MAJOR COLLECTION SECTIONS

T. B. WALKER PAPERS

HARRIET G. WALKER PAPERS

GILBERT M. WALKER PAPERS

JULIA WALKER SMITH PAPERS

HARRIET WALKER HOLMAN PAPERS

FLETCHER L. WALKER PAPERS

WILLIS J. WALKER PAPERS

CLINTON L. WALKER PAPERS

ARCHIE D. WALKER PAPERS

RED RIVER LUMBER COMPANY RECORDS

WALKER & AKELEY PARTNERSHIP RECORDS

MISCELLANEOUS MINNESOTA LANDS RECORDS

CALIFORNIA LANDS RECORDS

MISCELLANEOUS LUMBER COMPANIES RECORDS

SHASTA FORESTS COMPANY (SHAFCO) RECORDS

MINNEAPOLIS CENTRAL CITY MARKET COMPANY RECORDS

MINNEAPOLIS LAND & INVESTMENT COMPANY

FAMILY PARTNERSHIPS RECORDS

BARLOW REALTY COMPANY RECORDS

CLIPPINGS SCRAPBOOK

Project Files (Minnesota Historical Society):

Manuscript Collections

T. B. WALKER AND FAMILY:

RED RIVER LUMBER COMPANY RECORDS

A description of a portion of the T. B. Walker and Family Papers. at the Minnesota Historical Society follows. Links to an overview of this collection and other sections of the collection appear on the left side of the screen.

ORGANIZATION:
This portion of the T. B. Walker and Family Papers. is organized into the following sections.
Minneapolis General Correspondence

Akeley Correspondence

Minneapolis Correspondence with Family

Minneapolis Sales Correspondence

Minneapolis Correspondence with Westwood Mill

Minneapolis Correspondence with Westwood Office

Teletype Communications

Branch Yards and Offices

Employees' Correspondence

Logging Papers

Bonds

Subject Files

Photographs

Minute Books

Financial Records

Oversize Folders

DETAILED DESCRIPTION: RED RIVER LUMBER COMPANY RECORDS

This section comprises the corporate records of the Red River Lumber Company, the Walkers' Minneapolis-headquartered logging and lumber manufacturing firm, from its inception in the 1880s to its dissolution in the 1940s and 1950s. Most of the material seems to relate to company operations in north-central and north-western Minnesota, although a good portion of the records encompass California logging and lumber milling activities as well.

The Red River Lumber Company was the core Walker family corporation; the other family business enterprises essentially revolved around and were subsidiaries of and adjuncts to it. This was the entity to which the family devoted the greatest portion of its energies and funds. The corporation apparently came to exercise many of the functions of a holding company; with its passing, these functions were transferred to the Barlow Realty Company.

The company's records consist almost entirely of files kept at its Minneapolis general offices, and consist of letterpress books of outgoing letters; foldered correspondence (letters received, carbons of outgoing letters, and carbons of letters sent by or between other company offices); subject files; photographs; minutes; financial and accounting records; and flat-filed maps and architectural drawings. Much of the organizational scheme was created by the cataloger and imposed upon fragmented or disordered files.

Minneapolis General Correspondence

The Minneapolis General Correspondence Letterpress books (1888-1908, 7 volumes) document routine RRLC logging, lumber milling, and business operations, as well as the Walker & Akeley partnership and the management of its lands. Many letters concern real estate purchases, sales, and taxes. There is also information about milling equipment and machinery, log markings, logging contracts and contractors, the shipment of logs and lumber, the construction of logging spurs and rail lines, and accounting and bookkeeping matters. All of the letters seem to have originated at the company's general offices in Minneapolis.

There are letters written by T. B., Gilbert, Fletcher, Willis, Clinton, and Archie Walker; Frank J. Kline; Chales B. March; Reuben H. Adams; bookkeeper/clerk John S. Grist; Charles W. Bennett; land man H. D. Burroughs; and Henry G. Sherwood and D. G. Curtis of the Minneapolis offices.

Letters were sent to various lumbermen and lumber companies throughout the Upper Midwest, including the H.C. Akeley Lumber Company (Park Rapids, Minnesota), the Shevlin-Carpenter Company (Minneapolis), the Pine Tree Lumber Company (Little Falls, Minnesota), and the Weyerhauser interests (at St. Paul, Little Falls, and Cloquet Minnesota). There are also letters addressed to T. B. Walker and his sons; the RRLC offices at Akeley; H. C. Akeley (Minneapolis) and "Walker & Akeley" (at Bemidji); Frank J. Kline; Jens J. Opsahl (at Felton, Minnesota); W. H. Gemmell (Brainerd, Minnesota), general manager of the Minnesota and International Railway Company; Fogg Bros. & Company (Boston); the Minnesota Surveyor General of Logs and Lumber and various banks and county officials.

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152.I.16.6F

Letterpress books:

Sept. 27, 1888-Dec. 31, 1891.

Vol. G. May 3, 1900-Sept. 5, 1901.

Vol. H. Aug. 29, 1901-Oct. 25, 1902.

Vol. I. Oct. 25, 1902-Sept. 15, 1903.

Vol. J. Sept. 16, 1903-July 9, 1904.

Vol. K. July18, 1904-July 17, 1905

Vol. L. July 18, 1905-Dec. 15, 1908.

Foldered correspondence

The foldered correspondence contains both intra-company memoranda and correspondence with outsiders, such as bankers, attorneys, logging contractors, vendors, and other lumber interests. Much of this documents routine RRLC business operations. The bulk of the material dates from 1920 to 1938, with an earlier concentration from 1886 to 1889; very little exists for the period 1890-1919.

Material dating from the 1886-1889 consists primarily of letters received at Minneapolis from RRLC personnel at Crookston and Grand Forks. Much of it concerns routine operations, accounting, and finances; lumber orders and shipments; and logging and logging contractors, including S. C. Bagley. Some letters document construction of the company's saw and planing mills at Grand Forks. Bagley's letters include information about log drives on the Red Lake River. Other correspondents include T. B. and Gilbert Walker; T. B.'s brother Oliver W. Barnes at Grand Forks; William I. Burr (probably an accountant or bookkeeper, Crookston); and H. [Henry?] G. Sherwood (probably an accountant or bookkeeper, Minneapolis.).

Correspondence from the 1920s includes information about routine company financial matters, such as payroll, bills payable, and investments, as well as management of company-owned properties in Minneapolis. Correspondents include T. B. Walker, Gilbert Walker, Rodney C. Hodge (RRLC, Minneapolis), and Minneapolis attorney John R. Ware. There is correspondence with Power Engineering Company (Minneapolis) officials, including A. L. Bogart and Jesse W. Shuman (brother-in-law of Gilbert and Susan R. Walker), in regard to projects at Westwood in which that company was involved. Correspondence with Thorpe Bros. (a Minneapolis financial services company) officials concerns management of ana mortgages and leases on some of RRLC's Minneapolis properties. There is correspondence with lumberman Frank W. Tozer, president of Tozer Lumber Company (Minneapolis), with the Arthur P. Smith Company (Minneapolis), and with the National Bank of the Republic (Chicago); and some with personnel of Northwest Warehousing Company, a RRLC subsidiary in the 1920s, including A. L. Carr.

Correspondence after 1929 continues to primarily concern RRLC finances, including income tax problems and related litigation. There is also information about the 1944 sale of Westwood, to Fruit Growers Supply Company, and the subsequent liquidation of the RRLC. After 1940, the correspondence with increasing frequency relates to Barlow Realty Company affairs.

The files include information about the "Charles Keith Project," apparently an effort by various lumber companies (including members of the Western Pine Association and the Southern Pine Association) to combat real or imagined threats of Federal control of the lumber industry.

Correspondents include Archie D. Walker (author or recipient of most of the letters from 1920) and Justin V. Smith; Ernst & Ernst (accountants and auditors, San Francisco); the First National Bank and Trust Company (Minneapolis); the Northwestern National Bank of Minneapolis and the Northwestern National Bank and Trust Company of Minnepolis; the National Lumber Manufacturer Association (Washington, D.C.); the Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco; and Josiah E. Brill (Minneapolis attorney for the Walker interests). There is also correspondence with lumber manufacturers and retailers nationwide. In addition, the files contain miscellaneous copies of RRLC stockholders' meeting minutes, and copies of the minutes of two 1994 meetings of the executive committee of the Minneapolis Civic Council.

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152.I.16.7B

1886-1938 [bulk 1920-1938].

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152.I.16.8F

1938-1953.11 folders.

Akeley Correspondence

Akeley Correspondence with Bradley Timber and Railway Supply Company concerns the shipment of RRLC cut lumber to Bradley to fill its customers' orders, and related accounting and billing. There are also Bradstreet Company and R. G. Dun reports on Bradley. Duluth-based Bradley Timber was a producer, manufacturer, and wholesale dealer in cedar products, including railroad ties. This file appears to be a surviving fragment of those kept at the RRLC's Akeley offices.

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152.I.16.8F

1911-1913. 4 folders.

