This collection contains the records from the Finance and Accounting Department of
the Milwaukee Road, and includes materials such as accounting circulars, reports,
statistics, freight charges, revenues, statements, payroll totals, and
classification of accounts. Other records include the Construction of All Lines East
of Mobridge, South Dakota, an 8 volume set consisting of correspondence, blueprints
and signed contracts regarding mortgages that were introduced at a 1935
reorganization hearing; Credit Union files, which includes annual meeting reports,
cash disbursements, cash receipts, invoices, monthly statements and mortgages
related to the Milwaukee Road Credit Union; Equipment Information, providing
statistical data for locomotives, cars and passenger equipment operated by the
Milwaukee Road; Freight Rate Course, a volume containing materials from a freight
rate correspondence study course offered to Milwaukee Road employees; and
Improvement Budget, containing yearly summaries of road improvements and new
equipment purchases.
The collection also contains Instructions to Camp Clerks, which provides instructions
for handling camp accounts in Spokane, Washington during railroad construction; and
Interstate Commerce Commission, which contains annual reports filed to the ICC by
the Finance and Accounting Department; the Jacobson Report, providing an in-depth
written analysis of the Finance and Accounting Department; Kent, Charles, consisting
of correspondence files from a Milwaukee Road accountant; List of Station Numbers,
comprised of station numbers on the main and branch lines; Reorganization, which
consists of financial data of the immediate years after the Milwaukee Road no longer
operated under a trusteeship; Report on Study of Feasibility of Electronic Data
Processing, a written report about the benefits of using electronic computers;
Republic Coal Company, which contains information on property investments, balance
sheets and blueprints; Salary Administration Program, a pamphlet discussing a job
evaluation program for all administrative employees; Savings and Loan Association
By-Laws, including reasons for why an employee would benefit from creating a savings
account; and Taft Story Inventory, which contains prices of all supplies and tools
at the Taft Store.
