St. Paul and Duluth Railroad Company: Finding Aids : MNHS.ORG


	Creator:	St. Paul and Duluth Railroad Company, creator.
	Title:	St. Paul and Duluth Railroad Company records.
	Dates:	1862-1970.
	Language:	Materials in English.
	Abstract:	By-laws and minutes (1877-1962), stock records (1870-1920), financial records (1877-1900), car records (1870-1910), daily coal shipments (1900), annual reports (1878-1899), engineering records (1872-1918), land records (1867-1907), blueprints and maps (undated and 1881-1892), timetables (1886-1891), and miscellaneous papers of the St. Paul and Duluth Railroad Company.
	Quantity:	71.5 cubic feet (52 boxes, 1 map tube, and 2 folders in 1 partial box).
	Location:	See Detailed Description for shelf locations.

The St. Paul and Duluth Railroad Company originated with the reorganization of the Lake Superior and Mississippi (LS&M) Railroad Company. Incorporated in 1861, the predecessor LS&M was financed by Jay Cooke to create a line to connect the Twin Cities to Cooke's expanding Northern Pacific Railway. The line served as the first St. Paul to Duluth rail link, and was completed by 1870. The LS&M, however, fell into receivership following the Panic of 1873, and its reorganization created the St. Paul and Duluth Railroad Company in 1877. The railroad operated between Duluth and St. Paul Paul, Minnesota, and included branch routes to Minneapolis, Taylor Falls, Kettle River, and Cloquet, Minnesota, and Grantsburg and Superior, Wisconsin.

On June 15, 1900, the Northern Pacific Railway acquired the St. Paul and Duluth Railroad Company for $2,795,824, and its route became a branch line of Northern Pacific's transcontinental railway network.

The Northern Pacific merged with three other railroads in 1970 to form Burlington Northern, and the Duluth to St. Paul route fell under this newly formed company. With this merger, much of the original line was abandoned, due to redundancy of similar St. Paul to Duluth routes, and much of the original line was later converted into recreational rail trails.

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These documents are organized into the following sections:


	By-laws and minutes

	Stock records

	Financial records

	Car records and coal shipment volumes

	Organizational records and miscellany

	Chief Engineer volumes

	Land Department records

	Maps and blueprints

	Miscellaneous volumes and records

	Employee timetables

	Chief Engineer subject files

	Chief Engineer miscellaneous subject files

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Access Restrictions:

Digitized originals are closed. Access and use requires the curator’s permission.

Please consult reference staff for more information.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. St. Paul and Duluth Railroad Company. Records. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

Appraisal Information:

Volumes 14-99 of stock certificates were deaccessioned from the collection. As a result, boxes 3-16 are missing from the numbering sequence of this collection.

Accession Information:

Accession number: 357; 401; 525-619; 624-639; 2282; 2293; 5010; 5660; 5745; 6047-6057; 6063; 6064; 7115; 7391; 7403; 7600; 8503; 8555; 8565; 8581; 8588; 8597; 8609; 8619; 8638-8641; 8643; 8658-8659; 8836; 8907; 8937; 8938; 8945; 8969; 8987; 9868; 9019; 9020; 9025; 9878; 10,443-10,445; 10,826-10,836; 11,379; 11,380; 11,381; 11,760; 11,836; 13,940; 14,335; 15,762

Processing Information:

The box numbering sequence of the collection is not consistent due to deaccessioning of the contents of boxes 3-16, and assignment of new box locators of the Chief Engineer's subject files. As a consequence, the majority of the collection includes a numbering sequence of boxes 1-61, with boxes 3-16 ommitted. The subject files of the Chief Engineer are arranged separately in the numbering sequence of boxes 1-8.

Digitized by: Minnesota Historical Society, August 2019.

Catalog ID number: 9989760739004294

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Volumes 1-2. Directors and executive committee, 1877-1898. 2 volumes.

Volume 3. Directors and executive committee, 1877-1881.

Volumes 4-5. Directors and executive committee, 1877-1894. 2 volumes.

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Volume 6. Directors and executive committee, 1894-1900.

Volume 7. Stockholders, 1877-1900.

Volumes 8-9. Directors and stockholders, 1900-1961. 2 volumes.

Volumes 10-11. Indexes to minutes of directors and executive committee, undated. 2 volumes.

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136.E.4.8F

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Volume 12. Index to minutes of directors and executive committee, 1893-1900.

Volume 13. Index to minutes of directors and executive committee, From 1877.

Inclusive dates not given.

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Volume 64. Stockholders, June 27, 1877-October 8, 1936.

Volume 65. Index to volume 64, 1877-1936.

Volume 66. Stockholders, with index, October 14, 1937-October 12, 1962.

Volume 67. Stockholders and directors, October 10, 1963-October 21, 1970.

Volume 68. Directors, May 24, 1898-April 4, 1916.

Volume 69. Index to volume 68, 1898-1916.

Volume 70. Directors, with index, October 19, 1916-October 12, 1962.

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Volume 71. Index to proceedings of board of directors, July 6, 1888-January 27, 1893.

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Sample stock certificates, 1879-1900. 8 items in 1 folder.

Includes capital stock certificates 4216 (1879) and 4561-4563 (blank, undated); common capital stock certificates 11549 and 11550 (1899); and preferred capital stock certificates 13247 and 13249 (1900).

Volume 100. Capital stock record, 1877-1882.

Volume 101. Stock dividends, 1882-1900.

Volumes 102-103. Indexes to common and preferred stockholders, undated. 2 volumes.

Volume 104. Index to stockholders, undated.

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Volume 105. Index to common stockholders, undated.

Volumes 106-107. Index to preferred stockholders, undated. 2 volumes.

Volume 106 indexes volume 117.

Volume 108. Stockholders addresses, 1900.

Volume 109. Preferred stock cancellations, 1877-1896.

Volume 110. Common stock cancellations, 1877-1896.

Volume 111. Preferred and common stock register, 1877-1885.

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136.E.5.2F

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Volumes 112-113. Preferred and common stock registers, 1886-1920. 2 volumes.

Volume 114. Preferred stock ledger no. 1, circa 1877-1889.

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136.E.5.3B

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Volumes 115-117. Preferred stock ledgers nos. 2-4, circa 1879-1900. 3 volumes.

Dates vary and overlap for each volume and are not chronological.

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Volumes 118-119. Common stock ledgers nos. 1-2, circa 1877-1900. 2 volumes.

Dates vary and overlap for each volume and are not chronological.

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138.C.6.8

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Volume 120. Preferred stock ledger no. 3, circa 1894-1901.

Volume 121. Common stock ledger no. 3, circa 1893-1901.

Volume 122. List of stock delivered for cancellation, 1900-1901.

Volume 123. Stock and scrip transfers, 1884-1886.

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138.C.7.1

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Volumes 124-125. Stock and scrip transfers, 1886-1894. 2 volumes.

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138.C.7.2

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Volumes 126-128. Stock and scrip transfers, 1894-1901. 3 volumes.

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Volumes 129-130. Preferred stock transfers, 1894-1899. 2 volumes.

Volumes 131-132. Common stock transfers, 1891-1899. 2 volumes.

Volume 133. Preferred and common stock transfers, 1899-1918.

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Volumes 134-135. Dividend scrip certificates, 1881, 1884. 2 volumes.

Volume 136. Common scrip issued to E.M. Lewis, trustee, 1878.

Volume 137. Preferred scrip issued to E.M. Lewis, trustee, 1878.

Volume 138. Coupons paid, 1889-1900.

Volume 139. Treasurer's coupon and bond account book, 1870-1898.

