00480 GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY: An Inventory of the General Manager's Subject Files at the Minnesota Historical Society Minnesota Historical Society
St. Paul MN.
 Finding aid encoded by Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, May 2000Finding aid written inEnglish August 2008Converted from EAD Version 1.0 to Version 2002 by Monica Manny Ralston, Daniel Sher, and Joyce Chapman. OVERVIEW OF THE COLLECTION Minnesota Historical Society Great Northern Railway Company. Operating Dept. General Manager's subject files. 1887-1957. Correspondence and subject files created or compiled by the GN administrative department responsible for operating the physical properties of the Great Northern rail system. 67.0 cu. ft. (67 boxes). See Detailed Description section for shelf locations. SCOPE AND CONTENTS OF THE RECORDS

The several series of subject files of the general manager document most phases of the day-to-day operation of the railway. They include information on labor relations with train and track crews and other operating employees, including wage matters; maintenance and purchase of rolling stock, including information files on various types of equipment; maintenance of railway and structures; making up trains; acquisition and management of important supplies (water, coal, ties, and rail); electrification of certain western line sections; management of shops, lunchrooms, and other employee facilities; and teh employment of railroad detectives. There are also files on the operation of certain subsidiaries: Glacier Park Hotel Company Somers Lumber Company, and the Cottonwood Coal Company.

 ARRANGEMENT OF THE RECORDS

These documents are organized into the following sections:

General Files Motor-rail and Gas-electric Vehicle Files Glacier Park Hotel Company Files Somers Lumber Company Files Cottonwood Coal Company Files RELATED MATERIALS

Additional records of the Great Northern Railway Company and of its Operating Department are in the Minnesota Historical Society manuscript collections.

 CATALOG HEADINGS

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics: Railroad police -- Northwestern States. Railroad stations -- Northwestern States -- Management. Railroad tunnels--Northwestern States. Railroads -- Northwestern States -- Buildings and structures. Railroads -- Northwestern States -- Cost of operation. Railroads -- Northwestern States -- Electrification. Railroads -- Northwestern States -- Employees. Railroads -- Northwestern States -- Equipment and supplies. Railroads -- Northwestern States -- Maintenance and repair. Railroads -- Northwestern States -- Making up trains. Railroads -- Northwestern States -- Management. Railroads -- Northwestern States -- Repair shops. Railroads -- Northwestern States -- Right of way. Railroads -- Northwestern States -- Rolling stock. Railroads -- Northwestern States -- Track. Railroads -- Northwestern States -- Water supply. Railroads -- Northwestern States -- Yards. Railroads and state. Labor unions -- Railroads -- Northwestern States. Organizations: Cottonwood Coal Company -- Management. Glacier Park Hotel Company -- Management. Somer Lumber Company -- Management. ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here].Great Northern Railway Company. Operating Department. General Manager's Subject Files. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

 Accession Information:

Accession numbers: GN 1680-1869

 Processing Information:

