ICC Decision re: Northern Pacific Construction of branch, Mesato to Mattawa, Washington 1967

Classification Yards, 1956

A.C. Kalmbach, "Tomorrow's Railroad Today: How the Milwaukee has Eliminated All Intermediate Slowdowns on an Important High Speed Line, Trains, February, 1944

Joseph C. O'Hearn, "The Winter of '36: Division superintendent relates how the Milwaukee Road fought heavy snows in subzero cold," Trains, December, 1944

Railway Age, "Richland Creek Bridge," January 28, 1938. An advertisement for a 1907 Milwaukee Road concrete arch bridge

  1928

Letter, Darling to Donnelly 08/03/1928 Proposed NP Cascade Tunnel

  1926

Letter, Donnelly to Pearson 01/25/1926 Westbound Panama Canal Traffic on on NP down, losses to SP&S

  1925

• Receivership, 1925

Letter, Pearson to Elliott 11/23/1925 NP New Cascade Tunnel

  1922

• Harold Crary, "Seattle, Port City," American Industries, November, 1922

• "President Byram Discusses St. Paul Situation," The Magazine of Wall Street, July, 1922

• "Industrial Expansion and the Railroads," The Magazine of Wall Street, July, 1922

• "Co-operative Switching of Joint Tracks Succeeds at Seattle," Railway Age, May 20, 1922

• "C.M. & St. P Deficit After Charges $11,070,609," Railway Age, May 13, 1922

• "St. Paul May Disregard Cancellation Order," Traffic World, March 11, 1922

• "Railroad Steamship Contracts, MILW and GN Ordered to Cancel," Traffic World, March 4, 1922

• "Tacoma Chamber of Commerce Protests MILW GN Contract Termination," Traffic World, February 25, 1922

• "Railroad Steamship Contracts," Traffic World, February 4, 1922, MILW and GN Negotiations with Shipping Board

• "Railroad Steamship Contracts," Traffic World, January 7, 1922. MILW and GN not cancelling.

• "General Rate Inquiry, Byram Testifies," Traffic World, January 21, 1922

  1921

"The Railroad- Steamship Contracts," Traffic World, December 10, 1921, MILW and GN unwilling to give up contracts.

"Hearings on Railroad Steamship Contracts," Traffic World, December 10, 1921

"The Railroads and Steamship Contracts," Traffic World, November 28, 1921. Tonnage of Milwaukee and GN through their respective contracts

"Railroad Steamship Contracts," Traffic World, November 12, 1921. Language of Milwaukee contract.

The New York Times, "Rate Cuts Resulting from Panama Canal," November 23, 1921.

The Pacific Review, "Impressions of a Hobo," September, 1921.

   1920

• "1920-21 Pacific International Trade Year Book," Japanese Chamber of Commerce, November, 1920, Tonnage figures for Port of Seattle

• Letter, Howard Elliott to Charles Donnelly, St. Paul and Union Pacific Competition, 12/11/1920

• "Summary of Congressional Investigation into Aircraft Expenditures," Aerial Age, March 1, 1920, etc. Port Angeles Spruce Railroad.

   1919

• Robert Bridges, "Efforts of the Port District of the Port of Seattle to Own and Operate a Port Belt Line,' Annals of  the American Academy of Political Science, November, 1919

• "The Railroad Problem -- special issue," Annals of  the American Academy of Political Science, November, 1919

• "John D. Ryan before Congressional Investigating Committee," Aerial Age, November 10, 1919

• "Transcript of Hearings," Spruce Railroad and Milwaukee involvement, U.S. House of Representatives, August 19, 1919

• "Cost of Airplane Spruce Production," American Lumberman, August 9, 1919

• "Milwaukee Land Company, Vast Lands in North Idaho," American Lumberman, August 9, 1919

• "Sale of US Spruce Corporation Mills and Lake Crescent RR," American Lumberman, July 5, 1919

• Joint Construction Agreement with Montana Eastern Railroad (GN) April 1, 1919

   1918

• Railway Age, "The Northern Pacific and the St. Paul," September 6, 1918

• Corporate History of the Milwaukee Road, 1918

• "Mr. Charles Allen Goodnow," Electric Traction, August, 1918

• "Future Development of Seattle Harbor and Rail Facilities," Pacific Marine Review, July, 1918

• "What the Tacomans Are Doing -- OSK at the Milwaukee Dock," Pacific Marine Review, July, 1918

• Report for 1917, Standard Corporation Service, 1917 -- deny reports of purchase of British Columbia Electric Ry, effects of IWW activities

   1917

• Letter answering ICC Construction Questions, October 5, 1917

• Obituary, "W.R. Lanning," Proceedings of the American Railway Bridge and Building Association, October, 1917

• "St. Paul Results," Standard Corporation Service, August, 1917

   1916

• "Concreting Plant for Rosalia Bridge Construction," Engineering and Contracting, November 22, 1916

• "Construction of Two Concrete Arch Bridges at Rosalia, Washington," Railway Review, November 11, 1916

• E.E.R. Tratman, "Don J. Whittemore's Services to Engineering,"  Engineering News, July 27, 1916

• "Proposal to Create a Shipping Board," Congressional Serial Set, July, 1916, St. Paul and NP info at p. 43

• Rosalia Bridge Construction, American Railway Bridge and Building Association, Proceedings

•  Larry Neal, "Investment Behavior by American Railroads: 1897-1914," The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 51, No. 2 (May, 1969), pp. 126-135.
  

    1914 ICC Accounting Investigation: Ernest Ritson Dewsnup, "Recent Financial Investigations by the Interstate Commerce Commission,"  Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 63, National Industries and the Federal Government (Jan., 1916), pp. 199-213

• Effect of the Panama Canal Opening, Calvin Crumbaker, "The Panama Canal and the West," The Journal of Business of the University of Chicago, 2:2, April, 1929, pp. 151-176.