Includes St. Paul & Duluth coupons (1889-1898); Stillwater & St. Paul coupons (1889-1898) and bonds (1870-1897); Taylors Falls & Lake Superior (1890-1898); and Duluth Short Line (1889-1897).

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Volume 140. Daily cash receipts, 1878-1880.

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Cashbooks:

Volumes 141-143, 1880-1883. 3 volumes.

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Volumes 144-145, 1883-1886. 2 volumes.

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Volumes 146-148, 1886-1890. 3 volumes.

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Volumes 149-151, 1890-1893. 3 volumes.

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Volumes 152-154, 1893-1896. 3 volumes.

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Volumes 155-157, 1896-1898. 3 volumes.

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Volumes 158-159, 1898-1900. 2 volumes.

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Volume 160, 1890-1898.

Includes redemption fund (1892-1900), beginning on page 101.

Volume 161, 1898-1900.

Volumes 162-166. Daily cash balances, 1895-1900. 5 volumes.

1897 missing.

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Volume 167. Bills payable and receivable, 1891-1900.

Volume 168. Bill book, 1893-1897.

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136.F.16.2F

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Journals:

Volumes 1-3. Journals nos. 1-3, July 1877-February 1885. 3 volumes.

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Volumes 4-6. Journals nos. 4-6, March 1885-January 1899. 3 volumes.

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Volume 7. Journal no. 7, February 1899-June 1900.

Ledgers:

Volumes 8-9. Ledgers nos. 1-2, 1877-1888. 2 volumes.

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Volumes 10-11. Ledgers nos. 3-4, 1889-July 1900. 2 volumes.

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Volume 169. Record of cars, 1870-1910.

Early entries presumably for the Lake Superior & Mississippi Railroad Company.

Volume 170. Daily record of coal shipments, 1900.

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Volume 171:

The volume was disbounded and the annual reports and other materials were split among three folders.

Annual reports, 1879-1889, 1891-1899. 2 folders.

Annual report for 1890 is missing.

St. Paul and Duluth Railroad Company stockholder reports and map showing lands belonging to the St. Paul and Duluth Railroad Company, 1889-1890.

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The map accompanies the 1890 stockholder report, and is dated June 30th, 1890.

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Volume 172. Railroad laws relating to the St. Paul & Duluth Railroad Company, 1888.

Volume 173. First Consolidated Mortgage, Guaranty Trust Company of New York, June 1, 1898.

Volume 174. Second Mortgage or Trust Deed, St. Paul & Duluth Railroad Company to Central Trust Company of New York, August 3, 1887.

Volume 175. Deeds, agreements, etc., between Lake Superior & Mississippi Railroad Company, St. Paul & Duluth Railroad Company and Northern Pacific covering property at Carlton and north thereof, 1872-1893.

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Volume 176. Index to sundry papers of New York Office, undated.

Sundry papers nos. 1-117 of New York Office:

Missing nos. 13, 20, 31, 34-35, 60, 68, and 111.

General Solicitor and Counsel reports on contracts and agreements:

1. Wisconsin Central Railway Company regarding Minnesota, St. Croix and Wisconsin Railroad, September 15, 1888.

2. Minneapolis, Sault Ste. Marie and Atlantic Railway Company, September 15, 1888.

3. Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company, September 15, 1888.

4. Eastern Railway Company of Minnesota, September 15, 1888.

5. St. Paul Union Depot Company, September 15, 1888.

6. Standard Oil Company, September 15, 1888.

7. Revised form of agreement with city of Duluth regarding Lake Avenue viaduct, September 22, 1891.

8. List of contracts, bonds of indemnity, etc., in the office of Assistant Secretary (St. Paul), April 8, 1892.

9. Contract with Metropolitan Telephone and Telegraph Company for service at 32 Nassau Street (New York), 1894-1896.

10. Contract with Manufacturing Investment Company regarding rent of President's Office (New York), January 1, 1894.

11. Lease to Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway Company regarding property near East Seventh Street (St. Paul), April 30, 1897.

General Solicitor and Counsel reports on contracts and agreements:

12. William Dawson, September 15, 1888.

14. City of St. Paul, September 15, 1888.

15. Sixth Avenue viaduct (Duluth) papers, 1889-1891.

16. Contract between receivers of Northern Pacific Railroad Company and St. Paul and Duluth Railroad Company with Duluth, Missabe and Northern Railway Company for trackage in Duluth, October 2, 1894.

17. Agreement with Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway Company and W.H. Truesdale, receiver, May 1, 1893.

18. Contract with Great Northern Railway Company regarding The Duluth Company, 1893-1895.

19. Contract with Minneapolis Union Railway Company for terminal facilities in Minneapolis, 1893-1895.

21. Indemnity bond to Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, January 12, 1892.

22. P.N. Moore. Report on mineral lands of St. Paul and Duluth Railroad Company, 1891.

General Solicitor and Counsel reports on contracts and agreements:

23. C.N. Nelson and Company, September 15, 1888.

24. C.N. Nelson Lumber Company, September 15, 1888.

25. Seymour, Sabin and Company, September 15, 1888.

26. Union Improvement and Elevator Company of Duluth, September 15, 1888.

27. Northwestern Fuel Company, September 15, 1888.

28. Duluth, Missabe and Northern Railway Company contract for switching in Duluth, July 17, 1893.

29. St. Paul Union Depot Company mortgage, May 1, 1894.

General Solicitor and Counsel reports on contracts and agreements:

30. Fox and Wisdom, November 15, 1888.

32. Duluth and Iron Range Railroad Company, September 15, 1888.

33. Taylor's Falls and Lake Superior Railroad Company, September 15, 1888.

36. Duluth Short Line Railway Company, September 15, 1888.

37. Contract relations with Northern Pacific Railroad Company, September 15, 1888.

38. Stillwater and St. Paul Railroad Company, September 15, 1888.

39. Chicago, Burlington and Northern Railroad Company, September 15, 1888.

40. Western Union Telegraph Company, September 15, 1888.

41. Grantsburg, Rush City and St. Cloud Railroad Company, September 15, 1888.

42. St. Cloud, Grantsburg and Ashland Railroad Company, September 15, 1888.

43. Knife Falls Branch, September 15, 1888.

44. Kettle River Railroad Company, September 15, 1888.

45. Agreement with Northern Pacific Railroad Company and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railway Company regarding extension of Commercial Addition track (Duluth), January 8, 1890.

46. Articles of agreement with Northern Pacific Railroad Company and Superior Short Line Railway Company, March 1, 1886.

47. Deed from Duluth Improvement Company, February 5, 1886.

48. Robert Moore. Report on reducing grades and renewing truss bridges (including bridge specifications), 1888.

49. Duluth Union Depot Company contract with Northern Pacific Railroad Company regarding depot facilities, September 1890.

50. Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad Company deed to Northern Pacific Railroad Company for one-half interest in 26 miles of road from Northern Pacific Junction to Duluth, January 1, 1872.

51. Agreement with Lake Superior and Mississippi River Railroad Company and Northern Pacific Railroad Company regarding maintenance and management of common tracks, January 1, 1872.

52. Agreement with Northern Pacific Railroad Company regarding Knife Falls Branch, June 10, 1879.

53. Agreement with Northern Pacific Railroad Company regarding distribution of property in Duluth yards, July 1, 1885.

54. Julien T. Davies: Opinion regarding Nelson and Sabin Lumber Company, April 17, 1889.

55. Burlington, Stillwater and Duluth Railroad Company. Draft agreement with Stillwater and St. Paul Railroad Company, July 13, 1888.

