North Western Lumber Company (Eau Claire, Wis.)
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Kim Rosholt Papers, 1885-1909
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss AT
Summary
Papers of Rosholt concerning his involvement in land and timber sales and the colonization by immigrants of northern Wisconsin's cut-over regions. Rosholt acquired options from Knapp, Stout, and Company and other lumber and railroad interests for large tracts of northern Wisconsin land and sold the land primarily for farm purposes. The collection contains correspondence with individual land purchasers and with land dealers and lumbering firms including George B. Burrows of Madison, Gale and...
Dates:
1885-1909
North Western Lumber Company Records, 1870-1955
Collection
Identifier: Eau Claire Mss A
Summary
Records of North Western Lumber Company, an Eau Claire, Wisconsin company, organized in 1873, which engaged in lumbering in northwestern Wisconsin until the depletion of timber supplies halted operations in about 1920. Correspondence relates primarily to the management and gradual liquidation of the company's assets after 1920. Most of the letters were written by George W. Hipke of Stanley, an officer of the company. Among these are many which pertain to his campaigns for the state...
Dates:
1870-1955
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