Processed: Dennis Meissner, March 1992

Catalog ID number: 09-00322759

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION General Files 132.B.15.4F 1 1-07. American Detective Service Company, Chicago: suit, boilermakers furnished during boilermakers' strike, 1907-1916. 2-40. Budd, Ralph: trip to Russia, 1930. 2-50. Barron's: GN write-up, 1936. 3-19. Cottonwood Coal Company, 1901-1926. 2 folders. 4-17. Deer Park Lumber Company: rental and sale of equipment, 1913-1937. 4-22. Devil's Lake and Chautauqua Railway Company, 1900-1914. 2 folders. 6-10. Ferguson Engineers, Chicago: steam-electric locomotives, 1924-1926. 6-11. Flandrau, Mr. and Mrs.: doing special work for GN, 1924-1926. 6-14. Federal Power Commission: permits and applications, 1925-1938. 7-10. Goodwin, W. A., inspector, mechanical dept., to check and make reports, shops and roundhouses [re I.W.W.], 1922-1923. 132.B.15.5B 2 10-07. Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railway Company, 1924-1935. 2 folders. 13-03. Mann-McCann Company: grader and ballast spreader, 1907. 15-06. Northern Information Bureau, Minneapolis: soliciting work re I.W.W., 1917-1923. 15-09. Northern Dakota Railway Company: purchase of, 1920-1923. 15-20. North Pacific Coast Freight Bureau, 1925-1937. 15-26. National Electric Light Association, Electrification of Steam Railroads Committee, 1928-1933. 6 folders. 16-11. O'Brien, Martin (Crookston, Minn.): complaints against GN re government operation of Railroads, 1918. 17-02. Pinkerton's National Detective Agency, 1913-1954. 132.B.15.6F 3 17-02. Pinkerton's National Detective Agency, 1913-1954. 18-13. Russian railroad officials: inspection of railroads, 1918-1936. 18-43. Railway Men's Sound Money Club: free coinage of silver, 1896. 20-06. Edward Smith Company, Detroit: detective agency, 1906-1907. 20-23. Strauss, J. B.: reinforced concrete freight car, 1920. 20-46. Steamotor Company, Chicago: high pressure steam turbine locomotive, 1927. 21-02. Twin City Car Foremen's and Inspectors' Association., 1900-1904. 21-12. Thiel Detective Service Company, St. Paul, 1921-1924. 21-28. Twin City Railroad Association., 1902-1906. 24-49. Cascade electrification, 1916, 1920. 28-84. National Mediation Board; National Railroad Adjustment Board; Railway Labor Act, 1920-1953. 16 folders. 132.B.15.8F 5 28-85. GN booklet: "To Employees of the Great Northern Railway," 1922. 28-89. Pay: requests from labor organizations for increase in rates of pay, 1923-1929. 132.B.15.9B 6 28-105. Pay: report of Federal Coordinator, 1933-1936. 2 folders. 28-116. Pay: request for increase by non-operating railway labor organizations, 1946-1947. 28-118. Pay: non-operating employees' request for increase, 1947. 28-120. Pay: non-operating brotherhoods' request for for 40-hour week and increase in pay, 1948-1949. 3 folders. 28-120-E. Pay: Switchmen's Union of North America: request for 40-hour week; strike, 1949-1950. 10 folders. 31-31. Handling Chinese on passenger trains, 1907-1937. 132.B.15.10F 7 31-45. Silk trains, 1917-1946. 3 folders. 31-57. Train holdups [robberies], 1907-1919. 31-128-09. Special trains: Columbia River Historical Expedition, 1926. 4 folders. 31-128-10. Special trains: Queen Marie of Rumania, 1926. 31-128-14. Special trains: Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1934. 132.B.15.11B 8 31-128-16. Special trains: Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1937. 31-128-18. Special trains: Crown Prince and Princess of Norway, 1939. 31-128-29. Special trains: Harry S. Truman, 1947-1952. 31-144. Streamline lightweight passenger trains, 1933-1936. 3 folders. 31-159. Circus trains, 1910-1944. 33-02. Fire protection: Minnesota, 1896-1923. 132.B.15.12F 9 33-19. Weed burners, 1918-1948. 