56. Eastern Railway Company of Minnesota. Report of Arbitration Committee, December 17, 1889.

57. Report of Committee on Guarantee of Bonds of Stillwater Union Depot Company, June 29, 1888.

58. Agreement with Northern Pacific Railroad Company regarding Rice's Point bridge, April 14, 1886.

59. Agreement between Northern Pacific Railroad Company and St. Paul and Duluth Railroad Company with Duluth Terminal Railway Company, August 30, 1888.

61. Report of Auditing Committee, July 10, 1888.

62. Report of Auditing Committee, April 21, 1890.

63. W.D. Basley. Report on Treasurer's and Auditor's Offices, April 28, 1890.

64. Fox and Wisdom: Contract and correspondence, 1889.

65. Contract with Duluth Union Deport Company, August 1890.

66. Warranty deed to Duluth Union Depot, with Northern Pacific Railroad Company, June 26, 1890.

67. Letter of agreement with Northern Pacific Railroad Company regarding track on Rice's Point, March 9, 1886.

69. Duluth Union Depot. Memoranda of bids submitted by Peabody & Stearns, undated.

70. Duluth ordinance regarding Belt Line Railway Company, undated.

71. Duluth Union Depot. Contract for construction with Haglin & Morse, July 1890.

72. Duluth Union Depot. Bond of Haglin & Morse, July 7, 1890.

73. Duluth Union Depot. Searches and affidavits, 1890-1891.

74. Kettle River Railroad Company. Agreement with Eastern Railway Company of Minnesota and St. Paul and Duluth Railroad Company, March 1, 1890.

75. Adams Express Company contract, November 14, 1893.

76. St. Paul ordinance regarding Minnehaha Street bridge, April 22, 1890.

77. St. Paul and Duluth Railroad Company and Central Trust of New York. Deed to Fitger & Company (Duluth), May 22, 1890.

78. Petition of St. Paul and Duluth Railroad Company to Circuit Court of the U.S. District of Minnesota for return of stock held as collateral, 1888.

79. Duluth Union Depot Company. Resolutions, 1890.

80. Farmers Loan and Trust Company (New York). Release to Duluth Union Depot Company of depot property, August 1, 1890.

81. Duluth Union Depot Company. Mortgage or trust deed to Central Trust Company of New York, October 1, 1890.

82. Duluth Union Depot Company. Contract with Northern Pacific Railroad Company, August 27, 1890.

83. Land Department. Statement of unpaid contracts, October 1, 1888.

84. Farmers Loan and Trust Company (New York). Release to Duluth Union Depot Company of interest in depot property, August 1, 1890.

85. Land Department. Statements, 1877-1888.

Includes lands belonging to Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad Company.

86. Farmers Loan and Trust Company (New York). Release to Duluth Union Depot Company of interest in depot property, August 1, 1890.

87. Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad Company. Agreement with Northern Pacific Railroad Company, April 21, 1874.

88. Agreement with Northern Pacific Railroad Company, April 2, 1879.

89. Quit claim deed to Northern Pacific Railroad Company, May 5, 1880.

90. Central Trust Company of New York. Release to Duluth Union Depot Company of depot property, August 1, 1890.

91. St. Paul and Duluth Railroad Company v. Paul Blackmar, 1890.

92. Form of prospector's mineral lease and permit, undated.

93. Bliss and Elliott settlement, 1891.

94. Instructions for transferring St. Paul and Duluth stock, December 1890.

95. Contract relations with Northern Pacific Railroad Company, December 31, 1890.

96. Central Trust Company of New York. Release to Duluth Union Depot Company of depot property, August 1, 1890.

97. Contract with Duluth and Winnipeg Railway Company, June 1891.

98. Papers of Duluth Union Depot Company in hands of Secretary, July 1, 1891.

99. Quit claim deed to Northern Pacific Railroad Company regarding Duluth Union Depot, June 30, 1890.

100. Agreement between The Central Trust Company, The Farmers Loan and Trust Company, and the Northern Pacific Railroad Company regarding the Duluth Union Depot Company, June 28, 1890.

101. Farmers Loan and Trust Company. Release of interest in Colonization House property (Duluth), August 1, 1890.

102. Duluth Union Depot Company. Articles of incorporation and amendments, 1889, 1892.

103. Quit claim deed of Northern Pacific Railroad Company for interest in Colonization House property (Duluth), 1890.

104. Central Trust Company. Release from lien of first mortgage bonds of Northern Pacific Railroad Company regarding interest in Colonization House property (Duluth), June 28, 1890.

105. Farmers Loan and Trust Company. Release of interest in Colonization House property (Duluth), July 3, 1890.

106. Farmers Loan and Trust Company. Release of interest in Colonization House property (Duluth), July 3, 1890.

107. Duluth Union Depot Company. Abstract of title, 1890.

108. Duluth Union Depot Company. Contract with Northern Pacific Railroad Company, 1890.

109. Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad Company. Contract regarding terminal facilities in Minneapolis, April 1, 1895.

110. Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company. Contract regarding terminal facilities at Minneapolis, April 1895.

112. First consolidated mortgage to Guaranty Trust Company for $5,000,000, June 1, 1898.

113. Agreement with John H. Upham for exploration of railroad lands, February 1, 1898.

114. Agreement with Francis L. Hines, trustee, for purchase of box cars, August 15, 1898.

115. Agreements with George H. Church, trustee for purchase of box cars and locomotives, 1899.

116. Acceptance of Henry W. Cannon, Daniel S. Lamont, and Clarence S. Day for purchase of lands, April 27, 1900.

117. Papers regarding sale of St. Paul and Duluth Railroad Company to Northern Pacific Railway Company, 1900.

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Folders 1-2. Daily statement of passenger train earnings, December 13, 1898-July 14, 1899. 2 folders.

Folders 3-5. Duluth Union Depot Company. Miscellaneous papers regarding annual meetings, 1889-1902. 3 folders.

Folder 6. Duluth Union Depot Company. Resolutions, 1890.

Folder 7. Common scrip (1878-1879) and Lake Superior & Mississippi Railroad Company first mortgage bond (1872), 1872, 1878-1879.

Folder 8. Papers regarding Van Liew grain doors, 1891.

Folder 9. Miscellaneous papers regarding drawing of preferred stock of St. Paul & Duluth, 1891-1893.

Folder 10. Papers regarding Minneapolis & Pacific Railroad contract, 1886.

Folder 11. Miscellaneous papers nos. 3-18, 1889-1898.

Incomplete.

Folder 12. Deed between Taylors Falls & Lake Superior Railroad Company, St. Paul & Duluth Railroad, and Central Trust Company of New York, January 26, 1884.

Volume 177. First Mortgage, St. Paul & Duluth Railroad Company to Central Trust Company of New York, July 1, 1881.

Folder 13. Lease to Minnesota, St. Croix & Wisconsin, 1884.

Folder 14. William Baring Wells v. St. Paul & Duluth Railroad Company, 1887.

Folder 15. St. Paul-Duluth Division mortgage, 1900-1902.

Folder 16. Northwestern Improvement Company contract, 1900.

Folder 17. Earnings and operating expenses and miscellaneous financial statements, 1882-1884.

Folder 18. Bridges on the St. Paul & Duluth, 1900.

Folder 19. Logging permit, undated.

Folder 20. Earnings and operating expenses, 1883.

Folder 21. Land Department correspondence, 1878-1880.

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Volumes 12-13. Contract record books A-B, 1872-1891, 1875-1884. 2 volumes.

Volume A begins with the Lake Superior & Mississippi River Railroad Company. The volumes appear not to be in chronological order.