With Bradley Timber and Railway Supply Company

Minneapolis Correspondence with Family

The Minneapolis correspondence with family consists primarily of Archie D. Walker's correspondence with various family members in regard to their personal business affairs, both relating to and separate from the RRLC. There is information about family accounts and related bookkeeping, sales of cutover Minnesota lands, personal investments, cottages at Lake Minnetonka, and similar matters. There is also commentary on T. B.'s activities, particularly those relating to art purchases and his art gallary, as well as information about the activities of Archie and Bertha and their children.

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152.I.16.8F

1920-1929. 4 folders.

Minneapolis Sales Correspondence

Letterpress Books:

The letterpress books contain letters primarily related to RRLC's wholesale lumber sales, especially to smaller lumber companies and dealers. They originate in the Minneapolis sales office and are addressed to lumber companies, box manufacturers, casket companies, and other purchasers of Walker lumber throughout the Upper Midwest. They provide information on orders received, shipped, and unfilled; customer complaints about delayed or unfilled orders about and about the condition of the lumber shipped them; lumber milling, grading, prices, and marketing; and billings and related accounting and bookkeeping.

The letters are signed by various persons, including T. B., Gilbert, Fletcher, Willis, and Clinton Walker; RRLC secretary Charles B. March; accountants/bookkeepers Charles W. Bennett, John S. Grist, and Reuben H. Adams; salesmen George S. Davis and William B. Shepherd; and R. Ford Pray, W. B. Tomlinson, and H. Townsend Fall, also of the RRLC staff.

Recipients of the letters include lumber companies and yards throughout the Upper Midwest, among them the Mason City (Iowa) Wholesale Lumber Company, the B. H. Pollock Lumber Company (St. Louis, Missouri), the Peter Vredenberg Lumber Company (Springfield, Illinois), and the Laird-Norton Yards (Winona, Minnesota). Other business correspondents included the New London Milling Company (Willmar, Minnesota), Francis Beidler & Company (Chicago), Smith & Oliver (Chicago), the Nye Schneider Fowler Company (Fremont, Nebraska; Mason City, Iowa), Ray Oliver (Kansas City, Missouri), W. E. Martin (Omaha, Nebraska), and W. F. Switzer and E. A. Thornton (both of Chicago).

The volumes include letters to freight and purchasing agents of various railroad companies, including G. O. Somers, W. W. Broughton, and Howard James of the Great Northern Railway Company; Fred Wing of the Iowa Central Railway Company and the Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway Company; E. T. Stone of the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railway Company; S. F. Forbes of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company; and F. de Anguera of the Rock Island System. There are also numerous letters to RRLC officials at Akeley, including resident manager R. Ford Pray, and company secretary Charles B. March.

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152.I.7.5B

Volume 10. Feb. 25, 1899-May 30, 1900.

Volume 13. Nov. 14, 1902-Feb. 18, 1903.

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152.I.16.9B

Volume 14. Feb. 18, 1903-May 4, 1903.

Volume 15. May 5, 1903-Aug. 8, 1903.

Volume 16. Aug. 10, 1903-Nov. 11, 1903.

Volume 19. April 7, 1904-June 6, 1904.

Volume 20. June 4, 1904-Aug. 1, 1904.

Volume 21. Aug. 1, 1904-Sept. 29, 1904.

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152.I.16.10F

Volume 22. Sept. 29, 1904-Nov. 23, 1904.

Volume 24. Jan. 18, 1905-March 10, 1905.

Volume 25. March 11, 1905-April 26, 1905.

Foldered Correspondence:

The foldered correspondence primarily relates to the RRLC's wholesale lumber sales, and consists mostly of letters exchanged between the company's Minneapolis-based sales force and wholesale customers nationwide. The files are organized by year and thereunder alphabetically by customer, and are apparently but surviving pieces of a larger whole.

The sales correspondence concerns price quotations, lumber orders, and the shipment of lumber (especially from the mill at Westwood); claims for lumber damaged in transit; advertising; and plywood promotion and sales. There are also letters soliciting business from potential wholesale customers and accounts. The files also include some shipping orders and stock sheets.

Correspondents include Red River salesman George S. Davis (1905) and John L. Westrum (1930s); Archie and Willis Walker; R. Ford Pray, Langford W. Smith, and William B. Laughead (all RRLC-Westwood); and Harry V. Scott (RRLC-Chicago). There are sizable files of sales correspondence with certain wholesale customers, including the Carr, Ryder & Adams Company (Dubuque, Iowa), Curtis Companies, Inc. (Clinton, Iowa), and the Milan R. Sutliff Company (Ashland, Wisconsin). There is also correspondence with Twin City Millwork Operators (St. Paul) and with U.S. Post Office and Treasury Department officials concerning the use of wood (rather than metal) sash and door frames and ornamentation in the construction of post office buildings in Chicago, Minneapolis, and St. Paul. Accompanying this correspondence are some related reports and blueprint drawings.

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152.I.16.11B

1905, Mor-Moz.

1930.

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152.I.16.12F

1930-1931.

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152.I.16.13B

1931-1932.

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152.I.16.14F

1932.

Minneapolis Correspondence with Westwood Mill

The Minneapolis correspondence with Westwood Mill consists primarily of correspondence between John L. Westrum (Minneapolis) and Langford W. Smith (Westwood) in regard to the filling of wholesale lumber orders. There is also information about lumber shipments from Westwood; finances and accounting, including accounts receivable from wholesale customers; RRLC's lumber prices; sash and door manufacturing and sales; plywood; Westrum's sales trips; and company advertising and promotion, including the "Paul Bunyan's Prosperity Special" train. Correspondents, in addition to Westrum and Smith, include Willis and Archie Walker; R. Ford Pray, William B. Laughead, F. M. Jayne, and Chester E. Priest (all Westwood); and Harry V. Scott (RRLC-Chicago). This correspondence is apparently but a surviving fragment of a larger whole.

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152.I.16.4F

1931. 5 folders.

Minneapolis Correspondence with Westwood Office

The Minneapolis correspondence with Westwood Office primarily relates to routine financial, accounting, and operational matters. Most of the letters date from 1930 to 1950, and were exchanged between company executives (especially Archie Walker) and management personnel at Westwood.

Earlier letters (1911-1930) include information about personnel, finances, taxes, fire insurance on the lumber and the Westwood plant, milling equipment and machinery, and the construction and early operations at Westwood (1913). Resident manager R. Ford Pray submitted reports detailing town and mill operations. There is information about the Paul Bunyan character and company advertising, and a report from [company?] spy #63 at Sacramento discussing one "Lambert" and his relation to Industrial Workers of the World organizational activities in northern California (1916). Correspondents include Archie, Clinton, Fletcher, and Willis Walker; R. Ford Pray; and William B. Laughead (advertising manager, Minneapolis).

Later letters (1930-1950) continue to document routine business and operational matters. These files also include "Weekly Letters" (narrative reports of Westwood operations submitted by resident manager Theodore S. Walker to the Minneapolis office); mill production reports submitted by C. R. Parker; and various operating and financial reports. There also is information about the March ,1938, National Labor Relations Board election at Westwood. Letters dating from 1948 to 1950 include some information about Agency-related matters. The bulk of these letters comprise Archie Walker's correspondence with RRLC personnel at Westwood. Other correspondents include Theodore S. and Kenneth R. Walker, A. L. Welder (office manager), Chester E. Priest (manager, Lumber Division), R. Ford Pray, R. C. Martin, and S. W. ("Mac") Macdonald (manager, Industrial Relations Dept.), all at Westwood; Edward B. Jensen; and Brooks Walker.

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152.I.17.1B

1911-1950 [bulk 1930-1950].

Teletype Communications

Teletype communications consist of exchanges between Minneapolis and Westwood, and appear to relate to matters that were of an especially urgent and/or confidential nature. Most have to do with finances, land, and timber deals, logging matters, labor strife at Westwood, stockholders and directors matters, RRLC dissolution, and Agency business. There is information about RRLC bonds and bond refinancing, lumber prices, Waland Lumber Company business, and a "Groveland Deal." There is some discussion about the employment of Charles Keith to gather data for use in resisting anticipated federal regulation of the forest industry (see also Minneapolis General Correspondence). Teletype communications regarding the labor strife at Westwood include information on company efforts to keep apprised of the situation; management's strategy; the NLRB election of March 18, 1938; and the explusion of the "CIOs" from Westwood in mid-July, 1938. [The labor troubles at Westwood are mentioned only minimally anywhere else in the entire T. B. Walker collection; the most extensive material is here.] Teletype correspondents include Archie D. Walker (Minneapolis); Fletcher, Theodore, and Kenneth Walker (Westwood); and Albert L. Welder (Westwood).

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152.I.17.2F

1937-1945. 9 folders.

Branch Yards and Offices

Branch yards and offices fukes comprise correspondence with RRLC personnel at its Chicago sales office and distributing yard, with small amounts of material for its Los Angeles, New York, Reno, and Susanville branches.

