gr00600.xml Auditor: Land Department: An Inventory of Its Public Lands Files, Miscellaneous at the Minnesota Historical Society Minnesota Historical Society
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 Finding aid encoded by Cheri Thies, October 2012. Finding aid written in English. OVERVIEW Minnesota Historical Society Minnesota. State Auditor. Land Department. Public lands files, miscellaneous. 1916-1963. Materials in English. Records documenting the wide variety of issues dealt with by the land department concerning state owned lands. 1.0 cubic feet (1 box and 1 partial box). See Detailed Description for shelf locations. SCOPE AND CONTENTS

Topics covered include condemnation, payments, federal patents, abandonment, taxation, railroad right-of-way, flowage rights, timber appraisal, disputed acreage, sale, and utilization. Types of lands involved include school, improved, Indian, railroad, and trust fund.

 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: Indian reservations -- Minnesota. Land grants -- Minnesota. Land titles -- Registration and transfer -- Minnesota. Land use -- Minnesota. Land value taxation -- Minnesota. Ojibwa Indians -- Land tenure. Public land sales -- Minnesota. Public lands -- Minnesota. Railroad land grants -- Minnesota. Railroads -- Abandonment -- Minnesota. Railroads -- Right of way -- Minnesota. School lands -- Minnesota. Special funds -- Minnesota. Timber -- Valuation -- Minnesota. Trust fund lands -- Minnesota. Persons: Anderson, Albert. Stokke, Peter. Organizations: Great Northern Power Company. Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.) Minneapolis & Rainy River Railway Company. Minneapolis, Red Lake and Manitoba Railway Company. Places: White Earth Indian Reservation (Minn.) Document Types: Maps -- Minnesota. ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Minnesota. State Auditor. Land Dept. Public Lands Files, Miscellaneous. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

Accession Information:

Accession numbers: None; 987-52; 993-22

 Processing Information:

Catalog ID number: 007585482

 DETAILED DESCRIPTION 112.F.4.10F Auditor’s letter, February 19, 1917.

Regarding state land contract payments.

 Condemnation Proceedings Registers, 1935-1983. 3 volumes and 1 folder.

Includes index for 1961-1983.

 State school lands tabulations regarding indemnity school land selections, circa 1936. State improved tracts, per Minnesota Laws Chapter 164, circa 1938. Lists of patents issued, 1944-1949. Federal patents on lands (not trust funds), 1953-1959.

Envelop entitled: Original copies with taxation file no. 532; issued by the federal Bureau of Land Management for lands in Minnesota.

 U. S. patents issued to private parties, 1959-1963.

Issued by the federal Bureau of Land Management for lands in Minnesota.

 Indian allotments certified for taxation, 1918-1920.

List of tracts, with purchasers names; accompanied by correspondence, 1916-1921, and a synopsis of relevant legislation. Originally labeled: No. 3. Indian Allotments, Mixed Blood Chippewa Indians, White Earth Reservation.

 Rice Lake, T. 145-38, 1926.

Regarding setting aside Rice Lake and contiguous lands in Clearwater County as an Ojibwa Indian reserve.

 Railroad right-of-way files, undated, 1930-1932. 4 folders.

Deeds to rights-of-way across certain parcels of state lands; lists, maps, and appraisal reports of the rights-of-way; and related correspondence and memoranda.

 Great Northern Railway Company: Sauk Centre and Cass Lake, 1931-1932.

Across state swamp lands in Chippewa National Forest.

 Great Northern Railway Company: Grand Forks and Duluth, 1931-1932. Great Northern Railway Company: Chippewa National Forest, 1930-1931. Minneapolis, Red Lake and Manitoba Railway Company 8-146-33, undated. Great Northern Power Co. v Albert Anderson, State of Minnesota, et al., 1922.

Correspondence, appraisal reports, and legal documents from a suit in St. Louis County district court to determine amount of damages to be paid by the company in condemnation of land for flowage rights, including some state land (Attorney General File No. 2536).

Peter J. Stokke, Lot 6, Sec. 26-57-18, St. Louis County, 1916-1924.

Correspondence regarding his challenge of the state’s appraisal of timber values on state land occupied by him, and the ownership status of this land.

 Correspondence regarding rejected sales of land made at Bagley, 1919, 1926.

Regarding request by landowners for resurvey of state land parcels with disputed acreages, accompanied by blueprint map of the resurvey.

 Minneapolis and Rainy River Railroad [abandonment], 1932.

Correspondence and list of state lands crossed by the line when built.

 Land sales, 1931-1936. 2 folders.

Correspondence regarding holding of sales of state lands; summary of land appraisals for 1929-1932; and printed lists of state land to be offered for sale.

 State Lands: Their Agricultural and Forest Possibilities, 1928. 1 volume.

Printed report to the Minnesota state legislature on the results of classification of state lands; written by G. M. Conzet, Conservation Commission chair.

 Land Utilization Committee, 1932-1936. 2 folders.

Correspondence regarding the federal government’s Land Acquisition Plan, which proposed to include the purchase of trust fund and other state lands, and June 1935-March 1936 issues of the U. S. Resettlement Administration’s Land Policy Circular.

 Compilation of information regarding railroads, circa 1931-1942. 2 folders.

Chronologies, lists, maps, plats, and related papers regarding federal land grants to railroads, railroad construction, and railroad rights-of-way on state trust fund lands.

 112.C.1.7 Index to railroad patent records, undated. 5 sheets in 2 rolls.