s0727 HARDY SALT COMPANY,
ADDENDA, 1920-1990
31 FOLDERS, 1 ARTIFACT

STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI RESEARCH CENTER-ST. LOUIS
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ST. LOUIS



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PROVENANCE

T. Walter Hardy, Jr. donated corporate records of the Hardy Salt Company and associated corporations to the Western Historical Manuscript in Accession #1991-012 of April 4, 1991. G. Barry Anderson added the commemorative playing cards produced for the corporation: Accession #2006-019 of March 20, 2006.

HISTORY

Thomas Walter Hardy, who had been a salesman for Morton Salt, began his own salt packing and distribution company in St. Louis in 1914. Hardy's business grew rapidly and incorporated as the Hardy Salt Company in 1916. Continuing growth and increasing difficulty in obtaining sufficient quantities of bulk salt to process led the company to expand into salt production.

In 1930, Hardy bought property in Manistee, Michigan, that included an abandoned tannery and an adjoining salt well. There he built the Manistee Salt Works, which became the primary supplier for Hardy Salt. Hardy also opened a branch distribution office and warehouse in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. By the mid-1930s, the company's annual distribution of salt across the eastern part of the country reached 100,000 tons. Thomas Walter Hardy Jr., a graduate of Harvard Business School, joined his father's company in 1939 and became president of Hardy Salt after his father's retirement in 1955.

Hardy Salt began distribution in the West in 1965 with the purchase of the Leslie Salt Company's production plant in Lakepoint, Utah. Hardy improved and expanded its new facility and added a sales staff headquartered in Salt Lake City to market salt products to eleven western states.

Throughout the company's history, research and product innovation were hallmarks of its operation. Hardy introduced trace-mineralized salt blocks for cattle and other livestock, packing of table salt in paper rather than cloth containers, and produced byproduct salts for ice control and water softening. They also developed several more efficient methods of salt production.

Hardy sold the Hardy Salt Company to the Diamond Crystal Company of St. Clair, Michigan in April 1985. At the time of the sale holdings included salt plants in Manistee and Williston, ND and other facilities in Missouri, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Ohio & Utah.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

This addendum includes board level and other administrative documents,including a full run of board minutes and partial executive committee minutes from 1944 through 1984, bonds, bylaws,other corporate papers, and subsidiary Manistee Salt Works incorporation papers. Records and planning correspondence related to the sale to Diamond Crystal including discussions of pending lawsuits against both corporations make up the next largest portion of the collection.

COPYRIGHT AND RESTRICTIONS

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PREFERRED CITATION

From the sl 727, Hardy Salt Company, Addenda collection at the Western Historical Manuscript Collection at the University of Missouri - St. Louis

CONTACT INFORMATION

STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI RESEARCH CENTER-ST. LOUIS
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-ST. LOUIS
222 Thomas Jefferson Library
University of Missouri - St. Louis
One University Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63121

(314) 516-5143
whmc@umsl.edu

FOLDER LIST


BOX 1 (038720)

1. Meeting minutes, 1944-1950
2. Manistee Salt Works, Minutes and Documents, 1931-1965
3. Meeting Minutes, 1944-1950
4. Meeting Minutes, 1951-1960
5. Meeting Minutes, 1961-1965
6. Meeting Minutes, 1966-1970
7. Meeting Minutes, 1971-1975
8. Meeting Minutes, 1976-1980
9. Meeting Minutes, 1981-1984
10. Hardy Investment Company documents, 1986
11. Certificate of Incorporation, Amendments and Bonds, 1920-1956

BOX 2 (038742)

12. Restated Articles of Incorporation, 1966
13. Bylaws, 1981
14. Director indemnification, 1969
15. Stock values and ownership, 1971-1986
16. Hardy Development, legal documents, 1981-1984
17. Pre-liquidation planning, 1986
18. Documents for January board meeting, 1986
19. Diamond Crystal, Annual Reports and press, 1985-1987
20. Hardy Investment, partial liquidation, 1986
21. Employee records and settlement, Ronald (Jack) Blenderman
22. Kinnunen v. Hardy, 1986-1988
23. Hardy Investment v. Pinkerton's Inc.1987-1990
24. Schmalz v. Hardy, 1985
25. Schmalz v. Hardy, 1986-1987
26. Deposition of T. Walter Hardy, Schmalz v. Hardy, 1986
27. Diamond Crystal employee severances, 1982-1987
28. Open legal issues, Diamond Crystal, 1986
29. Open legal issues, Hardy Investment, 1986
30. Newspaper clippings,1983-1988
31. Essays on history of U.S.salt mining
32. Playing cards, U.S. bicentennial commemorative