2 folders. 33-39. Fire protection: Pend D'Oreille Timber Protective Association., 1908-1915. 34-01. Oriental Trading Company: Japanese labor, 1898-1909. 34-02. National Union of Railway Trackmen, 1907. 34-09. Labor: H. W. Osborn contract, 1907. 34-13. Labor: Negro laborers, 1916-1917. 132.B.15.13B 10 34-22-01. Labor: Chinese student engineers, 1929-1946. 34-23. Labor: Mexican laborers, 1925-1948. 8 folders. 132.B.15.14F 11 34-25. Labor: labor shortage; War Manpower Commission; employment of Mexican and Japanese laborers, 1941-1950. 7 folders. 132.B.15.15B 12 34-25-03. Labor: Japanese laborers, 1943-1944. 38-06-01. Passenger cars: cleaning equipment, 1933-1935. 38-06-05-06. Passenger cars: applying steel underframing and steel sheathing, 1911-1928. 38-06-09-01. Passenger cars: air conditioning, 1930-1935. 38-08-15-08. I.C.C. car shortage hearing, Louisville, Ky., Nov. 8, 1916, 1916-1924. 38-08-17. Employees and outsiders stealing and robbing, 1912-1949. 38-12. Cabooses, 1933-1946. 38-18. Passenger coaches, 1914-1939. 132.B.15.16F 13 38-21. Dining cars, 1915-1930. 38-21-04. Dining cars: menus, 1920s-[1950?]. 38-23. Air dump cars, 1914-1934. 38-42. Motor cars, 1904-1928. 38-42-05. Motor cars: Fairmont Railway Motors, Inc., 1920-1946. 132.B.16.1B 14 39-01. Equipment: sale of, 1913-1950. 132.B.16.3B 16 39-09. Equipment: Northern Dakota Railway Company, 1908-1918. 39-31. Equipment: scrapping and retiring, 1925-1940. 40. Engines: purchase of, 1902-1950. 132.B.16.5B 18 40-01. Engines: general, 1910-1934. 40-16. Engines: classification, 1903. 132.B.16.6F 19 40-28-02. Engines: failures of electric engines, 1927-1933. 40-84. Engines: repair by Minneapolis Steel and Machinery Company, 1922-1923. 40-106. Equipment: depreciation rate, 1934, 1940. 40-107. Equipment: Spokane Valley and Northern Railway Company, 1918-1921. 40-113. Oriental Limited, 1924. 40-161. Baldwin Locomotive Works, 1889-1944. 40-195. Diesel engines, 1924-1944. 132.B.16.7B 20 40-195-01. Diesel engines: switch engines, 1938-1946. 40-195-23. Diesel engines: Electromotive Corp., 1932-1938. 40-198. Electric and diesel-electric engines, 1907-1947. 4 folders. 132.B.16.8F 21 40-198. Electric and diesel-electric engines, 1907-1947. 2 folders, 5 volumes. 132.B.17.14F 43 144-12. Rail, 1910-1932. 144-23-01. Rail: detector car no. 117 test, 1934. 166-18. Ice houses; ice hoists, 1914-1949. 4 folders. 166-19. Ice houses: clearances, 1938-1948. 177-02. Operating statements and explanations, 1929-1943. 3 folders. 132.B.17.15B 44 177-02-01. Operating expenses: Mesabi Division, 1916-1924. 177-02-02. Operating expenses: Dakota Division, 1916-1924. 177-02-03. Operating expenses: St. Cloud Division, 1916-1926. 177-02-04. Operating expenses: Willmar Division, 1916-1922. 177-02-05. Operating expenses: Minot Division, 1917-1923. 177-02-06. Operating expenses: Montana Division, 1917-1926. 177-02-07. Operating expenses: Butte Division, 1916-1923. 177-02-08. Operating expenses: Kalispell Division, 1920-1923. 177-02-09. Operating expenses: Spokane Division, 1916-1923. 177-02-10. Operating expenses: Cascade Division, 1917-1924. 177-02-16. Operating: comparison of NP (Dickinson-Glendive) and GN, Minot-Williston, 1923. 132.B.17.16F 45 182. General Managers' Association / National Conference Committee of Railways [8-hour day], 1916-1918. 10 folders. 132.B.18.1B 46 183. Snow storms, 1920-1948. 2 folders. 183-04. Snow fighting equipment, 1905-1948. 3 folders. 186-02. American Railway Association. Special Committee on National Defense [ARA Committee]: troop movements, 1916-1919. 3 folders. 132.B.18.2F 47 186-05. ARA Committee: executive committee circulars, 1917-1918. 186-06. ARA Committee: central department circulars, 1917-1918.

