The documents in this collection along with additional records at the Minnesota Historical Society are all that remain of the records of the North Wisconsin Lumber Company after a 1965 flood destroyed others which were in warehouse storage in Winona. Consisting entirely of incoming letters, the remaining records primarily contain information on the Company's sales operations and on their relationship with Laird, Norton and Weyerhaeuser. The most significant letters in the general correspondence are those of the Company's sales agents working in Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, and South Dakota in which they discuss prices, supply, and transportation arrangements. Other general correspondence mainly concerns sales and equipment purchases. There is no information on the Company's sources of lumber, employees, or actual mill operations. A small amount of correspondence was received segregated according to sender. This segregation was maintained and the container list below gives details on these files' subject matter. Not on the microfilm is an undated map of the general plat of Hayward indicating buildings and property owned by the company.