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152.I.17.2F

Chicago, 1934-1946.10 folders.

The RRLC maintained a branch office at Chicago as early as 1910, and operated sales offices and a distributing yard there until 1945. Chicago correspondence concerns wholesale lumber sales, office finances, insurance matters, yard operations, and other routine business matters. There is also information about miscellaneous litigation, discussion (ca. 1945) about selling the Chicago yard, and a reference to the yard being destroyed by fire in 1945. Included also are miscellaneous financial statements and reports, as well as some monthly operating reports. Correspondents include Archie and Hudson Walker; Guy C. Shafer (Minneapolis); Harry V. Scott, Jackson Rinn, and Miss O. Brandstatter (all RRLC-Chicago); Chester E. Priest; Justin V. Smith; and Walter H. Velde, a Chicago attorney retained by the RRLC. Rinn and Scott established the Rinn-Scott Lumber Company, and were operating at the RRLC's former Michigan Avenue address by August 1945.

Los Angeles, 1920-1922, 1938-1944.

The RRLC opened sales offices at Los Angeles around 1922, and by 1925 operated a distributing yard and warehouse in the city. The company maintained its Los Angeles presence until at least 1945. Los Angeles correspondence contains letters from the 1920s discussing the merits of the company establishing a yard there (Willis Walker was a proponent, Gilbert and Archie Walker opponents). There is also some information about a "regulatory picketing" ordinance passed by Los Angeles voters (ca. 1938), and some information concerning labor union negotiations and a contract between retail employees and Lumber and Sawmill Workers Local 2788 (1938). Correspondents include T. B., Gilbert, and Archie Walker; Bert Smith; Paul Revert; and J. D. Rickard.

New York, 1938-1943.

The RRLC's New York City sales office was apparently established around 1934, and continued until at least 1943. There does not appear to have been a New York distributing yard. New York correspondence is exchanged between Archie D. Walker and office manager Harry O. Geary. There are comments on business conditions in New York, and salesmen's itineraries for both Geary and Robert L. Lamson, his assistant. (See the Hudson D. Walker Files in the Archie D. Walker Papers for additional information on the New York office.)

Reno, Nevada, 1920, 1939-1941.

The RRLC operated an office at Reno, Nevada, as early as 1922. A distributing yard in that city apparently operated until at least 1942. It is not clear if the company's presence at Reno was continuous over the twenty-year period. Correspondents in the Reno file include Archie D. Walker, D. T. Jones, and W. G. Fisher.

Susanville, California, 1920.

Contains only two miscellaneous financial reports (1920). The RRLC maintained an office there as early as 1920; the office appears on the corporate letterhead in 1922.

Employees' Correspondence

The employees' correspondence includes both letterpress books and foldered correspondence of several key RRLC employees: Charles W. Bennett, Conrad L. Bower, Burt J. Clark, Harold Frodsham, Louis R. Gorham, Rodney C. Hodge, Edward B. Jensen, Frank J. Kline, Chester E. Priest, Ellsworth G. Scammon, Guy C. Shafer, Dana C. Smith, and Albert L. Welder. The correspondence is most voluminous for Bennett, Shafer, Hodge and Kline.

Bennett/Shafer letterpress books:

The letters of RRLC-Minneapolis bookkeeper/accountant Charles W. Bennett and his successor, Guy C. Shafer are primarly concerned with routine accounting, bookkeeping, and other financial matters of the RRLC and of various other Walker companies and business organizations. Bennett was sent to the company's Chicago office in January 1924, and Shafer succeeded him at Minneapolis.

Their letters concern accounting and bookkeeping problems and practices; payroll and personnel matters; banking and company finances; and Company Walker family members' income taxes. There is information about accounts payable (including the repayment of monies borrowed by various Walker companies), accounts receivable (including payments on loans, mortgages, and contracts for deed); and delinquent accounts receivable, and efforts to collect same. There are also letters to the various other RRLC offices concerning their improper bookkeeping and accounting practices.

Most of the letters were written by Bennett or Shafer and pertain to the RRLC business. Many of these were actually written for others' signatures, particularly those of Archie and Gilbert Walker. There are also many letters written for the Walker-Burton Company, the Minneapolis Land & Investment Company, the Walker & Akeley partnership, the Minneapolis Central City Market Company, the Pacific Investment Company, Walker Associates, the Industrial Investment Company, the Walker-Pence Company, the State Theatre Heating Company, the Waland Lumber Company, the Hennepin County Good Roads Association, Walker Brothers, the Eighth Street Development Company, the T. B. Walker Foundation, Inc., and the estates of Harriet G., T. B., and Gilbert M. Walker. Some other authors include Gilbert, Fletcher, Willis and Archie Walker.

Recipients include various Walkers, and the RRLC offices at Akeley, Chicago, Westwood, and San Francisco; Oliver W. Barnes (Berkeley, California); Jens J. Opsahl (Bemidji); attorney and Red River land man Ellsworth G. Scammon (Westwood); Minneapolis attorney Josiah E. Brill; Dana C. Smith (Los Angeles), son of Julia Walker Smith; Florence Akeley Quirk (Minneapolis); the Hennepin Lumber Company (Minneapolis); the H. G. Foote Lumber Company (Minneapolis); various banks and financial services and companies; the Minnesota Collector of Internal Revenue (St. Paul); and the U. S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue.

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152.I.17.4F

Sept. 4, 1906-Jan. 18, 1911.

Jan. 18, 1911-May 20, 1913.

May 14, 1913-March 31, 1915.

April 1, 1915-Sept. 1, 1917.

Sept. 4, 1917-Aug. 31, 1918.

May 15, 1919-April 30, 1920; July 12-14, 1920.

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152.I.17.5B

April 30, 1920-June 10, 1921.

June 11, 1921-Feb. 19, 1923.

Feb. 20, 1923-July 31, 1924.

July 31, 1924-Dec. 31, 1925.

Jan. 2, 1926-Oct. 15, 1927.

Oct. 18, 1927-May 13, 1929.

May 14, 1929-May 31, 1932.

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152.I.17.6F

June 10, 1932-Nov. 12, 1934.

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152.I.17.3B

Bower correspondence, 1946-1950.3 folders.

Minneapolis correspondence with Conrad L. Bower manager of the RRLC land department in liquidation, includes information about timber sales to the Cheney-Grant Lumber Company, the Finney Logging Company, and the Ralph L. Smith Lumber Company There are also letters concerning land sales, Agency administration of timber lands, and the construction of forest fire lookout towers. Included in the files is a 1947 Shasta Forests Company (SHAFCO) service agreement with the RRLC. Bower also served as a manager of the SHAFCO land department, a duty apparently overlapping his Red River function. Correspondents include Bower (Westwood); Archie, Kenneth, and Brooks Walker; Dana C. Smith; and Lem C. Hastings (SHAFCO general manager, Westwood).

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152.I.17.6F

Clark letterpress book, April 3, 1915-Dec. 20, 1916.

The letterpress book kept by RRLC-Minneapolis salesman Burt J. Clark contains letters primarily concerned with sales of lumber to, and purchases of lumber from other lumbering compies, and with related accounting and bookkeeping. There is also information about lumber prices, billings, lumber shipment and freight rates, sales commissions, and customer complaints about lumber orders received from the RRLC. Most of the letters were written by Clark; other authors include Archie Walker and RRLC-Minneapolis salesman George S. Davis. Recipients include the company offices at Akeley and Westwood; the Hennepin Lumber Company (Minneapolis); the Pacific Fir Company (Seattle); and various lumber companies throughout Oregon and Washington, particularly in the Seattle area.

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12.I.17.3B

Frodsham correspondence, 1927-1934.3 folders.

Harold Frodsham served as general manager of the commercial and mercantile departments at Westwood from the mid-1920s until 1934, when the RRLC apparently got out of the local commercial and mercantile business. The files under his name include monthly receipts and profit reports (sent to Minneapolis) for each of the departments. There is some information about the Westwood National Bank, a 1934 letter from Theodore S. Walker informing Frodsham of impending elimination of Frodsham's job, and a narrative summary (1934) by Frodsham of his tenure as head of the two departments.

Gorham letterpress books:

The two letterpress volumes kept by Louis R. Gorham, T. B. Walker's real estate man for Minneapolis and its suburbs, contain letters that primarily relate to the management of commerical and residential real estate in Minneapolis and St. Louis Park owned by the RRLC and by various other Walker companies. The letters document routine dealings with tenants, evictions, and Gorham's efforts to collect back rent; problems with and improvements to various properties; insurance coverage and claims; real estate taxes; real estate development carried on by the Walkers in both Minneapolis and in St. Louis Park; and the sale of lots and houses in St. Louis Park. There is a small amount of information about Minneapolis Central City Market Company matters (Gorham was its secretary, ca. 1910-ca. 1921).