See: GN Vice President - Operating, U.S. Railroad Administration Subject Files 186-08 and 186-10 for related files.

 186-16(1). U.S. Army: organizing railway battalions, 1923-1928. 186-16(3-4). Organization of 704th Engineer Headquarters, Railway Grand Division, 1939-1942. 3 folders. 186-16-02. Military Railway Service: railway diesel shop battalion, 1940-1942. 186-16-03. Military Railway Service: establishment of schools; training, 1942-1943. 2 folders. 186-16-04. Military Railway Service: 710th Railway Battalion, 1942-1945. 186-16-05. Military Railway Service: 732d Railway Battalion, 1943-1945. 196-01. Empire Builder, 1929. 132.B.18.3B 48 220. Automatic train control: general, 1905-1954. 5 folders, 9 volumes. 132.B.18.4F 49 220[A]. Automatic train control: companies: General Railway Signal Company, Rochester, N.Y., 1922-1955. International Signal Company, N.Y. (Webb), [1923?]. Miller Train Control Corp., Staunton, Va., 1916. National Safety Appliance Company, San Francisco, 1919. Regan Safety Devices Company, 1920-1923. Union Switch and Signal Company, Swissvale, Pa., 1922-1924. United States Train Signal Company, Portland, Me., 1920. Wooding Railway Warning Device Company, 1908-1920. 220-01. Automatic train control: Sprague Safety Control and Signal Corp., 1922-1927. 220-01-01. Automatic train control: Sprague Safety Control and Signal Corp. infringement suit, 1925-1931. 227-06. Motor buses and trucks: general, 1922-1956. 7 folders. 132.B.18.5B 50 227-16-01. Northland Transportation Company: bus service, Twin Cities, 1926-1927. 227-16-02. Northland Transportation Company: sight-seeing busses, Twin Cities, 1927-1929. 227-22. Northland Transportation Company: sale and purchase of bus lines, 1925-1929. 227-25. Northland Transportation Company: snow fighting equipment, 1925-1927. 227-28. Northland Transportation Company: increasing/decreasing service, 1925-1944. 227-31. Northland Transportation Company: handling passengers at NP Railway docks, Duluth, 1926-1927. 132.B.18.6F 51 230. Strike: shop crafts: 1922, 1922-[1924?]. 24 folders. 132.B.18.8F 53 241. Minneapolis, Red Lake and Manitoba Railway Company: general, 1919-1939. 2 folders. 241-02. Minneapolis, Red Lake and Manitoba Railway Company: rental and sale of equipment, 1926-1938. Motor-rail and Gas-electric Vehicle Files 132.B.16.8F 21 42. General, 1912-1934. 4 folders. 132.B.16.9B 22 42-03. J. G. Brill Company; American Car and Foundry Motors Company, 1924-1933. 42-05. Electro-Motive Company, 1926-1929. 2 folders. 42-06. Fairbanks-Morse and Company, 1907-1911. 42-07. Four Wheel Drive Company, Clintonville, Wis., 1921-1933. 42-08. Railway Auto Car Company, Ganz, N.Y., 1904-1909. 42-09. General Electric Company, 1908-1932. 132.B.16.10F 23 42-10. Mack-International Motor Truck Corp., 1921-1933. 42-11. McKeen Motor Car Company, Omaha, 1907-1913. 42-12. Railway Motors Corp., DePere, Wis.; Oneida Manufacturing Company, Green Bay, Wis., 1923-1927. 42-13. Railway Storage Battery Car Company, N.Y., 1923-1924. 42-14. E. Prouty, Chicago, 1907-1910. 42-15. Service Motor Truck Company, Wabash, Ind., 1921-1928. 42-16. Stover Motor Car Company, Freeport, Ill, 1907-1909. 