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 | | Records include minutes, reports, correspondence and subject files, financial and accounting records, photographs, engineering drawings, land records, engineering and valuation records, advertising literature, timetables, publications, and many other materials documenting the principal staff and operating departments. |
 | | The records contain much information on irrigation and the development of water resources, improvement of crop and livestock breeds, the eradication of crop and livestock pests, tilling and fertilization practices, development of agricultural credit mechanisms, land settlement progress, and innovations in farming processes and machinery. |
 | | Many of the records were originally created by the GN's predecessor, the St. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba Railway, and record the disposition of its granted lands in Minnesota (swamp land grants) and North Dakota. |
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