This collection consists largely of invoices, account books, cruising and log mark records, a land inventory, and maps. Correspondence will be found in three places in this collection:
1. In Box 1 and 19 are items of correspondence. The two dated in 1905 refer to condemnation of lands due to overflow; and the remaining number, dated in 1941, relate to an “Example of Accounting” and to timber deeds of the Calaveras Land and Timber Corp. and Brown Brothers Co. to Amador Lumber Co.
2. On microfilm are 24 items of correspondence dating from 1854 to 1959. Letters of Feb. 22, 1857 and March 11, 1860 to Everette Brown give good information on the business of cutting and milling timber near Stevens Point at those dates.
3. Letterbooks, Vols. 20-22, contain company correspondence between 1897-1899 and 1904-1908, as well as letters of the Pelican Boom Co. from 1904-1908.
On microfilm are accounts written of “The Early Days of Rhinelander,” a history of the Rhinelander Paper Company, and reminiscences of a visit to Stevens Point in 1926. The microfilm covers the years 1854-1959. In 1874 Anderson W. Brown cruised a large area of timber in the vicinity of Pelican Rapids; on his recommendation the Browns purchased land there and later established Rhinelander. The last part of the diary recorded on microfilm (Sept. 29 - Nov. 4, 1874) is Anderson's account of this cruising trip.
