gr00353.xml Railroad and Warehouse Commission An Inventory of Its Tri-State Telephone and Telegraph Company Files at the Minnesota Historical Society National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Minnesota Historical Society

St. Paul, MN.

Government Records

Finding aid encoded by Shelby Edwards and Cheri Thies, August 2011. Finding aid written in English. OVERVIEW Minnesota Historical Society Railroad and Warehouse Commission of the State of Minnesota. Tri-State Telephone and Telegraph Company files. 1916-1927. Materials in English. Monthly payrolls (1916-1918), ICC Finance Docket 9891 materials (1918-1921), minutes and transcripts of hearings (1918), construction estimates index cards (1918), and orders (1921-1927). These records concern the consolidation of telephones and division of territory between the Tri-State Telephone and Telegraph Company and the Northwestern Telephone Exchange Company. 1.35 cu. ft. (1 box and 2 partial boxes). See Detailed Description for shelf locations. CATALOG HEADINGS

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

Topics: Telegraph -- Minnesota. Telephone -- Minnesota. Wages -- Telephone workers -- Minnesota. Organizations: Northwestern Telephone Exchange Company. Tri-State Telephone and Telegraph Company. Document Types: Payrolls. Functions: Regulating. ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Railroad and Warehouse Commission of the State of Minnesota. Tri-State Telephone and Telegraph Company Files. Minnesota Historical Society.

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Accession Information:

Accession numbers: None; 977-1

Processing Information:

Processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with a Basic Project grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).

Catalog ID number: 001703772

DETAILED DESCRIPTION 104.I.17.1B Payrolls, 1916-1918.

Copies of monthly payroll figures of the various exchanges comprising the company’s Minnesota telephone operations. Arranged by telephone exchange and thereunder by date; the payrolls provide the rate and total wages received by each employee. No employee names are included.

ICC Finance Docket 9891 - Tri-State Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1918-1921. 2 folders. Exceptions to Examiner’s Report, circa 1918. Assorted correspondence, 1918-1921.

Contains files designated “117” and “M-316.”

118.A.3.2F Minutes and transcripts of hearings, 1918. 1 volume.

Hearings in the matter of the consolidation of telephones and division of territory, between the Tri-State Telephone and Telegraph Company and the Northwestern Telephone Exchange Company, in the State of Minnesota. The four hearings took place between March 11 and April 29, 1918.

Telephone valuation index cards, 1918.

Index cards used for construction estimates in the 1918 consolidation of telephones and division of territory between the Tri-State Telephone and Telegraph Company and the Northwestern Telephone Exchange Company.

123.H.4.7B-1 Orders, 1921-1927. 5 items in 1 folder.

Arranged chronologically.

Order of February 9, 1921 in Telephone Rate Cases of the Tri-State Telephone and Telegraph Company and the Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, 1921. Order as to Valuation, in the Matter of the Investigation of all Rates, Tolls, Charges, Rules and Regulations of the Tri-State Telephone and Telegraph Company, January 20, 1922. Order as to Valuation in the Matter of the Investigation of all Rates, Tolls, Charges, Rules and Regulations of the Northwestern Bell Telephone Company, January 20, 1922. Appraisal of the Property of Northwestern Telephone Exchange Company, in accordance with the Commissioner’s Order as to Valuation, January 20, 1922. Uniform System of Accounts for Telephone Companies, Accounting Circular No. 53 superseding Accounting Circular No. 52, effective January 1, 1927.