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Volumes 14-15. Contract record books C-D, 1888-1895, 1890-1899. 2 volumes.

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Volume 16. Lease record book E, with index, 1891-1893.

Volume 17. Report of time certificates issued, August 1888-August 1892.

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Volumes 18-21. Sales and cash receipts, January 1881-May 1900. 4 volumes.

Volumes 22-23. Contract balances, January 1881-October 1895. 2 volumes.

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Volume 24. Contract balances, October 1895-October 1897.

Volumes 25-27. Treasurer's Land Department receipts, September 1877-December 1880. 3 volumes.

Volume 28. Joseph H. Seaver, trustee (Philadelphia), cash book, July 1878-December 1881.

Also includes E.W. Lewis cashbook (July 1878-December 1881).

Volume 29. C.H. Clark (Philadelphia), cash book, March 1882-March 1886.

Volume 30. Securities, August 1885-April 1886.

Mortgages, notes, and contracts deposited with St. Paul & Duluth Railroad Company by Frederiksen & Prins to secure deferred payments under contract 1285.

Volume 31. Suspense account no. 1, April 1894-September 1898.

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Volume 32. Stumpage and land receipts, July 1877-June 1881.

Volume 33. Register of timber cut, January 1889-January 1892.

Volume 34. Prospecting leases, May 1890-August 1891.

Includes mineral leases.

Volume 35. Unidentified index, undated.

Volume 36. Township plat book, townships 55 to 64, [1883].

Volume 37. Township plat book, 1889-1892.

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Volume 38. Township plat book, 1895-1899.

Volume 39. Township plat book, undated.

Volume 40. Field notes, U.S. Survey volume 15, townships 29-45, undated.

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Volumes 41-48. Land examination books nos. 34-41, 1882-1890. 8 volumes.

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Cancelled leases, A1-W25, Nos. 1-65, and other leases, 1888-1899.

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Volumes 49-53. Leases, 1891-1905. 5 volumes.

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Volume 61. Schedule of leases issued, circa 1867-1900.

Volume 62. Record of leases, 1899-1907.

Volume 63. Miscellaneous map cuts, 1896.

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Map showing portion of lands of the St. Paul & Duluth Railroad Company, August 7, 1879. 1 map (37" x 38").

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Right-of-way plat maps:

Volume 72. No. 2, undated.

Townships 39-41 of Range 21.

Volume 73. No. 3, undated.

Townships 41-47 of Ranges 18-21.

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Volume 74. No. 4, undated.

Townships 47-49 of Ranges 14-18.

Volume 75. No. 5, undated.

Townships 48-49 of Ranges 14-16 (Duluth Short Line properties).

Volume 76. Schedule of deeds, 1893-1895.

Volume 77. Schedule of right-of-way deeds, [1880s].

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Northern Pacific Junction yard tracks, undated.

Stillwater, Minnesota. Broadway bridge blueprint, October 1881.

Bald Eagle, Minnesota. Diagram of signals blueprint, March 20, 1893.

Duluth, Minnesota. Proposed arrangement of signals blueprint, October 17, 1892.

West End Junction, Duluth, Minnesota. Proposed arrangement of signals blueprint, August 10, 1892.

Reduction of grades from White Bear to Hinckley, October 1887.

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Personal injury record book, 1894-1900.

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Volumes 54-56. Stock reports, September 20, 1880-June 27, 1900. 3 volumes.

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Volumes 57-59. Tax records, 1892-1904. 3 volumes.

Volume 60. Recaps of expenses, 1898-1900.

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Miscellaneous tax and valuation lists, 1876-1882. 2 folders.

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St. Paul & Stillwater Short Line and Minneapolis Branch employee timetables: 1886-1888, 1891. 5 items in box.

No. 10, June 13, 1886.

No. 19, May 22, 1887.

No. 23, August 28, 1887.

No. 26, January 1, 1888.

No. 43, January 4, 1891.

Employee timetables: 1891, 1893-1900. 4 folders.

No. 1, May 31, 1891.

No. 2, June 21, 1891.

No. 5, November 1, 1891.

No. 15, January 8, 1893.

No. 16, February 12, 1893.

No. 18, May 28, 1893.

No. 19, August 6, 1893.

No. 20, September 24, 1893.

No. 21, November 5, 1893.

No. 22, November 26, 1893.

No. 23, December 24, 1893.

No. 24, April 1, 1894.

No. 25, May 20, 1894.

No. 26, June 17, 1894.

No. 27, September 16, 1894.

No. 29, November 18, 1894.

No. 30, January 6, 1895.

No. 31, February 10, 1895.

No. 32, March 28, 1895.

No. 35, September 22, 1895.

No. 36, October 27, 1895.

No. 37, December 8, 1895.

No. 38, February 2, 1896.

No. 39, March 15, 1896.

No. 40, May 24, 1896.

No. 42, June 21, 1896.

No. 44, November 1, 1896.

No. 45, December 6, 1896.

No. 46, May 30, 1897.

No. 48, August 1, 1897.

No. 49, September 19, 1897.

No. 50, October 3, 1897.

No. 51, October 27, 1897.

No. 52, May 29, 1898.

No. 53, September 18, 1898.

No. 54, November 24, 1898.

No. 55, June 4, 1899.

No. 56, September 17, 1899.

No. 57, December 3, 1899.

No. 58, June 3, 1890.

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Letters received, telegrams, copies of letters sent, and some letterpress copies of letters sent related to engineering concerns on the St. Paul & Duluth Railroad line from St. Paul to Duluth, Minnesota, almost entirely from the period 1891 and 1900. Included is correspondence from L.S. Miller, Assistant General Manager and Chief Engineer (circa 1891-1898) and C.J.A. Morris, Chief Engineer (1898-). There is also significant correspondence from A.B. Plough, Vice President and General Manager (circa 1891-1900).

