NORTHWEST PAPER COMPANY:

An Inventory of Its Records at the Minnesota Historical Society

Manuscripts Collection

OVERVIEW


	Creator:	Northwest Paper Company, creator.
	Title:	Northwest Paper Company records.
	Dates:	1883-1967.
	Language:	Materials in English.
	Abstract:	Correspondence and related papers (1910-1953); financial, tax, and production records (1888-1963); plat books (undated); maps (1890-1967); and photographs (undated and 1925) of a northern Minnesota paper company, one of many Weyerhaeuser family lumber business interests.
	Quantity:	23.75 cubic feet (20 boxes and 1 partial box).
	Location:	See Detailed Description for shelf locations.

The company was organized in 1898 as Northwest Paper Company (NPC), a Virginia, Minnesota corporation. In 1910 it was reorganized under Minnesota law as The Northwest Paper Company. The company was built and managed by Weyerhaeuser interests and operated pulping mills at Knife Falls and Brainerd in addition to its flagship plant in Cloquet. After 1928 the company became Weyerhaeuser's preeminent Minnesota operation when it acquired properties of the Northern Lumber Company, Cloquet Lumber Company, and the Johnson-Wentworth Company (operated in tandem as its Lumber Division). Northwest Paper had previously acquired the Cloquet Tie and Post Company.

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ARRANGEMENT

These documents are organized into the following sections:



		Correspondence and Related Papers
		Financial Records
		Plat Books and Maps
		Photographs

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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Availability:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Northwest Paper Company (Cloquet, Minn.) Records. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

Accession Information:

Accession numbers: 13,552; 13,606; 16,402

Processing Information:

Processed by: Dennis E. Meissner, January 1987, and Christopher G. Welter, January 2010

Catalog ID number: 990070199190104294

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DETAILED DESCRIPTION

CORRESPONDENCE AND RELATED PAPERS

Location

Box

152.E.16.7B

Miscellaneous correspondence and other papers, 1910-1937.

Timber land purchases, 1929-1931.

Wales Forest Protective Association, 1928-1932. 2 folders.

Nett Lake-Bear River Forest Protective Association, 1929-1931.

Bradley-McKeefe Corporation license, 1925-1926.

Concerns NPC obtaining rights to use this company's chemical pulping process.

Legal papers on flowage rights on St. Louis River, 1923-1933. 4 folders.

Cloquet Lumber Company correspondence, 1923-1927. 3 folders.

St. Louis River Mercantile Company correspondence, 1926-1927.

Charles A. Weyerhaeuser miscellaneous papers, undated and 1914, 1918, 1925.

Hugo Schlenk correspondence, 1940, 1944-1953. 5 folders.

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FINANCIAL RECORDS

Location

Box

142.C.5.8

General journals, April 1898-November 1903. 2 volumes.

Location

Box

142.C.6.1

General journals, December 1903-January 1931. 4 volumes.

Pulpwood purchase journals, 1923-1926, December 1928-July 1931. 2 volumes.

Location

Box

144.C.14.8F

Cash journals, October 1917-February 1930. 5 volumes.

Location

Box

144.C.15.1B

Cash journals, March 1930-March 1932. 2 volumes.

General ledgers, 1898-1904. 2 volumes.

Location

Box

152.E.16.8F

General ledger sheets, 1904-1916. 2 volumes.

Location

Box

152.E.16.9B

General ledger sheets, 1916-1931. 2 volumes.

Location

Box

152.E.16.10F

Sales ledger sheets, 1929-1930. 1 volume.

Bills and notes payable/receivable, 1911-1936. 2 volumes.

Weekly and monthly financial statements, 1902-1911. 1 volume.

Paper manufacturing cost reports, 1934-1936. 1 volume.

Location

Box

142.C.6.2

Operating expense record, April 1902-September 1908. 1 volume.

Pulpwood record, 1923-1925. 1 volume.

Monthly financial statements (worksheets), 1933-1935. 1 volume.

Location

Box

P1850

Financial statements, 1931, 1940, 1947-1963. 3 folders.

Location

Box

142.C.6.2

Land and stumpage purchase record, 1901-1925. 1 volume.

Rent record, 1915-1963. 1 volume.

Location

Box

144.C.15.2F

Miscellaneous sales reports, 1929-1931. 1 volume.

Includes Cloquet Lumber Company balance sheets, 1929-30; Johnson-Wentworth Company balance sheets, 1929-30; Duluth and Northeastern Railroad Company balance sheets, 1929-33; NPC paper manufacturing cost reports, 1922-23.

Time book and payroll record, 1921-May 1925. 1 volume.

Land and tax record (Northern Lumber Company):

Location

Box

144.C.15.3B-1

St. Louis County, Cloquet, 1896-1907. 1 volume.

Location

Box

144.C.15.3B-2

St. Louis-Lake Counties, 1896-1907. 1 volume.

Location

Box

136.J.9.2F-1

Land and tax record (Cloquet Lumber Company), 1883-1898. 1 volume.

Location

Box

142.C.6.3

Land and tax record (Cloquet Lumber Company): Ranges 11-17, 1899-1913. 1 volume.

Location

Box

142.C.6.4

Land and tax record (Cloquet Lumber Company): Ranges 17-21, 1899-1913. 1 volume.

Location

Box

142.C.6.5

Land and tax record (Johnson-Wentworth Company), 1905-1927. 1 volume.

Timber estimate record (Cloquet Lumber Company), 1888-1899. 1 volume.

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PLAT BOOKS AND MAPS

Location

Box

144.C.15.4F

Plat books, undated. 3 volumes.

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Box

144.C.15.5B

Plat books, undated. 5 volumes.

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Box

142.C.6.6

Nett Lake reservation lands, 1904. 2 sheets.

Nett Lake allotment sales record, 1935.

Cloquet valley lumber companies' land holdings, 1928.

Cloquet valley land ownership (company and county lands), 1928.

St. Louis County showing lumber company lands in Kabetogama area, 1902.

St. Louis County lumber company land holdings, 1901.

Timber harvests in original pinery areas (Superior National Forest area), 1890-1930.

NPC's Minnesota land holdings, 1967.

Shows location of railroad lines through those areas.

Burned district, 1916 fire, undated.

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PHOTOGRAPHS

Location

Box

152.E.16.7B

Miscellaneous, undated. 14 items.

Views of timber stands, railroad logging camps, and river scenes.

Location

Box

142.C.6.6

Paper mill employees, July 1925.

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RELATED MATERIAL

The company's annual reports are cataloged separately in the Minnesota Historical Society's library collection.

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CATALOG 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:: Business enterprises -- Minnesota -- Cloquet.; Forest products industry -- Minnesota.; Paper industry -- Minnesota.; Weyerhaeuser records.

Persons:: Schlenk, Hugo, 1862-1962.; Weyerhaeuser, Charles Augustus, 1866-1930.

Organizations:: Cloquet Lumber Company (Cloquet, Minn.).; Johnson-Wentworth Company (Cloquet, Minn.).; Northern Lumber Company (Cloquet, Minn.).; St. Louis River Mercantile Company (Cloquet, Minn.).

Places:: Cloquet (Minn.) -- Manufactures.; Nett Lake Indian Reservation (Minn.) -- Maps -- 1904.

Document Types:: Maps; Photographs

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