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11/26/2014 Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Town Page 1 Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page Roman Catholic Church of St. Anthony Richland 4 05/10/1884 2110 208 Saint Peter Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation, Lake County Lake 3 06/24/1889 2119 212 First German Presbyterian Church of Dakota Turner 3 03/22/1880 2104 245 Evans Missouri River Transportation Line 4 12,500 05/27/1885 2111 548 Casselton Branch Rail Road Company 08/17/1881 2105 308 Simpson Methodist Episcopal Church Moody Not Listed 09/13/1888 2117 511 Beidler and Robinson Lumber Company (increase of stock) 100,000 02/06/1889 2118 553 Central City Deadwood & Eastern Rail Road Lawrence 5 500,000 03/09/1880 2104 230 Empire Carbonate Mining Co.((increase capitol) 250,000 05/19/1885 2111 528 Chantawapka Ranche Morton 3 30,000 05/07/1887 2115 335 Dakota at James & Elm River Navigation Improvement & Transportation Co. Stutsman 7 500,000 11/14/1879 2104 169 Ordway Bismarck Northwestern Railway Co.(Resignation of a Director) 05/12/1884 2110 213 Argus Company 08/18/1881 2105 316 Roller King Milling Company Yankton 3 10,000 09/03/1884 2110 480 Wahpeton and Eastern Dakota Railroad Co. Richland 11 100,000 07/26/1882 2107 120 Missouri River Northern Railroad Company 8 4,000,000 09/10/1884 2110 492 Berlin German Baptist Church of McIntosh County McIntosh 3-7 04/19/1889 2119 26 Ruby Gold & Silver Mining Company Lawrence 5 1,000,000 04/16/1884 2110 155 Dunseith & Southeastern Railroad Co. Rolette and F 5 2,000,000 06/05/1884 2110 274 Spiritwood Grand Rapids & Devils Lake Railroad Stutsman 5 3,000,000 04/04/1883 2108 208 Fargo Detroit & Deadwood Railway Co. Brown 8 5,000,000 04/10/1884 2110 130 Richland Baptist Church Richland 3 08/04/1882 2107 147 Union County Bank of Elk Point (Certificate of Dimmution of Capitol Stock) 10,000 04/07/1886 2112 509 Groton, Frankfort & Milnor Rail Road Co. Brown 8 1,250,000 05/08/1885 2111 489 Ordway, Bismarck and Northwestern Railway Company now Aberdeen Bismarc 06/13/1887 2115 485 Union Cemetery Lincoln 5 09/24/1880 2104 383 First Reformed Dutch Church of Dakota Territory Turner 3 08/30/1880 2104 365 Dakota & Central Railroad (Change of Route 07/22/1885 2112 96 Casselton Branch Railroad Co. 7 600,000 08/26/1880 2104 362 Iowa and Dakota Railway Company Minnehaha 9 25,520,000 06/28/1887 2115 533 Dakota Conference of Evangelical Association of North America Cass 7 07/24/1885 2112 102 Resolution Changing name to Ellendale East & West R.R. Co. Dickey 06/27/1883 2109 54 German Congregational Church of Friedeusfield Hutchinson 3-9 05/27/1889 2119 12 Melhus Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church Turner and Li 3 07/06/1889 2119 250

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11/26/2014Articles of Incorporation DT, 1878-1889 Town

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Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page

Roman Catholic Church of St. Anthony Richland 4 05/10/1884 2110 208

Saint Peter Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation, Lake County Lake 3 06/24/1889 2119 212

First German Presbyterian Church of Dakota Turner 3 03/22/1880 2104 245

Evans Missouri River Transportation Line 4 12,500 05/27/1885 2111 548

Casselton Branch Rail Road Company 08/17/1881 2105 308

Simpson Methodist Episcopal Church Moody Not Listed 09/13/1888 2117 511

Beidler and Robinson Lumber Company (increase of stock) 100,000 02/06/1889 2118 553

Central City Deadwood & Eastern Rail Road Lawrence 5 500,000 03/09/1880 2104 230

Empire Carbonate Mining Co.((increase capitol) 250,000 05/19/1885 2111 528

Chantawapka Ranche Morton 3 30,000 05/07/1887 2115 335

Dakota at James & Elm River Navigation Improvement & Transportation Co. Stutsman 7 500,000 11/14/1879 2104 169

Ordway Bismarck Northwestern Railway Co.(Resignation of a Director) 05/12/1884 2110 213

Argus Company 08/18/1881 2105 316

Roller King Milling Company Yankton 3 10,000 09/03/1884 2110 480

Wahpeton and Eastern Dakota Railroad Co. Richland 11 100,000 07/26/1882 2107 120

Missouri River Northern Railroad Company 8 4,000,000 09/10/1884 2110 492

Berlin German Baptist Church of McIntosh County McIntosh 3-7 04/19/1889 2119 26

Ruby Gold & Silver Mining Company Lawrence 5 1,000,000 04/16/1884 2110 155

Dunseith & Southeastern Railroad Co. Rolette and F 5 2,000,000 06/05/1884 2110 274

Spiritwood Grand Rapids & Devils Lake Railroad Stutsman 5 3,000,000 04/04/1883 2108 208

Fargo Detroit & Deadwood Railway Co. Brown 8 5,000,000 04/10/1884 2110 130

Richland Baptist Church Richland 3 08/04/1882 2107 147

Union County Bank of Elk Point (Certificate of Dimmution of Capitol Stock) 10,000 04/07/1886 2112 509

Groton, Frankfort & Milnor Rail Road Co. Brown 8 1,250,000 05/08/1885 2111 489

Ordway, Bismarck and Northwestern Railway Company now Aberdeen Bismarc 06/13/1887 2115 485

Union Cemetery Lincoln 5 09/24/1880 2104 383

First Reformed Dutch Church of Dakota Territory Turner 3 08/30/1880 2104 365

Dakota & Central Railroad (Change of Route 07/22/1885 2112 96

Casselton Branch Railroad Co. 7 600,000 08/26/1880 2104 362

Iowa and Dakota Railway Company Minnehaha 9 25,520,000 06/28/1887 2115 533

Dakota Conference of Evangelical Association of North America Cass 7 07/24/1885 2112 102

Resolution Changing name to Ellendale East & West R.R. Co. Dickey 06/27/1883 2109 54

German Congregational Church of Friedeusfield Hutchinson 3-9 05/27/1889 2119 12

Melhus Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church Turner and Li 3 07/06/1889 2119 250

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Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page

Resolution Changing Route of East & West R.R. Dickey 06/27/1883 2109 55

Summit Mining Company Lawrence 7 100,000 03/24/1880 2104 248

Evangelical Lutheran St. Paul's Congregation of Unaltered Augsburg Confession Grant 3-11 06/14/1887 2115 488

Lake Traverse Sanborn & Carrington Railroad Co. 6 4,000,00 12/12/1883 2109 341

St. Petri Evangelical Luthersk Mennghed Kingsbury 3 09/05/1885 2112 176

Uncle Sam Mining Company Lawrence 5 500,000 12/19/1883 2109 355

Missouri River Railroad (Extend Route) Barnes 11/27/1885 2112 252

Resolution Increasing stock of Ellendale East & West R.R. Co. 06/27/1883 2109 61

Dakota & Great Southern Railway Co. Cass 6 10,000,000 08/14/1883 2109 130

Resolution Dakota Central Railway Co. Designating Proposed route 07/13/1883 2109 83

Evangelical Lutheran Emanuel Congregation Hutchinson 4 06/02/1884 2110 264

Roman Catholic Church of St. Joseph of Richland Richland 3 11/05/1884 2111 42

Grand Junction Gold Mining Company Custer 6 1,000,000 08/29/1881 2105 347

Burleigh County Building and Loan Association of Burleigh Co. (acceptance of pr Burleigh 04/16/1887 2115 251

Watertown & Northwestern Railway Co. Brown 5 300,000 06/16/1883 2109 34

Boston & Little Railway Co. Lawrence 5 500,000 09/19/1882 2107 226

Fargo Paper Mill Company 09/04/1882 2107 200

Fargo & Southern Railway Co.(Increase of Capital 1,250,000 11/19/1883 2109 310

Spirit Mound Cemetery Association Clay county Clay 5 125 11/11/1884 2111 54

Congregational Church of Jasper Chas Mix 3 09/22/1884 2110 508

Pacific Railroad (resolution to extend its route) 10/13/1883 2109 243

First Presbyterian Church of Mekinock Grand Forks 5 03/26/1884 2110 102

Capital City Land Company (increase in stock) 3,000,000 06/03/1889 2119 138

Lutheran Church of Lake Madison Lake 3 07/16/1881 2105 263

Dakota University 3 07/13/1883 2109 251

Dakota Central Railroad (Extension of Route) 11/24/1883 2109 317

Park River Cemetery Walsh 3 09/16/1882 2107 212

Pleasant View Cemetery Association Lincoln 3 03/03/1882 2106 210

Midland Pacific Railroad Company Minnehaha 8 10,000,000 05/25/1889 2119 116

Farmingdale Land and Livestock Company Pennington 7 40,000 04/03/1888 2117 57

Evangelic Lutheran Church of Twp. Savo Brown 01/07/1885 2111 136

Methodist Episcopal Church Sanborn 5 06/25/1886 2114 130

Missouri Valley, Bismarck, and Dakota South Eastern Brown 6 5,000,000 05/26/1886 2113 539

Roman Catholic Church of St. Kyran Yankton 5 12/04/1884 2111 95

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Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page

Presbyterian Church of (?) Dakota Pembina 3 11/10/1883 2109 302

St. Johns and Immanuel's Evangelical Lutheran Church McIntosh 4 10/31/1889 2119 567

Emanuel's Church of the Evangelical Association of North America Hutchinson 3 12/16/1884 2111 125

North American Oil Company Crook County 5 1,250,000 07/24/1886 2114 202

North Preston Norwegian Lutheran Congregation Kingsbury 3 02/27/1885 2111 279

Dickey County Bank 02/20/1883 2108 114

Pioneer Cooperative Of Lincoln County Lincoln 3 20,000 03/14/1882 2106 238

Bethel Presbyterian Church Pennington 3-11 09/30/1889 2119 476

Golden Summit Consolidated Gold Mining Co.(Amend business location) 11/27/1883 2109 322

Norwegian Society of Township 139 North Range 52 West Cass Co. Cass 3 03/23/1881 2105 119

Graven & Jamestown Rail Road Company Grant 5 1,000,000 06/06/1879 2104 102

Jamestown & Northern Railroad Co. Stutsman 5 3,000,000 09/17/1881 2105 383

Forest River Pressed Brick Co. Walsh 3 20,000 08/11/1882 2107 171

Elmo Mining & Milling co. Lawrence 5 100,000 03/19/1884 2110 107

Brule County Farmers Manufacturing and Trading Association Brule and Gra 5 10,000 01/15/1889 2118 261

Bethany Norwegian Dane Lutheran Church of Abercrombie Abercrombie Richland 3 11/01/1889 2119 572

Farmers Warehouse Association of Abercrombie Abercrombie Richland 3 5,000 08/08/1889 2119 355

Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. John Abercrombie T Richland 3 01/22/1885 2111 180

Building and Loan Association of Dakota (increase of stock Aberdeen Brown 7 5,000,000 05/01/1889 2119 61

Dakota Farmers Alliance Company Aberdeen Brown 11 20,000 10/18/1887 2116 250

First Presbyterian Society of Aberdeen Aberdeen Brown 3 04/19/1882 2106 282

La Grace Livestock Company Aberdeen Brown 7 250,000 12/18/1884 2111 131

Aberdeen Steam Brick Works Aberdeen Brown 3 10,000 07/05/1887 2115 569

First Wesleyan Methodist Society of Aberdeen Brown County Aberdeen Brown 3-5 07/31/1888 2117 458

Bankers Mutual Relief Association of the North West Aberdeen Brown 5 09/06/1887 2116 152

Aberdeen Light and Power Company Aberdeen Brown 3 100,000 02/14/1889 2118 360

North Western Seed Company Aberdeen Brown 3 20,000 12/12/1887 2116 353

Fountain Lake Improvement Company Aberdeen Brown 5 25,000 05/02/1889 2119 68

Aberdeen Daily News Company Aberdeen Brown 3 12,000 08/08/1887 2116 81

Roman Catholic Church of Sacred Heart of Aberdeen Aberdeen Brown 4 06/27/1884 2110 323

Central Dakota Building and Loan Association Aberdeen Brown 7 500,000 10/21/1887 2116 259

Aberdeen Railway Company Aberdeen Brown 7 250,000 06/04/1889 2119 141

Coe and Howard Abstract Company Aberdeen Brown 5 15,000 09/20/1887 2116 182

Brown County Bank of Aberdeen (Retiring of Stock, Cancellation of Business) Aberdeen Brown 07/08/1887 2116 13

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Brown County Bank Aberdeen Brown 3 20,000 07/20/1887 2116 13

Northwestern Seed Company (increase of stock) Aberdeen Brown 55,000 06/12/1888 2117 258

Presentation Academy of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Aberdeen Brown 4 100,000 08/08/1887 2116 75

Aberdeen Savings Bank Aberdeen Brown 5 100,000 04/24/1889 2119 37

Aberdeen Bismarck and Northwestern Railway Company (de-classification of st Aberdeen Brown 08/25/1887 2116 114

Western Investment Company of Aberdeen Dakota Aberdeen Brown 5 250,000 02/13/1889 2118 366

Guarantee Mortgage Company Aberdeen Brown 5 50,000 02/01/1888 2116 429

Aberdeen Club Aberdeen Brown 7 04/27/1889 2119 51

Northwestern Loan & Trust Company Aberdeen Brown 5 100,000 08/16/1883 2109 133

Samaritan Hospital Aberdeen Brown 7 05/13/1886 2113 272

Keystone Mortgage Company (increase in capital stock) Aberdeen Brown 11 250,000 08/25/1888 2117 549