Location

Box

134.B.10.13B

1

1. Carlton: Maintenance of water tank, 1891-1895.

2. Duluth Union Depot, 1891.

4. Ice houses: Rush City, Centre City, Russell Beach, 1891, 1898.

5. St. Paul: Reaney Street Bridge, 1891-1892.

8. Stillwater: Leasing old freight house, 1891-1897.

10. Duluth docks: Contract between St. Paul & Duluth and North Western Fuel Company, 1891-1900.

12. Insurance, 1891-1900.

14. Davies continuous rail joint, 1891-1892.

21. Reducing section force: Employment of B. Flack, 1891.

22. Fond du Lac section foreman's house, 1891-1899.

23. Forest Lake station agent, 1891-1899.

24. Fond du Lac pump, 1891-1898.

27. Requisitions for materials, 1891-1892.

30. Duluth Union Depot, 1891.

31. Duluth Union Depot, 1892.

32. White Bear station, 1892.

34. Sandstone: Water Power Sandstone Company, 1891-1892.

38. Duluth Union Depot, 1892.

44. Duluth: Pillar Crane, 1892-1895.

45. Duluth: 20th Avenue operator, 1892.

51. Duluth: Lake Avenue viaduct, 1891-1892.

53. Duluth Union Depot, 1892.

54. Miller to Kettle River Branch, 1891.

55. Mud Lake: Trackage to Heinbachs Sawmill, 1892.

58. Rush City: Heinrich's fence, 1892.

59. Rush City: Water tank, 1892-1899.

62. Rice's Point: Maintenance of joint track, 1891-1892.

66. St. Paul: Farquier Street Bridge, 1892.

67. Grantsburg Branch: St. Croix River Bridge, 1891-1899.

69. Section crews, 1891-1898.

70. West Superior: Squatters, 1892.

71. White Bear: F. B. Murray, 1892.

73. Duluth: Right of way, 1895-1898.

75. Duluth: Lake Avenue gates at crossing, 1892.

77. Duluth: Storm sewer near Lake Avenue, 1892.

79. Duluth: Track to Hartman Electric Company, Commerce Street, 1892-1894.

81. Duluth dock: Track to Pioneer Fuel Company, 1892-1899.

82. Duluth: Property to be condemned by Duluth Transfer Railway Company, 1892.

85. Duluth: Fencing right of way, 1892-1900.

86. Delays, 1892.

87. West Superior: Lehigh Coal and Iron Company, grading of tracks, 1892.

89. West Duluth: Bradley and Hawkins, 1891.

91. West Duluth: Outhouses, 1892-1898.

92. White Bear: Outhouses, 1892.

93. Duluth [?]: West End draw bridge, 1892?.

96. Wyoming: Old section house, 1892-1898.

99. West Duluth Electric Light Company side track, 1892.

101. West Duluth: Charges for use of private tracks, 1892.

103. Wyoming: Hand car struck, 1892.

104. White Bear: Delays, 1892.

105. West Duluth: Grand Avenue drainage, 1892.

106. West Superior: Track to York Iron Company, 1892.

109. Duluth: Side track derailments, 1892.

110. West Duluth: St. Louis River draw bridge, 1892.

111. Fond du Lac: Duluth Brown Stone Company quarry track, 1891-1895.

112. Work train service, 1892.

115. Material (supplies and equipment), 1892.

117. Steam shovels, 1892-1900.

120. Duluth interlocking, 1892-1893.

121. West Superior: Lehigh Coal and Iron Company property, 1892-1900.

122. Duluth: Trestle on 90 foot strip, 1892-1900.

123. Duluth: Scott and Holston Lumber Company, 1892-1900.

125. Duluth: Old Lake Avenue Depot, 1892-1896.

126. Duluth: St. Louis River draw bridge, 1892-1894.

128. Stacy: Hall and Company warehouse, 1892.

129. Duluth: Ship canal, Minnesota Point, 1892.

133. Duluth: Improvements, West End Junction, 1892.

137. Letters of instructions, 1892.

139. Cloquet: Shaw's Lumber Mill siding, 1892-1895.

140. Cloquet Branch: Ice, animals injured, 1892, 1897.

141. Car inspection, 1892-1896.

142. Coal for steam shovel, 1892.

144. Coal and wood, 1892.

146. Duluth Union Depot, 1892-1896.

Location

Box

134.B.10.14F

2

147. Duluth: Track to Ironton Structural Steel Plant, 1892-1898.

153. Arlington Spur [Erlandson's Spur], 1891-1892.

154. Barnum: Delay of message, 1892.

159. Browns Hill, 1892-1893.

162. Employment agencies, 1891-1898.

163. Duluth: Roofing warehouse, 1891.

164. Forest Lake: Opening of 4th, 5th and 6th Avenues, 1892.

166. Fence to be built, 1891-1896.

167. Construction work, 1892-1893.

170. St. Paul: Fountain in Swede Hollow, 1892.

171. St. Paul: Yard, 1891-1900.

175. Grantsburg: Extensions of track, 1891-1892.

179. Hazelwood Park, 1899.

181. Work accomplished, fiscal 1891-1892, 1892.

182. St. Paul: Removal of Wisconsin Central tracks on St. Paul & Duluth property near East 7th Street, 1892.

183. St. Paul: Trout Brook trestle, 1892-1897.

186. Taylors Falls: Notice to construct sidewalks, 1892.

188. Sandstone: Water Power Sandstone Company, 1892-1896.

189. St. Paul: Coal trestle tracks, 1892-1899.

191. Stillwater: Track to Bernstein warehouse, 1892.

192. Section houses: Renting, 1892-1898.

195. Rice's Point: Blocks 31, 32, 33 (Mendenhall interest; Western Land Association interest), 1892-1898.

199. White Bear station, 1892-1897.

202. Duluth: Data for model of Duluth for World's Fair 1893, 1893.

205. Duluth Building Association, 1893.

207. Duluth: Tracks to elevators "E," "F," and "H", 1892-1898.

208. Duluth, 1891-1893.

209. Joint accounts, 1892-1893.

210. Rush City: Warehouse, 1892.

211. Rush City: Complaints, 1892.

216. West End: Murphy siding, 1893.

219. Rice's Point: Old track to Grays Mill, 1892-1900.

221. Bridge work, 1891-1900.

223. Bald Eagle crossing: Interlocking, 1893-1899.

225. Claymont: Engine house, 1892-1899.

226. Chisago City: Depot, 1892-1898.

228. Cloquet: Thompson eating house, 1893-1896.

231. Carlton: Brick yards, 1893.

232. Centre City ice house, 1893-1896.

234. Cross ties, 1893.

237. Duluth Transfer Railway: Connection with Tri Party track, 1893-1897.

238. Duluth: Duluth, Missabe & Northern connection, 20th Avenue, 1893-1897.

239. Duluth: Terminal matters, 1892-1893.

240. Duluth: Garfield Avenue viaduct, 1892-1900.

250. Duluth: Track to P. & O. Coal Company dock, 1892-1898.

251. Duluth: Engine accommodations for Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic, 1893.

253. Duluth: Storage buildings, 1893.

254. Duluth: Roofing flour houses, 1893.

258. Engines, 1891-1896.

265. Finlayson station, 1893-1898.

269. Gladstone interlocking, 1892-1899.

270. Grantsburg, St. Croix & Duluth Railroad, 1892-1893.

272. Gladstone machine shops, 1892.

273. Gladstone: Proposed tank, Wisconsin Central Lines, 1892.

274. Gladstone coal shed, 1892-1899.

275. Gladstone: Scales, etc., 1892-1894.

277. Handcars and velocipedes, 1892-1899.

279. Train order signals, 1893-1896.

283. "Short Line": West Superior to Superior, 1892-1893.

286. St. Paul: Corning Clay Works, 1892.

295. Stowell interlocking, 1892-1900.

297. North Branch: Mail service, 1892-1899.

299. Thompson: Brick works, 1892-1918.

300. Train signals, 1891-1892.

301. West Duluth: Watering engines, 1893.

303. White Bear scales, 1893.

307. West Duluth freight house, 1891-1897.

309. West Duluth station, 1892-1893.

Location

Box

134.B.10.15B

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311. Barnum, 1892-1899.