  1915

• "The Snoqualmie Tunnel," International Engineering Congress, 1915

• "Modern Methods of Railway Tunnel Construction," Railway Review, October 30, 1915

• "The Wisdom of the Puget Sound Extension," Railway Age, October 10, 1915

• Various Construction Projects, CM&StP, Railway Age, October 1, 1915

• "Shipments out of Puget Sound," The Timberman, September, 1915

• ABS Signals Installed, Railway Age, August 6, 1915

• NP Ventilates Stampede Tunnel, Railway Age, August 6, 1915

• "Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul," Financial World, July 3, 1915. May have to reduce dividend.

• The Electrical News, "Connections to BCE in British Columbia by Milwaukee," May 15, 1916

• "Lining Tunnels on the New Lewistown -- Great Falls Line of the CM&St.P.," Railway Age, May 7, 1915

• "The Snoqualmie Tunnel," Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way, May, 1915

• "New Line from Lewistown, Mont. to Great Falls," Railway Age, April 2, 1915

• "The Snoqualmie Tunnel, CM&St.P," Engineering News, February 18, 1915

• "Lining the Snoqualmie Tunnel," Railway Age, January 22, 1915

• "St. Paul and Oregon-Washington Joint Terminals in Spokane," Railway Age, January 15, 1915

 1914

• "St. Paul's Borrowing," Commercial West, December 5, 1914

• "Piercing the Cascades," Travel, December 1914

• "Milwaukee Land Co installs Electric Light Plants for Geraldine, other Northern Montana Towns," Commercial West, October 14, 1914

• Articles of Incorporation, Great Falls Western Railway, July 25, 1914

• "ICC Accounting Opinion," Commercial West, March 21, 1914

• New York Times, "Feeder for the St. Paul Road," March 12, 1914 -- Purchase of the Bellingham Bay & British Columbia Ry.

• "St. Paul May Ask for a Rehearing," Chicago Tribune, March 12, 1914

• "St. Paul Found Falsifier by Commerce Board," Chicago Tribune, March 7, 1914

• "Statistics of Railways of the United States," Interstate Commerce Commission, 1914

1913

• Statistics of the Railways of the United States, through June 30, 1913. Government Printing Office

• "Pacific Northwest News," Commercial West, November 8, 1913 -- UP has "running rights" on Milwaukee into Seattle

• "Tug "Milwaukee" Built For Milwaukee Terminal Railway Co.," Pacific Marine Review, November, 1913

• "Eastern Montana Notes," Commercial West, November 1, 1913

• "Montana is Prosperous, John D. Ryan Comments," Commercial West, September 27, 1913

• "Pacific Northwest Notes, No Foreign Traffic at Portland," Commercial West, September 27, 1913

• "Puget Sound Bonds, Dollar for Dollar, Represent the Cost of the Pacific Extension," Commercial West, September 27, 1913

• "Inland Empire Notes," The Commercial West, September 6, 1913 -- freight rate changes benefit Spokane

• "Montana-Seattle Grain Rates Reduced," The Commercial West, August 9, 1913

• Lewistown Line Construction, The Railway and Engineering Review, July 19, 1913

• Decree of Dissolution of CM&StP of Montana, July 3, 1913

• Statistics of Railways of the United States, ending June 30, 1913. USGPO

• Lewistown Line Construction, The Railway and Engineering Review, June 28, 1913

• Engineering & Contracting, "Surveys from Moses Lake to Bellingham," June 4, 1913

• "Steamship Company Affiliations on the Pacific Coast," US Senate Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries,  June, 1913

• Engineering & Contracting, "Some Features of Double Track Railroad Construction on the CM&St.P.," June 4, 1913

• Roswell Miller Obituary, Railway World, February, 1913

• "Transcontinental Railroad Steamship Contracts," Proceedings of the Committee on the Merchant Marine, 1913

• "The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul," Analyses of Railroad Corporations Whose Bonds are Legal Investments for Massachusetts Savings Banks, by Old Colony Trust Company, 1913

  1912

• New York Times, "To Merge Puget Sound Road," December 20, 1912.

• "Trans-Pacific Service," Pacific Marine Review, December, 1912, Relationship of Osaka Shosen Kaishen with St. Paul RR

• "Big Swings in the St. Paul," Financial World, November 23, 1912

• "Northern Pacific Annual Report," Pacific Marine Review, November, 1912. Effects of Milwaukee competition; North Coast Limited to be operated over CNW into Chicago.

• "11,842 Foot Tunnel Through the Cascade Mountains in Washington," Railway Employes' Magazine, November, 1912

• "Chicago-Milwaukee & St Paul -- Deficit Reduction," Pacific Marine Review, October, 1912

• "Earnings of the C,M & St. P Railway," Pacific Marine Review, September, 1912

• W.F. Bartholomew, "St. Paul: It's Potentialities and Outlook," Investments, August, 1912

• "Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Rail Mill,' Railway Age, June 21, 1912

• "Contracts Let for Lewistown Line Project," Engineering and Contracting, June 5, 1912

• "Advertisement for Osaka Shosen Kaishen Shipping Lines," St. Paul's Steamship Co, Pacific Marine Review, June, 1912

• "Earling Visit to Seattle, Snoqualmie Tunnel Work to Resume," Railway Employes Magazine, June, 1912

• Articles of Incorporation, Great Falls Terminal Railway Co., April 18, 1912

• "Three Forks to Radersburg Line to Start, JQ Adams Interested," Engineering and Contracting, March 20, 1912

• "Surveys Begin from Three Forks to Helena," Engineering and Contracting, February 14, 1912

• "Tale of $1,000,000 Graft in St. Paul Branded as False," Chicago Tribune, February 8, 1912

• "Joint Milwaukee GN Line East of Lewistown, Montana," Engineering and Contracting, January 10, 1912

• W.H. Ailport, "Hospital Relief Associations," Illinois Medical Journal, January, 1912

• Jere Murphy, "The Comical History of Montana," (New York, 1912).