The volumes contain RRLC, Walker-Burton Company, Minneapolis Land and Investment Company, Minneapolis Central City Market Company, and Pacific Investment Company letters, and letters written on behalf of the Harriet G. Walker estate. Some were written by Gorham for the signatures of other persons including Gilbert and Archie Walker and Hazen J. Burton (president of the Plymouth Clothing House, Minneapolis). Recipients include numerous renters and lessees; the Minneapolis Insurance Agency; W. R. Young (registrar, Minneapolis City Water Works Department); attorney Josiah E. Brill (Minneapolis); and T. B. Walker.

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152.I.17.6F

Aug. 2, 1910-Nov. 30, 1914.

Dec. 4, 1918-July 23, 1932.

Hodge letterpress books:

The letters of RRLC purchasing agent Rodney C. Hodge primarily relate to the procurement of supplies, equipment, and services for the RRLC and for various other Walker companies, and to the management of the Walker's Minnesota real estate and investment property. All were apparently written at the RRLC general offices in Minneapolis.

The letters document Hodge's purchase of supplies and equipment, and his contracting for labor and other services needed in the course of routine business operations and property management. Many letters related to RRLC and Walker & Akeley real estate matters, including the sale or lease of cutover lands (many of which ithe RRLC owned jointly with Great Northern Iron Ore Properties), timber and hay stumpage sales, and real estate taxes. There are price quotations and other responses to persons asking to purchase land. Included as well are letters concerning the construction, management, rental or lease, and maintenance of Walker-owned residential, commercial, office, and hotel properties, particularly in Minneapolis and including that city's Homestead (Walker) and State Theatre buildings.

The volumes contain letters of the RRLC, the Walker & Akeley partnership, the Penwalk Investment Company, the Barlow Realty Company, the Industrial Investment Company, the Walker-Pence Company, the Walker-Burton Company, the Minneapolis Central City Market Company, the Pacific Investment Company, the State Theatre Heating Company, Walker Associates, Walker Brothers, and the Superior Golf Course. There are also letters written on behalf of T. B. Walker, Susan Rogers Walker, and the Harriet G. Walker estate. Nearly all the the letters were written by Hodge, although most of them were written for the signature of others. A number of letters were written by Hans Lamprecht, who was evidently a stenographer. Other authors include Gilbert, Archie, and Hudson D. Walker, and Reuben H. Adams.

Recipients of letters include the RRLC offices at Akeley, Chicago, Westwood, and San Francisco; T. B. Walker, his sons, and his grandsons; and Florence Akeley Quirk Patterson (Minneapolis and California) and her attorney Hugh V. Mercer (Minneapolis). There are letters to Great Northern Iron Ore Properties officials J. H. Gruber (secretary), Lewis D. Newman (manager), and Robert A. Dudley (assistant secretary); realtors Jens J. Opsahl (Bemidji), Ed. R. Bell (Akeley), and Elmer Madson (Grand Rapids); the B. F. Daniel Land Company (Akeley); and attorney W. B. Taylor (Grand Rapids). Letters were sent to real estate and financial services companies, including the Towle-Jamieson Investment Company (Minneapolis), the Arthur P. Smith Company (Minneapolis), and the Thorpe Bros. (Minneapolis); and there are numerous letters to banks and auditors, treasurers, and registers of deeds of various Minnesota counties.

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152.I.17.6F

July 1, 1915-Jan. 4, 1917.

Feb. 20, 1919-June 3, 1919.

June 3, 1919-Oct. 18, 1919.

Oct. 18, 1919-March 13, 1920.

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152.I.17.7B

March 15, 1920-Aug. 20, 1920.

Aug. 20, 1920-Feb. 3, 1921.

Feb. 2, 1921-July 5, 1921.

June 30, 1921-Dec. 31, 1921.

Dec. 31, 1921-June 21, 1922.

June 21, 1922-Feb. 12, 1923.

Feb. 12, 1923-Sept. 25, 1923.

Sept. 25, 1923-April 19, 1924.

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152.I.17.8F

April 18, 1924-Jan. 28, 1925.

Jan. 28, 1925-Oct. 14, 1925.

Oct. 13, 1925-June 7, 1926.

June 7, 1926-March 26, 1927.

March 28, 1927-April 21, 1928.

April 23, 1928-April 11, 1929.

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152.K.2.8F

April 12, 1920-Oct. 2, 1929.

Part of Gilbert M. Walker 1925-1928 volume.

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152.I.17.9B

Feb. 6, 1931-June 25, 1932.

June 25, 1932-May 19, 1933.

May 19, 1933-Dec. 28, 1933.

Dec. 28, 1933-Sept. 5, 1934.

Sept. 4, 1934-Oct. 26, 1934.

Kline letterpress books:

The letterpress books kept by logging superintendent Frank J. Kline primarily concern Kline's supervision of logging contractors cutting timber on RRLC and Walker & Akeley partnership lands in Minnesota. Some of the letters were evidently written at the RRLC general offices in Minneapolis; many others at various northern Minnesota locations, including Crookston and Bemidji. The letters document the contractors' compliance with the terms of their contracts; the construction, supervision, and management of logging camps; the procurement of supplies for the camps; and accounting and bookkeeping in the camps. There is also information about the construction of logging railroad spur lines; payroll matters; lumber milling operations; real estate transactions; real estate taxes (levied, paid, delinquent); and miscellaneous litigation.

Most of the letters are signed by Kline and by RRLC lumber scaler W. P. Hebard. There are also letters signed by T. B., Gilbert, Fletcher, and Willis Walker; bookkeeper or accountant John S. Grist; advertising manager William B. Laughead; clerk Edward T. Hanford; scaler George Hebard (son of W. P. Hebard); and RRLC employees Henry G. Sherwood, C. T. Moffett, Maurice E. Hafey, and William L. Preble. In addition to the Walkers, recipients include logging contractors such as J. C. Sheasgreen, James D. Middleton, E. P. Arseneau, and S. C. Bagley; logging camp clerks; and timber examiner Barney Redding and timber estimator James Houston (both at Park Rapids, Minnesota). Letters were also sent to the company offices at Crookston and Minneapolis; RRLC secretary Charles B. March; realtor Jens J. Opsahl (Felton, Minnesota); D[avid?] R. Carr (Felton) and officials of various Minnesota banks and counties.

July 13, 1887-July 3, 1888.

June 3, 1896-June 18, 1898.

Location

Box

152.I.17.10F

March 21, 1901-Jan. 26, 1903.

Jan. 26, 1903-Sept. 4, 1903.

Sept. 4, 1903-Feb. 28, 1904.

Feb. 27, 1904-Dec. 16, 1904.

Location

Box

152.I.17.3B

Kline correspondence, 1901-1909.14 folders.

Kline foldered correspondence primarily concerns logging matters: equipment, supplies, accounting, bills payable, dealings with logging contracts, timber trespass, log drives, and the shipment of logs. These are primarily letters received, addressed to Kline at Bemidji and (later) at Akeley. Correspondents include Gilbert, Fletcher, and Willis Walker; Charles B. March, Charles W. Bennett, Louis R. Gorham, R. Ford Pray, William B. Laughead, and W. P. Hebard; G. G. Hartley (Duluth); and several logging contractors, including P. T. Devereaux, Merritt Devereaux, and Fagan Bros. There is correspondence with W. A. Mercer (acting Indian agent, Leech Lake Agency), regarding unauthorized cutting of green logs on Indian lands by the RRLC. Other correspondence is with Great Northern Railway Company officials; with W. H. Gemmell, general manager of both the Brainerd & Northern Minnesota Railway Company and the Minnesota & International Railway Company; with James P. Gardner, a Chicago-based dealer in railway equipment, in regard to construction of spur lines; and with various Minnesota banks.

Location

Box

152.I.17.11B

Priest correspondence, 1942-1945.2 folders.

The file of Minneapolis correspondence with Chester E. Priest, who in the early 1940s was resident manager of the lumber division (Westwood), is in large part concerned with the veneer plant at Westwood. It provides information about improvements to the plant, purchases of equipment and machinery, and plant operations. There are letters relating to flume repairs and to the construction of a new flume; to a proposed reprinting of RRLC's Paul Bunyan book; and to the proposed sale of the town and mill to the Fruit Growers Supply Company. The file also includes reports and discussion about certain town-related operations, including the pool hall and bar, the club, the restaurant, the soda fountain, and the theater. There are also miscellaneous mill production reports and related information. Correspondents include Archie D. Walker; Justin V. and Walker Smith; A. L. Welder and C. R. Parker (both at Westwood); the Pine Industrial Relations Committee, Inc. (Klamath Falls, Oregon); and the U. S. War Production Board; the U. S. War Department, Southeastern Division (Dallas).

Location

Box

152.I.17.10F

Scammon letterpress book, March 10, 1914-March 12, 1915. Volume 11.