42-17. Sykes Company, St. Louis, Mo., 1923-1925. 42-18. White Company, Cleveland, Ohio, 1921-1926. 42-19. Ewbank Electric Transmission Company, Portland, Ore., 1914-1915. 42-20. Proposed GN double-deck motor rail bus, 1925. 42-21. Edwards Company, Sanford, N.C., 1924-1940. 42-22. Diesel oil-electric rail buses: general, 1923-1944. 42-25. Westinghouse Electric Company, 1926-1938. 8 folders. 42-26. Standard Steel Car Corp., Pittsburgh, 1927-1931. 42-27. Motor rail bus trailers, 1926-1927. 42-30. Railway Locomotor Company, Chicago, 1929-1931. 42-35. Ingersoll-Rand Company, N.Y., 1932-1934. 42-36. Clark Equipment Company, Battle Creek, Mich. Autotram Division, 1933. 42-37. Howesons-Austro-Daimler, 1933. 42-40. Coordinated Transportation, Inc., Minneapolis; Madden rail truck, 1934-1941. 132.B.16.11B 24 43. Electrification: general, 1903-1954. 8 folders. 43-01. Electrification: Wenatchee to Tye to Skykomish to Everett, 1913-1929. 10 folders. 132.B.16.13B 26 43-02. Electrification: Havre to Whitefish, 1917-1924. 43-05. Electrification: proposed extension to Seattle or Gold Bar, 1929-1940. 2 folders. 43-12. Electrification: development of power on Spokane Division, 1925-1928. 44-12. Telegraph schools, 1903-1944. 46-39. Fuel: conservation, 1917-1920. 2 folders. 46-44. Fuel: organizing GN fuel department, 1918. 46-50. Fuel: coal handling cranes and bridges, 1921. 47. Employees: personal record, 1894-1899. 132.B.16.14F 27 47-25-03. Employees: National Surety Company, checking trains, 1906-1939. 2 folders. 47-37-01. Employees: number of women employed, 1918-1920. 2 folders. 47-91. Employees: "Ship-by-Rail" Club, 1914-1946. 3 folders. 132.B.16.15B 28 48-01-01. Eating houses: Shaver News Company contract, 1906-1915. 2 folders. 48-01-03. Eating houses: Shaver News Company; operation of lunch rooms on GN Railway, 1887-1914, 1945. 48-02. Boarding cars and houses: Hauser and Company, 1898-1903. 48-05. Boarding cars and houses: Knudsen and Ferguson Company, 1904-1908. 48-06. Boarding cars and houses: Peterson and Fell, boarding camps east of Williston, 1909-1912. 132.B.16.16F 29 48-06-01. Boarding cars and houses: Peterson and Fell, boarding camps at Kelly Lake, Superior, and Allouez, 1907-1912. 48-10-01. Boarding camps: operating statements; number of camps in operation, 1916-1935. 50-26. Fair Labor Standards Act, 1934-1943. 2 folders 54. Reconstruction Finance Corp.: including reports on GN; Burlington-Rock Island; and Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific, 1935-1936, 1940. 2 folders and 9 volumes. 132.B.17.2F 31 54-01. Reconstruction Finance Corp.: 1940 trip; revision of 1935 report on GN Railway, 1940. 55-84. Ore statements: 1892-1908, 1908. 55-90. Operating statistics, 1930-1947. 5 folders. 132.B.17.3B 32 57. Stations: standard depot building, 1903-1920. 57-05. Stations: placing advertising material in, 1906-1934. 57-11. Buildings: painting; standard colors, 1905-1922. 3 folders. 57-12. Stations: naming, 1900-1920. 58. Ties: Somers Lumber Company, 1913-1925. 132.B.17.4F 33 59. Patents, 1917-1930. 2 folders. 70-13. North Dakota: motor buses and trucks operating on highways in, 1923-1938. 2 folders. 77-01. Logs: Scanlon Lumber Company, Minn., 1899-1904. 