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. |
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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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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These documents are organized into the following sections:
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| | 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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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

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 | 1 | Secretary's records: |
| | | Articles of incorporation and bylaws, 1874-1929. |
| | | Stockholders and directors meetings, loose papers, 1909-1930. 16 folders. |
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1909
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1910
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1911
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1912
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1913
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1914
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1915
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1916
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1917
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1918-1919
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1920
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1921
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1922
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1923-1924
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1925-1928
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1929-1930
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| | | Special directors and stockholders meeting materials, 1937-1938. |
| | | Miscellaneous directors meeting materials, 1924-1928. |
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Digital version
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| | | 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. |
Location | Box |
142.E.11.6F | 14 | | Letterpress book, 1908-1928. |
Location | Box |
145.K.6.7B | 2 | | Settlement with U.S. Director General of Railroads, 1918-1921. |
| | | Draft book, 1893-1906. |
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| | Publicity Department records:
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| | | 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. |
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| | Motive Power Department records:
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| | | 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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Location | Box |
145.K.6.8F | 3 | Engineering 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. |
Location | Box |
145.K.6.9B | 4 | | | Track profiles, subseries 53-57. |
Location | Box |
145.K.6.10F | 5 | | | Track profiles, subseries 64-77. |
Location | Box |
145.K.6.11B | 6 | | | Track profiles, subseries 86-99. |
Location | Box |
145.K.6.12F | 7 | | | Track profiles, subseries 101-109. |
Location | Box |
145.K.6.13B | 8 | | | Track profiles, subseries 111-119. |
Location | Box |
145.K.6.14F | 9 | | | Track profiles, subseries 120-146. |
Location | Box |
145.K.7.1B | 10 | | | Track profiles, unnumbered. |
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142.E.11.3B | 11 | Auditor'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. |
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Volume 1
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Volume 2
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Volume 3
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Volume 4
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142.E.11.4F | 12 | | Operating 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 | 13 | | Consolidated auditor's statements, 1890 - September
1916. 6 volumes. |
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January 1890-December 1897
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January 1898-June 1901
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March 1901-July 1906
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September 1906-October 1909
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October 1909-December 1913
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November 1913-September 1916
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142.E.11.6F | 14 | | Consolidated auditor's statements, September 1916 -
1929. 3 volumes. |
| | | Earnings statements, 1917-1929. 1 volume. |
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142.D.3.7 | 21 | | Distributions of payrolls, 1899-1921. 3 volumes. |
Location | Box |
142.D.3.8 | 22 | | Distributions of payrolls, 1922-1930. 2 volumes. |
| | | Distributions of payrolls, Federal Manager, 1918-1921. |
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142.E.11.7B | 15 | Land 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 | 16 | Personnel Department records:
