Great Northern Iron: James J. Hill's 109-Year Mining Trust

Great Northern Iron: James J. Hill's 109-Year Mining TrustBy James A. Stolpestad Great Northern Iron is a 302 page hard cover book that presents a comprehensive history of the Great Northern Iron Ore Properties, which owned 67,000 acres located in Minnesota's Mesabi Range. The Properties were spun off from the Great Northern Railway in 1906 by distributing Trust Certificates to Great Northern Railway stockholders on the basis of one trust certificate for each share of Great Northern stock. This volume

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The earliest versions (pre-1900) were built with vertical board and batten siding

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The rear brakeman acted as the flagman who walked behind the train to flag down a following train if his train stopped on the main track

Examination of paint layers on the boards in the depot in Dalton

There was some confusion among GNRHS members about these colors when these ochre descriptions were written in the 1970s

and some were used as homes

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