DULUTH, MISSABE, AND IRON RANGE RAILWAY:

An Inventory of Its Records at the Minnesota Historical Society

Manuscripts Collection

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Creator:Duluth, Missabe, and Iron Range Railway.
Title:Company records.
Dates:1874-1984.
Abstract:Personnel, financial, and other records of a Duluth, Minnesota-based railroad owned for many years by United States Steel Corporation that transported iron ore and taconite pellets from mines on the Vermilion and Mesabi iron ranges in northeastern Minnesota to ports at Two Harbors (Minnesota) and Duluth, for transportation via ore boats to eastern steel mills. Includes records of two prececessor railroad companies and several subsidiary land, mining, power, and transfer railway companies.
Quantity:124.0 cubic feet (114 boxes and 1 oversize volume, unboxed).
Location:See Detailed Description section for shelf locations.

Expand/CollapseHISTORICAL NOTE

The Duluth and Iron Range Railway Company (D&IR) was incorporated on December 21, 1874, by an Ontonagon, Michigan-based syndicate headed by Peter Mitchell that was exploring for iron ore on the eastern end of what would eventually become the Mesabi Iron Range. The organizers obtained a land grant from the Minnesota legislature. The company's charter called for the construction of a railroad line from a point near present-day Babbitt to Duluth, Minnesota by February 1879. The Mitchell group, however, never built any trackage.

Meanwhile, Charlemagne Tower of Philadelphia and his associates had begun acquiring iron ore lands on the Vermillion Iron Range, especially in the vicinity of present-day Tower and Soudan, Minnesota. Most of the desired ore properties were assembled into Tower's Minnesota Iron Company by the early 1880s. Tower needed a railroad over which to transport his ore to Lake Superior ports, and in 1882 gained control of the as-yet-unbuilt D&IR and its land grant. The terminus of the proposed line was changed from Duluth to Agate Bay (Two Harbors), Minnesota, and construction was begun in 1883. The company's line from Two Harbors to Soudan was completed in July 1884, and the first iron ore shipment from mines he developed at Soudan arrived at Two Harbors on July 31.

Control of the D&IR was acquired from the Tower group by Illinois Steel Company interests in 1887, a syndicate that included Henry H. Porter, head of the Illinois Steel Company; Marshall Field; Cyrus McCormick; John D. and William Rockefeller; and Jay C. Morse, of Union Steel Company. The railroad became a part of United States Steel Corporation in 1901 when Federal Steel Company, successor to Illinois Steel Company, was acquired by a group of capitalists headed by Elbert H. Gary and J.P. Morgan, who combined it with Carnegie Steel Company to form United States Steel Corporation. In 1927 the D&IR served iron mines located at Aurora, Babbitt, Biwabik, Colby, Ely, Eveleth, Largo, McComber, McKinley, Mariska, Pettit, Sparta, Tower Junction (Soudan), Virginia, and Winton, Minnesota.

The Duluth Missabe and Northern Railway Company (DM&N) was incorporated on February 11, 1891 by the Merritt interests to build a railroad line connecting their iron ore properties located at present-day Mountain Iron and Biwabik, Minnesota and Duluth. Construction of the railroad from Stony Brook Junction on the Duluth and Winnipeg Railway to Mountain Iron was completed in October of 1892. The first shipment from Mountain Iron over the line was made late in October of 1892. The final leg of the journey from Stony Brook to Duluth (about 26 miles) was made over the D&W.

The Merritts lost control of the DM&N in 1894 to the Rockefeller interests, and it became a segment of their Lake Superior Consolidated Iron Mines Company. John D. Rockefeller leased all his iron ore properties, including the DM&N, to Carnegie Steel Corporation in 1896. The DM&N became a part of United States Steel Corporation in 1901 when a group of capitalists headed by Elbert H. Gary and J.P. Morgan bought Carnegie's steel company and combined it with their holdings in the Federal Steel Company to form the United States Steel Corporation. In 1927 the DM&N served iron mines located at Eveleth, Virginia, Mountain Iron, Buhl, Shenango, Chisholm, Hibbing, Arcturus, and Coleraine, Minnesota.

