1991 Christensen Boyles Corporation 5 Troy Oz .999 Fine Silver Round Coin Scarce
 
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Christensen Boyles Corporation (CBC) operates as a leading holding company overseeing 19 internationally integrated companies or divisions that make diamond drilling products, distribute related products made by other firms, and provide contract services for a variety of customers in the mining, geotechnical, and environmental industries. With over 100 years of experience, CBC has a reputation for quality products and services, operations that span the globe, and innovative joint operations with related firms.
Origin of Boyles Bros. Drilling Operations
Elmore and Page Boyles were born in Monona, Iowa, in humble circumstances. The two brothers worked on farms and saved a little, then in 1886, at ages 22 and 19, they moved to southern Arizona. For five years they worked for the Silver King Mining Company. In 1891 they moved to Spokane, Washington, where Elmore worked in the feed business and Page worked for the recently completed Northern Pacific Railway.
In the midst of a nationwide depression, in 1895 the brothers used their savings to start the Boyles Bros. Drilling Company in Spokane. They purchased their first diamond drill, using carbonados or black diamonds found in Brazil, and gained their first contract with the Hecla Mining Company in Republic, Washington. The firm’s main customer before 1905 was the Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting and Power Company, which owned about 700 acres of mining claims in southeastern British Columbia. In these early days Boyles Bros, drilled mainly in search of copper deposits.
Early Changes at Boyles Bros.
Elmore eventually became the president/general manager of Boyles Bros., while Page functioned as the firm’s field superintendent. The firm expanded its operations in the western United States, Canada, and Alaska. By 1914 Boyles Bros, operated many of the over 30 kinds of diamond drills then available in the industry.
In 1917, just before the United States entered World War I, Page Boyles died. That same year, because of low copper prices in the United States and increased operations in British Columbia, Elmore Boyles moved the firm’s headquarters from Spokane to Vancouver, British Columbia. By that time Charles and Fred Pettersson, two brothers who had emigrated from Sweden and then changed their last name to Lindhe, and L.L. lessen controlled most of the firm’s business. Up until this time Boyles Bros, had bought its diamond drills from other companies, mainly Sullivan Machinery or Longyear, but under lessen’s direction the firm began manufacturing its own drills. In the 1920s gasoline-powered diamond drills began replacing the earlier steam-powered drills.
By the late 1920s, Boyles Bros, had become Canada’s leading diamond drilling company, although the firm also had operations in the United States and South America. In 1928 Elmore Boyles died, and the second-generation leaders Fred Lindhe and L.L. lessen took over ownership of the company.
Boyles Bros., now incorporated in Canada, opened a division in Utah to provide drilling services for the Utah Copper Company. After gaining some government public works contracts during the Great Depression, by 1935 Boyles Bros. recovered sufficiently to move out of its rented Salt Lake City offices at the corner of 300 South and Main Street to a building owned by the firm on 1300 South. In 1935 Charles Lindhe, who had left Boyles Bros, in 1922 to start Continental Drilling Company in Los Angeles, returned to Utah and bought Boyles Bros. (source: Wikipedia)