk of the material from the 1950's. Included are office files (primarily correspondence and brochures), financial files consisting of accountant's year-end reports and tax records, a grain ledger, and nine bound ledgers. There is also approximately one c.f. of Latah County Grain Growers tax returns and other papers for the years 1949-1960.
Dates
- Creation: 1940-1960
Creator
- Miller, Mark P. (Person)
- Mark P. Miller Company (Organization)
- Latah County Grain Growers (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Biographical / Historical
In 1904 Mark P. Miller took over the Cochran & Sons flour mill on the corner of Jackson and 6th Street, Moscow, Idaho. The mill's chief product was Blue Stem Flour, a blend of wheat varieties which was very popular with housewives in the northwest. According to the 1903-1904 Polk directory, the steam powered roller mill had a capacity of 75 barrels a day. In 1908 the mill was converted to electricity and its capacity increased to 125 barrels, and by 1914 this capacity was doubled.
The Mark P. Miller Company was incorporated in September 1911. In 1922 Miller left Moscow for Portland where he also had flour mills and it is probably about this time that Moscow mill became a branch of Terminal Flour Mills, a Portland based firm. The company also operated a grain storage warehouse at the 6th and Jackson location and had two other warehouses in Oakesdale and Seabury, Washington. About 1959 the Moscow warehouse was sold to Latah County Grain Growers and the Washington warehouses were purchased by the Oakesdale Grain Growers.
Extent
8 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Office files, including correspondence and brochures; financial records, principally year-end reports and tax records; ledgers and other papers of this Moscow, ID, flour mill. Also included are tax-related papers of the Latah County Grain Growers, 1949-1960.
Arrangement
The records of the Mark P. Miller Company retain the original order of the records as received. The office files are alphabetical by subject, the financial files are separated by type of material such as accountant's reports, insurance inventory, payroll taxes, and county and state taxes. The ledgers are arranged first by type, then chronologically. The final series consists of tax related material of the Latah County Grain Growers, arranged chronologically.
When individual items such as invoices or check vouchers were recorded in a journal, the individual items were removed from the collection. In cases where journals and ledgers contained the same information only the ledgers were retained. As a result, the records were reduced by approximately five cubic feet.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The records of the Mark P. Miller Milling Company of Moscow, Idaho, were donated to the University of Idaho by Palouse Producers of Moscow in March 1984.
- Title
- Guide to Mark P. Miller Milling Company records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Finding aid written by Judith Nielsen; updated by Sara Szobody in 2022.
- Date
- 1984
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
- Sponsor
- Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Repository Details
Part of the University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives Repository