St. Paul Black Hills and Pacific Railway Company Aberdeen Brown 7 15,000,000 07/01/1887 2115 555

Aberdeen Abstract Company Aberdeen Brown 4 20,000 01/10/1889 2118 266

First Baptist Church of Aberdeen Aberdeen Brown 3 06/07/1884 2110 286

Aberdeen Improvement Company Aberdeen Brown 3-5 12,000 10/04/1888 2118 43

Aberdeen, Fergus Falls, and Pierre Railroad Company Aberdeen Brown 7 2,500,000 04/19/1886 2113 29

Aberdeen Street Railway Company Aberdeen Brown 3 50,000 03/22/1887 2115 185

Aberdeen Transfer and Storage Company Aberdeen Brown 3 15,000 10/06/1888 2118 45

Building and Loan Association of Dakota Aberdeen Brown 7 500,000 10/18/1888 2118 70

St. Paul Black Hills and Pacific Railway Company (Change of Direction of Railroa Aberdeen Brown 01/05/1889 2118 250

Aberdeen Methodist Episcopal Church Aberdeen Brown 6 02/29/1884 2110 25

Aberdeen Gaslight Company Aberdeen Brown 3 50,000 01/18/1887 2114 573

Edmunds Townsite Company Aberdeen Brown 7 50,000 04/12/1883 2108 230

Aberdeen Telephone Company Aberdeen Brown 5 10,000 12/01/1886 2114 464

Building and Loan Association of Dakota Aberdeen Brown 7 25,000,000 09/14/1889 2119 436

Aberdeen Plow Company Aberdeen Brown 7 10,000 09/20/1886 2114 354

Aberdeen Land and Improvement Co. Aberdeen Brown 3 30,000 01/30/1883 2108 64

Aberdeen Mill Company Aberdeen Brown 5 08/31/1886 2114 300

Dime Savings Bank Aberdeen Brown 3 100,000 10/15/1889 2119 519

South Dakota Publishing Company Aberdeen Brown 5 20,000 10/10/1889 2119 522

Hicks Trask Hardware Company Aberdeen Brown 3 20,000 05/19/1886 2113 405

Union Banking Company of Aberdeen Dakota Aberdeen Brown 7 5,000,000 03/28/1888 2117 23

Union Banking Company (decrease of capital stock) Aberdeen Brown 7 200,000 03/06/1889 2118 504

Aberdeen First Mortgage Security Company (acceptance of amendment) Aberdeen Brown 7 11/13/1888 2118 107

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Aberdeen Free Library Association Aberdeen Brown 7 03/13/1884 2110 69

Farmers Merchants Bank Aberdeen Brown 5 25,000 01/02/1882 2108 26

Central Dakota Irrigation Bureau Aberdeen Brown 11 100,000 04/02/1889 2118 491

Aberdeen First Mortgage Security Company Aberdeen Brown 7 100,000 12/21/1886 2114 533

Aberdeen Construction Company Aberdeen Brown 3 250,000 05/12/1888 2117 173

J.T. Goodes Furniture Company Aberdeen Brown 3 10,000 02/18/1888 2116 485

Aberdeen Farmer's Elevator Co. Aberdeen Brown 7 50,000 07/21/1885 2112 92

Evangelical Lutheran Zion Congregation Aberdeen Brown Not Listed 05/29/1889 2119 15

Aberdeen Implement Company Aberdeen Brown 5 50,000 01/25/1889 2118 319

Brown County Agricultural Association Aberdeen Brown 7 06/14/1884 2110 304

H. Hagerty and Company Aberdeen Brown 5 500,000 07/24/1889 2119 303

Aberdeen Electric Light Co. Aberdeen Brown 3 10,0090 04/14/1886 2112 535

Aberdeen LaMoure & Pierre Railway Aberdeen Brown 8 1,000,000 12/28/1885 2112 319

Keystone Mortgage Company Aberdeen Brown 11 100,000 03/12/1888 2116 546

Aberdeen Building & Loan Association Aberdeen Brown 7 500,000 01/02/1886 2112 328

Aberdeen Electric Street Railway Company Aberdeen Brown 3 50,000 05/02/1888 2117 141

Aberdeen Highlands Improvement Company Aberdeen Brown 3 100,000 08/08/1888 2117 481

Aberdeen Creamery Company Aberdeen Brown 3 10,000 03/05/1888 2116 525

Brown County Bank Aberdeen Brown 3 20,000 11/23/1881 2106 61

Central Dakota Publishing Company Aberdeen Brown 7 25,000 04/22/1887 2115 281

Aberdeen Park Improvement Company Aberdeen Brown 7 50,000 04/25/1887 2115 297

Friesland Livestock Company Aberdeen Brown 3 100,000 08/16/1888 2117 517

Tyner Safety Spark Arrester and Manufacturing Company Aberdeen Brown 3 10,000 05/31/1887 2115 413

Brown County Agricultural & Industrial Society Aberdeen Brown 11 07/24/1882 2107 111

Aberdeen Light and Fuel Company Aberdeen Brown 5 100,000 08/09/1889 2119 360

Zions church Society of Dakota Conference of the Evangelical Assoc. of North A Aberdeen Brown 3+ 05/17/1887 2115 353

Aberdeen, Sioux Falls and Montana Railway Company Aberdeen Brown 13 1,500,000 03/03/1888 2116 520

Ruralist Company Aberdeen Brown 5 10,000 04/27/1888 2117 128

Methodist Episcopal Church of Absaraka Absaraka Cass Not Listed 06/02/1888 2117 218

Evangelical Lutheran Zions Congregation of the Unaltered Augsburg Confession Acton Walsh 3 02/09/1888 2116 442

Rehoboth Church Evangelical Lutheran Adams Twp. Adams 3 12/04/1885 2112 262

First Baptist Church of Afton Afton Sanborn 3 08/01/1885 2112 139

Alban Methodist Episcopal Church Alban Grant 5 02/02/1884 2109 459

Evangelical Lutheran Bethlehem's Congregation Alban Grant 3-11 07/06/1886 2114 149

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Corporation Name Town County Directors Capitol Stock File Date Volume Page

Emmanuel Church of the Evangelical Association of North America Alban (twp) Grant 3+ 04/30/1886 2113 83

Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Albion Albion (twp) Dickey 3 04/27/1889 2118 493

First Presbyterian Church of Alexandria Alexandria Hanson 3 12/11/1884 2111 109

Roman Catholic Church of St. Mary of Alexandria Alexandria Hanson 3 11/29/1884 2111 89

Hope Chapel Alexandria Hanson 3 10/17/1881 2106 21

Baptist Church of Alexandria Alexandria Hanson 05/20/1884 2110 246

Farmers Bank of Alexandria Alexandria Hanson 3 18,000 03/05/1884 2110 30

Alexandria Building & Loan Association Alexandria Hanson 10 25,000 08/01/1885 2112 134

Alexandria Cemetery Association Alexandria Hanson 4 1,000 09/21/1882 2107 228

Congregational Church of Alexandria Alexandria Hanson 3 08/21/1885 2112 165

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Alexandria Alexandria Hanson 3 07/18/1883 2109 92

Farmers Mutual Fire and Lightening Insurance Company of Hanson County Alexandria Hanson 5 08/16/1889 2119 341

Alpena Creamery Co. Alpena Jerauld 5 2,000 03/11/1886 2112 429

Huron Chamberlain and Black Hills Railroad Alpena Beadle 11 1,000,000 08/23/1889 2119 389

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Alpena Alpena Jerauld 5 06/21/1884 2110 308

Lodge No. 77 I.O.O.F. Alpena Jerauld 3 09/21/1889 2119 459

Alpena Warehouse and Elevator Alpena Jerauld 7 5,000 06/12/1888 2117 256

Cemetery Association of Altoona Beadle County Altoona Beadle 5 05/08/1885 2111 492

Amherst Hall Association Amherst McPherson 3 1,200 12/19/1888 2118 217

First Methodist Episcopal Church Andover Day 3 04/10/1885 2111 361

Dakota Land & Loan Company Appomattox Potter 6 25,000 08/29/1883 2109 168

Roman Catholic Church of St. John the Baptist of Ardoch Ardoch Walsh 5 04/16/1884 2110 140

Farmers Mutual Cooperative Association Ardoch Walsh 9 10,000 03/30/1886 2112 481

First Presbyterian Church of Ardoch Ardoch Walsh 5 04/10/1885 2111 373

Bank of Ardoch Ardoch Walsh 3 10,000 06/14/1886 2114 69

Arlington Farmers Shipping Association Arlington Kingsbury 7 25,000 05/27/1887 2115 399

Central Dakota Bank Arlington Kingsbury 3 25,000 04/21/1888 2117 116

Arlington Cornet Band Arlington Kingsbury 5 1,0009 04/20/1885 2111 420

Arlington Creamery Association Arlington Kingsbury 7 2,500 03/22/1887 2115 183

Arlington Building and Loan Association Arlington Kingsbury 9 05/27/1887 2115 396

Plainview Cemetery Association of Armadale Armadale Spink 7 05/02/1885 2111 467

Citizens State Bank Armour Douglas 3-9 60,000 02/18/1887 2115 59

Armour Cemetery Corporation Armour Douglas 5 1,000 01/24/1889 2118 312

Congregational Ecclesiastical Society of Armour Armour Douglas 9 08/30/1886 2114 241

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First Methodist Episcopal Church of Armour Dakota Armour Douglas Not Listed 07/09/1887 2115 551

Armour Building and Improvement Association Armour Douglas 3-7 04/04/1887 2115 224

Pleasant Ridge Cemetery Association Armour Douglas 5 1,000 07/06/1889 2119 247

Evangelical Lutheran Immanuel Congregation Armour Douglas Not Listed 02/25/1888 2116 464

Armour Lodge No. 25 Knights of Pythias Armour Douglas 3 11/17/1887 2116 306

First Regular Baptist Church of Armour Armour Douglas Not Listed 10/20/1887 2116 256

Armour Alliance Warehouse Company Armour Douglas 11 10,000 07/11/1888 2117 298

Farmers Shipping and Purchasing Company Artesian Sanborn 5 5,000 07/26/1888 2117 444

First Presbyterian Church of Arvilla Arvilla Grand Forks 5 07/30/1885 2112 121

St. Johns Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church Ash Creek Clay ? 01/11/1886 2112 366

Union Agricultural Association Ashton Spink 7 07/28/1882 2107 123

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Ashton Ashton Spink 3 06/19/1882 2107 59

Ashton Business Men's Association Ashton Spink 7 2,000 05/04/1882 2106 316

First Congregational Church of Ashton Ashton Spink 3 07/03/1882 2107 75

Ashton Building & Loan Association Ashton Spink 9 500,000 05/21/1885 2111 539

Ashton Elevator Company Ashton Spink 3 6,000 06/07/1889 2119 151

Ashton Gas and Fuel Company Ashton Spink 7 100,000 03/12/1888 2116 551

Dakota Homeopathic Medical Association Ashton Spink 5 07/26/1886 2114 204

Bank of Billinghurst Brothers Ashton Spink 3 100,000 03/22/1888 2117 11

Ashton Farmer's Elevator Company Ashton Spink 9 10,000 06/18/1885 2112 17

Ashton Building Company Ashton Spink 3 4,500 06/09/1883 2109 14

Ashton Steam Roller Mill Company Ashton Spink 3 50,000 11/15/1887 2116 298

Spink County Union Agricultural Society Ashton Spink 9 5,000 06/19/1885 2112 15

Congregational Church of Athol Athol Spink 3 10/07/1881 2106 1

Aurora Shire Horse Company Aurora Brookings 5 5,000 05/23/1888 2117 198

Aurora Investment Company Aurora Brookings 9 5,000 05/26/1887 2115 389

Dakota Shirt Company Aurora Brookings 3 10,000 08/13/1887 2116 87

Aurora Cheese and Butter Company Aurora Brookings 11 2,500 05/16/1887 2115 350

First Methodist Episcopal Church Aurora Brookings 4 02/16/1884 2110 1

Fairlawn Cemetery Association Aurora Brookings 3 01/06/1885 2111 145

Congregational Church of Aurora Aurora Brookings 3-9 07/28/1887 2116 38

Farmers Co-Operative Loan Association Aurora Brookings 7 5,000,000 02/21/1889 2118 391

Fountain Cemetery Association Aurora twp. Brookings 5 03/08/1884 2110 36

First Avon Methodist Episcopal Church Avon Bon Homme Not Listed 05/20/1887 2115 265

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Immanuel Church Society of the Dakota Conference of the Evangelical Associati Avon (twp) Bon Homme 3+ 08/02/1889 2119 316

Ligia Griseha Badger Lake 5 03/17/1880 2104 235

Fire Steel Congregational Church Badger (twp) Davison 3-9 07/16/1886 2114 171

Badger Cemetery Badger (twp) Kingsbury 3 04/06/1888 2117 67

Roman Catholic Church of St. Ann in Badus Badus Lake 3 07/23/1884 2110 416

Seventh Day Adventist Church of Badus Badus Lake 5 07/13/1884 2110 361

Roman Catholic Church of St. Ann in Badus Badus Lake 4 03/08/1884 2110 48

Lake Preston Cemetery Association Baker (twp) Kingsbury 9 06/07/1886 2114 16

Lake Preston Cream Company Baker Twp. Kingsbury 5 2,500 12/17/1884 2111 128

Barlow Methodist Episcopal Church Barlow Foster 7 08/15/1888 2117 504

Northern Dakota Stage & Transportation Company Bartlett Ramsey 5 25,000 03/22/1883 2108 184