  1911

• Railway Locomotive & Engineering, "From Lake Michigan to Puget Sound," November, 1911

• J.H. Prior, "Design of Bridge Abutments," Railway Age, October 27, 1911

• Railway Age, "Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul," October 13, 1911

• "Mystery Surveyors in Libby, Sun River, Rumors of NP/MILW consolidation," Great Falls Tribune, June 27, 1911

• United States vs. Union Pacific RR Co., June 24, 1911, 188 F. Rep. 102

• "Hill Announces Big Money Deal," May 31, 1911, $600 million combined GN/CBQ mortgage

• "NP and Milwaukee Support Seattle, Great Northern Does Not," Freight: the Shipper's Forum, May, 1911

• K.C. Weedin, "Methods and Some Costs of Construction of the St. Paul Pass Tunnel," Engineering & Contracting, April 5, 1911

• "Exhibit Car on the NP," Railway Journal, March, 1911

• New York Times, "Puget Sound Pays Dividend," February 25, 1911

• "Exhibit Cars on the CM & Puget Sound," Railway Journal, February, 1911

• "Report of the Bureau of Agriculture, Labor and Industry of the State of Montana," 1908, 1909, 1910 -- notes on railroad contributions, Milwaukee line up the Swan River, Deer Lodge bought the property for the Milwaukee shops and gave it to the railroad

• Delos Wilcox, Municipal Franchises, II, (New York: Engineering News Publishing Company, 1911). Milwaukee Road's Seattle Municipal Franchise terms.

  1910

• G.W. Ogden, "A World Afire: Heroes In the Burning of the Northwestern Forests," Everybody's Magazine, December, 1910

• "Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Paid for Pacific Extension out of its Own Pocket," The Ticker and Investment Digest, October, 1910

• Engineering News, "The Design and Erection of the Missouri River Bridge for the Pacific Extension; C.M.&St.P. Ry," August 25, 1910

• MoBridge -- Railway Age Article, June 10, 1910

• Industrial Progress, "Our Oriental Trade," April, 1910. Falloff in 1905-1909

• William Thorton Prosser, "A New Transcontinental Railway," Pacific Monthly, February, 1910

• New York Times, "St. Paul Earnings," January 7, 1910.

• The Timberman, "Milwaukee Land Company Holdings in Couer d'Alene District, and Use of Oil on Locomotives," January, 1910

• "Financial Report, CM&StP," The Standard Financial Quarterly, 1910, 1:1. "The Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound road has done more in the past two years in the way of bringing actual settlers to Montana than has been accomplished in the past 25 years."

   1909

• New York Times, "Puget Sound Paying its Way," December 9, 1909.

• The Journal of the American Asiasiatic Association, "Reply to Communication of Howard Ayers," December, 1909.  "Reopening of our ports to Asiatic trade; now open to CP and CM&StP at Seattle and Tacoma; others will likely soon follow."

• The National Builder, "Design of a Log Railway Station, CM&St.P Ry," December, 1909 -- the Musselshell, Montana Depot

• The Railway Conductor, "Record Breaker," December, 1909 -- Silk and Salmon Train run

• Henry Hyde, "The War With the Mountains," The Technical World Magazine, December, 1909

• "New Japanese Liners and the St. Paul," The American Marine Engineer, December, 1909

• "St. Paul Purchases Terminal Property in Winnipeg, also, owns rail line at Bridger," Engineering and Contracting, November 24, 1909

• "St. Paul Purchases Terminal Property in North Portland, Reaches Agreement with NP for rights from Tacoma to Portland," Engineering and Contracting, November 24, 1909

• "Freight Train in Fast Run Between Tacoma and Chicago," Chicago Tribune, November 5, 1909

• New York Times, "No Puget Sound Reports," October 4, 1909.

• "A Remarkable Piece of Railway Construction," American Industry, September 15, 1909

• C.M. Keys, "The Battle of the Railroads: the Meaning of the Milwaukee," World's Work, August, 1909

• Elliott Flower, "Opening Up the Northwest: A record in Railroad Building by the Latest Line to the Pacific Coast," Putnam's Magazine, July, 1909

• "The Pacific Coast Extension of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul," Freight: The Shipper's Forum, July, 1909

• "Coast Extension of the St. Paul Open," Railway World, June 25, 1909

• "Derrick Cars and Bridge Erection on the CM&St.P," Engineering News, June 24, 1909

• "St. Paul Opens Coast Line," Chicago Tribune, June 17, 1909

• "Line Surveys up the Blackfoot, the Flathead Line," Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen's Magazine, June, 1909

• "Condition of the U.P.," American Review of Reviews, June, 1909

• "Hydraulic Construction of Large Embankments on the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Ry," Engineering News, May 27, 1909

• "New Coal Lines, to Canada and up the St. Maries River," The Railway World, May 21, 1909

• "NP to Shorten Line Between Missoula and Spokane," Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen's Magazine, May, 1909

• William H. Day, "The Story of the Taft Tunnel Gang," Association Men, April, 1909

• "A Last Spike Driven near Missoula," Engineering News-Record, April 1, 1909

• "Last Spike," Engineering News, April 1, 1909

• "Last Spike Driven at Missoula March 29, 1909," New International Encyclopedia, 1915

• "Large Wooden Trestles on the CM&St.P," Engineering News-Record, March 25, 1909

• "Large Wooden Trestles on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Ry," Engineering News, March 25, 1909

• "Plans to Open Coast Line of St. Paul System," Chicago Tribune, March 12, 1909

• "Milwaukee Company Finishes up Big Bridge Contract for St. Paul," The Iron Age, March 11, 1909

• Scientific American, "The Extension of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway to the Pacific Coast," February 20, 1909, page 151.