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| | | 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 | 17 | | | Nos. 301-1200, 1890-1900. |
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142.E.12.2F | 18 | | | Nos. 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. |
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1907
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1915
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1922
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| | | Liberty Loan Drive record (Land Department), 1918-1919. |
| | | Employee home-building plan, payment record, 1923-1929. |
Location | Box |
142.E.12.3B | 19 | | U.S. Steel employee stock subscriptions: |
| | | | Ledgers, 1906-1930. 5 volumes. |
Location | Box |
142.E.12.4F | 20 | | | Ledgers, 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 | 23 | Legal Department records: |
| | | Agreements, [circa 1880s]-1920s. |
| | | | These agreements concern land sales, mortgages, track construction
(both main line and side tracks), and water agreements. |
Location | Box |
145.K.7.3B | 24 | | Agreements, [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 | 25 | Miscellaneous materials: |
| | | D&IR miscellaneous items, [circa 1890s]-1920s. |
| | | Labor wage schedules, 1928. |
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145.K.7.4F | 25 | DM&N miscellaneous items, 1908-1937. |
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| | Stock matters, 1891-1895. |
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| | Iron ore rate files, [circa 1898]. 2 folders. |
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| | Legal cases regarding land, [circa 1880s]-1909. 5 folders. |
| | | These involve the Oliver Iron Mining Company, Weckey lands, and Ely
Lake. |
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| | 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. |
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| | DM&N calendars, 1928-1929. |
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| | Pullman Company printed safety posters. |
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145.K.7.5B | 26 | Tonnage tax files, 1910-1921. 12 folders. |
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| | 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 | 27 | Legal 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 | 28 | | McKinley, et al. vs. the Lake Superior Consolidated Iron
Company. |
| | | Lone Jack Iron Company vs. the Lake Superior Consolidated
Iron Company. |
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| | Equipment registers, [circa 1892]-1920. 2 volumes. |
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142.E.12.6F | 30 | General statements, 1893-1900, 1929. |
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142.E.12.7B | 31 | DM&N/DM&IR Employees Association records: |
| | | Journals, 1930-1945. 5 volumes. |
| | | General ledger, 1934-1936. |
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142.D.4.1 | 32 | DM&N/Spirit Lake Transfer Railway valuation records, 1919-1920. 2 volumes. |
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142.D.4.2 | 33 | DM&N/Spirit Lake Transfer Railway valuation records, 1919-1920. 2 volumes. |
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142.D.4.3 | 34 | Record of cash received from agents and conductors, 1907-1918, 1920-1924. |
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142.D.4.4 | | Station agents' journal, 1907-1916. 1 volume, unboxed. |
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142.D.4.5 | 35 | Station agents' journal, 1917-1931. |
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142.E.12.8F | 36 | Agate 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 | 37 | Interstate 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. |
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| | 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 | 38 | Lake 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 | 39 | Proctor 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 | 40 | | Journals, 1925-1941. 2 volumes. |
| | | Payrolls, 1910-1915, 1927-1930. 2 volumes. |
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142.E.13.4F | 41 | | Monthly statements of account, 1910-1930. 3 volumes. |
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142.E.13.5B | 42 | | Monthly statements of account, 1931-1941. 4 volumes. |
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145.K.7.9B | 43 | DM&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 | 44 | Printed 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. |
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| | 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. |
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| | 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 | 45 | Comparative income accounts, 1951-1956. |
