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Desloge Consolidated Lead Company's mine consisted of three shafts. Shaft No. 1 was the old Bogy shaft, and connected with shaft No. 2 by a tunnel. Two runs of ore had been drifted; the bottom of the lower run was at a depth of about 320 feet, and the face of the drift is in places as much as 60 feet high. The upper run is between the depths of 190 and 270 feet. Shaft No. 3 was sunk to a depth of nearly 300'feet.
113:. The Desloge mining property was established by the acquisition of the Pratte family land, north of the St. Joe property. On June 5, 1874, a charter was granted to the Missouri Lead and Smelting Company, which was renamed the Desloge Lead Company on February 21, 1876. In 1876 and 1877, the company sank three shafts and built a new mill in Bonne Terre.
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After the fire, Desloge and his family took an option on a piece of land owned by the Bogy family which was called "Mine-a-Joe", one of the oldest mining properties in
Missouri, and started another mining operation under the name Desloge Consolidated Lead Company. The new company cleared the land and
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Company for $ 18 million ($ 319,395,349 today) as 10,700,000 cash and $ 7,000,000 in bonds and other securities. A trade newspaper wrote, “With the absorption of the Desloge concern by the St. Joseph Lead Company, one of the oldest mining
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Desloge Consolidated Lead Company was used for a company formed in 2004 as an investment holding company by a Desloge family descendant, Christopher Desloge, and capitalized by remainderment of trusts from Firmin Desloge as assets of the sale of Desloge Consolidated Lead Company. The name
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Desloge II expanded lead mining operations by buying the Bogy Lead Mine Company and the St. Francois Mining Company. Along with his partners, he organized a new company called Desloge Consolidated Lead Company. The company sank mine shafts and built mills, smelting furnaces, and power
189:(aka the Iron Mountain Railroad), which opened in 1874 from St. Louis to Texarkana, Arkansas. When the St. Joseph Lead Company built a 13.5-mile narrow-gauge railroad from its mines to the Iron Mountain tracks at Summit in Washington County, the Desloge Company paid one-third of the costs.
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Desloge Consolidated Lead Company built and operated a hospital to serve the miners and local community located in Desloge, Missouri on Fir Street. The lengthy Desloge family association with this hospital is the catalyst to Firmin V. Desloge II donating to fund
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A large collection of original documents from early 1800s to 1920s evaluated by the
Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Art Hebrank, Missouri Mines State Historic Site, Park Hills, MO. Documents remain in the possession of the Desloge Family, St. Louis,
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Missouri Lead Belt, St. Francois County, With an Illustrated History of the Lead Companies that Built Them. McHenry, Robert E., 2006, Copy accessed at Missouri Department of Natural Resources, Missouri Mines State Historic Site, Park Hills,
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in downtown St. Louis. Despite the city's history as a fur-trading center, "more money passed through St. Louis as a result of the lead business in
Missouri,” Robert E. McHenry wrote in his 2006 book
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Desloge Trust FBO Christopher Desloge, last Will and Testament of William L Desloge, July 1998, St. Louis County, Missouri, 21st Judicial Circuit of Missouri; probated, accessed in Archives
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