The Duluth and Iron Range Railroad Company and the Duluth, Missabe and Northern, both owned by United States Steel Corporation, were operated as one system from 1901 to 1937, although they were not formally merged. The DM&N leased the properties of the D&IR in early 1930. On July 1, 1937 the DM&N and the Spirit Lake Transfer Railway Company consolidated to form the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway Company (DM&IR). In March 1938 the property and assets of the D&IR and the Interstate Transfer Railway Company were transferred to the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range. Interstate Transfer was subsequently dissolved on June 28, 1938, and the D&IR was dissolved July 7, 1938. The surviving company, The Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range, had two separate operating divisions: The Missabe Division, operating the former DM&N trackage on the western portion of the system, and the Iron Range Division, operating the former D&IR trackage on the eastern portion of the system.

Soft high-grade iron ore began to run out on the Vermilion and Missabe iron ranges in the mid-1950s, and at that time development of northeastern Minnesota's taconite industry began in earnest. With the passage of the Taconite Amendment in 1963 the construction of taconite plants along the DM&IR proceeded with the Eveleth Taconite Company's plant at Forbes, Minnesota coming into operation around 1965 and United States Steel Corporation's large Minntac taconite pellet plant at Mountain Iron beginning operation in October 1967.

In 1988 the DM&IR, a wholly-owned subsidiary of United States Steel Corporation, was sold to Transtar Inc., Monroeville, Pennsylvania. Transtar was a holding company owned in part by the Blackstone Group and USX Corporation (formerly known as United States Steel Corporation). In 2001 the railroad became part of Great Lakes Transportation, a privately-held transportation holding company with principal operations in railroad freight and transportation, Great Lakes shipping, and inland river barging.

In 2002 the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway was said to be the largest iron ore handling railroad in North America, with 212 miles of track. Its primary mission was to move ore from Minnesota's Missabe Range taconite plants to DM&IR dock facilities at Duluth and Two Harbors, or to connecting railroads at Superior, Wisconsin.


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Expand/CollapseSCOPE AND CONTENTS

The collection is divided into four record series: Duluth, Missabe, and Iron Range Railway Company records (71 boxes); records of the Duluth and Iron Range Railway Company (25 boxes) and the Duluth, Missabe and Northern Railway Company (11 boxes); and records of subsidiary companies (7 boxes).

The greatest portion of the material consists of DM&IR employee "Personal Record Files" (58 boxes). Other employee-related materials include employment record books, wage schedules, and files concerned with collective bargaining. There are balance sheets, operating statements, ledgers, payroll records, valuation records, and other financial records; some legal files, including several case files involving Leonidas Merritt of the DM&N (1890s), and legal correspondence concerning the DM&N's involvement in and liability for the Cloquet Fire of 1918; some maps and posters; track profiles and other engineering records of the D&IR; and D&IR land records, including land deeds (State of Minnesota to D&IR; 1888-1918), a valuation report (1919), and information about land sales (1891-1925). There are minutes of directors and stockholders meetings; some correspondence of Duluth & Iron Range president Horace Johnson (1912-1914, 1922); and information about D&IR-owned tugboats and ore docks. There are approximately six inches (0.5 cu. ft.) of photographs, including 8 x 10 enlargements and glass lantern slides, located at various places within the collection.

There are records of subsidiary firms Agate Land Company (Superior, Wis.); Interstate Transfer Railway Company (Superior, Wis.); Spirit Lake Transfer Railway Company (Duluth); Lake Superior Consolidated Iron Mines (Duluth and New York City); and Proctor Water Power and Light Company (Proctor, Minn.). This material consists largely of minutes of directors and stockholders meetings as well as some financial records, correspondence, and litigation-related files.


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Expand/CollapseARRANGEMENT

These documents are organized into the following sections:

Duluth and Iron Range Railway Company Records
Duluth, Missabe and Northern Railway Company Records
Records of Subsidiary Companies
Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway Company Records


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Expand/CollapseADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Availability:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Duluth, Missabe, and Iron Range Railway Company Records. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

Accession Information:

Accession number: 13,419

Processing Information:

Processed by: John M. Wickre, July 1986 and June 1987

Legacy Amendment logo

Digitized by: Evelyn Gaunt and Aubrey Mullenix, November-December 2024.

Digitization was made possible by the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund through the vote of Minnesotans on November 4, 2008.