Bartlett Land Improvement Co. Bartlett Ramsey 3 20,000 01/15/1883 2108 54

Farmers Warehouse of Bartlett Bartlett Ramsey 7 1,200 10/20/1884 2111 28

Foster County Milling Company Barton Foster 7 10,000 05/23/1888 2117 196

Evangelical Lutheran St. Johannes Congregation Bath Brown Per Discipli 07/11/1889 2119 255

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Bath Bath Brown 3 07/09/1885 2112 53

First Methodist Church at Bathgate Bathgate Pembina 3 10/30/1884 2111 37

Bathgate Baptist Church Bathgate Hamilton 3 10/14/1882 2107 269

Pembina County Agricultural and Industrial Association Bathgate Pembina 25 3,000 07/11/1887 2115 574

Farmers Union Elevator Company (appointment of agent) Bathgate Pembina 03/08/1889 2118 436

Pembina County Agricultural & Industrial Association Bathgate Pembina 18 2,000 10/04/1883 2109 226

Presbyterian Church of Bathgate Bathgate Pembina 5 10/11/1883 2109 237

Glenn Milling and Irrigating Ditch Company Battle River Custer 3 20,000 07/23/1886 2114 200

Battle River Railroad Co. Battle River Custer 5 500,000 03/06/1886 2112 411

Battle Creek Irrigating Ditch Co. Battle River Custer 5 1,500 05/16/1881 2105 171

Greenwood Cemetery Association Beau Walworth 5 01/12/1884 2109 407

Presbyterian Church of Beaulieu Beaulieu Cavalier 4 03/26/1886 2112 468

Messner Milling & Lumber Co. Belcourt Rolette 3 10,000 08/02/1884 2110 407

Evangelical Lutheran Immanuel's Congregation Belle Prairie Beadle 6 06/29/1885 2112 30

Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Benton Benton Minnehaha 3 07/27/1883 2109 95

First Methodist Episcopal Church Beresford Union 5 04/07/1884 2110 126

Grand Army Hall Association of Beresford Dakota Territory Beresford Union 5 600 06/14/1889 2119 191

Emanuel Church of the Evangelical Association of North America Berlin Richland 3 04/23/1883 2108 250

Union Cemetery Association Bethel Clay 3 03/29/1882 2106 265

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Bluff Center Methodist-Episcopal Church Bethel (twp.) Clay 04/17/1886 2113 17

St. Paul's Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Ransom Dakota Cou Big Bend/Casey Ransom Not Listed 03/19/1889 2118 415

First Presbyterian Church of Big Stone City Big Stone Grant 3-7 05/28/1886 2113 520

Big Stone Lake Transportation Company Big Stone City Grant 5 300,000 04/30/1883 2108 277

Big Stone Lake Assembly Association Big Stone City Grant 7 06/06/1889 2119 176

First Baptist Church of Big Stone City Big Stone City Grant 3 04/29/1882 2106 346

Simpson Park Association of Big Stone Lake Big Stone City Grant 11 25,000 05/07/1885 2111 486

Big Stone City Mining Company Big Stone City Grant 6 250,000 07/03/1889 2119 240

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Big Stone City Big Stone City Grant 3 06/08/1882 2107 31

Big Stone Methodist Episcopal Church Big Stone City Grant 3 10/06/1880 2104 389

Tabor Church Society of the Dakota Conference of the Evangelical Association o Big Stone City Grant 3+ 12/17/1888 2118 198

Roman Catholic Church of St. Charles In Big Stone City Big Stone City Grant 3 07/23/1884 2110 370

Bismarck Reservoirs & Water Works Co. Bismarck Burleigh 9 15,000 01/27/1880 2104 193

Women's Christian Temperance Union of Bismarck Bismarck Burleigh 3 08/18/1888 2117 526

Northwest Grain and Fuel Company Bismarck Burleigh 5 25,000 04/28/1887 2115 303

Bismarck Northern Railway Company Bismarck Burleigh 5 10,000,000 05/03/1884 2110 194

Pioneer Hose Company Bismarck Burleigh 3 01/21/1886 2112 360

Bismarck Fire Company Bismarck Burleigh 5 03/20/1880 2104 241

Burleigh County Building & Loan Association Bismarck Burleigh ? ?? 12/30/1885 2112 321

Fairview Cemetery Bismarck Burleigh 7 1,000 06/04/1880 2104 308

Bismarck Electric Light and Power Company Bismarck Burleigh 3 50,000 06/15/1887 2115 498

Bismarck Telephone Exchange Bismarck Burleigh 6 25,000 10/13/1882 2107 262

Billings Bull Mountain & Northern Railroad Co. Bismarck Burleigh 7 550,000 01/12/1886 2112 344

Board of Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Bismarck Bismarck Burleigh 5 06/21/1879 2104 107

Bismarck Athenaeum Company Bismarck Burleigh 3 20,000 02/27/1884 2110 14

Missouri Valley Railway Company Bismarck Burleigh 5 10,000,000 06/11/1886 2114 56

First Presbyterian Church of Bismarck Bismarck Burleigh 5 07/06/1886 2114 146

Bismarck Heating & Lighting Co. Bismarck Burleigh 5 20,000 01/09/1883 2108 42

Bismarck Water Company Bismarck Burleigh 7 100,000 05/27/1886 2113 489

Bismarck Marine and Ways and Dock Company Bismarck Burleigh 7 25,000 03/22/1879 2104 60

Burleigh County Building & Loan Association Bismarck Burleigh 9 500,000 02/01/1884 2110 112

Bismarck and Southeastern Railway Co. Bismarck Burleigh 5 10,000,000 01/16/1883 2108 56

Missouri Valley Land Mortgage Company (acceptance of provisions) Bismarck Burleigh 5 04/16/1887 2115 250

North Dakota Mining and Improvement Company Bismarck Burleigh 5 500,000 09/30/1889 2119 483

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Bismarck Leader Publishing Co. Bismarck Burleigh 4 5,000 05/05/1884 2110 199

Order of Saint Benedict Bismarck Burleigh 3 08/23/1879 2104 129

Dakota Car Company Bismarck Burleigh 3 500,000 09/20/1889 2119 452

Dakota Railroad Company Bismarck Burleigh 6 5,000,000 11/07/1879 2104 166

Banner Hook and Ladder Co. Bismarck Burleigh 5 04/06/1886 2112 507

Black Hills Northern Railway Co. Bismarck Burleigh 5 2,000,000 03/10/1883 2108 157

Bismarck Elevator Company Bismarck Burleigh 5 10,000 08/02/1882 2107 130

Burleigh County Bar Association Bismarck Burleigh 7 500 01/30/1884 2109 436

Bismarck Artesian Well & Water Company Bismarck Burleigh 03/13/1883 2108 170

Bismarck Tribune Company Bismarck Burleigh 5-7 20,000 09/15/1886 2114 344

Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Bismarck Bismarck Burleigh 3 10/19/1883 2109 249

Dakota Mutual Life and Endowment Association Bismarck Burleigh 3 09/27/1883 2109 203

Bismarck Artesian Well & Water Works Co. Bismarck Burleigh 11 10,000 03/13/1882 2106 229

Bismarck Mouse River Turtle Mountain & Manitoba Railroad Co. Bismarck Burleigh 10 2,000,000 03/04/1882 2106 214

Milwaukee Brewing Co. of Bismarck Bismarck Burleigh 3 75,000 02/07/1885 2111 232

Bismarck Creamery Company Bismarck Burleigh 5 25,000 02/25/1888 2116 505

McKenzie Cattle Company Bismarck Burleigh 6 150,000 10/10/1883 2109 241

Bismarck Artesian Well & Water Works Co. (Increase in Capital) Bismarck Burleigh 75,000 09/12/1883 2109 184

Edison Electric Illuminating Co. of Bismarck Bismarck Burleigh 7 50,000 10/16/1883 2109 247

Bismarck Grove No.25 of the United Ancient Order of Druids Bismarck Burleigh 3 02/12/1885 2111 240

Bismarck Journal Company Bismarck Burleigh 3 6,000 01/22/1885 2111 178

Dakota Loan & Mortgage Company Bismarck Burleigh 3 01/16/1885 2111 162

Northwest Electric Construction Company Bismarck Burleigh 3-11 1,000,000 11/07/1887 2116 287

Bismarck Loan & Trust Company Bismarck Burleigh 7 100,000 11/10/1883 2109 304

Bismarck, Land, Improvement, Mining and Manufacturing Company Bismarck Burleigh 5 250,000 11/23/1887 2116 319

Bismarck Building Association Bismarck Burleigh 5 20,000 01/09/1882 2106 115

Bismarck Library Association Bismarck Burleigh 5 02/28/1882 2106 199

Bismarck Choral Union Bismarck Burleigh 5 05/16/1884 2110 244

Northwestern Insurance Company Bismarck Burleigh 7 50,000 02/27/1885 2111 274

Northwestern Mutual Livestock Association Bismarck Burleigh 3 01/18/1884 2109 417

Missouri Valley Land Mortgage Co. Bismarck Burleigh 5 50,000 06/23/1885 2112 25

Dakota & Eastern Investment and Banking Co. Bismarck Burleigh 3 25,000 02/07/1885 2111 235

North West Grain & Fuel Company Bismarck Burleigh 3 5,000 04/10/1885 2111 385

Dakota Coal Company Bismarck Burleigh 11 100,000 04/11/1882 2106 274

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First Baptist Church of Bismarck Bismarck Burleigh 3 05/02/1882 2106 305

Edwards & Bradford Lumber Co. Bismarck Burleigh 3 50,000 08/27/1883 2109 162

Solberg Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Blair Jerauld 3 02/21/1887 2115 65

Oslo Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Moody County Blinsmon Moody 3 05/08/1882 2106 314

Middle Grove Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Blooming Grand Forks 3 04/10/1885 2111 396

Nels Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Grand Forks Blooming (twp) Grand Forks 3 12/27/1888 2118 223

Blunt Natural Gas and Fuel Company Blunt Hughes 11 50,000 05/31/1887 2115 418

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Blunt Blunt Hughes 3 09/15/1883 2109 191

First Presbyterian Church of Blunt Blunt Hughes 3 12/01/1883 2109 334

Blunt Lodge No. 64 Blunt Hughes 3 06/10/1884 2110 291

Baptist Church of Blunt Blunt Hughes 3 05/21/1884 2110 249

Lone Tree Milling Company Blunt Hughes 6 7,000 08/24/1885 2112 223

Hughes County Bank Blunt Hughes 3 25,000 05/26/1883 2108 322

Dakota Central Agricultural and Mechanical Fair Association Blunt Hughes 11 5,000 07/12/1885 2112 63

Bon Homme Cemetery Association (Election) Bon Homme Bon Homme Not Listed 07/05/1887 2115 562

Congregational Church of Bon Homme, County of Bon Homme, Territory of Dak Bon Homme Bon Homme 3-9 12/11/1888 2118 161

First Presbyterian Church of Bottineau Bottineau Bottineau 3 04/05/1886 2112 504

Bottineau County Agricultural Association Bottineau Bottineau 9 08/07/1888 2117 479

First Presbyterian Church Bottineau Bottineau 5 04/05/1886 2113 1

Oak Creek Cemetery Association Bottineau Bottineau 5 09/27/1887 2116 200

First Baptist Church of Bottineau Bottineau Bottineau 3 09/01/1886 2114 311

People's Bank Bowdle Edmunds 3 50,000 04/08/1889 2118 509

Congregational Church of Bowdle County Bowdle Edmunds 3+ 12/31/1886 2114 548

Bowesmont Methodist Episcopal Church of Bowesmont Bowesmont Pembina Per Discipli 08/29/1889 2119 416

Bradley Cheese Company Bradley Clark 10 1,500 06/05/1888 2117 236

Bradley Methodist Episcopal Church Bradley Clark Per Discipli 09/09/1889 2119 423

Farmers Association of Brandon Brandon Minnehaha 7 5,000 10/04/1887 2116 217

Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Split Rock Brandon Minnehaha 3 06/13/1884 2110 301

Dakota Milling Company Brandon Spink 5 30,000 01/15/1889 2118 281

Swedonia Parish of the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Mission Synod Brandon Twp. Minnehaha 3 06/10/1882 2107 37

Highland Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Brandt Twp. Deuel 5 12/10/1885 2112 292

Farmers Protective Association of Bridgewater Bridgewater McCook 9 5,000 03/26/1886 2112 470

Farmers Capitol Investment Company Bridgewater McCook 9 300,000 07/06/1889 2119 253

First Seventh Day Adventist Church Bridgewater McCook 3 06/12/1885 2112 4

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First Methodist Church of Bridgewater Bridgewater McCook 3 01/21/1882 2106 137

First Presbyterian Church of Bridgewater Bridgewater McCook 3 03/03/1883 2108 145

First Methodist Episcopal Church Bristol Day 3-9 05/16/1887 2115 347

Bank of Bristol Bristol Day 5 20,000 10/19/1886 2114 400

Bristol Cemetery Association Bristol Day 5 03/08/1888 2116 529

Farmers Supply Company Britton Marshall 5 40,000 03/15/1888 2116 566

Marshall County Cemetery Corporation Britton Marshall 5 02/08/1886 2112 370

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Britton Britton Marshall Not Listed 04/24/1888 2117 37

Marshall County Agricultural Association Britton Marshall 5 05/18/1888 2117 184

First Presbyterian Church of Britton Dakota Territory Britton Marshall 3-11 07/26/1887 2116 23

Britton Land & Trust Company Britton Day 5 12,000 04/10/1885 2111 365

Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brookings Brookings Brookings ? 03/22/1886 2112 458

Brookings County Agricultural Society & Mechanic Institute Brookings Brookings 24 08/07/1880 2104 349

Brookings County Building & Loan Association Brookings Brookings 9 100,000 04/13/1885 2111 393

Farmers Shipping Association of Brookings Brookings Brookings 9 5,000 06/17/1889 2119 195