• "St. Paul Tunnel Completed," Engineering News-Record, February 18, 1909

• "NP to Bore Big Tunnel, Purchases Taft Power Plant from CM&St.P.," Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen's Magazine, February, 1909

• "St. Paul After Oriental Traffic; St. Paul Merger Financed," Railway World, January 15, 1909

• "Great Northern Enters Tacoma on NP,"  Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen's Magazine, January, 1909

• "Work on the Railroads in Montana," -- details on St. Paul Tunnel, Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies, January, 1909

• Montana, Idaho, Washington State Tunnels

• Last Spikes

• MoBridge -- Record of Construction

    Record of PCE Construction, Complete Record, 1915 Valuation Study

  Breakdown by Section:

  Valuation Sections 1a-1c
  Moreau Branch
  Cheyenne Branch
  Valuation Sections North Dakota, PCE Mainline
  New England Branch, Valuation Sections North Dakota 3 and SD 4
  Montana Valuation Section 1, State line to Harlowton
  Montana Valuation Section 2, Harlowton to Lombard
  Montana Valuation Section 3, Lombard to Butte
  Montana Valuation Section 4, Butte to St. Paul Pass
  Montana Valuation Section 5, Harlowton to Lewistown
  Montana Valuation Section 6, Grass Range Line
  Montana Valuation Section 7, Roy Line
  Montana Valuation Section 8, Lewistown to Great Falls
  Montana Valuation Section 9, Great Falls to Agawam
  Montana Valuation Section 10, Ringling to Dorsey
  Idaho Valuation Section 1, Idaho Mainline
  Idaho Valuation Section 2, Plummer Jct to Manito Jct
  Idaho Valuation Section 3, St. Maries to Elk River Branch
  Idaho Valuation Section 4, Coeur d'Alene Branch
  Idaho Valuation Section 5, Pend 'Oreille Branch
  Washington Valuation Section 1, Idaho State Line to Maple Valley
  Washington Valuation Sections 4, 5, 5a, Maple Valley to Seattle
  Washington Valuation Section 7, Marcellus Branch
  Washington Valuation Section 7A, Moses Lake Branch
  Washington Valuation Section 8, Hanford Branch
  Washington Valuation Section 9, Everett Branch
  Washington Valuation Section 10, Enumclaw Branch
  Washington Valuation Section 11, Grays Harbor Branch

  Construction Record, Big Blackfoot Railway
  Construction Record, Gallatin Valley Railway
  Construction Record, Puget Sound & Willapa Harbor Railway
  Construction Record, Milwaukee Terminal Railway
  Construction Record, Bellingham & Northern Railway
  Construction Record, Seattle, Port Angeles & Western Railway
  Construction Record, Tacoma Eastern Railway

McGarvie, Mark. "A COMPARATIVE CASE STUDY OF IMMIGRANT CONTRACT LABOR ON THE MILWAUKEE ROAD." Railroad History 1998 (179): 69-87.

Joint Line Talks with NP Dead, New York Times, June 26, 1909

• "The Milwaukee Hospital Association," The Railway Surgical Journal, June, 1909

• "The News About the Union Pacific," American Review of Reviews, June, 1909

• "The St. Paul Hospital System," The Railway Surgical Journal, June, 1909

• Engineering News, "Hydraulic Construction of Large Embankments on the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railway," May 27, 1909

 1908

•  New York Times, "Harriman Agrees to Railway Truce," December 2, 1908.

•  "Heavy Bridge Work on CMStP," Railway and Engineering Review, December 5, 1908

• Confidential Letter, re: Analysis of Milwaukee Road, H.E. Cooper to John D. Rockefeller, November 6, 1908

• "Work of CM&St.P in Seattle and Tacoma, Hospital in Seattle," Railway Age, October 30, 1908

•  "Progress on the St. Paul Extension," Railway Age, October 9, 1908

• "Obituary of Elbridge Beckler, Civil Engineer on PCE," also "Plans to build to Waterville, 120 miles north of Beverly, Washington," Railway Age, September 4, 1908

• William Thorton Prosser, "Railways Divide a New Kingdom" The Technical World, August, 1908

•  "GN, Others, to Get Out of Steamship Business," The Bulletin of the American Iron and Steel Association, August 15, 1908 

  1907

 "The Great Northern," "The Northern Pacific," and the "Chicago, Burlington & Quincy," Railway Age, November 22, 1907

"The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul," Railway Age, September 30, 1907

 "The Portland and Seattle Railroad," Railway Age, September 27, 1907

"Progress on the Western End of the St. Paul's Pacific Extension," Railway Age, September 20, 1907

"Earling Announces St. Paul to Operate Steamships," The American Marine Engineer, September, 1907

Jon Moen, Ellis Tallman, "The Bank Panic of 1907: The Role of Trust Companies," Journal of Economic History, 52:3, September, 1992 [password protected, copyright]

 "Chicago & Northwestern," Railway Age, August 23, 1907 

"Railroad Work in the Lewiston, Idaho Country," Railway Age, August 20, 1907

"St. Paul Extension Work, Snoqualmie Tunnel to Begin Soon," Railway Age, August 16, 1907

"Progress on the Western End of the St. Paul's Pacific Extension," Railway Age, July 19, 1907 

"Missouri River Bridge of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul at Mobridge, South Dakota,"   Railway Age, March 22, 1907

"Dakota Goes Down; Hill Won't Build Any More Liners," New York Times, March 8, 1907

 Henry Hyde, "A Gray Dreamer," The Technical World, February, 1907 -- puff piece on Hill

"Tacoma Terminals of the CM&St.P among the largest in USA," Sunset Magazine, 1907

 Sheldon Bebee, "Putting the Mountains to Work," The Technical World, February, 1907 -- Harriman and Electrification

"Labor Laws in a Tunnel," Railway Age, January 11, 1907  

"The St. Paul's Coast Extension," Railway Age, January 4, 1907 

"St Paul's Hurried Stock Issue," New York Times, January 3, 1907

Carl Snyder, "Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul," American Railways as Investments, 1907

  1906

•  Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Stock Offering," Railway News, December 22, 1906

•  "Funds for the St. Paul's Extension," Railway World, December 21, 1906

• "Route of the St. Paul's Coast Extension," Railway World, December 14, 1906

•  "Standard Oil and the Railroads," Railway World, November 23, 1906

•  "Railroad Rivalry in the West," Railway World, October 26, 1906

• "Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul," Railway News, October 6, 1906. Route of Pacific Extension

•  "Dropped into the Earth," Fuel Magazine, October 2, 1906
  
  Amendment to Articles of Incorporation of CM&StP of Montana, August 31, 1906, from "Ravalli County" to "Missoula County."

