Case files concerning international boundary flowage, 1908-1942.

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Case files concerning international boundary flowage, 1908-1942.

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Correspondence, printed reports, legal documents, land tables and descriptions, maps, photographs, and other materials relating to several suits brought by the state of Minnesota and private parties against the Minnesota & Ontario Power Company, its successor the Minnesota and Ontario Paper Company, and the Rainy River Improvement Company for land damage due to flooding along the Rainy River. Includes docket nos. 1796, 2053, 2054, 3105, and 3577.

3.0 cu. ft. (3 boxes).

Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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Minnesota and Ontario Power Co.

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International Joint Commission

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Rainy River Improvement Company.

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Minnesota and Ontario Paper Company

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Quetico-Superior Council.

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Oberholtzer, Ernest C. (Ernest Carl), 1884-1977

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Oberholtzer was well known as an explorer, conservationist and writer. In 1912 he settled in the Rainy Lake area of northern Minnesota. He often traveled the area with Indian companions, particularly Billy Magee, and was a friend of the Indians as well as teller of their stories and legends. He is best known for his ceaseless role in preserving the Quetico-Superior wilderness. He was instrumental in the founding of the Friends of the Wilderness Society. He worked for the establishment of the Bou...

Minnesota. Attorney General

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These cases had their genesis in a bill of complaint filed with the United States Supreme Court by the state of Wisconsin in 1922, seeking an injunction to restrain the state of Illinois and the Sanitary District of Chicago from diverting water from Lake Michigan through the Chicago River into the Des Plaines River and ultimately the Mississippi. This linkage, completed in 1900, not only facilitated navigation between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River waterways system, but a...