First Baptist Church of Brookings Brookings Brookings 3 08/12/1881 2105 300

Brookings Opera Hall Company Brookings Brookings 5 2,500 04/07/1884 2110 128

First Presbyterian Church of Brookings Brookings Brookings 3 08/26/1884 2110 472

Scandinavian Publishing Company of South Dakota Brookings Brookings 7 10,000 08/23/1889 2119 392

Dakota Central Railroad Company Brookings Brookings 5 500,000 05/15/1879 2104 90

Bank of Brookings Brookings Brookings 9 150,000 04/02/1888 2117 53

South Dakota Scandinavian American Building and Loan Association Brookings Brookings 5 10,000,000 10/14/1889 2119 510

Brookings County Press Brookings Brookings 5 5,000 05/10/1879 2104 86

Bank of Brookings Brookings Brookings 7 100,000 12/22/1883 2109 360

Brookings Union Tow Mill co. Brookings Brookings 3 3,000 11/25/1884 2111 81

Brookings Creamery Company Brookings Brookings 5 5,000 05/28/1887 2115 404

Brookings Electric Light company Brookings Brookings 5 2,500 07/26/1888 2117 442

Norwegian Baptist Church of Brookings Brookings Brookings 3 05/23/1883 2108 314

Greenwood Cemetery Association Brookings Brookings 8 500 06/10/1881 2105 225

First Swedish Christian Congregation of Brooklyn Township Brooklyn Twp. Lincoln 4 05/25/1882 2107 8

Brule Creek Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brule Creek Brule Creek Union 3 03/03/1883 2108 140

First Baptist Church of Bryant Bryant Hamlin 3 04/16/1888 2117 100

Merchants Bank Bryant Hamlin 7 5,000 09/21/1888 2118 27

First Presbyterian Church of Buffalo Buffalo Cass 5 12/21/1885 2112 306

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Bethania Congregation (Lutheran) Buffalo (twp.) Minnehaha 3 04/17/1886 2113 14

Buffalo Gap Brown Stone Company Buffalo Gap Custer 5 100,000 05/28/1887 2115 407

Dakota Quarry and Mining Company Buffalo Gap Custer 3 50,000 05/04/1889 2119 72

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Buffalo Gap, Custer County, Dakota Buffalo Gap Custer 4 06/21/1886 2114 110

True Grit Silver Mining Company Buffalo Gap Custer 6 1,250,000 06/22/1886 2114 113

First Congregational Church of Buffalo Gap Buffalo Gap Custer 3-11 08/09/1886 2114 238

Buffalo Gap Stone Company Buffalo Gap Custer 4 600,000 01/29/1889 2118 327

Buffalo Gap Lumber Co. Buffalo Gap Custer 3 15,000 03/29/1886 2112 480

Elm Creek Brown and White Sand Stone Company Buffalo Gap Custer 3 500,000 01/17/1889 2118 287

Buffalo Gap Mining Milling and Manufacturing Buffalo Gap Custer 4 1,250,000 09/04/1886 2114 315

North Western Marble Company Buffalo Gap Custer 5 300,000 12/19/1887 2116 368

Buffalo Gap Driving Park Association Buffalo Gap Custer 7 25,000 07/13/1889 2119 277

Big Spring Marble Company Buffalo Gap Custer 5 800,000 12/05/1888 2118 150

Cooperative Store of Burbank Burbank Clay 7 10,000 07/16/1885 2112 86

Marshall County Shipping Association Burch Marshall 5 2,000 08/13/1887 2116 85

Burdette Union Religious and Literary Association Burdette Hand 3 06/04/1887 2115 438

Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Willow Burk Twp. Minnehaha 3 03/29/1886 2112 476

Black Hills Townsite Company Butte Butte 7 60,000 10/31/1883 2109 278

Butte Irrigating Ditch Company Butte P. O. Butte 3 10,000 05/25/1889 2119 113

Grue Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church Buxton Traill 5 07/14/1887 2116 3

New Slavanger Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Buxton Dakota Buxton Traill 3 07/01/1887 2115 557

Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Jeutland's Congregation of the Skandinavian Evan Byron (twp) Hughes Not Listed 06/20/1888 2117 277

Congregational Church of Caledonia Caledonia Traill 3-9 05/29/1886 2113 532

German Evangelical Lutheran Zion Congregation of the Unaltered Augsburg Con Canastota McCook 3-9 08/08/1889 2119 357

Planette Methodist Episcopal Church of Cando Cando Towner Per Discipli 10/16/1889 2119 545

Congregational Church of Cando Cando Turner 3-9 12/14/1887 2116 356

Canistota Cemetery Association Canistota McCook 5 03/02/1889 2118 409

First Presbyterian Society of Canistota Canistota McCook 3 07/12/1884 2110 352

Canning Methodist Episcopal Church Canning Hughes 3 01/13/1885 2111 155

First Presbyterian Church of Canning Canning Hughes 3 04/20/1885 2111 417

Congregational Church of Canova Canova Miner 3-9 04/06/1888 2117 70

Canova Farmers Elevator Co. Canova Miner 9 3,000 03/15/1886 2112 441

Canton Building & Loan association Canton Lincoln 7 500,000 06/02/1883 2108 342

First Regular Baptist Church of Canton Canton Lincoln 5 07/13/1885 2112 71

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Forest Hill Cemetery Association Canton Lincoln 4 04/20/1883 2108 254

Dakota Loan & Trust Company Canton Lincoln 3 100,000 08/18/1881 2105 312

American Loan and Trust Company Canton Lincoln 3-7 100,000 07/31/1886 2114 224

Carter Brothers Company Canton Lincoln 3 10,000 05/04/1888 2117 145

First Congregational Church of Anton Canton Lincoln 3 01/10/1881 2105 59

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Canton Canton Lincoln 6 04/27/1880 2104 267

First Presbyterian Church of Anton Canton Lincoln 3 01/24/1885 2111 194

Canton Advocate Canton Lincoln 5 4,000 02/07/1888 2116 446

Church of God of Canton Canton Lincoln 3 01/30/1888 2116 423

Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Bethlehem Congregation Canton Lincoln 9 11/04/1880 2105 3

Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church of Canton Canton Lincoln 3 05/18/1880 2104 278

Canton Building and Loan Association Canton Lincoln 6 100,000 04/12/1887 2115 247

Lincoln County Bank Canton Lincoln 5 10,000 06/13/1887 2115 473

Farmers Mutual Insurance Co. Canton Lincoln 9 50,000 03/13/1883 2108 166

Bank of Canton Canton Lincoln 3 50,000 03/31/1887 2115 210

Carbon Pressed Brick & Lime Company Carbon Morton 3 30,000 01/30/1883 2108 66

Spearfish Creek Toll Road Co. Carbonate Lawrence 3 50,000 08/18/1885 2112 153

Atlas Mining Company Carbonate Lawrence 5 1,500,000 05/14/1886 2113 309

Carbonate Oil Company Carbonate Lawrence 7 2,500,000 06/10/1886 2114 27

Morning Star Silver Mining Company Carbonate Lawrence 7 1,250,000 05/06/1886 2113 154

West Virginia Mining Company Carbonate Lawrence 5 1,500,000 08/04/1886 2114 248

Carbonate Camp Miners Union Carbonate Lawrence 3 11/10/1887 2116 289

Pocahontas Mining Co. Carbonate Lawrence 3 1,250,000 12/12/1885 2112 286

Transit Mining Company Carbonate Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 237

Winchester Gold and Silver Mining Company Carbonate Lawrence 6 400,000 05/19/1886 2113 363

Seabury Calkins Consolidated Mining Co. Carbonate Cam Lawrence 7 1,500,000 07/24/1885 2112 101

Carl Cemetery Association Carl (twp) McPherson 7 06/20/1889 2119 207

Carrington Milling and Elevator Company Carrington Foster 5 10,000 07/20/1888 2117 438

Congregational Church of Carrington Carrington Foster 3 08/22/1883 2109 146

Carthage Printing Company Carthage Miner 3 1,500 02/21/1888 2116 493

Carthage Warehouse Company Carthage Miner 7 5,000 04/10/1888 2117 77

Congregational Church of Carthage Carthage Miner 3-9 05/09/1888 2117 161

First Methodist Episcopal Church Carthage Miner 3 05/02/1884 2110 192

Cass County Bank Casselton Cass 5 50,000 04/07/1887 2115 238

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Jones Hotel Company Casselton Cass 8 8,000 10/23/1882 2107 280

Security Loan & Trust Company Casselton Cass 5 50,000 06/18/1884 2110 306

Casselton University Casselton Cass 11 09/18/1882 2107 221

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Casselton Casselton Cass 3 05/04/1881 2105 159

Cass County Stock and Trotting Association Casselton Cass 5 5,000 07/18/1887 2116 7

Casselton Masonic Temple Company Casselton Cass 8 8,000 05/27/1887 2115 391

Security Loan and Investment Company Casselton Cass 5 50,000 09/12/1889 2119 432

First Presbyterian Society of Casselton Casselton Cass 3 01/08/1880 2105 53

First Reformed Church in Charles Mix County Castalia Charles Mix Not Listed 04/09/1887 2115 126

Castalia Steam Mill Company Castalia Charles Mix 7 4,000 06/02/1886 2113 574

First Presbyterian Church of Castlewood Castlewood Hamlin 3 03/24/1883 2108 192

Hamlin County Agricultural Society Castlewood Hamlin 11 09/26/1883 2109 201

Cavour Methodist Episcopal Church Cavour Beadle 3 07/06/1885 2112 45

St. Patrick Roman Catholic Church in Cavour Cavour Beadle 4 08/06/1884 2110 433

Bank of Centerville Centerville Turner 5 20,000 08/31/1887 2116 137

Centerville Coal and Mining Company Centerville Turner 10 500,000 04/12/1889 2118 533

Citizens Bank Centerville Turner 3 25,000 09/30/1889 2119 479

First Regular Baptist Church of Centerville Centerville Turner 3 04/21/1884 2110 166

Wyoming Standard Oil Co. Central Lawrence 9 1,000,000 10/16/1885 2112 221

Bunker Hill Mining Company Central City Lawrence 5 500,000 06/05/1888 2117 230

Cornucopia Mining Company Central City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/19/1886 2113 401

Imperial Mining Company Central City Lawrence 7 1,250,000 05/14/1886 2113 304

Elko Extension Mining Company Central City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/14/1886 2113 328

Iron Clad Mining Company Central City Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/20/1886 2113 413

First Congregational Church of Central City Central City Lawrence 5 09/11/1879 2104 142

Liberty Silver Mining Co. Central City Lawrence 5 1,500,000 01/19/1885 2111 168

Ruby Wonder Mining Company Central City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/14/1886 2113 320

Union Oil Company Central City Crook, Wyom 5 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 218

Colorado Oil Company Central City Lawrence 5 250,000 04/30/1887 2115 313

Elk Mountain Mining Company Central City Lawrence 5 500,000 05/13/1886 2113 239

Rattler Gilroy Consolidated Mining Co Central City Lawrence 7 1,500,000 02/26/1886 2112 398

Darboy Mining Company Central City Lawrence 7 800,000 03/13/1885 2111 304

Golden Eagle Consolidated Mining Company Central City Lawrence 3 2,000,000 05/30/1879 2104 98

Golden Eagle Mining and Milling Company Central City Lawrence 4 1,000,000 02/13/1879 2104 55

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Central City Oil Company Central City Crook, Wyom 7 1,250,000 05/11/1886 2113 193

Central City Bank Central City Lawrence 9 50,000 04/20/1887 2115 271

Independence Mining Company Central City Lawrence 5 500,000 04/20/1886 2113 42

Garden City Mining Company Central City Lawrence 5 2,500,000 06/19/1886 2114 93

Troy Mining Company Central city Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/05/1886 2114 1

Valparaiso Mining Company Central City Lawrence 7 1,250,000 05/25/1886 2113 480

West Lilbon Mining Company Central City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/10/1886 2114 51

U. S. Grant Oil Company of Wyoming Central City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/10/1886 2114 49

Young American Mining Company Central City Lawrence 7 1,000,000 05/25/1886 2113 468

Cumberland Gold and Silver Company Central City Lawrence 5 2,500,000 06/06/1889 2119 174

Rattler Mining Company Central City Lawrence 9 500,000 01/30/1885 2111 206

Ram's Horn Silver Mining Company Central City Lawrence 7 1,250,000 05/22/1886 2113 431

Central City Mines Union Central City Lawrence 3 12/03/1882 2107 322

San George Mining Company Central City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/10/1886 2114 47

Providence Mining Company Central City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 02/02/1889 2118 334

Continental Oil Company Central City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/28/1886 2113 508

Golden Center Lodge No. 26 Independent Order of Odd Fellows Central City Lawrence 3 01/24/1885 2111 191

Silver Treasure Mining Co. Central City Lawrence 7 1,500,000 03/24/1885 2111 356

Northwestern Silver Mining Co. Central City Lawrence 7 500,000 03/24/1885 2111 354

California Coal Company Central City Crook, Wyom 7 1,250,000 04/30/1886 2113 81

Florence Gold and Silver Mining Company Central City Lawrence 7 1,500,000 05/17/1886 2113 348

Saint Paul Methodist Episcopal Church of Central City Central City Lawrence 3 06/04/1881 2105 218

Excelsior Oil Company Central City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/25/1886 2113 465

Jefferson Carbonate Mining co. Central City Lawrence 5 1,500,000 04/24/1885 2111 440

Ohio Mining Company Central, Lead, a Lawrence 7 1,250,000 05/28/1886 2113 513

Missouri Valley Loan and Trust Company Chamberlain Brule 11 100,000 10/20/1888 2118 76