•  "St. Paul to Operate Eleven Steamships," The American Marine Engineer, August, 1906

• "Russell Sage Dies," New York Times, July 23, 1906

• "Rumor of Control by Union Pacific," Railway News, July 21, 1906

• "GN to be Freight Road, NP Passenger," Bismarck Daily Tribune, June 19, 1906 NP carries four times the freight of the GN

• Notes on the Agreement between the Columbia and Puget Sound Ry and the CM& St.P. dated May 21, 1906

•  "Important Railroad Projects," The United States Investor, April 28, 1906

•  "St. Paul Rumored to Operate Steamships," The American Marine Engineer, March, 1906

• "Great Northern Steel Deal Scuttled by 26 Broadway," New York Times, February 26, 1906

•  "The Soo Line and the Hill Roads Compared," Railway Age, February 22, 1906

•   H. Roger Grant, "Seeking the Pacific: the Chicago & Northwestern's Plans to Reach the West Coast," Pacific Northwest Quarterly, April, 1990 [copyright, password protected]

  1905

Railway Age, "E.J. Pearson Appointed Chief Engineer of the Pacific Railway," December 22, 1905

"Darling, Chief Engineer for PCE Construction Resigns, Goes to NP," New York Times, December 9, 1905

"The Southern Roads and the Territory They Serve," Railway Age, December 8, 1905 -- comparison with the St. Paul

Articles of Incorporation of CM&St.P of Montana, December 16, 1905

"New Pacific Coast Line," New York Times, December 3, 1905

Railway Age, "Announcement of CM&St.P to Build West," December 1, 1905

"Extension Formally Authorized," New York Times, November 29, 1905

Railway Age," Railroad Location in Valleys or on Ridges," November 22, 1905

Railway Age, "Incorporation of the Pacific Railroad," to build from Wallula to Tacoma and Seattle, November 10, 1905

"New Roads to the Black Hills," New York Times, October 15, 1905

"Extension Talk Baseless says Miller," New York Times, September 23, 1905

"May Extend to Pacific," New York Times, September 22, 1905

"Annual Report Comparing Earnings," Railway Age, September 22, 1905

Railway Age, "Bellingham Bay & British Columbia Ry to be Acquired by CP," August 25, 1905

Railway Age, "Railway Movements on the Puget Sound," September 16, 1904. Purchases of waterfront land in Tacoma and Seattle,  mean the prospective entrance of another great railway from the East, presumably, It is thought, the Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul

GN Route Profile

  1901

 The Railway and Engineering Review, "New C.M.&St.P. Ore Dock at Escanaba, Michigan," March 16, 1901

 1890

• "The New Transcontinental Route," Chicago Tribune, June 12, 1890

 1887

 "St. Paul Buys Terminal Frontage in Seattle," The_Railway News, May 28, 1887

• "To Limit New Grain Rate," New York Times, August 24, 1905

• "The Industrial Departments of Railways," Railway Age, July 14, 1905

• "John Stevens to Panama Canal Project; Formerly with GN and CM&St.P.," Railway Age, July 7, 1905

• "The Northern Pacific Board," Railway Age, May 26, 1905

• "Life Stories of Successful Men: F.N. Underwood," Technical World, May, 1905

• "Big Rate War," New York Times, February 3, 1905

• "Northwest Railroads Agreement, St Paul May Control NP," New York Times, January 15, 1905

  1904

• "Pacific Line for St Paul," New York Times, December 2, 1904

• "St Paul to Control Northern Pacific," New York Times, October 5, 1904

• Edward Sherwood Meade, "Great American Railway Systems: The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul," Railway World, September 24, 1904

• "Movements on the Puget Sound," Railway Age, September 16, 1904

• "Directory of Chicago Banks, Directors, Albert Earling, et.al.," The Economist: Manual of Investment, May, 1904

• "Heavy Stock Purchases Explained," New York Times, April 3, 1904

• "St Paul Gets into the Union Pacific," New York Times, March 30, 1904

1903

• "Barr to Become Pres of Seaboard, Worked for Milwaukee," New York Times, December 31, 1903

• "St Paul Policy No Truth to Extension Rumors," New York Times, November 22, 1903

• "St. Paul Railway Elections," New York Times, September 27, 1903

• "Miller Comments on Wall Street Panic Refers to Milwaukee and St Paul," New York Times, September 26, 1903

• "Annual Meeting Interest in Rockefeller Interests," New York Times, September 16, 1903

• "St Paul Affected," New York Times, September 15, 1903

• "Rumored Railroad Change," New York Times, August 16, 1903

• "Bear Rumors Milwaukee Borrowing Money," New York Times, July 22, 1903

• "St. Paul To Build Own Locomotives," New York Times, April 28, 1903

• "Enjoins Six Railroads, First Decision under Elkins Act," New York Times, April 25, 1903

• "Control of Great Western," New York Times, January 28, 1903

• "Milwaukee will Shift to Iowa if Tax Law Passed," New York Times, January 27, 1903

