Government Records
Included are files concerning statistics on timber harvest, value, and sales; reforestation; the Kabetogama Land Exchange Project; timber trespass, scaling, and appraisal; tax-forfeited lands and timber sale in Hubbard County; and sale of stumpage. Also historical data on the timber department.
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the
Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics
should
Accession number: None
Catalog ID number: 001705014
State of Minnesota v R. L. Horr (Ramsey County District Court File No. 151548), in which the state unsuccessfully demanded additional payment for timber cut on state land. Horr was connected with E. W. Backus' International Lumber Company.
Correspondence regarding State of Minnesota v Hamre-Hogenson Holding Co., concerning the status of merchantable timber on tracts of land in Clearwater County.
Statistics, by permit number, of types of timber cut during each harvesting season, with a summary of totals for 1915-1921.
Summary statistics on timber offered, sold, and actually cut in each year; by year and by individual permit number.
Statistical report, with associated statistics.
Tables showing value of different species of timber harvested under each timber permit for each year.
Lists of timber sold under each harvesting permit (Nos. 5103-5343), giving permit number, land parcel(s), date of sale, purchaser, class of timber, and amount paid. Section 10 permitted the state auditor to sell small amounts of dead, down, dying, or diseased timber on state land without formal approval by the Timber Board.
Tables showing timber sales, by species, giving estimates, actual cuts, and values for several counties, 1917-1925, with associated correspondence.
Numbered, with an item list.
Detailed responses by State Auditor Ray P. Chase to the commission's questions regarding the management of timber holdings on state land.
Preliminary report (1944) on the project by Chester S. Wilson, with associated summaries of the land involved and its value.
Mainly dealing with claims.
Inventory of furniture, equipment, supplies, and records in the state timber office (January 1933); correspondence regarding timber trespass, dead and down timber, reforestation, sale of timber on state land, and timber scaling and appraisal; and historical and summary information on the duties and activities of the timber department.