Brule County Bank Chamberlain Brule 5 50,000 05/26/1881 2105 214

Chamberlain Building Association Chamberlain Brule 4 6,000 06/04/1889 2119 144

First Baptist Church of Chamberlain Chamberlain Brule 3 04/21/1884 2110 172

Congregational Church of Chamberlain Chamberlain Brule 3 09/03/1881 2105 372

Chamberlain Investment Company Chamberlain Brule 10 10,000 04/02/1889 2118 495

Chamberlain Street Railway Company Chamberlain Brule 6 25,000 08/26/1889 2119 403

Dakota Fire & Marine Insurance Co. Chamberlain Brule 5 100,000 05/26/1881 2105 203

Young Men's Christian Association of Chamberlain Chamberlain Brule 7 12/27/1883 2109 373

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Chamberlain Board of Trade Chamberlain Brule 11 05/11/1889 2119 88

Harney's Peak Gold Mining & Milling ?Co. Chicago Cook 6 1,000,000 07/05/1881 2105 256

Belfield & Black Hills Railroad Company Chicago Cook 5 15,000,000 04/10/1883 2108 225

Dakota Company Chicago Cook 7 75,000 03/06/1883 2108 148

Dawson City Land Improvement Co. Chicago Cook 3 100,000 09/11/1882 2107 201

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Church's Ferry Church's Ferry Ramsey Not Listed 09/30/1886 2114 366

Pleasant Grove Seventh Day Baptist Church Clare (twp) Moody 3 05/11/1889 2118 516

Farmer's Warehouse Company Claremont Brown 9 2,000 10/15/1887 2116 238

Bank of Claremont Claremont Brown 3 25,000 12/30/1886 2114 542

Claremont First Methodist Episcopal Church Claremont Brown Not Listed 09/30/1887 2116 208

Dakota Loan and Security Company of Clark Dakota (amendment to incorporati Clark Clark 05/12/1888 2117 172

Dakota Loan & Security Company Clark Clark 3 50,000 09/05/1884 2110 490

Clark County Abstract Co. Clark Clark 3 400 01/22/1886 2112 364

Clark Building and Loan Association of Clark (acceptance of amendments) Clark Clark 06/02/1888 2117 215

Duluth, Clark, and Southwestern Rail Road Company Clark Clark 7 1,600,000 01/28/1887 2115 26

Clark Creamery Company Clark Clark 7 5,000 11/26/1887 2116 322

Security Bank of Clark Dakota Clark Clark 5 75,000 06/05/1888 2117 222

Security Bank of Clark Dakota Clark Clark 7 Not Listed 06/27/1888 2117 306

Dakota Realty Company Clark Clark 4 50,000 01/28/1887 2115 28

Clark Lodge #42 Clark Clark 3 01/14/1886 2112 350

Clark Building & Loan Association Clark Clark 9 1,000,000 05/15/1885 2111 513

Pilot Publishing Company Clark Clark 5 3,000 09/09/1886 2114 336

Clark Publishing Company Clark Clark 5 6,000 12/09/1886 2114 493

Western Real Estate and Trust Company of Clark Dakota Clark Clark 3 30,000 09/20/1886 2114 351

Clark County Creamery Clark Clark 3 2,500 03/09/1887 2115 153

Democrat Printing Company Clark Clark 5 5,000 03/25/1889 2118 474

Congregational Church of Clark Clark Clark 3 10/30/1882 2107 286

Clark County Bank Clark Clark 5 50,000 06/10/1885 2111 576

Clear Lake Cemetery Association Clear Lake Minnehaha 11 1,000 03/20/1884 2110 91

First Methodist Episcopal Church Clear Lake Deuel 3 05/08/1885 2111 502

Eastern Investment Company Clear Lake Deuel 6 100,000 11/08/1886 2114 426

Bank of Clear Lake Clear Lake Deuel 4 25,000 04/19/1888 2117 109

Baptist Church of Clear Lake Clear Lake Deuel 5 04/10/1885 2111 387

Deuel County Agricultural Fair Association Clear Lake Deuel 7 05/29/1885 2111 557

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Congregation of Bethlehem Cleveland (twp) Ramsey 7 07/19/1888 2117 431

Norman Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Clifford Traill Not Listed 07/30/1888 2117 419

Lone Rock Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church of Moody County Clifton Moody 3 05/03/1882 2106 311

Clifton Cemetery Association Clifton Spink 5 04/22/1885 2111 438

Coleman Cheese Factory Coleman Moody 5 1,000 05/05/1888 2117 151

Pioneer Mining Company Colfax Richland 8 10,000 01/29/1882 2106 151

Colgate Warehouse Association Colgate Steele 5 1,500 06/25/1887 2115 515

Colman Cemetery Association Colman Moody 5 06/07/1888 2117 242

Columbia Milling Co. Columbia Brown 7 100,000 07/03/1884 2110 339

Columbia Cemetery Association Columbia Brown 3-9 04/23/1889 2119 31

Congregational Church of Columbia Columbia Brown 3 06/22/1883 2109 41

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Columbia Columbia Brown 5 09/13/1886 2114 342

Dakota (or James) and Elue river Navigation Transportation Company Columbia 25,000 04/27/1883 2108 268

Columbia & Dakota Midland Rail road Columbia Brown 9 5,000,000 01/18/1884 2109 421

State Bank of Dakota Columbia Brown 7 50,000 03/12/1884 2110 63

First Presbyterian Church of Columbia Columbia Brown 3 08/06/1883 2109 116

Northeastern Railroad Company Columbia Brown 9 500,000 07/07/1888 2117 348

First Baptist Church of Columbia Columbia Brown 3 12/26/1883 2109 367

Blue Ribbon Club of Columbia Columbia Brown 3 07/29/1886 2114 217

Columbia Creamery Company Columbia Brown 11 5,000 04/24/1888 2117 122

Columbia Euemer Telephone Company Columbia Brown 10 5,000 02/16/1887 2115 57

Brown County Agricultural Society Columbia Brown 11 12/16/1882 2108 7

Columbia City Bank Columbia Brown 3 5,000 11/26/1888 2118 133

Norwegian & Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church Columbia Brown 3 06/09/1885 2111 571

United Congregational Church of Columbia Columbia Brown 3 08/03/1885 2112 141

Columbia & Southwestern Rail Road Co. Columbia Brown 6 18,000 01/26/1882 2106 141

Congregational Church of Colvin Colvin Chas. Mix 3 11/22/1883 2109 312

St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Concord Concord (twp) Lake 3 12/07/1886 2114 484

Northwestern Norwegian & Danish Methodist Episcopal Church Cooperstown Griggs 3 04/10/1885 2111 381

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Cooperstown Cooperstown Griggs Not Listed 11/18/1887 2116 308

North Dakota Hail Association Cooperstown Griggs 9 02/05/1889 2118 340

Cooperstown Creamery Cooperstown Griggs 5 5,000 01/18/1888 2116 398

First Congregational Church of Cooperstown Cooperstown Griggs 5 05/07/1885 2111 477

Victor Memorial Baptist Church of Cooperstown Cooperstown Greggs 3 08/12/1884 2110 444

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Farmers and Merchants Bank of Cooperstown Cooperstown Griggs 5 15,000 04/17/1889 2118 556

Farmers Elevator Company of Corona Corona Roberts 7 1,000 11/09/1888 2118 105

Farmers Joint Stock Elevator Company Corona Roberts 5 2,000 08/16/1887 2116 100

Jerauld County Agricultural & Industrial Society County Seat Jerauld 5 1,000 08/19/1884 2110 457

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Crandon Crandon Spink 3 01/02/1882 2108 28

Crandon Milling Association Crandon Spink 5 20,000 05/16/1885 2111 515

Crandon Farmers Association Crandon Spink 7 10,000 02/27/1885 2111 251

First German Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Crandon Crandon Spink Not Listed 10/29/1886 2114 411

Congregational Church of Christ at Cresbard Cresbard Faulk 3 05/18/1885 2111 521

Farmers & Millers Association Crook City Lawrence 6 02/18/1881 2105 98

Farmers and Millers Association Crook City Lawrence 20,000 05/11/1881 2105 167

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Crook City Crook City Lawrence 3 08/25/1881 2105 336

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Crystal Crystal Pembina 3 06/26/1884 2110 319

Traill County Livestock Association Cummings Traill 5 10,000 06/17/1889 2119 193

Cummings Cemetery Association Cummings Traill 5 06/21/1888 2117 308

Van Devort and Company Custer Custer 3 10,000 11/19/1888 2118 115

Custer Mining Company Custer Custer 7 2,000,000 06/21/1886 2114 108

Custer City Building and Loan Association Custer City Custer 6 15,000 09/13/1883 2109 187

Danby Mining and Milling Company Custer City Custer 7 2,000,000 06/05/1886 2113 589

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Custer City Custer City Custer 5 04/29/1882 2106 298

Dolphin Mining and Milling Company Custer City Custer 7 4,000,000 06/09/1886 2114 21

Southern Black Hills Mining Company Custer City Custer 7 600,000 01/26/1888 2116 412

Tin City Mining and Milling Company Custer City Custer 3 250,000 04/27/1886 2113 69

First Congregational Church of Custer City Custer City Custer 3 03/09/1882 2106 223

First M.E. Church of Dakota City Dakota City Hutchinson 05/08/1886 2113 183

Scandinavian Baptist Conference of Dakota Daneville Turner 7 11/26/1888 2118 128

Nulph Cemetery Association Danton (twp) Richland 4 05/24/1887 2115 373

First Day Daue Baptist Church Danville Turner 3 03/26/1883 2108 195

First Norwegian Danish Methodist Episcopal Church of Danville Danville Turner 3 05/21/1880 2104 280

Dawson Milling Company Dawson Kidder 3 20,000 06/15/1886 2114 80

Dawson, Ontario, and Mouse River Railway Company Dawson Kidder 6 5,000,000 06/21/1886 2114 99

Kidder County Agricultural Association Dawson Kidder 5 1,000 07/26/1888 2117 446

Union Congregational Church of Kidder County Dawson Kidder 3 04/06/1883 2108 212

J. Dawson Thomson Commercial and Livestock Company Dawson Kidder 3 50,000 04/24/1889 2119 40

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Oakford & Nelson Mercantile Co. Dayey Barnes 3 30,000 02/03/1886 2112 365

Deadwood & Centennial Road and Tunnel Co. Deadwood Lawrence 9 50,000 03/16/1880 2104 233

Chicago Coal Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 06/25/1887 2115 519

Deadwood & Redwater Valley Railway Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 10,000,000 08/21/1879 2104 127

Castle Chief Gold Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 100,000 03/22/1887 2115 187

Emmett Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 04/20/1886 2113 40

Bear Butte & Deadwood Railway Co. Deadwood Lawrence 13 1,300,000 03/05/1880 2104 220

Climax Mining co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 03/03/1886 2112 406

Columbia Silver Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 7 3,750,000 02/25/1886 2112 395

Erie Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 4 1,250,000 03/04/1887 2115 142

Adelphi Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 250,000 04/20/1886 2113 39

Detroit Gold and Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 03/15/1887 2115 155

White Bear Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,000,000 04/26/1886 2113 67

Deadwood Central Railroad Company (decrease in stock) Deadwood Lawrence 5 300,000 07/15/1889 2119 283

Deadwood Smelting Works Deadwood Lawrence 5 100,000 06/29/1887 2115 548

Bi-Metallic Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 04/26/1886 2113 66

Deadwood Board of Land Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 7 1,000,000 02/10/1886 2112 372

Brookline Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 03/15/1887 2115 162

Black Hills Coal Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 06/25/1887 2115 523

Exchange Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 250,000 06/27/1887 2115 528

Far West Gold and Silver Mining Company (increase of stock) Deadwood Lawrence 1,250,000 03/15/1887 2115 172

Parson's Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 03/16/1887 2115 175

Lilly Consolidated Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 10,000,000 03/09/1880 2104 224

Potasi Gold and Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 04/22/1886 2113 48

Wyoming Coal Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 06/25/1887 2115 521

Edna Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,000,000 02/24/1886 2112 396

Galena Smelting and Reduction Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 100,000 05/21/1887 2115 367

Cooper Gold and Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 03/04/1887 2115 145

Chase Carbonet Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 500,000 02/27/1886 2112 401

Pueblo Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 04/22/1886 2113 50

Deadwood & Lead City Rail Road Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 200,000 04/05/1880 2104 260

Albion Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/11/1887 2115 465

Notre Dame Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 4 1,000,000 09/09/1889 2119 424

Phoenix Silver Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 750,000 02/18/1886 2112 381

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Redwater Land and Irrigation Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 100,000 08/03/1889 2119 334

Philadelphia Coal Company No. 1 Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,000,000 05/25/1880 2104 291

Desire Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 600,000 10/28/1885 2112 229

Golden Reward Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 1,250,000 04/27/1887 2115 301

Deadwood Redwater Valley Railway Co. Deadwood Lawrence 6 1,000,000 02/27/1880 2104 212

Belt Consolidated Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 7 1,250,000 03/08/1886 2112 424

Columbia Water Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 100,000 08/01/1889 2119 314

Lone Rock Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 04/30/1887 2115 308

American Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/08/1887 2115 445

Endymion Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 12/07/1885 2112 275

Eureka Hydraulic and Quartz Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 250,000 04/22/1880 2104 265

Comet Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 12/07/1885 2112 276

Rockland Silver Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 4 250,000 03/13/1886 2112 433

Sun Extension Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 100,000 12/10/1885 2112 282

Gray Eagle Copper & Smelting Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,000,000 12/29/1885 2112 317

Deadwood & Sturgis City Toll Road Deadwood Lawrence 3 15,000 01/28/1880 2104 195

White Star Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 03/23/1886 2112 459

Belle Fourche Deadwood & Rockford Rail road Deadwood Lawrence 9 1,000,000 01/12/1880 2104 186

Carthage Silver Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 500,000 03/10/1886 2112 426

Belcher Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 250,000 04/20/1886 2113 36

Hartshorn Silver Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 03/06/1886 2112 416

Little Rapid Hydraulic Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 7 500,000 12/05/1879 2104 182