The volume of letters authored by Ellsworth G. Scammon, attorney and RRLC land man in California, is primarily concerned with routine California land matters, particularly land purchases and sales, and with the rental or lease of company lands to individuals for such purposes as livestock grazing or farming. Many letters respond to persons asking to rent or lease lands, while others document Scammon's efforts to interest persons in so doing. There are also letters relating to land titles, to the payment of real estate taxes on company land titles, and to miscellaneous Minnesota real estate matters. All of the letters are signed by Scammon, and seem to have originated in California. Recipients include T. B., Gilbert, Fletcher, Willis, Clinton, and Archie Walker; the RRLC office at Westwood; Chester L. Hovey (San Fransico); Jens J. Opsahl (Bemidji); and various California banks, abstract companies, and county officials. This appears to be volume 11 of a larger set of Scammon letterpress books, none of the rest of which are present.

Location

Box

152.I.17.11B

Scammon correspondence, 1920-1943.18 folders.

Folder Minneapolis correspondence with Scammon primarily concerns the acquisitions and management of California lands. These are mainly Scammon's outgoing letters. They give information about land purchases, leases, sales, and trades, including a 1938 deal with the Diamond Match Company; much of the correspondence documents the mechanics of these transactions. There are letters concerning abstract and title work, real estate taxes, Walker-owned ranches, the company's involvement in cattle and dairy operations, and timber sales and trespass. There is information about taxes on the Andrus-Taylor trustees' lands and about the Waland Lumber Company and its taxes. Correspondents include T. B., Archie, Willis, and Kenneth Walker, Reisa Kohn (stenographer, Minneapolis), Charles W. Bennett, and Guy C. Shafer. There is also correspondence with tax officials of various California counties, and with the lessees of company-owned lands, particularly grazing lands, with references to leases by number (for which see: California Lands).

Shafer correspondence, 1939-1948.5 folders.

Minneapolis correspondence with Guy C. Shafer, an accountant or bookkeeper at Westwood, includes information on a variety of financial, accounting, and tax matters relative to the RRLC as well as to several subsidiaries, to other family-owned corporations and family partnerships, and to various individual family members. There is also correspondence concerning RRLC dividends, partial retirement of its Class "A" stock, and various stockholders-and stock-related matters, especially vis-a-vis tax laws. There is information about RRLC and Waland Lumber Company corporate taxes; Barlow Realty Company accounting; abandonment of the Piute Railroad and related accounting and tax matters; the preparation of tax returns for various Walker business organizations and for certain family members; and federal and state (California and Minnesota) income tax and accounting problems and questions. Correspondents include Archie and Theodore Walker; Justin V. and Dana C. Smith; and Minneapolis attorney Josiah E. Brill.

Location

Box

152.I.17.10F

Smith letterpress book, Nov. 5, 1920-March 29, 1921.

The 60 pages of Dana C. Smith letters concern miscellaneous legal, real estate, and contract matters. They also include information about the rental or lease of RRLC-owned commercial real estate in Minneapolis; the collection of back rent; the eviction of tenants; the assignment of leases and contracts to the Walkers; real estate taxes; and miscellaneous accounting, financial, and legal matters. The volume was kept by Smith (a son of Julia Walker Smith), evidently while he was serving as a clerk in the RRLC Minneapolis offices. The letters are of the RRLC, the Minneapolis Central City Market Company, and the Industrial Investment Company. Letters written by RRLC secretary Archie D. Walker also appear. Recipients include Willis J. Walker; R. O. Naegele, John F. Nichols, E. R. Frissel, and W. C. Lewis (all of Minneapolis); the Tozer Lumber Company (Minneapolis); and the Jordan Holten Company (Wadena, Minnesota).

Location

Box

152.I.17.11B

Welder/Jensen Correspondence, 1943-1946.

Minneapolis correspondence with office managers Albert L. Welder and Edward B. Jensen (who evidently succeeded Welder sometime in 1945) is concerned with routine company financial, accounting, and banking matters. There are also cash forecast reports and estimates; miscellaneous other financial statements and reports; and information on RRLC purchases of U. S. government bonds; on the Canby Railroad; on Barlow Realty Company; and on the Walker-owned Commodore Hotel (St. Paul). Correspondents include Archie and Kenneth Walker and Justin V. Smith.

Logging Papers

The logging papers consist of individual files of correspondence, leases and agreements, tract maps, and various supporting documents related primarily to logging operations conducted on specific tracts of land, mainly in Minnesota, by specific logging contractors. The great majority of the files relate to Minnesota; contractors were much less used in the Walker's California logging operations. The files are organized by state and thereunder alphabetically by contractor. Some miscellaneous but closely related subject files are interspersed within the alphabetical sequence. (Other groups of logging papers are found in Walker & Akeley Records and T. B. Walker Papers).

The contractors' files typically include correspondence (with and/or about the contractor) about particular logging operations in particular seasons, together with various supporting documentation. Each file generally includes agreements with the RRLC, which give specifics of the operation; township plat maps, with tracts colored in to show lands cut; and lists of supplies furnished the contractors and their men. There is usually information about the contractors' accounts with the company, camp accounts, and log marks used. There frequently are also superintendents' weekly camp reports (providing such information as the number of men and horses in camp, sleds running, saws running, amount hauled per day); sample time checks; miscellaneous scale reports; and sometimes such items as lease agreements for horses and harnesses.

Correspondents include the logging contactors, particularly S. C. Bagley, Connors Bros., Fagan Bros., Robinson & Dick, and John Sibley; Willis and Clinton Walker; R. Ford Pray; Minnesota state forester William T. Cox; the Minnesota Forest Service (includes notices to dispose of sash and debris); and A. B. Robbins, Minnesota Surveyor General of Logs and Lumber.

An Indian reservation timber file (5 folders) contains correspondence and memoranda agreements, logging contracts, information about supplies, and other material related primarily to the purchase by RRLC of dead and down timber cut by Indian loggers on the Red Lake, Leech Lake, and White Earth reservations, mainly in 1898. Some of the material may relate to logging of green timber on lands ceded by the Red Lake Chippewa under the Nelson Act of 1889. Some earlier papers (ca. 1885) pertain to T. B.'s construction of dams for log driving purposes on the Clearwater River and its tributaries at points within reservations.

Location

Box

152.I.17.12F

Minnesota:

Akeley Office (R. F. Pray) correspondence, 1910-1911.

Backus-Brooks Company log and lumber deals, 1898-1900.

Bagley, S. C.:

1894-1903.

1899-1901.

Settlement of account, 1891-1894.

Bagley, S. C. (et al.), undated and 1885-1909.

Briggs, T. S., 1909-1910.

Butler, A. M., 1911-1912.

Carr, B. M., 1909-1913.

Carr, D. R. (Chief Inspector), 1909-1913.

Check scale reports, undated and 1909-1910.

Christ, P. D., 1911-1913.

Clay & O'Malley, 1900-1912.

Connors, Samuel, 1912-1913.

Connors Bros.:

1909-1910.

1910-1911.

1911-1912.

1912-1913.

Cook, W. G., 1912-1913.

Cutting inspections, 1911-1913.

Deadhead salvage, 1918-1924.

Defoer, Joseph H., 1907-1913.

Defoer Bros., 1911-1912.

DeLaittre, C. P., 1891.

Dent, W. F., 1913.

Devereaux, William, 1910-1912.

Didier, N. P., 1912.

Dippold, George, 1912-1913.

Fagan Bros.:

1909-1910.

1910-1913.

Gannon, Henry, 1911.

Green, M., 1910-1913.

Hinchy Bros., 1909-1910.

Location

Box

152.I.17.13B

Indian reservation timber, 1884-1898.5 folders.

Irwin, John Wesley, 1888.

Jenks, C. J.; Warren, E. E., 1911-1912.

Kimball, Warren, 1911-1913.

Kline, F. J., 1881-1892.

Kruft, Adolph, 1911-1913.

Log bark and stamp marks, undated and 1891-1893.

Log sales, 1892-1901[?].

Logging contractors' notices, 1908-1909.

Lumber camp weekly reports, 1908-1909.3 folders.

Lusk, W. W.; Sliter, A. E., 1912-1913.

McIvor, George, 1912-1913.

McNair, James, 1903.

McReavy & McReavy, 1905-1906.

Martin Bros., 1915-1919.

Middleton's "Notes," 1897.

Minnesota Forest Service:

1911-1912.

1912-1913.

Mississippi & Schoolcraft Boom & Improvement Company, 1901-1904.

Moberg, John, 1907.

Myers, Torkelson, et al., 1887-1891.

Nary, T. D., 1912.

Neal, W. E.: Expense accounts, 1882.

Nelson, Andrew, 1911-1913.

Nelson, B. F., undated.

Nelson-Frey Company, 1900-1904.

Northern Minnesota Log Driving & Boom Company, 1891-1892.

Phelps, E. C., 1911-1912.

Pine logs in TBW boom at Crookston, 1885.

Reports (miscellaneous), 1910-1912.

Robinson Bros., 1909-1913.

Robinson & Dick:

1909-1912.

1910-1911.

1912-1913.

Location

Box

152.I.17.14F

Scale reports, Dec. 1912-March 1913.

Scalers report, season of 1912 and 1913.

Selby, L. F.; Steel and Drake, 1912-1913.