77-02. Logs: Crookston Lumber Company, Minn., 1902-1909. 77-03. Logs: Spokane Lumber Company, Wash., 1905-1913. 132.B.17.5B 34 77-08. Logs: Grand Forks Lumber Company, Minn., 1902-1907. 77-09. Logs: Wild Rice Lumber Company, Ada, Minn., 1903-1906. 77-14. Logs: Commonwealth Lumber Company, Frazee, Minn.; Nichols-Chisholm Lumber Company, Frazee, Minn., 1903-1905. 77-15. Logs: J. Neils Lumber Company, Cass Lake, Minn., 1902-1913. 77-16. Logs: Red River Lumber Company, Akeley, Minn., 1903-1907. 77-20. Logs: Atwood Lumber Company, Minn., 1904-1905. 77-21. Logs: Taber Lumber Company, Keokuk, Iowa, 1903-1904. 77-22. Logs: Thief River Falls Lumber Company, Minn., 1902-1904. 77-24. Logs: Virginia Lumber Company, Minn., 1904-1905. 77-25. Logs: Northern Lumber Company, Cloquet, Minn., 1903-1907. 77-26. Logs: Burlington Lumber Company, Minn., 1900-1904. 77-27. Logs: Bailey Lumber Company, Minn., 1904-1913. 77-30. Logs: D. C. Thompson, Minn., 1903. 77-31. Logs: Nichols Lumber Company, Minn., 1902. 77-32. Logs: Cloquet Lumber Company, Cloquet, Minn., 1902-1905. 77-34. Logs: Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Company, Scanlon, Minn., 1902-1909. 77-35. Logs: Sultan Railway and Timber Company, Wash., 1906-1935. 77-38. Logs: Somers Lumber Company, Somers, Mont., 1919-1920. 77-42. Logs: Miller Logging Company, Wash., 1923. 77-49. Logs: Hedlund Lumber Company / Chinook Lumber and Manufacturing Company, Wash., 1930-1931. 79. Water supply, 1902-1936. 2 folders. 132.B.17.6F 35 79-03. Water tanks, 1914-1929. 79-12. Water treating plants, 1902-1945. 79-40. Water supply: locating water, 1912-1941. 132.B.17.7B 36 83. Donations and contributions, 1902-1953. 98-09-02. Commission on car service, 1917-1920. 100-03. Switchmen's Union of North America, 1923-1946. 132.B.17.8F 37 100-08. Associated Organizations of Shop Craft Employees, GN Railway, 1922-1929. 2 folders. 100-13. Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, 1901-1948. 4 folders. 132.B.17.9B 38 100-14. Order of Railroad Telegraphers, 1901-1930. 2 folders. 100-18. International Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees, 1913-1941. 3 folders. 100-19. Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, 1918-1947. 3 folders. 132.B.17.10F 39 100-20. American Train Dispatcher's Association., 1898-1921, 1935-1941. 2 folders. Glacier Park Hotel Company Files 132.B.17.10F 39 117. General, 1913-1953. 4 folders. 132.B.17.11B 40 117-04. Property: purchase, sale, rental, 1933-1954. 117-05. Water supply, 1932-1945. 117-06. Concessions, 1933-1946. 117-09. Physician service, 1933-1954. 117-10. Tourist camps, cabins and buildings, 1933-1952. 4 folders. 132.B.17.12F 41 117-11. Chalets, 1932-1954. 117-13. Glacier Park Transport Company, 1932-1956. 1 folder, 1 volume. 117-17. Fires; publication of "Fire Control Notes," 1935-1955. 117-17-01. Fire protection; fire insurance inspection reports, 1933-1954. 4 folders. 117-24. Saddle horse operations, 1939-1955. 117-25. Relocation of state highway, 1938-1940. 117-28. Dishes; costumes for waitresses, 1940. 117-29. National Park Service, 1930-1948. 117-29A. National Park Service miscellaneous publications, 1938-1941. 