Deadwood and Bear Butte Rail Road Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 750,000 08/29/1879 2104 133

Gustin Miner Consolidated Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 7 2,500,000 03/18/1886 2112 445

Western Dakota Loan & Trust Co. Deadwood Lawrence 7 20,000 01/19/1886 2112 355

Silver Mint Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 2,500,000 06/18/1887 2115 500

Deadwood Driving Park Association Deadwood Lawrence 13 5,000 06/28/1880 2104 318

Sugar Loaf Hill Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 1,500,000 04/16/1886 2113 7

Rainbow Mining Company of Lawrence County Deadwood Lawrence 7 1,000,000 09/16/1885 2112 181

La Planta Silver Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,500,00 01/19/1886 2112 351

Philadelphia Coal Company No. 2 Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,000,000 05/25/1880 2104 293

First Meade Hydraulic Gold Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 500,000 09/18/1879 2104 145

Monarch Gold Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 7 2,500,000 04/15/1886 2112 541

Belle Fourche Land & Water Co. Deadwood Lawrence 3 5,000 04/08/1886 2112 515

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Sturgis City and Red Rock Wagon Toll Road Co. Deadwood Lawrence 3 25,000 06/18/1880 2104 315

Dakota Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 1,000,000 05/26/1880 2104 300

Philadelphia Coal Company No. 3 Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,000,000 05/25/1880 2104 295

Deadwood Gas & Light and Coke Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 50,000 11/26/1879 2104 173

Black Hills Ore Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 100,000 04/05/1886 2112 503

Hay Creek Coal Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 06/25/1887 2115 517

Royal Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 04/16/1886 2113 5

Northwestern Oil Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 750,000 05/26/1886 2113 496

Congress Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/25/1886 2113 461

Galena Treasure Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 2,500,000 08/02/1886 2114 235

Madje Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 2,500,000 08/02/1886 2114 233

Alexander Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 2,500,000 08/02/1886 2114 228

Harmony Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/25/1886 2113 472

Ota Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 500,00 05/25/1886 2113 483

Planet Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,250,000 05/25/1886 2113 485

Resumption Gold Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,000,000 03/25/1879 2104 82

Omaha Gold and Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 10/18/1889 2119 537

Belle Fourche Canal and Improvement Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 500,000 05/13/1886 2113 228

Centennial Wagon Road Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 10,000 02/24/1879 2104 57

Cora Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 08/04/1886 2114 250

Monitor Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 9 2,500,000 07/21/1886 2114 190

Spanish R. Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 2,500,000 07/20/1886 2114 188

Black Moon Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 07/19/1886 2114 183

Pilot Hill Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 3,000,000 05/27/1886 2113 500

Challenge Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 2,500,000 05/27/1886 2113 504

Knobnoster Gold and Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/28/1886 2113 506

Perfect Gold and Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 1,250,000 05/28/1886 2113 515

Austin Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/28/1886 2113 517

Colonial Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 2,500,000 07/06/1886 2114 155

Deadwood & Northwestern Wagon and Toll road Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 25,000 03/22/1879 2104 80

Eureka Mining Company (Increase of Stock) Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 08/18/1886 2114 280

Hermit Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/19/1886 2113 384

Montreal Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/19/1886 2113 386

Iron Mountain Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/19/1886 2113 388

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General Sturgis Gold and Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 10 1,000,000 05/19/1886 2113 392

Gold Coin Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/19/1886 2113 394

Elko Silver Ridge Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/19/1886 2113 396

Black Hills Salt Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 08/28/1886 2114 298

Gurley Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 08/28/1886 2114 296

General Dawson Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/19/1886 2113 398

Emery Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 2,500,000 05/22/1886 2113 459

George Hearst Gold and Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/19/1886 2113 407

Aqua Pura Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/22/1886 2113 453

Michigan Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/19/1886 2113 409

Wizard Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/19/1886 2113 411

Noble Oil Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 1,250,000 08/11/1886 2114 269

Dakota Oil Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/22/1886 2113 424

Pioneer Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/22/1886 2113 428

Shiloh Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 2,500,000 05/22/1886 2113 437

Capital Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/22/1886 2113 442

Petroleum Oil Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/22/1886 2113 444

Assumption Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 2,500,000 05/22/1886 2113 446

Friend In Need Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,000,000 01/13/1879 2104 42

Horseshoe Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 08/21/1886 2114 286

Kalamazoo Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 06/10/1886 2114 41

Chicago Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 2,500,000 07/06/1886 2114 153

Refugio Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 06/02/1886 2113 554

Red Flag Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/02/1886 2113 556

Clyde Hill Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,250,000 06/14/1886 2114 67

Geneva Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 06/14/1886 2114 65

Centre Shot Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 06/11/1886 2114 63

Union Hill Gold and Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/11/1886 2114 59

First Congregational Society of Deadwood Deadwood Lawrence 5 12/02/1878 2104 34

Chrysolite Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 3,000,000 06/10/1886 2114 54

Bear Butte Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 06/02/1886 2113 552

Bohemia Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/10/1886 2114 43

Fountain Oil Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/02/1886 2113 550

McDonnell Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 06/10/1886 2114 39

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Bismarck Oil Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/10/1886 2114 37

Amethyst Gold and Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,250,000 06/02/1886 2113 562

Niagara Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 2,500,000 06/02/1886 2113 564

Silver Queen Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/02/1886 2113 566

Black Hills Oil Company (Increase of Stock) Deadwood Lawrence 06/09/1886 2114 25

Deadwood and Crook City Wagon Road Deadwood Lawrence 3 09/08/1878 2104 16

Spruce Gulch Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 250,000 06/02/1886 2113 581

Logan Tunnel Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 2,500,000 06/07/1886 2114 9

Ithaca Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/02/1886 2113 583

Richland Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/10/1886 2114 45

Oxford Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 06/24/1886 2114 118

Bradford Oil Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,000,000 05/19/1886 2113 377

Prior Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 07/06/1886 2114 144

Big Owl Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 500,000 05/29/1886 2113 524

Fountain City Oil Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 07/03/1886 2114 139

Richmond Hill Consolidated Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/29/1886 2113 526

American Oil Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 3,000,000 05/29/1886 2113 528

Herkiner Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 06/28/1886 2114 133

New Discovery Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/28/1886 2114 131

Empire Consolidated Gold Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,000,000 12/26/1878 2104 40

Julia M. Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 600,000 06/14/1886 2114 74

Champagne Carbonate Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 2,500,000 05/29/1886 2113 535

Steard Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 07/06/1886 2114 151

Monumental Gold Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/24/1886 2114 116

Globe Lubricating Oil Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/21/1886 2114 111

Watertown Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 1,250,000 06/21/1886 2114 106

Leviathan Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/21/1886 2114 104

Centennial Coal Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 25,000 12/26/1878 2104 37

Lynchburg Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 06/02/1886 2113 546

Lower Level Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 06/19/1886 2114 91

Deadwood Stock Exchange Deadwood Lawrence 11 10,000 06/17/1886 2114 87

Brooklyn Gold and Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 06/17/1886 2114 85

Bonanza King Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 06/17/1886 2114 83

Pacific Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 4 1,250,000 05/29/1886 2113 530

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Anna Gold Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/13/1886 2113 203

Ruby Flat Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 235

Deadwood Oil Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/06/1886 2113 148

Mineral Hill Gold and Silver Company Deadwood Lawrence 6 1,250,000 05/06/1886 2113 150

Minna Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 1,250,000 05/06/1886 2113 156

Nickel Plate Gold and Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/06/1886 2113 158

Clara Nevada Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/06/1886 2113 160

Golconda Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/08/1886 2113 163

Hennatite Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/08/1886 2113 165

Hail Storm Gold Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/08/1886 2113 169

Homestake Oil Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/04/1886 2113 138

Carbonate Hill Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 1,500,000 05/08/1886 2113 191

Prior Hill Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/04/1886 2113 136

Elko Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 205

Wilkinson Consolidated Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/13/1886 2113 207

Belle Fourche Construction Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 150,000 05/13/1886 2113 209

Excelsior Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 211

Albe Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 215

General Merritt Gold & Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,000,000 05/30/1879 2104 100

Candela Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 221

Continental Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 223

Key West Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 231

Woodhull Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,250,000 05/19/1886 2113 382

Deadwood and Galena Wagon Road Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 5,000 01/24/1887 2115 3

Silver Reef Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/03/1886 2113 106

Tecumseh Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 03/03/1887 2115 137

Buckeye Gold and Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,500,000 04/27/1886 2113 73

Inter Ocean Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 250,000 04/27/1886 2113 75

Deadwood Gold and Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 250,000 04/30/1886 2113 77

Little Pittsburgh Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 250,000 04/30/1886 2113 79

Bear Butte & Elk Creek Water Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 100,000 08/21/1879 2104 125

O.K. Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,250,000 04/30/1886 2113 96

Manitoba Gold Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,000,000 03/04/1887 2115 110

National Gold and Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/01/1886 2113 100

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Vulcan Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 2,500,000 05/06/1886 2113 146

Silver King Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 500,000 05/03/1886 2113 104

S. and B. Stock Farm Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 250,000 12/13/1886 2114 501

U. S. Grant Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/03/1886 2113 110

Big Hill Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/03/1886 2113 112

Treasure Coach Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/03/1886 2113 114

Galena Exchange Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/04/1886 2113 120

El Refugio Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 100,000 06/21/1879 2104 109

General Crook Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/04/1886 2113 126

Lockport Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/04/1886 2113 128

Fearless Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/04/1886 2113 130

Rubicon Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 2,500,000 05/04/1886 2113 132

Humboldt Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/04/1886 2113 134

Eldorado Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/01/1886 2113 102

Star and Bullock Hardware Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 100,000 09/27/1886 2114 361

Howard Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 233

Pelican Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/14/1886 2113 307

Dakota and Wyoming Railroad Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,000,000 10/18/1886 2114 395

Pro Cache Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/14/1886 2113 311

Hester A. Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/14/1886 2113 313

Jo Craig Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/14/1886 2113 322

American Flag Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,250,000 05/14/1886 2113 324

Richmond Consolidated Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/14/1886 2113 326

Ross Hannibal Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/14/1886 2113 331

Montezuma Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/14/1886 2113 300

War Eagle Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/14/1886 2113 335

Goodenough Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 298

Globe Gold and Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,250,000 05/14/1886 2113 337

New Era Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,250,000 05/14/1886 2113 339

Bullion Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,250,000 05/14/1886 2113 341

Groff Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,000,000 10/14/1889 2119 505

Big Chief Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 2,500,000 05/14/1886 2113 345

Delhi Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/19/1886 2113 350

Bella Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/19/1886 2113 356

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Great Western Oil Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/19/1886 2113 359

Advance Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/19/1886 2113 373

Mumford Oil Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 500,000 03/03/1887 2115 139

Mikado Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/14/1886 2113 333

Silver Mountain Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 276

Homeward Bound Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 242

Alabama Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 244

Sterling Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 246

Collingwood Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/13/1886 2113 250

Eclipse Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 500,000 05/13/1886 2113 252

Condor Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 254

Dickinson Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,500,000 05/13/1886 2113 256

Silver Chief Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 264

Home Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 267

Inca Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/14/1886 2113 302

Castle Creek Hydraulic Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 4 100,000 05/22/1879 2104 93

Victory Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/19/1886 2113 379

Keokuk Mining and Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 1,250,0000 05/13/1886 2113 280

Lexington Hill Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 1,000,000 05/13/1886 2113 282

Trent Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 284

Mid-Summer Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/13/1886 2113 286

Black Hills and Wyoming Railroad Company (increase in stock) Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,700,000 11/15/1886 2114 438

Adelphi Extension Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,500,000 05/13/1886 2113 288

Pa-Ha Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 500,000 05/13/1886 2113 290

Panama Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 500,000 05/13/1886 2113 292

Victoria Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 294

Arjenta Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 296

Red Water & Belle Fourche Milling and Irrigating Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 10,000 05/27/1879 2104 95

Cheyenne River Bridge Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 2,000 01/17/1885 2111 166

Hartford Prospecting & Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 500,000 12/13/1881 2106 84

Ruby Wilkes Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/15/1888 2117 177

Bonanza Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 2,000,000 12/12/1881 2106 79

Black Hills Oil Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 100,000 01/09/1884 2109 401

Black Hills Electric Light Co. Deadwood Lawrence 3 50,000 01/09/1884 2109 403

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Queen Consolidated Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,000,000 01/17/1884 2109 415

Far West Gold & Silver Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,00,000 10/09/1881 2106 9

Deadwood & Wyoming Railroad Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,000,000 01/31/1884 2109 453

Sun Dance Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 250,000 12/30/1881 2106 100

Dakota Smelting Co. Deadwood Lawrence 7 500,000 10/28/1881 2106 30

Western Dakota Loan and Trust Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 100,000 04/03/1888 2117 60

Deadwood Opera House Association Deadwood Lawrence 5 10,000 01/12/1885 2111 152

Silver Ridge Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 250,000 01/06/1885 2111 141

Black Hills Flume and Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 100,000 11/01/1887 2116 278

Sand Creek Falls Hydraulic Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 3 750,000 10/14/1881 2106 19

Nigger Hill and Iron Creek Consolidated Hydraulic Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 4 2,500,000 05/23/1882 2107 6

Black Hills Northern Railroad Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 5,000,000 01/31/1884 2109 450

South Deadwood Carbonate Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 7 750,000 08/16/1881 2105 303

Black Hills Prospecting & Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 3 5,000,000 08/08/1883 2109 120

Deadwood Redwater Valley Railway Co. Deadwood Lawrence 7 1,200,000 03/19/1881 2105 113

Deadwood and Black Hills Railroad Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 500,000 09/21/1887 2116 189

West Yakua Silver Mining Co (certificate to increase capital) Deadwood Lawrence 3 3,000,000 08/24/1883 2109 152

South Deadwood Hose company Deadwood Lawrence 6 25,000 09/05/1883 2109 175

Excelsior Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 6 50,000 02/27/1885 2111 271

Union Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 07/10/1888 2117 303

Terry's Peak Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 5,000,000 10/11/1887 2116 232

Iron Creek Hydraulic Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,500,000 03/01/1882 2106 201

Minnesota Gold Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 9 2,000,000 12/21/1881 2106 87

Buckeye Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,000,000 01/27/1882 2106 149