Selby & Mosher, 1911-1912.

Sibley, John:

1909-1911.

1911-1913.

Spang & Hoolihan, 1915-1916.

Spurlin, Clarence, 1913.

Stevens, A. M., 1911-1912.

Timber trespass, undated and 1890-1893.

Time checks (miscellaneous), 1899-1901.

Urban & McLean, 1887-1888.

Walker, Willis J., 1909-1914.

Warren Bros., 1888-1889.

White Earth Reservation logging, 1885-1889.

Wilson Bros., 1909-1910.

Wilson, John, 1911-1913.

Wilkins Bros. & Hinds, 1910-1913.

Ziegenbein, A., 1912-1913.

Miscellany, undated and 1885-1914.

California:

Gardner, Irvine P.: Timber estimates, 1923.

McCloud River Lumber Company, undated and 1920-1925.

Total cutover lands report (1912-1934), 1934.

Miscellany, undated and 1898-1926.

Bonds

Bond files contain correspondence and papers relating to various RRLC bond issues, commencing in 1913; to the financial difficulty in which the company found itself during the 1930s depression, when it was unable to repay bonds coming due and to its efforts to stay afloat and eventually redeem its bonds. Archie Walker's replacement of his brother Willis as RRLC president in 1933 was directly related to the company's financial crisis.

The bond files include letters sent by the company to its bondholders asking them for a five-year extension; there are also numerous replies from bondholders, some of whom demanded payment. There is information about a plan whereby RRLC bondholders could exchange their bonds for those of the McCloud River Lumber Company. There are files on a 1938 $1,500,000 loan made to the RRLC ($750,000 each from Northwestern National Bank and Trust Company of Minneapolis and the First National Bank and Trust Company of Minneapolis) which enabled it to pay off its First Mortgage 5 1/2% bonds maturing on November 1, 1938.

Correspondents include Archie D. Walker; BancNorthwest Company, Northwestern National Bank, First National Bank, and the Minnesota Loan and Trust Company (all of Minneapolis); and banks and bondholders throughout the Midwest.

Location

Box

152.I.18.1B

Individual Bonds:

Clipped coupons (miscellaneous), 1912-1915.

First mortgage 5% gold bonds, 1913.

#3 bond papers not issued Oct. 26, 1914.

First mortgage 5% bonds: Prospectus, 1917.

6% notes (1922).

Trust deed (RRLC to Minnesota Loan and Trust Company, trustee), 1926.

First mortgage 5-1/2% serial gold bonds (1927), 1927-1930.

First mortgage 5% serial gold bonds (1929), 1929-1931.

Trust indenture, 1929.[RRLC to Minnesota Loan and Trust Company and C. V. Smith]

First mortgage 5 1/2% serial gold bonds, series "B" (1930), 1930-1932.

Bond extensions:

Correspondence, 1933-1938.5 folders.

Deposit agreement, 1933.

RRLC and Minnesota Loan and Trust Company.

Extension plan, 1933.[1927 and 1930 issues]

Certificate of deposit insurance record:

[1927 series], 1933-1937.2 folders.

[1930 series], 1933-1937.2 folders.

Miscellaneous data relative to extensions in 1935, 1932-1934.

Miscellaneous data relative to 1935 to Nov. 1, 1938 extension, undated.

Unextended bonds, 1933-1938.

Legal Files:

#1206, 1909-1921.

#1398, 1913-1927.

#3771, 1922.

#4528, 1925-1929.

#4585, 1926-1929.

#5645, 1929-1936.

Subject Files:

Location

Box

152.I.18.2F

General correspondence, 1938-1941.

Correspondence with banks [Northwestern and First National of Minneapolis], 1938-1939.

Correspondence with family, 1938.

Correspondence with Westwood, 1938.

Partial reconveyance of trust premises documents, undated. [1930s].

Bank Loan:

Amended application for $1,500,000 loan, 1938.

Collateral pledge agreement, Oct. 1, 1938.

General correspondence, undated and 1938-1941.

Correspondence with banks [Northwestern and First National of Minneapolis, et al.], 1938-1939.

Correspondence with directors, stockholders, Brill & Maslon, et al., 1938.

Correspondence with family, 1938.

Indenture of Mortgage, Oct. 1, 1938.

[RRLC to First Nat'l.]

Supplemental Indenture, Oct. 1, 1938.[1927 Series]

Supplemental Indenture, Oct. 1, 1938.[1930 Series]

Miscellaneous Reports and Statements, undated and 1938-1941.

Miscellaneous Papers, 1938-1941.

McLeod Bond Exchange, 1933-1938.

Prospectuses, March 18, 1933.

[incl. McCloud prospectuses, and related misc. correspondence and papers]

Correspondence, 1933-1938.

Exhibits (D-4 to D-16), 1932-1934.2 folders.

Andrus-RRLC-McCloud Agreement, 1933.

Lists of McCloud Bonds Outstanding, 1933-1935.

Miscellaneous Papers, 1932-1933.

Subject Files

The subject files consist largely of miscellaneous correspondence, reports, legal and financial papers, maps, photographs, and other materials that surfaced in the course of processing, although some were found already grouped and identified as they appear in the box list. The files have been organized alphabetically by folder title.

There are fairly large groupings of files on Akeley, Crookston, Minneapolis, and Westwood; the Foote Lumber and Coal Company; the Hennepin Lumber Company; labor organization; and several of the RRLC's corporate affiliates. Litigation files include legal papers and tax lists (1898-1901) pertaining to the Beltrami County tax suit [See T. B. Walker Papers: Business Subject Files]. There is a copy of the Lumbermen's Finance Corp. articles of incorporation (1922); items relating to Northwest Warehousing Company, to the Piute Railroad, and to the RRLC dissolution (1945); stockholders materials; timber questionnaires; files of corporate records, financial data and miscellany of the Waland Lumber Company and the Walker-Burton Company; and items pertaining to the Westwood National Bank (1922-1939).

The Akeley, Crookston, Minneapolis and Westwood files contain a variety of reports, statistics, property and equipment files, land data, financial information, and miscellany that did not appropriately belong in other series. There are photographs of the Akeley and Crookston mills and operations.

Location

Box

152.I.18.3B

Acme Lumber Company incorporation, 1904-1906.

Agency distributions, 1963.

Akeley, Minnesota:

Akeley Herald Tribune, 1909.

Clippings, undated and 1904-1926.

Electrification of village, 1917.

Land and lot payments, 1912-1914.

Logs and cut lumber photographs, undated and 1913-1916.

Mattie Johnson prostitution case, 1908.

Mill photographs, 1914-1916.

Milling equipment inventories, 1918-1920.

Moore, Russell: Oral history interview transcript, 1976.

Original is at North Central Minnesota Historical Center, Bemidji.

Planing mill dust collecting system, 1903.

Railroads, 1900-1910.

Report of Akeley mill and yard, Jan. 1906.

Sales of mill equipment, etc., 1917.

Side track to sawmill and planing mill, 1899-1903.

Telephone lines, undated and 1900-1901.

Thiessen Pickle Company lease, 1916.

Townsite lots not paid for, 1912.

Real estate taxes, 1901-1920.

"The Willows": Inventory, 1914.

American Locomotive Company (New York City), 1916.

Andrus Trusts: Interim report and tentative statements, 1929.

Articles of incorporation, undated and 1884-1936.

Backus-Brooks Company: Log purchases, undated and 1894-1907.4 folders.

Backus-RRLC agreement as to securities, July 2, 1896.

Bemidji Mill site, 1900-1901.

Benedict, Ford W., 1889-1893.

Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Company sawmill at Scanlon, Minnesota: Sale to RRLC, 1909.

Browne, R. H., undated and 1906.

California forest fires report, 1916.

California pine box distributors, 1934.

Chicago, Illinois:

Board of Education revolving fund bonds of 1934, 1934.

Chicago yard:

Correspondence and miscellaneous papers, 1944-1946.2 folders.

Fire and settlement of claims, 1945-1946.

Photographs, undated and 1928.

Chico [California] Lumber yard: Photographs, undated.

Company not identified.

Chief of Leach Lake, 1898-1900.

Steam-powered boat.

Clear Creek flume, 1944-1945.

Corporation report, 1907.

Crookston, Minnesota:

Red Lake River boom and Water Power Company - Crookston boom and Water Power Company contract, 1883-1886.

Crookston Mill:

Correspondence and miscellaneous papers, 1884.

Photographs, 1885, [ca.1900?].

Plat map, 1902.

Sale, 1897-1903.

Directors, undated and 1900-1933.

Dissolution of RRLC, 1945.

Drexel Hotel operating teports, undated and 1930-1934.

El Dorado Mill & Lumber Company: Synopsis and prospectus, undated.

Employment applications, 1891, 1940-1943.

Executive salaries (1934), 1936.

Facts Brochure, [ca.1915].