312. Bulletins, 1892-1897.

313. Discharged employees: Notices to other roads, 1893.

318. Cloquet: Condemnation proceedings, Duluth & Winnipeg v. St. Paul and Duluth, 1893-1897.

321. Ironton: Water Street crossing, 1892-1893.

322. Ironton: Wilson and Nauffts Mill, 1892.

324. Harvey grip bolt, 1892-1897.

327. Grantsburg engine house, 1892-1895.

328. Pine City: McLaughlin and Overholt spur, 1893.

329. Lidgerwoods Rapid Unloader, 1891-1896.

332. Pine City Navigation and Improvement Company, 1893.

333. Pine River Bridge, 1893.

335. New Duluth: Side Track to Hurd Refrigerator Company, 1892-1899.

336. Minneapolis Branch: Flagging train no. 23, 1893.

337. Miller station, 1892-1896.

338. Minneapolis terminals, 1891-1895.

339. Lumbermen's Association excursion, 1892.

340. Accounts, 1892-1896.

341. Grantsburg Branch: Right of way, S. G. Bengtson, 1892.

342. West Superior: Transfer track between Eastern Minnesota and St. Paul & Duluth, 1893-1918.

343. Taylors Falls: Quarry stone in cut, 1893.

344. Hinckley section house, 1892-1898.

345. St. Paul: Electric signal for 3rd Street Bridge, 1893-1894.

346. Rice's Point: Electric signals, 1891-1896.

347. Short Line Park: Grade crossing, 1893-1896.

349. Rush City: Contract with Rush City Roller Mills, 1893-1900.

351. Accident to Alexander Moore, 1893.

352. White Bear switch lamps, 1893.

353. Forest Lake: Proposed park, 1893.

354. St. Paul: Rental of Chicago Burlington & Northern Railroad tracks in yards, 1892-1894.

355. Duluth: Track to handle snow plows, 1893-1900.

356. Spirit Lake stock yards, 1893-1897.

357. Cloquet station, 1892-1899.

358. Letter of Instruction, 1893.

359. Joint accounts, 1893.

360. Cost of improvements, 1892.

361. Work train outfit, 1893-1897.

362. Barnum, 1892-1893.

363. West Superior: Spencer's Launch damaged, 1893.

364. Construction work, 1893.

365. St. Paul yard work, 1893.

368. Stillwater: Union Depot Transfer Company, 1893-1894.

369. Stillwater Branch, 1892-1894.

375. Rock Creek: Depot and loading spur, 1892-1893.

377. Rice's Point: Squatters, 1893-1896.

379. North Branch station, 1892-1896.

381. Grantsburg: Hickerson Roller Mill Company spur, 1893-1899.

386. Road making: Best methods, 1893.

390. St. Paul: Hot water for coaches, north depot yard, 1893-1896.

391. Old car shops: Sale of, 1893.

392. West Superior: Charges of Lake Superior Terminal & Transfer Railway Company, 1893-1894.

400. Erlandson's Spur: Svenska Parken, 1893.

406. Smithville station, 1894-1899.

408. Rice's Point: Turntable and machine shops, 1891-1900.

410. Duluth Transfer Railway Company matters, 1893-1895.

414. East Minneapolis: Minneapolis Bedding Company crossing, 1894-1900.

418. Gladstone: Additional tracks to St. Paul Plow Works, 1894-1896.

419. Grantsburg turntable, 1893-1895.

421. Summit station, near Stillwater, undated.

427. West Duluth, 1894-1896.

434. Section men, 1894-1899.

436. Otter Creek, 1894-1899.

437. Dell Grove: New station between Hinckley and Miller, 1894.

439. Engines: Kindling fires in, 1894.

447. Milk service, 1894-1896.

460. Locomotive headlight left burning, 1894.

464. Duluth: Coal strike, special police, etc., 1894.

Location

Box

134.B.10.16F

4

465. Couplers, 1894-1895.

489. St. Paul: Tracks to Roberts Architectural and Ornamental Iron Company, 1895-1898.

490. Cloquet section foremen, 1894-1900.

491. Engine sand, 1894.

499. Accident reports, etc., 1894-1896.

508. Carlton Depot, 1897.

540. Hinckley: Handling logs; dam at Willow River, 1894-1895.

541. Wrecking outfit, 1894.

544. Duluth: Section house, section 26, 1894-1895.

550. Duluth: West End station water supply, 1894-1900.

552. Priest's Locomotive Ice and Snow Flanger, 1895.

554. Terminal Dispatch Association: Expenses, 1894-1898.

555. Barnum: Forest fires, 1894.

560. Mission Creek station, 1894-1896.

562. Duluth: Wheat stealing, 1894.

570. Centreville: Harris side track, 1894-1895.

572. Mud Lake: Old buildings, 1894.

574. Fond du Lac: New depot, 1891-1899.

575. Franconia: Station agent's house, move to Shafer, 1894-1900.

577. Ironton: Transfer property to Duluth Transfer Company, 1893-1899.

578. Duluth: Ironton Land Company, 1893.

579. Maintenance of Way Department, 1893-1900.

580. Miller, 1894.

590. Pine City: Side track, 1892-1895.

591. Taxes delinquent for year 1892, 1894.

592. Kettle River: Sauntry Lumber Company, 1892-1893.

594. Rice's Point: Water station, 1896-1899.

597. Smithville: Station water supply, 1893-1899.

600. Spring rail frogs; combination slip switch, 1893-1897.

602. St. Paul: East 7th station at Earl Street, 1892-1900.

603. Train privileges, 1894.

604. Taylors Falls Branch: Right of way, 1893.

625. Duluth: Outside dock, 1894-1900.

639. Friesland [formerly Dell Grove], 1894-1900.

645. Miller: Handling of freight to quarries, 1894-1896.

647. Cloquet: New mill site for S.S. Johnson, 1894-1899.

650. Duluth: Grassy Point drawbridge, 1893-1895.

651. St. Paul: Lighting freight house, 1893-1898.

653. Telephones, 1894-1895.

654. Tramps riding on trains, 1894.

656. St. Paul: Signaling, 1894.

657. Potato shipments, 1894-1897.

658. Local average - number of cars handled, 1894.

660.Duluth: Lake Superior Car Service Association, 1894-1897.