Catalog ID number: 990017351210104294


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DETAILED DESCRIPTION

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145.K.6.6F 1Secretary's records:
Articles of incorporation and bylaws, 1874-1929.
Stockholders and directors meetings, loose papers, 1909-1930. 16 folders.
Secretary's records: Stockholders and directors meetings, loose papers, 1909. 1909
Secretary's records: Stockholders and directors meetings, loose papers, 1910. 1910
Secretary's records: Stockholders and directors meetings, loose papers, 1911. 1911
Secretary's records: Stockholders and directors meetings, loose papers, 1912. 1912
Secretary's records: Stockholders and directors meetings, loose papers, 1913. 1913
Secretary's records: Stockholders and directors meetings, loose papers, 1914. 1914
Secretary's records: Stockholders and directors meetings, loose papers, 1915. 1915
Secretary's records: Stockholders and directors meetings, loose papers, 1916. 1916
Secretary's records: Stockholders and directors meetings, loose papers, 1917. 1917
Secretary's records: Stockholders and directors meetings, loose papers, 1918-1919. 1918-1919
Secretary's records: Stockholders and directors meetings, loose papers, 1920. 1920
Secretary's records: Stockholders and directors meetings, loose papers, 1921. 1921
Secretary's records: Stockholders and directors meetings, loose papers, 1922. 1922
Secretary's records: Stockholders and directors meetings, loose papers, 1923-1924. 1923-1924
Secretary's records: Stockholders and directors meetings, loose papers, 1925-1928. 1925-1928
Secretary's records: Stockholders and directors meetings, loose papers, 1929-1930. 1929-1930
Special directors and stockholders meeting materials, 1937-1938.
Miscellaneous directors meeting materials, 1924-1928.
Secretary's records: Miscellaneous directors meeting materials, 1924-1928. Digital version
Mortgage documents, 1887, 1895.
Lists of officers and directors, 1921-1930.
Papers regarding lease of Duluth and Iron Range Railway to Duluth, Missabe, and Northern Railway, 1929-1933.
Papers regarding commandeering of tug "Edna G" by U.S. Shipping Board, 1918.
Papers regarding sale of tug "Torrent" to City of Milwaukee, 1922-1923.
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142.E.11.6F14Letterpress book, 1908-1928.
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145.K.6.7B 2Settlement with U.S. Director General of Railroads, 1918-1921.
Draft book, 1893-1906.
Publicity Department records:
Printed materials, 1914-1927.
Miscellaneous photos.
Papers and photos regarding publicity brochure, 1914.
Exhibition car no. 27 tour, 1922. 2 folders.
Horace Johnson miscellaneous correspondence, 1912-1914, 1922.
Horace Johnson was a president of the Duluth & Iron Range.
Maps, 1900-1910.
Motive Power Department records:
Recapitulation of equipment owned, 1899-1926.
Inventories of tugs, 1920-1926.
Inventories of rolling stock, 1900-1927. 7 folders.
Shop inventories: Two Harbors, 1888.
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145.K.6.8F 3Engineering Department records:
Two Harbors ore dock: contracts and specifications, 1888-1910. 2 folders.
Miscellaneous contracts and bids, 1900-1901.
Estimates, 1913-1916. 2 envelopes.
Bills of material. 1 envelope.
Right of way map: Mesabe Short Line, 1893.
Track diagrams, 1923-1924.
Track profile books. 8 volumes.
Boxes 4-10 contain small rolled track profiles, some with map views and some without. In the following box list numbers such as "53-57" refer to individual subseries, each of which contains several profiles.
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145.K.6.9B 4Track profiles, subseries 53-57.
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145.K.6.10F 5Track profiles, subseries 64-77.
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145.K.6.11B 6Track profiles, subseries 86-99.
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145.K.6.12F 7Track profiles, subseries 101-109.
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145.K.6.13B 8Track profiles, subseries 111-119.
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145.K.6.14F 9Track profiles, subseries 120-146.
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145.K.7.1B 10Track profiles, unnumbered.
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142.E.11.3B 11Auditor's records:
Comparative general ledger balance sheets, 1897-1902.
General ledger trial balances, 1883-1894, 1902-1911, 1929-1935. 3 volumes.
Property ledger trial balances, 1907-1910. 2 volumes.
Operating statements, 1888-1901. 4 volumes.
Auditor's records: Operating statements, 1888-1901. Volume 1. Volume 1
Auditor's records: Operating statements, 1888-1901. Volume 2. Volume 2
Auditor's records: Operating statements, 1888-1901. Volume 3. Volume 3
Auditor's records: Operating statements, 1888-1901. Volume 4. Volume 4
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142.E.11.4F 12Operating ledger, 1914-1916.
Construction ledger, 1897-1902.
Ore tonnage shipped record, 1884-1930. 2 volumes.
Agents' and conductors' accounts, 1920-1921, 1924-1930. 3 volumes.
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142.E.11.5B 13Consolidated auditor's statements, 1890 - September 1916. 6 volumes.
Auditor's records: Consolidated auditor's statements, January 1890-December 1897. January 1890-December 1897
Auditor's records: Consolidated auditor's statements, January 1898-June 1901. January 1898-June 1901
Auditor's records: Consolidated auditor's statements, March 1901-July 1906. March 1901-July 1906
Auditor's records: Consolidated auditor's statements, September 1906-October 1909. September 1906-October 1909
Auditor's records: Consolidated auditor's statements, October 1909-December 1913. October 1909-December 1913
Auditor's records: Consolidated auditor's statements, November 1913-September 1916. November 1913-September 1916
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142.E.11.6F 14Consolidated auditor's statements, September 1916 - 1929. 3 volumes.
Earnings statements, 1917-1929. 1 volume.
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142.D.3.7 21Distributions of payrolls, 1899-1921. 3 volumes.
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142.D.3.8 22Distributions of payrolls, 1922-1930. 2 volumes.
Distributions of payrolls, Federal Manager, 1918-1921.
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142.E.11.7B 15Land Department records:
Record of land sales and monthly receipts, 1891-1925. 2 volumes.
ICC valuation report on D&IR land holdings, 1919.
Notes receivable record, 1914-1937. 1 volume.
Land deeds: State of Minnesota to D&IR, 1888-1918. 1 volume.
Unexecuted deeds: State of Minnesota to D&IR. 1 package.
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142.E.11.8F 16Personnel Department records:
Employment record books:
M8-M273; nos. 363-1000, 1884-1892; 1892-1897.
Miscellaneous and M275-M885, 1892-1898.
Miscellaneous and nos. 1222-1655, 1897-1900.
The volume is labeled "3001-3600."
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142.E.12.1B 17Nos. 301-1200, 1890-1900.
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142.E.12.2F 18Nos. 1582-1789, 1900-1901. 2 volumes.
Wage schedules, 1921-1923. 2 volumes.
These are schedules for patrolmen, telephone, locomotive and train yard employees.
Wage schedules (printed, pocket-size):
Enginemen, 1903-1929. 7 volumes.
Trainmen and yardmen, 1900-1928. 10 volumes.
Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks..., 1947.
American Railway Express Company and Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks..., 1920.
Employee rules and regulations, 1907, 1915, 1922. 3 volumes.
Personnel Department records: Employee rules and regulations, 1907. 1907
Personnel Department records: Employee rules and regulations, 1915. 1915
Personnel Department records: Employee rules and regulations, 1922. 1922
Liberty Loan Drive record (Land Department), 1918-1919.
Employee home-building plan, payment record, 1923-1929.
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142.E.12.3B 19U.S. Steel employee stock subscriptions:
Ledgers, 1906-1930. 5 volumes.
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142.E.12.4F 20Ledgers, 1930-1933. 2 volumes.
Record of certificates issued to employees, 1912-1930. 2 volumes.
U.S. Steel memos and circulars regarding employee stock program, 1910-1923.
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145.K.7.2F 23Legal Department records:
Agreements, [circa 1880s]-1920s.
These agreements concern land sales, mortgages, track construction (both main line and side tracks), and water agreements.
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145.K.7.3B 24Agreements, [circa 1880s]-1920s.
This file includes leases, deeds and other land agreements, permits, and agreements with news vendors, express agents, and other railroads.
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145.K.7.4F 25Miscellaneous materials:
D&IR miscellaneous items, [circa 1890s]-1920s.
Labor wage schedules, 1928.