• 1902

• "More Pay for St Paul Employees," New York Times, December 25, 1902

• "The St Paul: A Statistical Study," New York Times, December 14, 1902

• "St Paul and Union Pacific Traffic Agreement," New York Times, October 18, 1902

• "Pacific Coast Outlet for St Paul over UP," New York Times, October 14, 1902

• "Morgan and JD Rockefeller had a Falling Out," New York Times, September 30, 1902

• "St Paul Elects Directors," New York Times, September 28, 1902

• "The Stalwart St Paul," New York Times, September 21, 1902

• "Stock Prices," New York Times, September 20, 1902

• "Machinists Win," New York Times, September 14, 1902

• "St Paul Annual Report," New York Times, September 12, 1902

• "St Paul's Outlet to the Rocky Mountains," New York Times, September 10, 1902

• "Gould, Rockefeller Interests," New York Times, September 7, 1902

• "St Paul, Gould Lines Agreement," New York Times, August 9, 1902

• "Freight Handlers Strike," New York Times, August 8, 1902

• "Comparison of the St Paul and CNW," New York Times, August 3, 1902

• "St Paul's Western Extension," New York Times, July 11, 1902

• "The Milwaukee's Extension," New York Times, May 31, 1902

• "Barr Replaces Goodnow who went to RI," New York Times, May 16, 1902

• "Goodnow to Rock Island," New York Times, April 8, 1902

• "Railroads Ready for Lean Years," New York Times, April 6, 1902

• "ICC To Enjoin RRs," New York Times, March 19, 1902

• "Combination of St Paul, RI and CNW Rumored," New York Times, March 9, 1902

• "Locomotives Equipped with Electric Searchlights," New York Times, February 23, 1902

• "New Safety Equipment," New York Times, February 14, 1902

1901

• "Chandler in Employ of RR 42 Years, " New York Times, December 22, 1901

• "Western Rate War Possible," New York Times, December 3, 1901

• "The Battle for Control," New York Times, November 14, 1901

• "May Absorb Duluth South Shore and Atlantic," New York Times, October 12, 1901

• "Financial Situation CBQ NP GN," New York Times, October 1, 1901

• "St. Paul Election Held," New York Times, September 29, 1901

• "Market Movement As Goes the St Paul so Goes the Market," New York Times, September 13, 1901

• "VP Roosevelt Travels Over the St Paul," New York Times, August 28, 1901

• "The St Paul's Montana Line Construction Expected to Begin at Once," New York Times, August 15, 1901

• "Russell Sage Hoodooed by Blue Bottle Fly," New York Times, July 28, 1901

• "Surveyors in Montana," New York Times, July 12, 1901

• "Control of Western Roads ," New York Times, June 17, 1901

• "Northern Pacific Analysis," New York Times, May 12, 1901

• "St Paul and CNW May Jointly Build to Coast ," New York Times, April 20, 1901

• "Deal with JJ Hill is Off," New York Times, April 16, 1901

• "Animals Have a Right to a Warning, New York Times, April 8, 1901

• "Meeting with Owners of Davenport Road," New York Times, March 31, 1901

• "Underwood Goes to Erie from B and O," New York Times, March 28, 1901

• "Extension Planned to Helena," New York Times, March 8, 1901

• "Heafford goes to New RR," New York Times, February 26, 1901

• "Hill says No Foundation to St Paul Deal," New York Times, February 1, 1901

• "Mr Hill Hasn't Heard of Lease," New York Times, January 12, 1901

• "Legal Obstacles to NP GN MILW Tie Up," New York Times, January 10, 1901

• "Deal between the NP GN and St Paul," New York Times, January 10, 1901

• "The Financial Situation GN NP St Paul," New York Times, January 6, 1901

• "Important Changes, Haugan Appointed," New York Times, January 2, 1901

1900

• "Western Ry Betterment Phenomenal Rise in St Paul Stock," New York Times, December 31, 1900

• "St Paul Railroad Alliance, Hill to be President," New York Times, December 29, 1900

• "Presents to Employees," New York Times, December 23, 1900

• "Mr Earling Will Not Resign," New York Times, December 19, 1900

• "London Stock Ex St Paul Stock in High Demand," New York Times, November 26, 1900

• "St Paul in Western Association," New York Times, November 3, 1900

• "Great Western Road from Milwaukee and Waukesha," New York Times, October 23, 1900

• "New Passenger Agent," New York Times, October 1, 1900

• "Duluth Line Agreement ," New York Times, September 26, 1900

• "NP and St Paul Traffic Agreement on the Duluth," New York Times, September 20, 1900

• "Traffic Agreement with NP for the Duluth Line," New York Times, June 28, 1900

• "Western Rate Committee," New York Times, June 10, 1900

• "Pension Plan Proposed," New York Times, May 5, 1900

• "St Paul May Go West of Missouri," New York Times, February 11, 1900

• "Supreme Court St Paul Wins," New York Times, January 23, 1900

• "Long Term Decline in Rail Rates Shown by St. Paul," Bulletin of the Association of Iron and Steel Association, January 22, 1900

• "Fifty RRs Meet to Agree to ICC," New York Times, January 10, 1900

1899

• "George Smith's Heir Member of Geddes Firm," New York Times, November 7, 1899

• "Miller Retires, Unexpected," New York Times, September 24, 1899

• "Obituary John Rust,  Rwy Builder," New York Times, September 13, 1899

• "Withdraw from Western Association," New York Times, August 24, 1899

• "Additions and Improvements to be Made," New York Times, May 4, 1899

• "St Paul to Offer First Aid Training," New York Times, March 25, 1899

1898

• "Miller on Western Railway Conditions," New York Times, October 2, 1898

• "Condition of the St Paul According to Miller," New York Times, August 26, 1898

• "Rate War Between Chicago and Minneapolis, St Paul takes Initiative," New York Times, August 6, 1898