662. Minnesota Canal Company, 1894.

665. Minneapolis: Use of cars between Elevator and Miller, 1894-1895.

667. West Duluth: Duluth Ice Company, 1894.

671. Atkinson: Depot and crossing, 1894-1899.

672. Chisago City: Car to be used for freight house, 1894-1895.

674. Taylors Falls engine house, 1894-1899.

675. Taylors Falls: Culverts and bridges, 1894-1900.

680. Willow River station, 1894-1900.

681. East Minneapolis: Turntable and freight house, 1894-1896.

682. Duluth: Duluth, Missabe & Northern and D.M.&W. engines and engine house, 1894-1897.

687. White Bear: Flagman at 4th Street crossing, 1894-1896.

688. Rush City: Old land office building, 1894.

689. Miller: Section foreman and section house, 1894-1900.

691. Freight equipment, 1894-1896.

692. St. Paul: Switching passengers by Union Depot, 1894-1896.

693. Gladstone station, 1895-1897.

694. Rutledge station, 1895-1899.

696. Coach varnish, 1894.

702. Duluth: Shanties; supplies for lamp tenders, 1894.

704. Barnum: Permit to pile cord wood, 1894-1895.

708. Box cars, 1894-1896.

712. Tower men: Schedule of wages, 1894.

713. Car clerks: Schedule of salaries, 1894.

714. New trainee rules (ARA): Equipment required, 1894-1897.

715. Duluth: Sutphin tracks, 1895-1899.

718. American Railway Association, 1895-1897.

722. Coupler (California), 1894.

724. Porters: Rules governing sleeping and chair cars, 1894.

726. White Bear: Water supply and lighting depot, 1894.

727. Thomson: Section foreman, 1894.

730. St. Paul: Retaining wall near Drewery Company, 1895.

735. Finlayson, 1895.

739. Taylors Falls stock yards, 1895-1899.

741. Price schedule for Northern Pacific joint account, 1895.

743. St. Croix Falls: Highway bridge, 1895-1897.

744. Coal used by freight trains, 1892-1896.

749. Rock Creek: Watton side track, 1894-1898.

752. Willow River: Atwood Lumber Company, 1895-1897.

754. Ejectment of passengers from trains, 1889-1895.

756. Shafer: New depot, 1895-1896.

761. Forest Lake station, 1895-1899.

763. Pine City: Excursion business, lake and river, 1895.

764. Pile drivers, 1895-1900.

765. Hinckley: Yard, depot, and coal chute, 1897-1899.

768. Pine City: Old section house, 1895.

775. Mahtowa: Passing track, 1895-1896.

776. Rush City: Station and scales, 1895-1899.

778. Boarding cars, 1895-1899.

Location

Box

134.B.11.1B

5

779. Hinckley: Cistern, pumps and wells, 1895-1896.

783. Miller: New station, 1895-1897.

787. Dellwood station and side track, 1895-1899.

788. West End station, 1895-1899.

789. White Bear: Suburban trains, 1895.

792. Grantsburg: Power house furnishing water for town, 1895.

801. Cloquet: Freight shed, depot, scales platform, 1895-1898.

802. East Minneapolis yard, 1895-1899.

805. Mahtomedi turntable, 1894-1899.

812. Barnum: Track to Johnson Mill, 1895-1896.

817. White Bear news stand, 1895-1897.

820. Minneapolis and St. Louis Railroad Company: Lease of line, 1897.

822. Mahtowa: Proposed crossing of county road, 1894-1896.

827. Grantsburg yard, 1895-1899.

828. Duluth: Grassy Point Bridge, 1895-1896.

829. Gladstone: Shop insurance, 1895.

832. Steel laid, 1895-1899.

832. Duluth: Crossing and viaduct, 10th Avenue West, 1897-1900.

834. West Superior: Lake Superior Terminal and Transfer Company, 1895-1899.

836. Grantsburg: Location for H.W. Ackley, 1895.

837. Grantsburg: Railroad to Trade Lake and Shell Lake, 1895-1899.

840. Cattle guards, 1895-1899.

847. Taylors Falls: State park, foot bridge, 1895-1900.

859. Forest Lake: People crossing, 1895.

861. St. Paul Union Depot and yard, 1895-1897.

866. Minneapolis: Brooks-Griffith Elevator, 1895-1898.

869. White Bear: Scales and weighting, 1895-1898.

870. Switch lights, 1895-1898.

873. Grantsburg stock chute and pen, 1895-1897.

885. Little Canada, 1895.

889. Duluth: Duluth, Missabe & Northern Railway yard, 1895-1899.

890. Garven station and siding, 1895-1898.

896. Duluth: Location of malt house, 29th Avenue West, 1895.

903. Fond du Lac: Disposal of old depot and timber, 1895-1899.

906. Grantsburg Branch: Water supply, 1895-1903.

908. Miller: Crossing at Government Road, 1895.

909. Wyoming station and stock pen, 1895-1900.

911. Forest Lake: Testimony regarding wreck, October 13, 1895, 1895.

915. Hinckley engine house and cinder pit, 1895-1899.

917. West Superior: Lighting depot by electricity, 1895-1896.

918. Duluth: Lighting depot with electricity, 1895.

919. Rush City: Electric light for depot, 1895-1901.

920. Duluth: Electric lights, freight house, 1895-1896.

922. Material tests; chemical and physical, 1895.

923. Duluth: Armour Packing Company, 1888-1898.

925. Grantsburg: Depot and change of location, 1896.

934. Miller: Quarry for Martin Ring, 1896-1899.

936. Beroun station, 1895-1896.

955. News agents carrying packages, 1895-1896.

957. Water stations along lines, 1896-1900.

964. Hinckley: Locating county seat at Pine City, 1896.

988. West End Depot, 1898.

993. Taylors Falls: Depot, etc., 1896-1900.

1003. Duluth: Valuations, 1892.

1009. Claims: Stock killed, fires, 1896.

1010. Rush City: City park, moving building, etc., 1896-1897.

1012. Grassy Point drawbridge, 1895-1896.

1013. Pine City: Use of velocipedes, non-employees, 1896.

1018. Cloquet: Medical bills, John Sheehan, 1896.

1025. Rush City: Chas. Scharte Mill, 1896-1897.

1029. Beroun station, 1896-1897.

1034. Change of line, Finlayson to Rutledge, 1896-1900.

1039. List of railroad crossing at grade, 1896.

1049. White Bear: Feed mill, Fred Khuen, 1896.

1053. Chief dispatchers: Salary ranges, 1896.

1055. Gladstone shops: Roofing, building arrangement, 1897.

1056. Hinckley eating house, 1896-1898.

1057. Clearances for cars, St. Paul & Duluth lines and branches, 1896.

1064. Privately owned flour cars: Not to be handled, 1896.

1067. North Branch station, 1896-1898.

1068. Coal loads shipped, 1894-1896.

1072. Signals and switches, 1896-1899.

1073. Stillwater: Disposal of old engine house, 1897-1898.

1080. Mail cranes, 1896-1899.

1083. Duluth: Northern Pacific using St. Paul & Duluth tracks, 1896.

1084. Farm gates, 1896-1898.

1085. Duluth: Property occupied by Union Sewer Pipe Company, 1897.

1087. Boyer speed recorder, 1896.

1095. Pine City dock and crossing, 1896-1900.

1099. Grassy Point drawbridge: Duluth interlocking, 1896-1897.

1101. White Bear: Cinders for cycle paths, 1896-1898.

1108. North Branch: Fire, 1896.

1116. Crop reports, 1896.

1121. Lake Shore station, 1896-1899.

1130. White Bear: Tenth Street Depot, 1894-1905.

Location

Box

134.B.11.2F

6

1135. Duluth: Squatters, leases, etc., 1896-1898.

1137. Stillwater: Svenson spur, 1896.

1141. Estimated earnings for 1897, 1896.

1147. Moose Lake: Complaint, audit, 1896-1897.

1149. Duluth: Grassy Point drawbridge, 1896-1900.

1150. Duluth: Storm damage, 1896.

1162. Miller: Groningen post office, 1896.

1164. Duluth: Docks, switching, freight sheds, 1896-1897.

1169. Duluth: Switching charges, 1896-1897.

1175. Discipline by record (Brown System), 1896-1898.

1176. Willow River: Right of way matters, 1896-1897.

1181. Stillwater: Opening Mulberry Street, 1896-1899.

1200. West Superior: Repair track and car repair shop, 1896-1897.

1216. Reports: Cost of conducting transportation, 1897-1898.

1125. Willow River: Log drives, etc., 1897.

1231. Duluth: Minneapolis Brewing Company leases, 1896-1898.

1243. Advertising matter on freight cars, 1896-1897.

1249. Duluth: Blatz Brewing Company lease, 1897-1898.

1250 Expense chargeable to construction, improvements, etc., 1897.

1251. Schedules: Train No. 2, Duluth to St. Paul, 1897.

1253. Rush City: Telephone service, 1897.

