Title: Joint Engineering Dept., Wisconsin Tax and Railroad Commissions: Chief Mechanical Inspector's Records
Inclusive Dates: 1903-1911

Creator:

• Joint Engineering Dept., Wisconsin Tax and Railroad Commissions

Call Number: Series 1308

Quantity: 1.2 c.f. (3 archives boxes)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

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Abstract:

Correspondence, price lists, test reports, performance data, blueprints, depreciation estimates, progress reports, field books, and administrative memoranda compiled in the valuation and inspection of steam railroad and utility property by J. G. D. Mack, professor of engineering at the University of Wisconsin and chief mechanical inspector for the Railroad Commission and the State Board of Assessment, later the State Tax Commission. A majority of the files concern inspection of municipal water works.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-ser01308

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Acquisition Information

Includes former Series 1291. Portions presented by David Mack, 1957, and portions transferred from the Manuscripts Division, 1955.

	Municipal waterworks inspection
Box   1 Folder   1	Antigo, 1908-1909
Box   1 Folder   2	Appleton and Ashland, 1909-1910
Box   1 Folder   3	Bayfield, 1909
Box   1 Folder   4	Beloit, 1909-1911
Box   1 Folder   5	Darlington, Hillsboro, Janesville, 1910-1911
Box   1 Folder   6	Madison, 1908-1910
Box   1 Folder   7	Manitowoc
Box   1 Folder   8	Mellon, Menominee, Merrill, Milwaukee
Box   1 Folder   9	New Lisbon, Oconto, Ripon, Stevens Point, Superior, Washburn, Westby
	General files, A-W
Box   2 Folder   1	Blank forms
Box   2 Folder   2	Instructions and directives
Box   2 Folder   3	Progress reports, 1907-1908
Box   2 Folder   4	Railroad equipment and data
Box   2 Folder   5	Railroad inspections and investigations
Box   2 Folder   6	Railroad valuation studies and data
Box   3 Folder   1	Utility equipment and data
Box   3 Folder   2	Utility inspections and inventories
Box   3 Folder   3	Utility valuation basis studies
Box   3 Folder   4	Water utilities
Box   3 Folder   5	Waterworks memoranda and forms