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145.K.7.4F 25DM&N miscellaneous items, 1908-1937.
Stock matters, 1891-1895.
Annual meeting files, 1913-1920. 8 folders.
Annual meeting files, 1913. 1913
Annual meeting files, 1914. 1914
Annual meeting files, 1915. 1915
Annual meeting files, 1916. 1916
Annual meeting files, 1917. 1917
Annual meeting files, 1918. 1918
Annual meeting files, 1919. 1919
Annual meeting files, 1920. 1920
Special directors' meeting files, 1934-1937.
Special directors' meeting files, 1934-1937. Digital version
Iron ore rate files, [circa 1898]. 2 folders.
Legal cases regarding land, [circa 1880s]-1909. 5 folders.
These involve the Oliver Iron Mining Company, Weckey lands, and Ely Lake.
Employee rules, wage schedules, etc. (printed volumes). 7 folders.
This material includes enginemen's schedules, 1911, 1923-1924; trainmen's schedules, 1903-1917; trainmen's agreements, 1928; safety rules, 1918, 1930; employee work rules, 1921-1936; and transportation rules, undated and 1923.
DM&N calendars, 1928-1929.
Pullman Company printed safety posters.
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145.K.7.5B 26Tonnage tax files, 1910-1921. 12 folders.
Legal correspondence regarding 1918 fires, 1918-1922. 5 folders.
These files include correspondence and memoranda, legal briefs, a map, and other materials relating to investigations and lawsuits following the great conflagration of October 12, 1918, commonly referred to as "the Cloquet Fire," in which several thousand square miles of territory along the lines of the Duluth, Missabe and Northern, Great Northern, Soo Line, and Northern Pacific railroads was burned by fires sparked by passing trains.
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145.K.7.6F 27Legal cases, [circa 1890s]:
Leonidas Merritt vs. DM&N.
Leonidas Merritt vs. Missabe Mountain Iron Company.
Leonidas Merritt vs. Biwabik Mountain Iron Company.
John Grant vs. DM&N.
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145.K.7.7B 28McKinley, et al. vs. the Lake Superior Consolidated Iron Company.
Lone Jack Iron Company vs. the Lake Superior Consolidated Iron Company.
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142.E.12.5B 29Minutes of stockholders and directors meetings, 1894-1937. 4 volumes.
Minutes of stockholders and directors meetings, August 26, 1901-December 27, 1906. August 26, 1901-December 27, 1906
Minutes of stockholders and directors meetings, February 5, 1907-June 3, 1916 February 5, 1907-June 3, 1916
Minutes of annual stockholders meetings, February 6, 1894-February 2, 1937. February 6, 1894-February 2, 1937
Minutes of directors meetings, April 10, 1906-December 12, 1911. April 10, 1906-December 12, 1911
Equipment registers, [circa 1892]-1920. 2 volumes.
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142.E.12.6F 30General statements, 1893-1900, 1929.
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142.E.12.7B 31DM&N/DM&IR Employees Association records:
Journals, 1930-1945. 5 volumes.
General ledger, 1934-1936.
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142.D.4.1 32DM&N/Spirit Lake Transfer Railway valuation records, 1919-1920. 2 volumes.
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142.D.4.2 33DM&N/Spirit Lake Transfer Railway valuation records, 1919-1920. 2 volumes.
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142.D.4.3 34Record of cash received from agents and conductors, 1907-1918, 1920-1924.
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142.D.4.4Station agents' journal, 1907-1916. 1 volume, unboxed.
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142.D.4.5 35Station agents' journal, 1917-1931.