1258. Collection of excess cash fares by conductors, 1897.

1261. Fond du Lac Branch: Removal of rails, etc., 1895-1898.

1264. Signal systems: National Switch and Signal Company, 1897.

1267. Pine City: Mrs. O'Brien's land, 1897.

1268. Rock Creek: Dowlan's siding, 1897.

1276. Rush City: Side tracks to Rush City Roller Mills, 1897.

1277. Handling bicycles: Bikes, trikes, baby buggies, etc., 1897.

1288. Interstate Park Navigation Company, Taylors Falls to Stillwater, 1897.

1300. Freight cars: What constitutes delivery, 1897.

1314. Freight Cars: Steel bolsters, 1897.

1315. Duluth: Schwartzchild and Sulzberger Beef Company, 1897.

1322. Train No. 9, St. Paul to Russell Beach: Complaint, 1897.

1326. Storm, 3 July 1897: Reports on damage, 1897.

1328. Conductor errors: Ticket collection and acceptance, 1897.

1336. Duluth: Old station building, St. Croix Avenue, 1897.

1341. New Duluth: Hermann, Becklinger and Herman sidetrack, 1892-1897.

1346. Moose Lake: Bridge, 1897-1898.

1355. St. Paul Union Depot: Changes, 1897.

1359. North Branch: Beggs and Company trackage, 1897.

1397. Grantsburg: John Elg and Sons, lease, 1893-1897.

1370. North Branch: Hamm's Brewing Company, 1897.

1377. White Bear: Need for additional coach, 1897.

1378. Rice's Point coal shed and trackage, 1898-1899.

1415. Depots: Standard plans; 1898 improvements, 1897-1898.

1417. Sleeping cars: Lists of linen and other supplies, 1897.

1428. Steel wire brooms for frogs and switches, 1897-1898.

1429. Garnishments: Notifications required, 1898.

1430. Track jacks, 1897-1899.

1436. Bridges: Clearances, capacities, 1898-1899.

1440. St. Paul: Rice Street Bridge, 1891-1898.

1442. Bridges: Strengths, 1898-1899.

1444. Carlton gravel pit: Sale to Northern Pacific Railroad, 1898-1900.

1461. Finlayson: Dispute with Mr. Buell regarding ownership, 1898.

1469. Derails: Side track protection, 1898.

1470. Track bolts, 1898-1900.

1477. Line Changes: Mahtowa-Carlton, Finlayson-Rutledge, 1898.

1478. Wagon road: West from Miller, 1898-1899.

1479. Rail reclamation plant, 1898-1899.

1480. Stillwater: Elevator fire, elevator site, 1898-1899.

1483. Mahtowa: Right-of-way, 1899.

1485. Duluth: Great Northern Railroad; work on tracks, Rices Point, 1898.

1490. Moose Lake: Ehr Bros. and Bloomquist trackage, 1898-1902.

1493. St. Paul: Hamms Brewery foot bridge, 1898.

1498. Line changes: Willow River to Sturgeon Lake, 1898-1899.

1499. Duluth: Docks, repairs, etc., 1898-1900.

1503. Duluth: Cleaning privies, 1898.

1504. Depots: Car clearances, 1898.

1507. Pine City: Changes requested by city, 1898-1899.

1510. Carlton: Crossings, 1898-1899.

1512. Branch lines: Rail replacement, etc., 1898.

1513. Duluth: Freight house repairs and modifications, 1898-1900.

1514. Permanent Rail Joint Company, 1898.

1520. Short Line Park: Coal consumption, repairs, 1897-1899.

1526. Carlton: Right of way matters, 1898-1899.

1527. Stillwater: Broadway (Dutch Town) Bridge, 1897-1899.

1533. Ties: Supply, etc., 1899-1900.

1535. Carlton: Captain Paine's logging railroad, 1898.

1540. Rice's Point: Alger and Smith log track, 1899-1900.

1543. Track scales, turntables, round houses, water stations, 1898-1899. .

1547. Rice's Point: Eastern Railway Company tracks, 1898-1899.

1549. Atkinson: Crossing for Mr. Bloomquist, 1898.

1550. Rice's Point: Trackage rights, etc., 1898-1899.

1551. Cloquet: Track extensions, 1898.

1553. Willow River: Mile posts, Cloquet Branch, 1898-1899.

1560. Carlton: Interlocking plant, 1898-1900.

1561. Barnum: Land sales, 1899.

1562. Kettle River: Highway bridge, 4 miles west of Sturgeon Lake, 1899-1900.

1564. Pine City: Boom repairs, etc., 1899.

1571. Stacy: Addition to station, 1899.

1581. Thomson to Howell: Track surveys, etc., 1899.

1597. St. Croix Power Company: Electric lines over railroad near Stillwater, 1899.

1605. Rush City: Section house repair, 1899-1900.

1611. Duluth: Property exchange with Northern Pacific Railroad, 1899-1900.

1614. Cloquet: Moving buildings, trackage changes, 1900.

1619. Sauntry: Sauntry and Cain side track, 1900.

1643. Hinckley: Improvement of adverse grade, 1900.

1644. Barnum: Need for engineer for highway west, 1900.

1645. Branch lines: Valuation, building and structures, 1900.

1656. Old line, Thomson to West End Junction: Cost to repair, 1890-1893.

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Contains unnumbered subject files arranged in alphabetical order. These files include much the same types of materials and subjects found in the numbered St. Paul & Duluth Chief Engineer's Subject Files. The unnumbered files date predominantly from the same period as the numbered files, the 1890s.

Location

Box

134.K.10.10F

7

Bald Eagle, Minnesota: Interlocking, 1893.

Bridges, 1870-1890s.

Cloquet and Short Line Park, Minnesota: Depot, track, bridge, 1895, 1900.

Duluth, Minnesota: Docks, 1890s.

Duluth, Minnesota: Grassy Point Bridge, 1887-1896.

Duluth, Minnesota: Miscellaneous, 1871-1890s.

Hinckley, Minnesota: Miscellaneous files related to the Hinckley fire, 1894. 9 folders.

Improvements and betterments, 1895-1905.

Interlocking rules, 1896.

M & D Junction, Minnesota: Interlocking, 1893.

Miscellaneous items, circa 1869-1900.

Moose Lake, Minnesota: Excavating, 1892.

Northern Pacific Railway Company: Acquisition of St. Paul & Duluth Railroad, 1900.

Rail, 1891.

Reports, 1894-1900.

Weekly and other reports, in reverse chronological order.

Location

Box

134.K.10.11B

8

Right of way, 1886-1889.

Rush City, Minnesota: Loading gravel, 1895.

St. Paul, Minnesota, 1886-1897. 6 folders.

Stillwater, Minnesota: Freight house, 1881-1890.

Supplies, 1890-1900.

Switches, 1887.

Turntables, 1881.

West Superior, Wisconsin: Grading, 1892.

Western Union Telegraph Company: Contract, 1894.

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Annual reports and other records regarding the Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad Company (LS&M), the predecessor to the St. Paul and Duluth Railroad Company, can be found in the Lake Superior and Mississippi pamphlets publication and the Branch Lines, Subsidiaries, and Related Companies: Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad Company manuscript collection at the Minnesota Historical Society.

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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:: Railroads -- Branch lines.; Railroads -- Cost of operation.; Railroads -- Management.; Railroads -- Mergers.; Railroads -- Timetables.; Railroads -- Finance.; Corporate reorganizations.; Railroads and state -- United States.; Railroad engineering.; Railroad companies -- Minnesota.; Railroad land grants -- Northwestern States.; Railroads -- Design and construction.

Organizations:: Northern Pacific Railway Company, author.; Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad Company, author.

Document Types:: Annual reports.; Railroad maps.; Bylaws (administrative records).; Minute books.; Ledgers (account books).; Plats (maps).; Blueprints (reprographic copies).

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ST. PAUL AND DULUTH RAILROAD COMPANY:

OVERVIEW

HISTORICAL NOTE

ARRANGEMENT

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

BY-LAWS AND MINUTES

STOCK RECORDS

FINANCIAL RECORDS

CAR RECORDS AND COAL SHIPMENT VOLUMES

ORGANIZATIONAL RECORDS AND MISCELLANY

CHIEF ENGINEER VOLUMES

LAND DEPARTMENT RECORDS

MAPS AND BLUEPRINTS

MISCELLANEOUS VOLUMES AND RECORDS

TIMETABLES

CHIEF ENGINEER SUBJECT FILES

CHIEF ENGINEER MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECT FILES

RELATED MATERIALS

CATALOG HEADINGS