• "Western Rate War," New York Times, June 13, 1898

• "Northwestern, Greatest of All Grangers," New York Times, May 30, 1898

• "St Paul's Record - Granger Best Known to Foreign Investors," New York Times, May 23, 1898

• "Storms in Three States," New York Times, May 19, 1898

• "Three Railroads Begin Track Elevation," New York Times, March 16, 1898

• "Rates That Do Not Pay," New York Times, January 3, 1898

1897

• "The St Paul Showing," New York Times, November 27, 1897

• "CMStP Election," New York Times, September 19, 1897

• "What the Facts Are," New York Times, August 22, 1897

• "Trouble Over Rate Cutting," New York Times, June 15, 1897

• "ICC Mad at Milwaukee," New York Times, May 26, 1897

• "Meeting of RRs at Pecks Office in Chicago to Discuss Supreme Court Case," New York Times, March 27, 1897

1896

• "Samuel Spencer, Director of St Paul also President of Southern Railway," New York Times, September 17, 1896

• "Extension to Marquette," New York Times, March 3, 1896

• "St Paul Traffic Earnings," New York Times, February 28, 1896

• "Direct a Big RR; Van Horne from the Milwaukee," New York Times, February 14, 1896

• "General Grant at the Table," New York Times, January 10,1896

1895

• "St. Paul Earnings," New York Times, October 3, 1895

• "D.J. Whittemore Gets Honorary Degree," The Electrical Engineer, July 31, 1895

• "Obituary John W Cary," New York Times, March 30, 1895

• "Obituary AVH Carpenter," New York Times, March 11, 1895

1894

• "Meeting of NP Directors," New York Times, October 19, 1894

• "Debs Strike Targeted Beer Lines in Milwaukee, St. Paul and North Western," Friends Intelligencer and Journal, September 29, 1894

• "Testified They Were Intimidated," New York Times, September 8, 1894

• "Report of the St Paul," New York Times, September 8, 1894

• "Railroads Affected by Strike," New York Times, June 2, 1894

• "Western Traffic Association ," New York Times, May 31, 1894

• "Acquisition of CMstP by United Express," New York Times, May 12, 1894

• Miller Hopeful; Also BA&P Completed," New York Times, January 5, 1894

1893

• "Stocks Pushed Down St Paul Always a Favorite in Speculation," New York Times, December 25, 1893

• "Sleeping Car Service through to Seattle GN MILW," New York Times, September 20, 1893

• "St Paul Dividend," New York Times, September 15, 1893

• "The St Paul's Floating Debt," New York Times, September 12, 1893

• "Railway Men May Strike," New York Times, August 27, 1893

• "Railroads Reduce Wages," New York Times, August 2, 1893

• "Failure of Mitchell Bank," New York Times, July 26, 1893

• "John Cary's Book on Regulation," New York Times, June 23, 1893

• "In Honor of James J Hill," New York Times, June 8, 1893

• "New RR to Duluth St Paul Behind It," New York Times, May 25, 1893

• "Acquires Control of Denver Terminal Co," New York Times, February 6, 1893

• "Western Railroads Suffer; CP Strongly Condemned," New York Times, January 7, 1893

• "Anger at the Canadian Pacific," New York Times, January 7, 1893

1892

• "Ticket Broker Problems," New York Times, August 25, 1892

• "Obituary, W.H. Dixon," New York Times, April 21, 1892

• "Just Leaked Out," New York Times, April 6,1892

• "Fighting the Grand Trunk," New York Times, March 19, 1892

• "Reports of Control by Vanderbilts Discounted by Miller," New York Times, February 24, 1892

1891

• "Annual Report," New York Times, August 28, 1891

• "Suit Against the Pullmans," New York Times, August 5, 1891

• "The St Paul Sues the Pullman Co," New York Times, August 4, 1891,

• "Omaha Bridge War Over," New York Times, July 31, 1891

• "Iowa Lands Open to Settlers," New York Times, June 8, 1891

• "The Western Rate Situation," New York Times, February 7, 1891

• "Trying to Fathom Gould," New York Times, February 4, 1891

• "Telegrapher's Strike Announced," New York Times, January 15, 1891

• "Railroad Men Get Demands," New York Times, January 10, 1891

• "Injunction Regarding Omaha Bridge," New York Times, January 3, 1891

• "The Omaha Bridge Dispute," New York Times, January 1, 1891

1890

• "Tripartite Agreement Again," New York Times, December 31, 1890

• "Omaha Bridge Problems," New York Times, December 30, 1890

• "Miller Invites Ry Men," New York Times, December 27, 1890

• "Agreement to Divide Passenger Traffic," New York Times, December 5, 1890

• "St. Paul To Run Its Own Sleepers," New York Times, November 11, 1890

• "Morgan Inspects the St. Paul," New York Times, November 4, 1890

• "Joint Rates in Iowa," New York Times, September 21, 1890

• "The St Paul Figures," New York Times, September 18, 1890

• "Gross Earnings Report, Miller Angry About Rates," New York Times, September 17, 1890

• "Earnings Report," New York Times, September 17, 1890

• "They May End the War," New York Times, March 8, 1890

• "Railroad Management , The Interstate Association," New York Times, January 15, 1890

1889

• "Raiders Surprised," New York Times, September 12, 1889

• "The Alton's Withdrawal, St Paul Treachery," New York Times, June 17, 1889

• "Northwest Complications," New York Times, April 28, 1889

• "Reduction in Wheat Rates," New York Times, March 11, 1889

• "Railroad Salaries Cut, St Paul First to Move," New York Times, March 9, 1889

• "St Paul's Bad Showing," New York Times, March 1, 1889

• "Duluth to become an Open Road," New York Times, January 5,  1889

1888

• "First Gun Fired," New York Times, December 8, 1888

• "Armour Explains," New York Times, September 18, 1888

• "Defying Long Haul, Short Haul Provisions," New York Times, June 20, 1888

• "Losing Part of their Pay: How the St Paul Treated its Strikers," New York Times, May 28, 1888

