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Cage
616
Dalkena Lumber Company
Dalkena Lumber
Company Records
1906-1944
7 containers.
3 linear feet of shelf space.
Includes correspondence, banking
records, sales receipts from the company store and real estate records, mostly
from land and timber sales in northeast Washington.
Collection materials are in
English
The Dalkena Lumber Company was formed in December 1908 as a
corporation in the state of Washington. It harvested timber in northeast
Washington's Stevens and Pend Oreille counties and manufactured lumber at its
mill for the next 30 years. The company's predecessor, the D & K Mill
Company, had built a lumber mill and associated structures ten miles northwest
of Newport, along the Clark Fork River, a townsite took the name "Dalkena,"
after the surnames of the D & K Mill Company's founders, Dalton and
Kennedy.
In 1908, a group of investors headed by James G. Wallace and John G.
Ballord, partners in the Wallace-Ballord Lumber Company of Minneapolis,
purchased the D & K Mill Company from Hugh Kennedy, one of its founders.
The Wallace-Ballord Lumber Company had interests in the region and maintained
local offices in Seattle and Spokane. Wallace, Ballord, and Kennedy became
principal stock holders in the new Dalkena Lumber Company, with relatives and
others included as minority investors.
Relatively little is known of the day-to-day operations of the Dalkena
Lumber Company from the 1910s to the 1930s. The town of Dalkena did grow to
become a community of perhaps nearly one hundred, with the company's general
store the hub of activity for townspeople and local homesteaders
The Dalkena Lumber Company's mill complex burned down in 1936 or 1937.
It was never rebuilt. The company store was spared and continued to serve the
local community for several years.
The Dalkena Lumber Company Records are arranged in three series to
reflect the nature of the collection. Correspondence and related miscellaneous
documents span the entire period of the collections, from incorporation papers
in 1908 to routine correspondence between principal investors and company
secretaries from the 1920s to loading tickets from the mid-1930s. The second
series comprises banking records from the 1930s and company store sales
receipts from the 1940s. The banking series is the most comprehensive in the
entire collection. It includes promissory notes with three banks and several
individuals for the years 1912 to 1935 and cancelled checks from payroll and
expense accounts from 1934 to 1938. The third series is company real estate
records. It consists mostly of documents pertaining to land and timber sales in
northeast Washington. These files remain in their original heavy pocket
envelope folders. They often contain title abstracts, routine correspondence,
timber cruiser's reports, and maps.
This collection is open for research use.
[Item Description]. Cage
616, Dalkena Lumber
Company Records. Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
The Dalkena Lumber Company Records were acquired from William Miller,
Newport, Washington, in 1987. They were accessioned as MS87-30.
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online
catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or
places should search the catalog using these headings.
Dalkena Lumber Company. --Archives
Dalkena Lumber Company--Records and
correspondence
Farmers State Bank of Newport
First National Bank in Minneapolis
Old National Bank and Union Trust Co. of Spokane,
Washington
Lumber trade --
Washington (State)--Records and correspondence
Logging --
Washington (State)--History
Logging
Business, Industry, and Labor
Washington (State)
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in
the collection.
Series 1. Correspondence and
Miscellaneous Documents
1
1
Corporation Papers
1908
1
2
Corporation Papers
1909
1
3
Corporation Papers
1910
1
4
Corporation Papers
1911
1
5
Corporation Papers
1913
1
6
Corporation Papers
1914
1
7
Correspondence,
Miscellaneous
1
8
Miscellaneous
1
9
Insurance
1
10
Land Department Northern Pacific
Railway Co.
1
11
Northern Pacific Railway Co.,
Deeds
1
12
Directions for Operating
Herring-Hall-Marvin Safe Company Combination Lock
"Victor,"
1908
1
13
Loading Tickets
1936
Series 2. Banking
Records
1917-1938
1944
2
14
Promissory Notes, First National
Bank in Minneapolis
1923-1931
2
15
Promissory Note Payment Receipts,
First National Bank in Minneapolis
1923-1932
2
16
Promissory Notes, First National
Bank in Minneapolis, Nos. A-1 to A-68 (1931-1935) and Nos. A-1 to A-2
(1935-1936)
2
17
Promissory Notes, Old National
Bank of Spokane, Nos. 793 to 866 (1923-1928)
2
18
Promissory Notes, Old National
Bank of Spokane, Nos. A-1 to A-78 (1923-1929)
2
19
Promissory Notes, Old National
Bank of Spokane, Nos. AA-1 to AA-8 (1926-1927)
2
20
Promissory Notes, Old National
Bank of Spokane, Nos. AA-6 to AA-20 (1927-1929)
2
21
Promissory Notes, Old National
Bank of Spokane, Nos. B-100 to B-113 (1928-1929)
2
22
Promissory Notes, Old National
Bank of Spokane, Nos. A-1 to A-96 (1929-1931)
2
23
Promissory Notes, Old National
Bank of Spokane, Nos. B-1 to B-106 (1924-1929)
2
24
Promissory Notes, Security State
Bank of Newport
1922-1931
2
25
Promissory Notes, Security State
Bank of Newport, No. S-1 to S-9
1931-1933
2
26
Promissory Notes, Yates-American
Machine Co. and Security State Bank of Newport
1931-1933
2
27
Promissory Notes, Farmers State
Bank of Newport
1935
2
28
Promissory Notes, Marie A.
Ballord
1917-1930
2
29
Promissory Notes, Thomas F.
Wallace
1917-1927
2
30
Promissory Notes, Margaret B.
Shaw, Nos. 653-682, inc.
1919-1927
2
31
Promissory Notes, W. R. Shaw
Lumber Co.
1920-1927
2
32
Promissory Notes, Elizabeth S.
Lynds
1923-1928
2
33
Promissory Notes, John G.
Ballord
1923-1935
2
34
Promissory Notes, James G.
Wallace
1923-1935
2
35
Promissory Notes and Trade
Acceptance Notes, Kaniksu Mercantile Company
1926-1930
2
36
Promissory Notes, Mabel S.
Withy
1927
2
37
Promissory Notes, Louis F.
Shaw
1927
2
38
Promissory Notes, Wallace-Ballord
Lumber Co.
1923-1927
2
39
Promissory Notes, Humbird Lumber
Co.
1932
2
40
Promissory Notes, Martin General
Agency
1932
2
41
Promissory Notes, Washington
Machinery and Supply Co., Nos. 2749-2759
1935
2
42
Monthly Account Statements,
Farmers State Bank of Newport
1935-1938
2
43
Deposit Slip Book, Farmers State
Bank of Newport
1937
2
44
Monthly Account Statements, First
National Bank in Minneapolis
1936-1938
3
Cancelled Checks, No. A., First
National Bank in Minneapolis
1936-1938
3
Cancelled Checks, No. B., Farmers
State Bank of Newport (Nos. 164-2550, inc.), payroll checks
1934-1936
4
Cancelled Checks, No. B., cont.,
Farmers State Bank of Newport (Nos. 2551-3647, inc.), payroll
checks
1936-1938
4
Cancelled Checks, No. C., Farmers
State Bank of Newport (Nos. 5782-6600, inc.)
1934-1935
5
Cancelled Checks, No. C.,
continued, Farmers State Bank of Newport (Nos. 6601-8000, inc.)
1935-1936
5
Service Charge Receipts, Farmers
State Bank of Newport
1934-1935
5
Company Store Sales
Receipts
1944
Series 3. Real Estate
Records
6
Land and Timber Sale Transactions
Documents, Pocket Folders
1906-1923
7
Miscellaneous Title Abstracts and
Deeds, etc.
8
Miscellaneous Maps