Location

Box

152.I.18.4F

Foote Lumber and Coal Company:

Materials pertaining to the Foote Lumber and Coal Company a Twin Cities retail lumber subsidiary of the RRLC include financial information, such as various statements, balance sheets, and miscellaneous reports; data on accounts payable and accounts receivable; lists of checks issued; and accounting worksheets (there are no final copies). There are lists of stockholders and bondholders, and corporate income tax information. The file also includes an audit report prepared by Austin, Coward and Company (Minneapolis), and a "special report" by Anderson, Kroeger & Company (certified public accountants, Minneapolis). Correspondents include G. C. Shafer (Minneapolis); A. L. Welder (office manager) and Henry Neunaber (accountant or bookkeeper?), both at Westwood; and Minneapolis attorney Josiah E. Brill. (See also Barlow Realty Company Records).

1929-1935.7 folders.

Profit and loss statements, 1933-1937.

Freight rates (Minnesota), undated.

Gage, F. K. (Northwestern Collection Service), 1930-1935.

Great Northern Railway Company, 1900-1910.3 folders.

The files include various agreements between the GN and the RRLC; information about RRLC spur lines, particularly the Solway Spur, the Rice River Spur, the Crooked Lake Spur, and Spur Seventy-Five (or "Bagley Spur"). There is also material relating to contracts for shipment of logs. Correspondents include Great Northern general managers F. E. Ward and J. M. Gruber; W. W. Broughton (freight traffic manager); and W. H. Gemmell, vice president of the Brainerd & Northern Minnesota Railway Company

Great Western Power Company, undated and 1913.

Haft, Robert M., 1974.

Hennepin Holding Company, 1911.

Hennepin Lumber Company, undated and 1906-1926.

Hennepin Paper Company, 1936.

International Lumber Company: Correspondence with Minneapolis, 1918.

Inventory of Stock, 1899.

Kimball, Esther M., 1920-1922.

Labor:

Files relating to labor and trade union organization include information about the "4-L" organization. There are two 1937 issues of its weekly "Lumber Labor Letter"; five 1937 issues of its bi-monthly "The Four L Lumber News"; and a report of the 1935 annual meeting of its board of directors (Theodore S. Walker served on this board).

There is also some information about Lumber & Sawmill Workers Local 2836, including working agreements between the local and RRLC, 1940 election results, and legal briefs and other papers (1938-1940) pertaining to National Labor Relations Board vs. Red River Lumber Company, a suit over RRLC's labor relations conduct. Correspondents include Archie and Theodore S. Walker; S. W. MacDonald, manager of the RRLC industrial relations department; and W. C. Corbett, Local 2836 secretary-treasurer.

The labor files also include five reports (April 1922) from "No. 96," evidently a company spy whose job it was to mingle with the workers in order to detect union organizing activities or sentiment, particularly by or for the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).

General information, 1937-1940.

Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen (4-L), 1935-1937.

Lumber & Sawmill Workers, Local 2836 (AFL), 1938-1943.

RRLC-Industrial Employees Union working agreement, 1937.

Reports of Company Spy No. 96, 1922.

Rose, Gerald M.: "The Westwood Lumber Strike," 1972.

Article appearing in Labor History, vol. 13, No. 2, Spring 1972.

Lassen County Historical Society, 1962.

Lassen Electric Company:

1921-1922.

Location

Box

144.D.14.7B

Mortgage bonds, 1921.

Location

Box

152.I.18.4F

Lassen Ledger, 1981.

Journal of the Lassen County Historical Society.

Laughead, William B.: Clippings, undated and 1925.

Legislation: Bill (S.F. 42) Providing for a Lien for Labor upon Logs, Timber, and Lumber, 1876.

List of copy books in Jewelers Exchange vault, undated.

Litigation:

Beltrami county tax suit:

Correspondence and miscellaneous papers, undated and 1901.

Defendants' answers, 1900.

Plaintiff's reply, 1900.

Judgment, 1901.

Tax Llsts:

Beltrami County, 1898-1901.

Cass County, ca. [1900?].

Itasca County, undated and 1898-1900.

Photographs

These consist largely of photographs of lumberjacks, logging scenes, equipment, and machinery of too general a nature to lend themself readily to interfiling with the Subject Files. Photographs relating to the Red River mills at Crookston, Akeley, and Westwood and to various branch offices, are included in the Subject Files. The photographs have been grouped geographially: Minnesota, California, and other; most are of California.

Location

Box

152.I.18.9B

Minnesota:

Logging scenes, undated [ca. 1910?].

Lumberjacks and Logging scenes, undated and 1898-1903.

Miscellany, undated.

California:

Location

Box

144.D.14.4F

Bridge across Pitt River, undated.

Location

Box

152.I.18.9B

California Redwoods, undated [ca. 1915?].

Company not identified.

Cut lumber, undated and 1920.

Equipment, undated and 1920-1933.4 folders.

Landscapes and standing timber, undated and 1912-1933.

Logging scenes (unidentified), undated [ca.1915?].

Photographs by A. K. Moore.

Lumberjacks and Logging scenes, undated and 1920-1926.

McCloud, California [all of them?], undated [ca.1915?].

Location

Box

142.C.13.5

Camp Bunyan[?] panorama photograph, undated.

Landscapes and standing timber, 1923.

Loading site in the timber panorama photograph, undated.

"Paul Bunyan's Prosperity Special" train panorama photograph, undated.

Susanville panorama photo, 1919.

Location

Box

152.I.18.10F

Plywood promotional photographs, undated.

Ranching scenes:

Undated.

Undated [ca. 1920?].

Sierra Lumber Company, undated [ca. 1915?].

Miscellany, undated.

Other photographs:

Brick-making equipment [?] photographs, [ca.1911?].2 folders.

Minute Books

The RRLC minute books contain minutes of directors and stockholders meetings, copies of its articles of incorporation and bylaws, waivers and proxies, stock sale offers from various stockholders to the company, and other miscellany. They provide information about directors and officers appointments, the issuance of dividends, the company's financial condition, land conveyances, routine operational and financial matters, and the liquidation of the RRLC, including the sale of Westwood and various timber tracts to the Fruit Growers Supply Company. There is also a set of minutes of the trustees of the Red River Lumber Company in Liquidation (1945-1956).

Location

Box

152.I.18.12F

Nov. 8, 1884-June 1, 1921.2 folders.

June 14, 1921-Dec. 30, 1933.3 folders.

Volume "1". Jan. 2, 1934-Sept. 25, 1939.["copy"] 2 folders.

Volume "2". Jan. 2, 1934-April 5, 1948.3 folders.

Volume "2". Sept. 30, 1939-Dec. 4, 1944; Sept. 26, 1956; Oct. 15, 1956.2 folders.

March 19, 1945-Nov. 8, 1956.2 folders.

RRLC in Liquidation.

Financial Records

These consist largely of financial records, including a daybook (1904), general journals (1881-1900), cash books (1884-1924), miscellaneous ledgers (1905-1928), bills payable ledgers (1911-1921), a rent ledger (1911-1914), rent record sheets (1920-1935), and a trial balance book (1912-1914). These volumes relate primarily to the Minnesota business of the RRLC; there seems to be very little material pertaining to company operations in California. They include some information about Walker & Akeley partnership finances, and at least one of the volumes served as an exhibit in the Walker lawsuit against the Akeley heirs. There is also a variety of balance sheets, operations reports, income and expense statements, financial statements, depreciation statements, and accounting miscellany (mainly 1913-1937), focused on the California operations. Also present are an accident register (1913-1918), branch yard daily reports (1931), and an inventory of the company sawmill at Akeley (ca. 1916?).

This does not seem to be by any means a complete set of financial and accounting records; a number of volumes appear to be missing, and may be in the custody of successor Walker family lumber businesses in California.

Where appropriate, some of the larger and more difficult to handle volumes were unbound and their contents placed in file folders in order to better facilitate researcher use.

Location

Box

144.D.14.5B

Daybook, May 20, 1904-Nov. 26, 1904.

"Tenstrike, Minnesota."

Location

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152.I.18.12F

General journals:

Sept. 14, 1881-Dec. 31, 1885.

Unidentified Minneapolis firm.

Sept. 1, 1886-Dec. 31, 1890.

Cash received; lumber?

May 12, 1894-Sept. 27, 1900[?].

Chronological financial record of the RRLC and the Walker & Akeley partnership.

Location

Box

152.I.18.13B

Cash books:

Nov. 1, 1884-Aug. 31, 1886.

Def. Exhibit 56.

Location

Box

144.D.14.5B

March 1, 1908-May 31, 1912.

"Cash & Check" record including RRLC, W & A, TBW.

Location

Box

142.C.13.6

[unboxed]

Cash and miscellaneous journal "L", Oct. 2, 1916-Dec. 16, 1922.

RRLC-Akeley.

Location

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152.I.18.13B

Nov. 27, 1916-Feb. 1, 1918.

Rent cash book, 1920-1924.

Location

Box

142.C.13.7

[unboxed]

Lumber sales journal, Jan. 1, 1916-Nov. 28, 1922.