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142.D.4.6 | 46 | Miscellaneous 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 | 47 | Rolled 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 | 48 | | Miscellaneous rolled maps, [circa 1912]-1977. |
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A2/ov1 | 49 | | Miscellaneous rolled maps, [circa 1925]-1940. |
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145.K.7.11B | 50 | Personnel 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 | 54 | | Personal 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. |
Location | Box |
145.K.8.4F | 55 | | | | Files 298, 305-307. |
Location | Box |
145.K.8.5B | 56 | | | | Files 308-310, 326, 327 (A-M). |
Location | Box |
145.K.8.6F | 57 | | | | Files 327 (N-T), 328-30, 349 (A-L). |
Location | Box |
145.K.8.7B | 58 | | | | Files 349 (M-W), 350-353. |
Location | Box |
145.K.8.8F | 59 | | | | Files 354, 402-405. |
Location | Box |
145.K.8.9B | 60 | | | | Files 406-407. |
Location | Box |
145.K.8.10F | 61 | | | Engineering Department: |
| | | | | Haavisto-Jussila. |
Location | Box |
145.K.8.11B | 62 | | | | Owens-Peterson. |
Location | Box |
145.K.8.12F | 63 | | | Iron Range Division, Mechanical Department: |
| | | | | Aa-Anderson, G. |
Location | Box |
145.K.8.13B | 64 | | | | Anderson, G.-Ballavance. |
Location | Box |
145.K.8.14F | 65 | | | | Bamberg-Bissonette. |
Location | Box |
145.K.9.1B | 66 | | | | Bjarke-Brewster. |
Location | Box |
145.K.9.2F | 67 | | | | Brice-Bystrom; |
| | | | | Gladsee-Grant. |
Location | Box |
145.K.9.3B | 68 | | | | Grappet-Haney. |
Location | Box |
145.K.9.4F | 69 | | | | Hangartner-Hendricks. |
Location | Box |
145.K.9.5B | 70 | | | | Hendrickson-Hiti; |
| | | | | Nelson, G.-Norden. |
Location | Box |
145.K.9.6F | 71 | | | | Nordkvist-Olson, E. |
Location | Box |
145.K.9.7B | 72 | | | | Olson, E.-Patzoldt. |
Location | Box |
145.K.9.8F | 73 | | | | Paul-Peterson, P. |
Location | Box |
145.K.9.9B | 74 | | | | Peterson, R.-Rickerson. |
Location | Box |
145.K.9.10F | 75 | | | | Riley-Sande, N. |
Location | Box |
145.K.9.11B | 76 | | | | Sande, P.-Shutz. |
Location | Box |
145.K.9.12F | 77 | | | Missabe 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. |
Location | Box |
145.K.9.13B | 78 | | | | C, G. |
Location | Box |
145.K.9.14F | 79 | | | | H. |
Location | Box |
145.K.10.1B | 80 | | | | H-J; with a very few L files. |
Location | Box |
145.K.10.2F | 81 | | | | M-N. |
Location | Box |
145.K.10.3B | 82 | | | | N-R. |
Location | Box |
145.K.10.4F | 83 | | | | S. |
Location | Box |
145.K.10.5B | 84 | | | Missabe Division, Ore Docks: |
| | | | | Aalto-Beck, H. |
Location | Box |
145.K.10.6F | 85 | | | | Beck, P.-Blyton; |
| | | | | Christensen -Cyrus. |
Location | Box |
145.K.10.7B | 86 | | | | Daby-Enright. |
Location | Box |
145.K.10.8F | 87 | | | | Erickson-Gering. |
Location | Box |
145.K.10.9B | 88 | | | | Ghyselinck-Hansey. |
Location | Box |
145.K.10.10F | 89 | | | | Hanson-Hyvonen. |
Location | Box |
145.K.10.11B | 90 | | | | Idziorek-Johnson. |
Location | Box |
145.K.10.12F | 91 | | | | Johnston-Krysiak. |
Location | Box |
145.K.10.13B | 92 | | | | Kubat-Lamphier; |
| | | | | Marasco-McRandle. |
Location | Box |
145.K.10.14F | 93 | | | | Meenahan-Ness. |
Location | Box |
145.K.11.1B | 94 | | | | Netteberg-Popke. |
Location | Box |
145.K.11.2F | 95 | | | | Rich-Sequin. |
Location | Box |
145.K.11.3B | 96 | | | | Seidenberg-Stone, B. |
Location | Box |
145.K.11.4F | 97 | | | | Stone, F.-Tinseth. |
Location | Box |
145.K.11.5B | 98 | | | Missabe Division, Transportation Department: |
| | | | | Files 101-105. |
Location | Box |
145.K.11.6F | 99 | | | | Files 106-110. |
Location | Box |
145.K.11.7B | 100 | | | | Files 111-114. |
Location | Box |
145.K.11.8F | 101 | | | | Files 115-118. |
Location | Box |
145.K.11.9B | 102 | | | | Files 157-160. |
Location | Box |
145.K.11.10F | 103 | | | | Files 161-164. |
Location | Box |
145.K.11.11B | 104 | | | | Files 165-168. |
Location | Box |
145.K.11.12F | 105 | | | | Files 188-190. |
Location | Box |
145.K.11.13B | 106 | | | | Files 191-193. |
Location | Box |
145.K.11.14F | 107 | | | | Files 194-196. |
Location | Box |
145.K.12.1B | 108 | | | | Files 197-198, 201. |
Location | Box |
145.K.12.2F | 109 | | | | Files 202-203, 206. |
Location | Box |
145.K.12.3B | 110 | | | | Files 211-213, 281-282. |
Location | Box |
145.K.12.4F | 111 | | | | Files 283-286. |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Location | Box |
145.K.12.5B | 112 | Minutes of DM&IR directors' and shareholders'
meetings: |
| | | 1937-1938, 1942-1957. |
Location | Box |
145.K.12.6F | 113 | | 1957-1960, 1962-1963. |
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Location | Box |
145.K.12.7B | 114 | D&IR [Land Department?] glass lantern slides related to farm
land in cutover country, undated. |
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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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