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142.E.12.8F 36Agate Land Company (Superior, Wis.):
Minutes of stockholders' and directors' meetings, 1915-1938.
Legal case transcripts: Lemieux vs. Agate Land Company, [circa 1920]. 9 volumes.
This case is related to the ownership of Wisconsin Point.
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142.E.13.1B 37Interstate Transfer Railway Company (Superior, Wis.):
Minutes of stockholders and directors meetings, 1907-1938.
Miscellaneous papers, [circa 1913]-1917.
This file includes information about bonds and a St. Louis River bridge.
Spirit Lake Transfer Railway Company (Duluth, Minn.):
Minutes of directors and stockholders meetings, 1907-1937. 2 volumes.
Mortgages, 1916.
Appropriations, [circa 1907]-1918.
Correspondence with United States Steel Company regarding lease of SLT Company to DM&N, Morgan Park, etc.
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145.K.7.8F 38Lake Superior Consolidated Iron Mines [New York, N.Y.?]:
Legal case transcripts: McKinley vs. LSCIM, [circa 1894]-1895. 8 volumes.
This was an iron ore lands fraud case.
Miscellaneous correspondence, 1897-1902.
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142.E.13.2F 39Proctor Water Power and Light Company (Proctor, Minn.):
Minutes of directors and shareholders meetings, 1906-1941. 2 volumes.
Ledgers, [circa 1910]-1941. 3 volumes.
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142.E.13.3B 40Journals, 1925-1941. 2 volumes.
Payrolls, 1910-1915, 1927-1930. 2 volumes.
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142.E.13.4F 41Monthly statements of account, 1910-1930. 3 volumes.
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142.E.13.5B 42Monthly statements of account, 1931-1941. 4 volumes.

