Mississippi Land Company records, 1896-1968.

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Mississippi Land Company records, 1896-1968.

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Minute books, annual statements, stock records, ledgers, journals, cashbooks, correspondence (1956-1965), tax records, and iron mine reports of this company organized in 1896 by the Weyerhaeuser interests to hold title to and receive royalties from mineral rights on Mesabi Iron Range lands. This firm was a Weyerhaeuser affiliate.

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Mississippi Land Company (Minneapolis, Minn.).

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The Mississippi Land Company was a Weyerhaeuser Company enterprise, incorporated January 10, 1896, to hold title to mineral rights on such land tracts as showed promise of iron and other ore deposits, and to lease and develop them. The Mississippi River Lumber Company held half of its stock, while E. C. Whitney and associates held the remainder. The company owned "in fee" 2,000 acres of Minnesota’s Mesabi Iron Range. In later years as the rich iron ore gave out, the company was conc...

Mississippi River Lumber Company (Clinton, Iowa).

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