117-31. Check of operating conditions, 1939-1940. 117-32. Indian art curios, 1940-1941. 132.B.17.13B 42 117-33. Closing park due to war, 1942-1946. 117-38. Motion picture companies using park, 1946-1957. 117-40. Mechanical refrigeration, 1937-1946. 117-41. Operating contract with U.S. government, 1932-1954. 5 folders. 117-43. Hotel, chalet, and auto camp rates, 1947-1953. 117-44. U.S. Public Health Service inspections; improvements, 1946-1948. 117-47. Hiring Indians, 1948-1954. 117-48. Survey of visitors: 1948, 1949. 117-49. Complaint regarding not hiring Jews, 1949. 117-54. Collection of Indian art curios, 1951-1952. 117-59. Lake Lodge girls' dormitory drawings, 1953. 117-64. "Legislative History of Glacier Park," 1954. Somers Lumber Company Files 132.B.18.9B 54 252. General, 1920-1935. 6 folders. 132.B.18.10F 55 252-01. Tie treating plant, 1917-1956. 3 folders. 252-04. Purchasing timber lands from Anaconda Copper Company, 1921-1950. 2 folders. 132.B.18.11B 56 252-09. Purchase and sale of Echo Lake timber lands, J. Neils Lumber Company, Cass Lake, Minn., 1922-1937. 252-16. Reports on union activity in northwest lumber industry, 1937-1949. 2 folders. 252-17. Daly's spur, 1924-1927. 252-18. Blanchard Lake Camp, 1924-1928. 252-20. Miscellaneous reports, 1927-1944. 252-23. Western Pine Association, 1921-1950. 2 folders. 132.B.18.12F 57 252-34. Purchase and exchange of timber lands, NP Railway, 1925-1949. 252-42. Western Forestry and Conservation Association, 1926-1953. 252-49. Whitefish mill; Lupfer timber, 1923-1942. 252-51. Log trestle; hot pond, 1924-1938. 252-72. Northern Montana Forestry Association, 1921-1954. 252-73. Lidgerwood skidder, 1919-1924. 252-85. Bitter Root Lake property, 1926-1948. 252-87. Fire protection, 1920-1956. 2 folders. 132.B.18.13B 58 252-91. Report on damage to company through raising of Flathead Lake, 1941-1942. 252-97. Tally Lake dam and irrigation district, 1915-1946. 252-101. Operating statistics, 1921-1948. 252-108. Incising-boring-adzing machines, 1927-1945. 252-110. Whitefish buildings, yard, plant, 1921-1927. 252-112. Condensed statement of costs, 1921-1926. 252-114. Statements; Accounting Department data, 1921-1944. 252-115. Insurance, 1921-1949. 252-121. Tugs; boats, 1923-1950. 132.B.18.14F 59 252-133. F. W. Horstkotte, sawmill architect: suggestions and recommendations regarding plant, 1927-1928. 252-134. Engines, 1927-1953. 252-162. Dayton logging line: construction and abandonment, 1928-1947. 252-169. Saw mill, 1928-1949. 252-171. Lupfer logging railroad, 1928-1932. 252-177. Hotel, houses, buildings, 1928-1954. 252-190. Railway Age article, 1929-1930. 252-192. Pulp mill; pulp wood, 1920-1948. 252-201. ZMA [preservative] installation, 1930-1933. 252-204. Logging railroad south of Marion, 1930-1940. 252-208. Corporate existence; increasing capital stock, 1930. 252-210. Lake Mary Ronan dam, 1926-1953. 252-211. Tree farms; future operation; sustained yield, 1934-1954. 2 folders. 132.B.18.15B 60 252-214. Purchase of timber lands in the vicinity of the Anaconda timber, 1925-1952. 252-292. Proposal to take over operation of Addison Miller Company, 1938-1939. 252-301. Wage hearings; union activity, 1937-1954. 