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145.K.7.9B 43DM&IR miscellaneous files:
Historical background files, [circa 1890s-circa 1970s]. 2 folders.
Indexes to the DM&IR Historical Library and photographs.
Duluth Public Library controversy, 1976.
Mortgage files, 1937, 1946. 2 folders.
List of legal instruments signed by DM&IR officials, 1952-1961.
Annual memoranda, 1954-1961. 3 folders.
Inspection trips, 1960. 2 volumes.
Management conferences, 1957, 1962. 2 volumes.
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145.K.7.10F 44Printed materials:
Application to the ICC to construct a branch line extension for logging traffic, 1947.
Operating practices description manual and register of company publications, 1961. 1 volume.
Car control and ore billing system training manual, 1968.
Proposal for storage and shipbuilding facilities at Two Harbors, 1968.
Small printed volumes, ticket samples, and leaflets:
Equipment rules and Engineering Department rules, 1961.
Labor agreements, 1938-1956. 7 folders.
Operating rules, 1945, 1959.
Safety rules, 1942-1960.
Ticket samples, undated.
Passenger tariffs, 1943, 1956.
Public timetable, 1944.
Employee timetables, 1956-1957, 1961, 1974.
Photographs, [circa 1880s-circa 1960s?]:
Miscellaneous DM&N / D&IR / DM&IR. 2 folders.
Olcott, William J.
This file includes papers and photographs related to Oliver Iron Mining Company president William J. Olcott (d.1935). Olcott was also a president of the Duluth, Missabe and Northern Railway Company (1901-).
Ore ship "Benjamin F. Fairless."
Ore steaming.
Ore thawing with infrared radiation. 2 folders.
Safety parade.
Wreck of engine 255.
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142.E.13.6F 45Comparative income accounts, 1951-1956.
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142.D.4.6 46Miscellaneous oversize materials:
Agents and conductors cash book, 1953-1957.
Maps, safety posters, and other items, [circa 1890s]-1979.
Photos, [circa 1890s- circa 1960s].
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142.D.4.7 47Rolled maps and drawings:
Miscellaneous D&IR / D&MN / DM&IR rolled maps and drawings.
This includes plat maps, right of way maps, structures drawings, interlocking facilities drawings, and track diagrams.
Map showing the location of Duluth and Iron Range Railroad, 1893. Blueprint map.
Blueprint map showing the location of DM&N Ry., December 10, 1883.
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A2/ov1 48Miscellaneous rolled maps, [circa 1912]-1977.
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A2/ov1 49Miscellaneous rolled maps, [circa 1925]-1940.
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145.K.7.11B 50Personnel Department Records:
Subject files:
These files relate mainly to wage and work rule negotiations, and include many printed materials.
1924-1941.
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145.K.7.12F 51 1942-1946.
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145.K.8.1B 52 1946-1948.
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145.K.8.2F 53 1948.
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145.K.8.3B 54Personal Record Files:
These files include personal and employment information on individual employees and typically include such items as applications for employment; notice of promotion, suspension, dismissal, resignation, etc. forms; quarterly reports of progress made by apprentices; and correspondence and memoranda related to individual employees. There is information about positions held, promotions, terminations, retirements, and employee and retiree deaths.
Chief Dispatcher's Office:
These files are organized alphabetically within numerical subseries.
Files 294-297.
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145.K.8.4F 55Files 298, 305-307.
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145.K.8.5B 56Files 308-310, 326, 327 (A-M).
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145.K.8.6F 57Files 327 (N-T), 328-30, 349 (A-L).
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145.K.8.7B 58Files 349 (M-W), 350-353.
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145.K.8.8F 59Files 354, 402-405.
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145.K.8.9B 60Files 406-407.
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145.K.8.10F 61Engineering Department:
Haavisto-Jussila.
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145.K.8.11B 62Owens-Peterson.
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145.K.8.12F 63Iron Range Division, Mechanical Department:
Aa-Anderson, G.
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145.K.8.13B 64Anderson, G.-Ballavance.
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145.K.8.14F 65Bamberg-Bissonette.
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145.K.9.1B 66Bjarke-Brewster.
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145.K.9.2F 67Brice-Bystrom;
Gladsee-Grant.
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145.K.9.3B 68Grappet-Haney.
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145.K.9.4F 69Hangartner-Hendricks.
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145.K.9.5B 70Hendrickson-Hiti;
Nelson, G.-Norden.
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145.K.9.6F 71Nordkvist-Olson, E.
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145.K.9.7B 72Olson, E.-Patzoldt.
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145.K.9.8F 73Paul-Peterson, P.
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145.K.9.9B 74Peterson, R.-Rickerson.
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145.K.9.10F 75Riley-Sande, N.
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145.K.9.11B 76Sande, P.-Shutz.
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145.K.9.12F 77Missabe Division, Mechanical Department:
These files are organized alphabetically by surname, but are not in alphabetical order within each letter group. Much of the material is not in folders. The file set is incomplete.
B-C.
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145.K.9.13B 78C, G.
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145.K.9.14F 79H.
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145.K.10.1B 80H-J; with a very few L files.
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145.K.10.2F81M-N.
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145.K.10.3B82N-R.
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145.K.10.4F83S.
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145.K.10.5B 84Missabe Division, Ore Docks:
Aalto-Beck, H.
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145.K.10.6F 85Beck, P.-Blyton;
Christensen -Cyrus.
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145.K.10.7B 86Daby-Enright.
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145.K.10.8F 87Erickson-Gering.
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145.K.10.9B 88Ghyselinck-Hansey.
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145.K.10.10F 89Hanson-Hyvonen.
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145.K.10.11B 90Idziorek-Johnson.
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145.K.10.12F 91Johnston-Krysiak.
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145.K.10.13B 92Kubat-Lamphier;
Marasco-McRandle.
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145.K.10.14F 93Meenahan-Ness.
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145.K.11.1B 94Netteberg-Popke.
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145.K.11.2F 95Rich-Sequin.
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145.K.11.3B 96Seidenberg-Stone, B.
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145.K.11.4F 97Stone, F.-Tinseth.
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145.K.11.5B 98Missabe Division, Transportation Department:
Files 101-105.
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145.K.11.6F 99Files 106-110.
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145.K.11.7B 100Files 111-114.
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145.K.11.8F 101Files 115-118.
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145.K.11.9B 102Files 157-160.
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145.K.11.10F 103Files 161-164.
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145.K.11.11B 104Files 165-168.
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145.K.11.12F 105Files 188-190.
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145.K.11.13B 106Files 191-193.
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145.K.11.14F 107Files 194-196.
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145.K.12.1B 108Files 197-198, 201.
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145.K.12.2F 109Files 202-203, 206.
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145.K.12.3B 110Files 211-213, 281-282.
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145.K.12.4F 111Files 283-286.
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145.K.12.5B 112Minutes of DM&IR directors' and shareholders' meetings:
1937-1938, 1942-1957.
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145.K.12.6F 113 1957-1960, 1962-1963.
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145.K.12.7B 114D&IR [Land Department?] glass lantern slides related to farm land in cutover country, undated.