• "Big Scheme Outlined," New York Times, April 16, 1888

• "Prospect Darkening; Violence by Strikers," New York Times, March 31, 1888

• "Favorable Report on the St. Paul," New York Times, March 30, 1888

• "How the Railroads are Carving Each Other Up," New York Times, February 12, 1888

• "Warring Western Roads," New York Times, February 11, 1888

• "Cuts Both Ways," New York Times, February 4, 1888

• "Western Rate War," New York Times, February 2, 1888

1887

• "UP and St Paul to Make Traffic Agreement," New York Times, December 6, 1887

• "Armour on the St Paul," New York Times, October 16, 1887

• "The St Paul Presidency," New York Times, June 8, 1887

• "No Replacement Yet for Mitchell," New York Times, June 6, 1887

• "Trunk Line Agreement," New York Times, May 5, 1887

• "Taking the Body Home; Mitchell," New York Times, April21, 1887

• "Loss to the Northwest, Death of Mitchell," New York Times, April 20, 1887

• "Western Railroad Fight," New York Times, February 24, 1887

• "Severe Blizzards," New York Times, February 1, 1887

1886

• "The Western Rate War," New York Times, June 13, 1886

• "Sale of Bonds, Belmont, Representing Rothschilds," New York Times, May 21, 1886

• "Telegraphy on an Express Train," New York Times, March 6, 1886

• "Warring Road," New York Times, February 26, 1886

• "The St Paul's Retaliation," New York Times, February 6, 1886

• "New Missouri River Passenger Pool," New York Times, February 3, 1886

• "St Paul Withdraws from Pool," New York Times, January 27, 1886

1885

• "The St Paul's New Loan," New York Times, September 27, 1885

• "Buys Milwaukee and Northern to Counter Wisconsin Central," New York Times, September 4, 1885

• "Checking the St Paul, Route to Texas," New York Times, August 25, 1885

• "Extension to Kansas City Announced," New York Times, August 23, 1885

• "Arbitration for Western Rate Association," New York Times, August 23, 1885

• "Line Planned to Kansas City," New York Times, August 22, 1885

• "Annual Meeting, Armour Replaces Deceased Merrill," New York Times, June 11, 1885

• "St. Paul Announces Changes, Merrill Dead," New York Times, February 19, 1885

• "Merrill Dying," New York Times, February 5, 1885

• "St Paul and Wisconsin Central Fight," New York Times, January 27, 1885

• "Mitchell and Merrill in Chicago," New York Times, January 15, 1885

1884

• "Twentieth Annual Report Issued," New York Times, March 18, 1884

• "The CMStPs Little Job Getting the Sioux Treaty Ratified by Congress," New York Times, January 15, 1884

1883

• "The Terms of the Tripartite Agreement," New York Times, December 22, 1883

• "The Iowa Pool at an End," New York Times, December 12, 1883

• "Merrill on Tripartite Agreement," New York Times, December 10, 1883

• "Cutting Loose from the Iowa Pool," New York Times, December 4, 1883

• "Western Railroads Excited," New York Times, November 16, 1883

• " Litigation Decision against St Paul," New York Times, August 11, 1883

• "Railroad Management," New York Times, March 13, 1883

• "Annual Report of Earnings for 1882," New York Times, February 1, 1883

1882

• "End of the Railroad War," New York Times, December 14, 1882

• "Conference of Railroad Presidents," New York Times, December 3, 1882

• "The North-Western Railroad War," New York Times, November 29, 1882

• "The Railways at War," New York Times, November 25, 1882

• "Rate War on Omaha Rates," New York Times, November 20, 1882

1881

• "Western Rate Assoc Agrees to Discriminate," New York Times, December 25, 1881

• "Chicago and Pacific Litigation," New York Times, May 29, 1881

• "Annual Report," New York Times, April 23, 1881

• "Fighting Over a Railroad," New York Times, April 1, 1881

• "Consolidation of St Paul, CNW and NP," New York Times, March 16, 1881

• "Heavy Winter Storms in Midwest," New York Times, March 4, 1881

• "Snow Wind and Rain," New York Times, February 8, 1881

1880

• "The St Paul Compact," New York Times, May 17, 1880

• "New Railroad Bonds," New York Times, May 13, 1880

• "Lease of Chicago and Pacific," New York Times, April 11, 1880

• "Control of Southern Minnesota Road," New York Times, March 22, 1880

• "Control of Chicago and Pacific," New York Times, March 21, 1880

• "May Purchase Chicago and Pacific RR," New York Times, February 1, 1880

•  "Sale of St Paul Bonds," New York Times, January 27, 1880

1879

• "Fifteenth Annual Report," New York Times, April 19, 1879

• "Special Meeting Held, Dividend Declared," New York Times, March 21, 1879

1878

• "The President in Wisconsin," New York Times, September 12, 1878

• "Annual Election of Officers," New York Times, June 9, 1878

1877

• "Mitchell in Social Scandal," New York Times, August 19, 1877

• "St Paul Earnings Report," New York Times, May 2, 1877

• "Assembly Postpones Bill to Disenfranchise Bondholders of CMStP," New York Times, February 24, 1877

1876

• "St Paul Election Question of Receivership," New York Times, June 6, 1876

• "David Hughes, Milw & Northern Bond Problems'" New York Times, March 19, 1876

• "Meeting, Milwaukee & Northern Russell Sage," New York Times, March 17, 1876

1875

• "Russell Sage v Alexander Mitchell," New York Times, May 11, 1875

1874

• "Regulating Railways in Wisconsin: the Potter Law," New York Times,  September 1, 1874

Receivership, 1925

Albert Earling

Roswell Miller

Russell Sage