Carbonate Mammoth Silver Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,000,000 02/04/1885 2111 214

Beas & Beavers Hydraulic Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,000,000 01/27/1882 2106 147

Minerva Gold Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,000,000 11/17/1883 2109 307

Convention Gold Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,000,000 10/05/1887 2116 219

Young Men's Christian Association of Deadwood Dakota Deadwood Lawrence 9 05/28/1888 2117 200

Deadwood and Black Hills Railroad Deadwood Lawrence 7 1,000,000 11/11/1887 2116 293

Penobseot Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,000,000 10/09/1881 2106 4

Franklin Silver & Gold Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 9 2,500,000 08/18/1881 2105 310

Comet Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,000,000 08/24/1881 2105 329

Black Hills Carbonate Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,500,000 08/22/1881 2105 321

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Iron Hill Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 08/20/1881 2105 319

Pioneer Publishing Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 5,000 12/06/1887 2116 340

Squaw Creek Silver Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 100,000 08/20/1881 2105 317

Deadwood Reduction Works Deadwood Lawrence 7 100,000 12/06/1887 2116 347

Globe Tin Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 4 1,000,000 03/17/1884 2110 80

Deadwood Flowing Well Co. Deadwood Lawrence 4 50,000 10/03/1884 2111 3

Ben Harrison Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 04/19/1889 2118 566

Eureka Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,000,000 08/12/1881 2105 296

Grey Eagle Copper Mining & Smelting Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,000,000 08/02/1884 2110 401

Granite Mountain Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 250,000 01/21/1888 2116 410

Deadwood Carbonate Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 625,000 08/08/1881 2105 298

Deadwood Consolidated Mining and Reduction Company Deadwood Lawrence 9 1,500,000 04/29/1889 2119 54

Giles & Dickinson Cattle Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 50,000 08/16/1884 2110 455

Black Hills Sportsman's Club Deadwood Lawrence 3 08/20/1884 2110 462

Atlas Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 15,000 10/06/1884 2111 16

Sand Creek Falls Hydraulic Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 3 500,000 09/12/1881 2105 381

Log Cabin Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 250,000 03/27/1888 2117 21

Silver Hill Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 9 1,250,000 12/11/1884 2111 118

Excelsior Miea Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 200,000 10/09/1881 2106 6

Mountain Peak Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 250,000 03/27/1888 2117 17

Welcome Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 250,000 05/14/1889 2119 91

Franklin Livestock Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 100,000 03/21/1888 2117 7

Deadwood Carbonate Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 873,000 09/27/1881 2105 394

Western Investment Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 100,000 05/04/1889 2119 74

Deadwood Driving Park Deadwood Lawrence 06/28/1881 2105 251

Golden Crown Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 500,000 05/08/1886 2113 171

Fort Meade Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 8 2,500,000 09/08/1881 2105 375

Mahan & Baird Cattle Company Deadwood Lawrence 4 100,000 04/18/1884 2110 164

Harney Hydraulic Gold Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 9 2,000,000 09/03/1881 2105 362

Ajax Mining Milling & Smelting Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 08/31/1881 2105 360

West Galena Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 500,000 08/30/1881 2105 352

Sinda Silver Mining & Smelting Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,000,000 08/29/1881 2105 349

Iron City Gold Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 9 200,000 03/25/1881 2105 122

Green Mountain Gold & Silver Mining and Milling Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 500,000 09/27/1881 2105 389

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Spring Creek Hydraulic & Quartz Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 100,000 10/29/1883 2109 273

Fairfield Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,250,000 12/03/1888 2118 137

Wacum Ditch & Flume Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 6,000,000 12/15/1880 2105 25

Bald Mountain Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 11/23/1888 2118 126

Ruby Basin Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 11/23/1888 2118 124

Black Hills Fair Association Deadwood Lawrence 5 10,000 05/26/1885 2111 546

Carbonate Flume Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,500,000 05/21/1885 2111 532

Sand Creek Water Power Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,000,000 08/04/1887 2116 64

Lew Wallace Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 1,250,000 10/16/1888 2118 60

Deadwood, Sturgis, and Chamberlain Railroad Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 250,000 11/20/1888 2118 117

Deadwood Light Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,000,000 12/10/1880 2105 21

Deadwood Bald Mountain Railroad Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 1,000,000 12/20/1888 2118 239

Empire Carbonate Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 750,000 03/09/1885 2111 295

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Deadwood Deadwood Lawrence 3 12/29/1880 2105 49

Chase Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 50,000 08/16/1882 2107 175

Ophir Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 500,000 05/07/1885 2111 475

Wyoming and Dakota Western Railroad Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,500,000 08/15/1887 2116 93

Black Hills Insurance Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 100,000 02/27/1883 2108 128

Barnes Gold Mining & Milling Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,000,000 10/12/1882 2107 259

Washington Consolidated Gold & Silver Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 600,000 11/05/1880 2105 11

Deadwood Gulch Hydraulic Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 3 500,000 10/03/1882 2107 254

Maggie Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 250,000 12/17/1888 2118 213

Harney Hydraulic Gold Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 10/23/1882 2107 276

Silver Coin Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 07/14/1887 2116 1

Western Investment Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 100,000 01/04/1889 2118 176

Deadwood Cattle Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 250,000 11/07/1882 2107 298

Deadwood and Gayville Toll road Co. Deadwood Lawrence 3 10,000 11/13/1882 2107 303

Deadwood Enterprise Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 750,000 12/11/1882 2107 331

Duluth Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,250,000 12/11/1888 2118 166

Wacum Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 3,000,000 12/15/1880 2105 23

Creston Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,250,000 12/11/1888 2118 164

Golden Summit Consolidated Gold Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,000,000 10/02/1882 2107 252

Mount Terry Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 11 1,250,000 12/11/1888 2118 156

Central City Deadwood & Eastern Railroad Extension of Road Deadwood Lawrence 12/04/1880 2105 17

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Peoples Gold Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 500,000 11/18/1882 2107 309

Caroline Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 12/04/1888 2118 146

Central City Deadwood Eastern Railroad Cert. of Increase of Cap. Stock Cert. Deadwood Lawrence 12/04/1880 2105 19

Deadwood and Cheyenne Railway Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 3,000,000 02/15/1883 2108 96

Lancaster Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 10/02/1880 2104 388

Whitewood and Wyoming Railroad Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 100,000 09/10/1888 2118 16

Diamond Queen Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 10 1,250,000 01/19/1889 2118 294

Marmaduke Gold and Silver Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,250,000 01/15/1889 2118 285

Inter-Mountain Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 2,500,000 01/19/1889 2118 298

Cleveland Tin Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 2,000,000 08/15/1887 2116 95

Deadwood Street Railroad Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 250,000 08/20/1888 2117 537

National Gold Mining & Milling Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 200,000 02/04/1881 2105 91

Singapore Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 01/21/1889 2118 303

Eureka Lodge No. 13 I.O.O.F. Deadwood Lawrence 3 04/10/1885 2111 390

Gustin Belt Gold Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 14,000 07/28/1882 2107 124

Black Hills Railroad Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,000,000 02/11/1881 2105 94

H.O.W. Copper Mining & Smelting Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 500,000 04/05/1883 2108 223

Equitable Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 7 1,250,000 08/27/1888 2117 558

Horseshoe Comet Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 6 1,250,000 08/31/1887 2116 145

Deadwood Pioneer Hook and Ladder Company of Deadwood Deadwood Lawrence 4 08/13/1888 2117 492

Black Hills Lumber Co. Deadwood Lawrence 3 10,000 03/13/1883 2108 164

Monitor Gold Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 500,000 06/30/1883 2109 59

Nigger Hill Consolidated Hydraulic Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 3 2,500,000 06/24/1882 2107 63

Dakota and Wyoming Railroad Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,000,000 01/24/1889 2118 309

Mutual Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,000,000 03/24/1885 2111 352

Sheridan Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 08/29/1888 2118 1

Small Hopes Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 250,000 01/12/1889 2118 271

Deadwood Central Railroad Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,000,000 08/20/1888 2117 533

New La Plata Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 1,250,000 08/18/1887 2116 106

Phil Sheridan Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 3 1,250,000 01/15/1889 2118 275

Uncle Sam Gold Mining Company Deadwood Lawrence 5 500,000 04/21/1885 2111 433

Segregated Iron Hill Mining Co. Deadwood Lawrence 5 2,500,000 04/21/1885 2111 431

Deadwood & Central City Toll Road Deadwood Lawrence 3 10,000 07/20/1882 2107 101

First Presbyterian Church of Dell Rapids Dell Rapids Minnehaha 3 09/13/1880 2104 370

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Dell Rapids Bank Dell Rapids Minnehaha 3 25,000 08/02/1884 2110 413

First Baptist Church of Dell Rapids Dell Rapids Minnehaha 4 09/24/1879 2104 152

Good Templars Benefit Association of Dakota Dell Rapids Minnehaha 6 08/16/1886 2114 276

Granite City Bank Dell Rapids Minnehaha 7 100,000 07/13/1889 2119 275

Dell Rapids Granite Company Dell Rapids Minnehaha 5 50,000 03/11/1889 2118 439

Vermont Stone Company Dell Rapids Minnehaha 7 100,000 10/12/1888 2118 58

Scandanavian Pilgrim Baptist Church of Dell Rapids Dell Rapids Minnehaha 3 12/20/1886 2114 530

Dell Rapids Creamery Company Dell Rapids Minnehaha 9 5,000 12/09/1886 2114 488

Stordals Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church Dell Rapids Minnehaha 3 11/08/1886 2114 422

Codington Congregational Church of Dell Rapids Dell Rapids Minnehaha 3 06/18/1881 2105 239

Dell Rapids Roller Mill Company Dell Rapids Minnehaha 3 25,000 08/19/1889 2119 380

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Dell Rapids Dell Rapids Minnehaha 3 07/29/1880 2104 334

Dell Rapids Cheese Company Dell Rapids Minnehaha 5 2,000 02/15/1886 2112 380

Dell Rapids Elevator Company Dell Rapids Minnehaha 5 8,000 07/30/1887 2116 48

People's Bank of Dell Rapids Dell Rapids Minnehaha 5 10,000 05/14/1884 2110 221

Delmont Farmers Association Delmont Douglas 7 3,000 08/17/1888 2117 523

Kingsbury County Agricultural Society DeSmet Kingsbury 7 10,000 09/03/1881 2105 366

Leaders Publishing Company DeSmet Kingsbury 5 5,000 01/17/1883 2108 68

First Methodist Church DeSmet Kingsbury 3 07/07/1884 2110 343

DeSmet Banking Company DeSmet Kingsbury 3 100,000 10/07/1889 2119 491

DeSmet Driving Park Association DeSmet Kingsbury 5 5,000 07/02/1884 2110 337

Kingsbury County Abstract Company DeSmet Kingsbury 5 5,000 02/13/1888 2116 476

DeSmet Driving Park and Agriculture Association DeSmet Kingsbury 5 2,000 10/06/1888 2118 47

First Baptist Church of DeSmet DeSmet Kingsbury 3 02/12/1884 2109 468

DeSmet Cornet Band Association DeSmet Kingsbury 9 2,000 08/08/1884 2110 442

Sioux Falls DeSmet and Northern Railway Company DeSmet Kingsbury 13 5,000,000 06/08/1888 2117 250

St. Thomas Aguinas Roman Catholic Church of DeSmet DeSmet Kingsbury 4 03/10/1887 2115 100

Farmers Shipping Association of DeSmet (Increase in Stock) DeSmet Kingsbury 5 10,000 07/09/1887 2115 573

Kingsbury County Farm Mortgage Co. DeSmet Kingsbury 6 100,000 02/02/1886 2112 368

DeSmet Hotel Company DeSmet Kingsbury 5 10,000 05/07/1887 2115 333

DeSmet Cheese and Butter Company DeSmet Kingsbury 5 2,000 04/29/1887 2115 305

DeSmet Cemetery Association DeSmet Kingsbury 5 08/08/1881 2105 284

Dakota Democrat Publishing Co. DeSmet Kingsbury 5 1,000 03/03/1886 2112 404

First Congregational Church of DeSmet DeSmet Kingsbury 3 11/10/1880 2105 13

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Kingsbury County Bank DeSmet Kingsbury 8 50,000 12/12/1885 2112 287

Farmers Shipping Association of DeSmet DeSmet Kingsbury 5 1,200 10/09/1884 2111 20

Historical & Scientific Association of Kingsbury County DeSmet Kingsbury 5 11/28/1884 2111 86

Detroit Methodist Episcopal Church Detroit Brown 5 09/29/1883 2109 219

Detroit Townsite Company of Brown County Detroit Brown 4 20,000 05/12/1884 2110 226

Ramsey County Breeders Association Devils Lake Ramsey 3 5,000 04/21/1888 2117 114

St. Olaf Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Devils Lake Dakota Devils Lake Ramsey 4 05/12/1887 2115 317

Dakota and Eastern Mortgage Company (increase of stock) Devils Lake Ramsey 7-15 100,000 06/05/1888 2117 224

Dakota and Eastern Mortgage Company Devils Lake Ramsey 7-15 50,000 11/16/1886 2114 446

Lakeview Hotel Co. Devils Lake Ramsey 3 20,000 01/18/1884 2109 423

Devils Lake Creamery Company Devils Lake Ramsey 5 5,000 05/02/1888 2117 139

Bank of Devils Lake Devils Lake Ramsey 3 25,000 06/12/1883 2109 25

Fargo, Devils Lake and Turtle Mountain Railroad Company Devils Lake Ramsey 6 3,000,000 08/07/1886 2114 260

Citizens Association Devils Lake Ramsey 5 5,000 05/25/1889 2119 120

North Shore Secured Investment Company of Devils Lake Dakota Devils Lake Ramsey 3-5 50,000 12/04/1886 2114 478

Devils Lake Mill Company Devils Lake Ramsey 3 25,000 04/13/1888 2117 97

Devils Lake Building and Loan Association Devils Lake Ramsey 10 500,000 04/10/1888 2117 79