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Payroll records (1884-1970) are in the Minnesota Historical Society manuscript collections.

Employee newletters and magazines are in the Minnesota Historical Society serials collection.

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Expand/CollapseCATALOG 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:
Docks.
Duluth (Minn.).
Industrial relations -- Minnesota.
Iron industry and trade -- Minnesota.
Iron ores -- Minnesota.
Iron mines and mining -- Minnesota.
Railroads -- Employees.
Railroads -- Minnesota.
Taconite industry -- Minnesota.
Tugboats.
Places:
Cloquet (Minn.) -- Fire, 1918.
Mesabi Range (Minn.).
Mountain Iron (Minn.).
Soudan (Minn.).
Superior, Lake.
Two Harbors (Minn.).
Vermilion Range (Minn.).
Persons:
Johnson, Horace, author.
Merritt, Leonidas, 1844-1926, author.
Tower, Charlemagne, 1809-1889.
Organizations:
Agate Land Company (Superior, Wis.), author.
Duluth & Iron Range Railroad Company, author.
Duluth, Missabe, and Northern Railway Company, author.
Edna G (Tugboat).
Interstate Transfer Railway Company (Superior, Wis.), author.
Lake Superior Consolidated Iron Mines, author.
Proctor Water Power & Light Company (Proctor, Minn.), author.
Spirit Lake Transfer Railway Company (Duluth, Minn.), author.
United States Steel Corporation.
Types of Documents:
Maps.
Photographs.

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