Location

Box

144.D.14.5B

Miscellaneous ledgers:

1905-1928 .Unidentified.

RRLC-Akeley, "K."

Location

Box

152.I.18.14F

1907-1917, .A-K. Folders 1-10.

Location

Box

152.I.19.1B

1907-1917, .L-Z. Folders 11-20.

Location

Box

144.D.14.6F

Unidentified; accounts with lumber companies, banks, and other businesses in several midwestern states (lumber sales?).

1909-1917, .A-L. Folders 1-10.

Location

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144.D.14.7B

1909-1917, .M-Z. Folders 11-18.

Location

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152.I.18.13B

1926-1929 .(A-Z). 3 folders.

Bills payable ledgers:

1911-1914.

Including TBW, W & A, Mpls. Central City Market Company.

1920-1921.

Various companies, mostly RRLC.

Location

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144.D.14.5B

Rent ledger, 1911-1914.

Location

Box

152.F.14.2F

[unboxed]

Rent record sheets, 1920-1935.1 volume.

Also includes rents due Industrial Investment Company, and other Walker companies and family members.

Location

Box

142.C.13.8

Trial Balance, 1912-1914.

Accident register, Oct. 4, 1913-Dec. 23, 1918.

Location

Box

152.I.19.1B

Branch Yard daily reports, Jan. 2, 1931-Oct. 31, 1931.4 folders.

Unidentified Minneapolis lumber yard, perhaps Foote; cumulative by month; end-of-month reports could be retained and the rest discarded.

Location

Box

152.I.18.13B

Inventory of Akeley Sawmill, [ca.1916?].

Location

Box

152.I.19.2F

Miscellaneous financial reports, statements, etc.:

Company-wide.

Location

Box

152.I.19.3B

Akeley.5 folders.

Minneapolis. 4 folders.

Westwood.

Location

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144.D.14.8F

Miscellaneous financial statements and volume pages:

Balance sheets, 1933-1936.

Balance sheets, income and expense statements, 1935-1936.[monthly].

Balance sheets and reports of operations [Westwood], 1922-1924, 1927-1928, 1933-1934.

Monthly; many gaps.

Location

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144.D.15.1B

Balance sheets and reports of operations [Westwood], 1922-1924, 1927-1928, 1933-1934.

Monthly; many gaps.

Depreciation and plant investment statements, 1913-1925.

Recapitulation of depreciation schedule, 1913-1925.

General lkumber inventory sheets, 1921, 1933-1936.

Mercantile accounts, monthly report, Red River Lumber Company, Westwood, 1921.

Location

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144.D.15.2F

Plant operations, monthly report, Red River Lumber Lumber Company, Westwood, 1921.

Profit and loss operating expense statements, Red River Lumber Company, Westwood, 1933-1945(?).[monthly].

Sales abstracts, 1921-1922.[monthly].

Spur Line construction costs, 1922-1928.

Location

Box

144.D.15.3B

Statements of accounts receivable and accounts payable Red River Lumber Company, Westwood, 1933-1937.

Statements of wholesale accounts, Red River Lumber Company, 1921-1922.

Westwood National Bank audit analysis, 1933-1934.

Miscellaneous financial statements, reports, and other information, 1917-1936.

Location

Box

142.C.14.1

[unboxed]

Payroll, Sept. 1916-Dec. 1922.

Location

Box

152.I.18.13B

Minneapolis office payroll, Sept. 1, 1918-Dec. 1, 1922.

Including RRLC and various other Walker companies.

Oversize Folders

A number of oversized maps and drawings related to the RRLC and its operations have been filed separately. They include plats of the Crookston mill site (1884-1913), plans and diagrams (Sanborn) of the Akeley mill, maps of Westwood and drawings of some of its buildings, maps of other California sites, strike and labor union announcements, and related miscellany.

Location

Box

A2/ov4

Folder 16

Crookston and Grand Forks

"Proposed Change of Tracks and of Elevators at Carman, Minnesota" [adjacent to RRLC's Crookston mill site], [ca.1897?].

Blueprint schematic drawing

"Plat of Land-Marks," [at RRLC's Crookston mill site], 1884.

Linen plat map.

"Map of Crookston Minnesota," 1914.

Not annotated.

"Carman, Polk Company, Minn.," 1881?

Plat map.

"Sletten and Cromb's Sub-Division of Out-Lots in Hurlbut's Adtn. to Crookston, Minn.," undated.

Plat map.

"Sletten & Cromb's Sub-Division of Out-Lots in Hurlbut's Addition to the City of Crookston, Minn.," undated.

Plat map.

"Grand Forks, Dakota," undated [ca. 1885?].

Plat map showing Grand Forks, and East Grand Forks, Minnesota.

"Map of the City of Grand Forks, Dakota," undated [ca. 1885].

Plat map showing Grand Forks, and East Grand Forks, Minnesota.

Location

Box

A2/ov4

Folder 17

Crookston (project-related maps):

Sanborn maps showing mill site:

1884.(portion) (saw mill only)

1884.(portion) (planing mill only)

1888.(portion) (saw mill only)

1890.(p. 7)

1896.(p. 7)

1896.(p. 8)

1896.(index)

1900.(p. 7) (Crookston & St. Hilaire Lumber Company)

1906.(p. 12) (Crookston Lumber Company)

1913.(p. 13) (Crookston Lumber Company)

Plat Maps (misc. portions):

[show most of the town as well as mill area]

1884.

1896.

1900.

Location

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A2/ov4

Folder 18

Akeley:

Sanborn map showing plant and lumber piles, 1907.

Sawmill plans and schematic diagrams:

Hog House, undated [ca. 1910?].

Side elevation of Lath Mill, undated.

Boiler conveyor, undated.

Erection plan of main tightner, undated.

Erection plan of saw mill, undated.

Sawing floor of saw mill, undated.

Machinery floor of saw mill, undated.

Akeley Herald-Tribune, July 2, 1909.

Including photographs and feature story about the RRLC and the Walkers. [fragile]

Location

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A2/ov4

Folder 19

Northern California Power Company:

Blueprint plat map with certain tracts colored in, undated.

T33N-R2E-3E.

Annotated blueprint plat map showing property ownership, creek locations, dam sites, area to be flooded, undated.

T33N-R2E-3E.

"Plat of Proposed Ditch Line from Deer Creek to Macumber Reservoir," 1913.

Blueprint map.

Blueprint maps apparently showing locations of power transmission lines (with "corrected notes"), undated:.

Sec. 1, T33N-R2E

Sec. 12, T33N-R2E (2 maps).

Sec. 14, T33N-R2E (2 maps).

Sec. 7, T33N-R3E.

Location

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A2/ov4

Folder 20

Westwood

"Notice of Election" broadside, 1938.

National Labor Relations Board broadside re: labor organization at Westwood.

Cottages and bunkhouse: Blueprint drawings:

Cottage No. 6, 1916.

Cottage design No. 50, 1917.

Cottage design No. 53, undated.

Cottage design No. 98, 1924.

Bunkhouse:

Ground/second floor plans, 1924.

Section and elevations, 1924.

Dance hall, 1919.

Elevations, cross section, floor plans; 1 sheet.

Fletcher L. Walker house at Mountain Meadows Saw Mills [Westwood], undated [ca. 1912?].

Sheet 1: Main/second floor plans.

Sheet 2: Front/side elevations.

Sheet 3: Sectional views/details.

Map of Westwood (town and mill):

[Original], undated.

Copy of original, undated.

Copy of original, 1917.

Map of Westwood (town and mill)

2 similar, undated copies.

Map of yards, 1914.

Blueprint map.

Four band and resaw, 1913.

Blueprint schematic drawing.

Location

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A2/ov4

Folder 21

Miscellany:

RRLC Camp Train: Sleeping Car, 1916.

Blueprint drawing.

Including elevations, section, floor plan, frame plan, details.

"Ready to Nail" lake cottages for sale by RRLC, undated:.

Sheet No. 1: Front and side elevations/details. No. 22B.

Sheet No. 1: Side/rear/front elevations. No. 33.

Sheet No. 3: Floor plan/plan of foundation rraming. No. 33.

"The Organizer: Daily Strike Bulletin" (published Minneapolis) July 17, 1934.Published by A. F. of L. Local 574: Drivers, Helpers, Petroleum, and Inside Workers.

Acidic newsprint.

"Another Strike Threatened: Do you know who is responsible?" broadside, 1934.

Re: Minneapolis truck drivers' strike.

Erroneous identification on the back.

Newsprint--fairly good shape.

Location

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A2/ov4

Folder 22

Fall River Mills, California:

"Offical Map of Lassen View Addition to Fall River Mills" Amended Map No. 1:

1916 .[signed by WJW and ADW].

Undated [1916?] .[annotated]

Amended map No. 2, 1916.

"Map of Fall River Mills, Shasta Company California," 1915.

"Map of Fall River Mills," 1914[?].

"Map of Fall River Mills," undated.

"Return to Mpls."

Annotated.

Assessment map[?], undated.

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