5 folders, 1 volume. 132.B.18.16F 61 252-301-01. Timber Products Manufacturers Association, 1943-1949. 252-301-01A. Timber Products Manufacturers Association bulletins, 1945-1954. 252-323. Sawmill: dicontinuing operation; dismantling, 1946-1949. 252-324. Sale of abandoned buildings and facilities, 1949-1950. 132.B.19.1B 62 252-324A. Bid of Alex Shulman; sale to Shulman, 1949-1955. 2 folders. Cottonwood Coal Company Files 132.B.19.1B 62 253. General, 1920-1945. 3 folders. 253-01. Great Falls Power Company; Montana Power Company: furnishing power, 1922-1946. 253-03. Stockett mines: closing, 1926-1927. 253-05. Developing new coal fields, 1924-1930. 253-06. Purchase of coal lands from Carbon Coal Company, Mrs. Minnie Gerber, and Ernest Downing, 1921-1933. 132.B.19.2F 63 253-07. Carbon Mine at Sand Coulee, 1927-1932. 253-08. Pay of employees; strikes; United Mine Workers of America, 1921-1948. 4 folders. 253-08-02. Boyle, J. J.: U.M.W. protesting discharge of, 1937. 253-11. Operating costs and expenses, 1924-1946. 253-13. Operation of Sand Coulee Mine No. 8, 1927-1929. 132.B.19.3B 64 253-14. Equipment and material: sale of; inventory, 1926-1948. 253-25. Smith River and Hound Creek coal lands, 1923-1926. 253-26. Brown Coal Company lease, 1917-1928. 253-27. Nelson Coal Company: purchase of properties, 1922-1942. 253-28. Greenway Mine; Embarrass Lake; Syracuse Lake; Bovey-DeLaittre mining properties in St. Louis and Itasca counties, Minnesota, 1922-1948. 253-29. Coal explorations on the Great Falls - Billings line, 1923-1924. 253-32. H. F. Tilton: general file, 1923-1946. 253-34. Stockett Mines Nos. 5 and 6, 1926. 253-35. Purchase of coal properties in Box Elder Coulee and near Belt, 1921-1922. 132.B.19.4F 65 253-38. Operation; output; quality and distribution of mines; sale [of coal?] to G.N. Railway Company, 1921-1947. 2 folders. 253-40. East Belt Coal Company, 1926-1929. 253-46. Strike; stockpiling coal, 1921-1922. 253-49. LeHigh Mines Nos. 1 and 2, 1921-1945. 253-56. Rental and sale of property, 1928-1945. 253-57. Directory of Montana Mining Properties, 1940, 1942. 132.B.19.5B 66 253-60. Giffen Mine No. 1, 1929-1946. 2 folders. 253-68. Houses; garages, 1930-1940. 253-70. Valier Coal Company, 1931-1937. 253-72. Equipment and machinery, 1931-1946. 253-72-01. Machinery: T. J. Thomas reports on progress of installation of new machinery, 1937-1940. 253-76. Windham Coal Mine, 1909-1910. 253-88. Giffen Mine No. 2, 1931-1940. 253-102. Locomotives, 1933-1941. 253-107. Coal tipple, 1934-1946. 132.B.19.6F 67 253-115. Liquidation: taking over of property and operation by GN Railway.; proposed abandonment of Giffen Mines properties, 1940-1943. 253-115-01. Liquidation: changing from oil to coal on Butte Division, 1944-1947. 2 folders. 253-115-02. Liquidation: sale of Giffen coal mine property to Giffen Coal Mines Company, 1946-1954. 253-134. Federal inspection: ventilation; working conditions, 1938-1943. 253-135. Giffen Mine water condition; floods; pumps, 1932-1944. 253-139. Maps of coal properties, 1910-1939. 2 folders. 253-153. Giffen Mine: W. B. Irwin general desk file, 1936-1947. 281. Federal valuation of GN Railway, 1913-1934. 4 folders.