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Northern Lights: An Illustrated History of Minnesota Power

Plot

Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Ch. 1. Hartman General Electric Company : Early Electric Power Comes To The Zenith City -- Alexander W. Hartman -- Trevanion Hugo : A Cousin Jack Engineer Enjoys Duluth Politics -- 'every One Of These Corporations Is Now In The Hands Of A Receiver' -- Can A Timber Claim Be Filed On Utility Poles? -- Ch. 2. Jay Cooke : A Progressive Banker Begins Development Of The St. Louis River -- The Village Of Thomson -- The Great Banker At Home -- An 1870 Visit To The Dalles Of The St. Louis -- Ch. 3. The Duluth Heights Project : Diverting Hydroelectric Power From The Boundary Waters To Duluth -- The Cokefairs : The Father-son Team Who Built Thomson -- Alexander Mcdougall : A Scottish Entrepreneur Builds Whalebacks In Superior -- Ch. 4. The Duluth Edison Electric Co. : Power Is Provided For A Growing City -- Kitty Farrell : Early Days At The Edison -- Emmett Whitney : A Meter Man For Duluth Edison -- Curtis E. Van Bergen Spends 55 Years In The Business -- Ch. 5. 'a Grand Experiment' : Great Northern Power Company Constructs The Thomson Hydroelectric Station -- Old 1 And 2 Lines Were The 'great Cables' Of Their Day -- Jay Cooke State Park Is The Jewel Of The St. Louis River. Ch. 6. The Forbay People : The Forbay Community Was Saved By The Mack Gas Car -- Francis Lee Jaques : Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man -- Charles A. Duncan : A Lumberman Becomes Power Company Executive -- Ch. 7. The Little Falls Water Power Company : Businessmen Attempt To Harness The Father Of Waters -- Fort Duquesne And Zeb Pike's Wintering Post : Pike Starts Early Settlements In The Valley Of The Mississippi -- Celebration -- In Spite Of An Unseasonable Snowstorm -- Ch. 8. The Cuyuna Range Power Company : The Company That Provided Electricity For The Newest Iron Range -- Tom Croswell Never Batted An Eye : The Crow Wing Flood Of 1922 -- 'it Instilled A Certain Amount Of Fear' : Electricity In The Cuyuna Range Mines -- Ch. 9. Forged In Fire : The General Light And Power Co. -- Henry C. Hornby Heads The Cloquet Lumber Co. -- The Entire Electric System Was Destroyed' : The Carlton County Fire Of 1918 -- Fred Vibert Promotes Waterpower On The St. Louis -- Ch. 10. The Minnesota Utilities Co. Provides Lights For The Mesabi -- What A Cent's Worth Of Electricity Will Do. Ch. 11. Electric Bond And Share Co. : Sidney Z. Mitchell Guides Consolidation -- Minnesota Power And The Formation Of Florida Power And Light Company -- Ch. 12. Rumors Lead To News : Consolidation : October 23, 1923 -- Ch. 13. The 1920s : Building The System -- Electrifying The Farm -- George Coleman And The Lines Across The Muskeg -- Robertson, Burke And The Foreign Power Connection -- Ch. 14. Sales And Marketing : 'we Had To Influence The Housewife' -- Getting 'em Out To The Big Show -- Our Home Advisers Are Helpmates -- Axel Herbert : A Company President Starts As Vacuum Cleaner Salesman -- Ch. 15. Red Ore And Copper Wires : Minnesota Power And The Iron Mining Industry -- The Iron Mining Industry Lobbies For Mp & L -- 'back From The Dead' -- Ch. 16. M.l. Hibbard : Engineer Of Change -- M.l. Hibbard's Pheasant A La Idaho -- Ch. 17. Steam Power For The Northland : The M.l. Hibbard Steam Electric Generating Station -- Ch. 18. The 1930s : Depression And Trouble With The Feds -- The Odd Couple Of Little Falls Division : A.v. Taylor And Pat Hickey -- Ch. 19. The First Legendary Storm : March 4, 1935 Brings Wind And Freezing Rain -- Ch. 20. The 1940s : Mp & L At Peace And War -- War Stories -- John Berdie And The Mulepack Artillery -- Peter Kovacovich Meets A Ranger -- Gordy Caza At Pearl Harbor -- Ted Smith And Life As A Pow. Ch. 21. Clay Boswell : Engineer Of Expansion : The Toughest Engineer That There Ever Was -- Fly Fishing With Clay Boswell -- Peggy Boswell : 'i Felt Just Exactly Like A Clown' -- Ch. 22. The 1950s : A Decade Of Diversity And Growth -- Just Who Is This Reddy Kilowatt? -- The Minnesota Power Air Force -- Ch. 23. The Switch To Steam : The Syl Laskin And Clay Boswell Stations -- Ch. 24. The 1960s : Interconnection, Power Politics And A Diversified Economy -- The Stony Point Nuclear Project -- The Attempted Affiliation With Northern States Power Company -- Ch. 25. 'the Size Of Those Plants Was Very Large' : Minnesota Power And The Taconite Industry -- From Rocks To Riches -- Thomas Edison's Magnetic Ore Separator -- The Taconite Amendment -- What It Does -- Ch. 26. Axel Herbert : From Duke's Gloom Chasers To The Executive Suite -- Ch. 27. Legendary Storms 2 : March 3-5, 1966 -- Ch. 28. Syl Laskin : A Temporary Job That Lasted 44 Years -- Ch. 29. The 1970s : Rates, New Regulation And Explosive Growth -- Ch. 30. The Jack F. Rowe Years : Into The 1980s And Beyond -- Officers -- Directors -- Index -- Photo Credits. By Bill Beck. Includes Index.