Guide to the Mark P. Miller Milling Company Records ; Miller (Mark P.) Milling Company Records

Guide to the Mark P. Miller Milling Company Records 1940-1960

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Overview of the Collection
Title:	Records
Creator:	Mark P. Miller Milling Company
Dates:	1940-1960
Quantity:	8 Cubic Feet
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.
Identification:	MG133
Language:	English
Repository:	University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives Moscow, ID 83844-2351

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Arrangement and Description

Scope and Content

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.

Administrative/Biographical History

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.

Subjects

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.

Agriculture

Busines, Industry, and labor

Idaho

Latah County Grain Growers

Mark P. Miller Milling Company -- Records

Flour mills -- Idaho -- Moscow -- History -- Sources

Grain trade -- Idaho -- Moscow -- History -- Sources

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Administrative Information

Source

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.

Detailed Description of the Collection