Westminster Presbyterian Church of Devils Lake Devils Lake Ramsey 3 11/02/1883 2109 296

Crofton Lodge No. 16 Independent Order of Odd Fellows Devils Lake Ramsey 3 03/08/1884 2110 38

Farmers Alliance of Ramsey Devils Lake Ramsey 5 5,000 11/07/1887 2116 285

First Baptist Church of Devils Lake City Devils Lake city Ramsey 3 12/01/1883 2109 332

Diana Repair and Manufacturing Company Diana Sanborn 5 1,400 11/13/1886 2114 433

Diana Farmers Warehouse Company Diana Sanborn 7 5,000 07/05/1887 2115 567

Cemetery Association of Diana Diana Sanborn 8 07/29/1886 2114 209

Sanborn County Agricultural Society and Driving Park Association Diana Sanborn 5 10,000 08/02/1884 2110 395

First Presbyterian Church of Diana Diana Sanborn 3 09/22/1884 2110 520

Dickenson Cemetery Association Dickinson Stark 5 10/10/1887 2116 224

First Congregational Church of Dickinson Dickinson Stark 3-9 08/31/1887 2116 142

First Presbyterian Church of Dickinson Dickinson Stark 3 06/28/1889 2119 226

First Baptist Church of Dickinson Dickinson Stark 3 07/10/1883 2109 73

New Hope Cemetery Association Dixon (twp) Hamlin 3-11 05/27/1889 2119 123

Doland Creamery Association Doland Spink 5 03/30/1888 2117 35

Doland Cemetery Association Doland Spink 5 02/23/1886 2112 394

Bank of Doland Doland Spink 5 33,000 03/19/1886 2112 448

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Western Town Mortgage Company of Doland Doland Spink 5 100,000 07/31/1886 2114 220

Ancient Order of United Workmen Building Association of Doland (reduction in Doland Spink 3 2,500 09/10/1888 2118 12

Farmers Elevator Company Doland Spink 5 7,500 04/20/1885 2111 406

Ancient Order of United Workman Building Association Doland Spink 3 5,000 04/09/1888 2117 75

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Doland Doland Spink 4 09/29/1883 2109 217

Doland Publishing Company Doland Spink 5 600 02/24/1887 2115 76

Congregational Church of Dover Dover McCook 3 01/10/1883 2108 47

Drayton Methodist Episcopal Church Drayton Pembina 3 01/29/1881 2105 81

First Bank of Drayton Drayton Pembina 4 50,000 08/16/1887 2116 97

Rolette County Bank Dunseith Rolette 5 25,000 10/31/1889 2119 562

Turtle Mountain Coal and Land Company Dunseith Rolette 7 200,000 06/21/1884 2110 312

Congregational Church of Christ in Dwight Dwight Richland 5 12/20/1887 2116 372

Farmers Warehouse Association of Dwight Dwight Richland 5 5,000 07/09/1889 2119 259

Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Wild Rice Dwight Twp. Richland 3 01/22/1885 2111 182

Egan Cemetery Association Eagan Moody 5 03/23/1885 2111 346

Evangelical Christian Church of Eagle Twp, Richland County Eagle (twp) Richland 3 07/10/1889 2119 266

East Choteau Methodist Episcopal Church East Choteau T Douglas 5 04/10/1885 2111 409

Congregational Church of Eden, County of Lincoln Eden Lincoln 3-9 08/02/1889 2119 321

First Presbyterian Church of Edgeley Edgeley LaMoure Not Listed 07/18/1888 2117 427

Edgeley Town Hall Association Edgeley LaMoure 3 1,500 06/05/1888 2117 226

Bank of Edgeley Edgeley Edmunds 3+ 25,000 03/25/1887 2115 191

Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church of Edgeley Edgeley LaMoure Not Listed 06/05/1888 2117 228

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Edinburgh Edinburgh Walsh Not Listed 09/15/1888 2117 507

Norway Edison Twp. Minnehaha 3 03/14/1884 2110 72

Edmond Cemetery Association Edmond Kingsbury 5 07/23/1885 2112 99

Farmers Egan Elevator Company Egan Moody 5 7,500 09/29/1887 2116 194

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Egan Egan Moody 3 06/07/1881 2105 221

First Congregational Church of Egan Egan Moody 3 01/18/1882 2106 131

Egan Union Tow Mill co. Egan Moody 5 4,000 11/06/1884 2111 40

Holland Christian Reform Church of Overysel Egerton Signal T Chas. Mix 4 04/07/1886 2112 512

St. Olafs Norck Evangeliske Lutherske Meuighed Eldorado Traill 3 02/15/1888 2116 454

Waw Beck Mining Company Elk Mountain Lawrence 5 2,500,000 09/28/1887 2116 203

First Regular Baptist Church of Elk Point Union co. Elk Point Union 5 01/13/1880 2104 190

Roman Catholic Church of St. Joseph Elk Point Union 3 07/25/1884 2110 389

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Elk Point Opera House Company Elk Point Union 8 2,000 01/17/1887 2114 566

Union County Bank Elk Point Union 3 10,000 03/08/1884 2110 56

St. Joseph's Church of Elk Point Elk Point Union 5 03/02/1880 2104 216

Elk Point Building and Loan Association Elk Point Union 7 500,000 10/18/1889 2119 529

Elk Point Creamery Company Elk Point Union 3 5,000 02/19/1883 2108 112

Elk Point Cemetery Association Elk Point Union 7 09/26/1879 2104 156

First Presbyterian Church of Elkmount Elkmount (twp) Grand Forks 3-11 06/18/1886 2114 160

Bank of Elkton Elkton Brookings 5 25,000 05/12/1884 2110 216

Elkton Methodist Episcopal Church Elkton Brookings Not Listed 09/15/1887 2116 170

Elkton Stock Breeders Association Elkton Brookings 5 1,500 03/18/1889 2118 449

Farmers Mutual Alliance Aid Association Elkton Brookings 7 04/30/1885 2111 456

Elkton Farmer's alliance Warehouse Co. Elkton Brookings 7 07/12/1885 2112 68

First Regular Baptist Church of Elkton Elkton Brookings 3 08/29/1885 2112 172

Elkwood Presbyterian Church Elkwood Cavalier 5 05/14/1887 2115 344

Baptist Church of Ellendale Ellendale Dickey 3 04/10/1885 2111 376

First Presbyterian Church of Ellendale Ellendale Dickey 3 07/13/1883 2109 84

Elkendale Land Company Ellendale Dickey 4 10,000 06/11/1883 2109 16

Ellendale and Wahpeton Railroad Co. Ellendale Dickey 13 250,000 07/19/1882 2107 97

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Ellendale Ellendale Dickey 3 08/27/1883 2109 157

Ellendale Library Association Ellendale Dickey 7 01/22/1883 2108 77

Ellendale Mill company Ellendale Dickey 5 90,000 04/13/1889 2118 547

Ellendale Building and Loan Association Ellendale Dickey 7 100,000 12/20/1886 2114 521

Dickey County Bank Ellendale Dickey 3 25,000 12/07/1882 2107 325

Ellendale Board of Trade Ellendale Dickey 5 08/02/1884 2110 410

Immanuel Church of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Ellendale Dickey 05/04/1886 2113 141

St. Helena's Roman Catholic Church of Ellendale Ellendale Dickey 5 05/09/1889 2118 542

Ellendale Cemetery Association Ellendale Dickey 3 12/07/1882 2107 328

Amdahl Church of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Ellendale Dickey 3 05/04/1886 2113 122

Security Bank Ellendale Dickey 3 25,000 12/08/1884 2111 100

Ellendale Creamery Association Ellendale Dickey 7 5,000 02/01/1888 2116 427

Pioneer Milling Company Ellendale Dickey 3 15,000 05/31/1884 2110 262

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Elliott Elliott Ransom Not Listed 11/22/1886 2114 452

Ellisville Coal Company Ellisville Faulk 3 20,000 08/17/1886 2114 279

Elm Grove Ditch Company Elm Grove Custer 3 2,000 03/07/1883 2108 153

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Congregational Church of Elrod, County of Clark Elrod Clark 3-9 12/13/1888 2118 182

German Evangelical Lutheran St. Johns Church Elvira Pembina 3 07/11/1888 2117 292

German Close Communion Baptist Church of Emanuel Creek Emanuel Creek Bon Homme 3 12/28/1886 2114 539

State Bank of Emerado Emerado Grand Forks 9 11/04/1889 2119 576

Emerado Cemetery Association Emerado Grand Forks 6 01/21/1888 2116 403

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Emerado Emerado Grand forks Per Discipli 08/21/1889 2119 371

Presbyterian Church at Emery Emery Hanson 3 12/11/1884 2111 115

Roman Catholic Church of St. Martin of Emery Emery Hanson 3 02/27/1885 2111 258

Congregational Church of Emery Emery Hanson 3 11/13/1884 2111 59

Erwin Cemetery Association Erwin Kingsbury 5 04/16/1883 2108 237

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Esmond Esmond Kingsbury 3 08/26/1885 2112 171

Farmers Shipping Company of Esmond Dakota Esmond Kingsbury 9 8,000 03/19/1888 2116 573

Congregational Church of Esmond Esmond Kingsbury 3 01/22/1887 2115 1

First Presbyterian Church of Estelline Estelline Hamlin 3-11 02/23/1887 2115 73

Hamlin County Fair Association Estelline Hamlin 3 100 09/13/1883 2109 189

Farmers Creamery Association Estelline Hamlin 3 2,500 10/28/1889 2119 547

First Baptist Church of Estelline Estelline Hamlin 3 10/08/1883 2109 228

Estelline Cemetery Association Estelline Hamlin 3 06/02/1886 2113 572

First Methodist Episcopal Ethan, Davison Dakota Ethan Davison Not Listed 04/22/1887 2115 124

German Baptist Church of Eureka Eureka McPherson 3-9 09/22/1888 2118 29

German Implement Company Eureka McPherson 4 6,000 02/21/1889 2118 397

Eureka Gas Company Eureka Sanborn 5 25,000 04/17/1888 2117 103

Fairbank Investment Company Fairbank Sully 3 12,000 09/03/1884 2110 485

Fairbank Townsite Company Fairbank Sully 7 100,000 10/13/1883 2109 245

Fairburn Farmers Alliance Company Fairburn Custer 5 100,000 04/05/1889 2118 500

Fairview Cemetery Association Fairview Twp. Lincoln 3 01/20/1882 2106 134

Church of Grace Fairview Twp. Lincoln 3 05/30/1883 2108 337

Fargo Building Association Fargo Cass 10/24/1885 2112 225

Chamber of Commerce of City of Fargo Fargo Cass 13 03/03/1883 2108 143

Fargo Building Association Fargo Cass 11 600,000 03/27/1880 2104 250

Fargo Stone Company Fargo Cass 11/06/1882 2107 294

Fargo Brick & Tile Company Fargo Cass 5 20,000 03/08/1881 2105 109

Dakota Milling Company Fargo Cass 3-11 10,000 06/11/1887 2115 462

Fargo Improvement Company Fargo Cass 5 250,000 05/12/1882 2106 328

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Northern Associated Press Fargo Cass 11 200,000 08/08/1882 2107 159

Fargo Hotel Co. Fargo Cass 7 100,000 04/12/1883 2108 228

Fargo Roller Mills Fargo Cass 3 300,000 03/10/1883 2108 155

Aurora Farming Company Fargo Cass 7 50,000 09/13/1882 2107 206

Ohuer Wilson Furniture Company Fargo Cass 5 60,000 03/31/1883 2108 205

Gethsemane Episcopal Parish Fargo Cass 9 04/18/1883 2108 259

Fargo Palace Hotel Co. Fargo Cass 5 300,000 04/18/1882 2106 279

Red River Mining Company Fargo Cass 5 07/14/1886 2114 166

Chamber of Commerce of Fargo Fargo Cass 03/19/1883 2108 174

Red River University Fargo Cass 11 01/25/1881 2105 76

Fargo Cooperative Sash, Door, and Blind Association Fargo Cass 10 20,000 07/08/1887 2115 571

Aurora Farming Company Fargo Cass 10/11/1882 2107 258

Fargo Roller Mills Fargo Cass 03/27/1883 2108 201

Fargo Gas Light & Coke Company Fargo Cass 3 100,000 09/10/1883 2109 183

Fargo Cast Wheel & Iron Works Co. Fargo Cass 04/06/1882 2106 272

New North West Land & Loan Company Fargo Cass 3 50,000 11/01/1882 2107 289

Fargo Improvement Company Fargo Cass 06/19/1882 2107 62

Traill County Mining and Improvement Company Fargo Cass 9 1,000,000 06/18/1886 2114 89

Northwestern Trust Company Fargo Cass 3 50,000 05/21/1883 2108 306

Fargo Lumber Company Fargo Cass 5 100,000 01/27/1883 2108 59

Fargo Stone Company Fargo Cass 3 50,000 09/23/1882 2107 239

Conservative Insurance Company Fargo Cass 3 250,000 03/13/1885 2111 307

Dakota Land Company Fargo Cass 3 25,000 12/27/1882 2108 16

Fargo Paper Mill Fargo Cass 7 150,000 07/20/1882 2107 104

Producers Exchange Fargo Cass 3 10,000 11/14/1888 2118 95

Fargo & Moorhead Telephone Exchange Co. Fargo Cass 5 5,000 12/27/1880 2105 46

Monson Natural Gas Company Fargo Cass 5 50,000 05/26/1886 2113 494

Argus Printing Co. of Fargo Fargo Cass 5 60,000 05/28/1885 2111 555

Farmer's Trust Company Fargo Cass 3 35,000 10/01/1885 2112 207

North Dakota Coal Economizing Company Fargo Cass 5 10,000 06/11/1886 2114 61

Fargo Columbia & Missouri River Rail Road Co. Fargo Cass 6 4,800,000 04/02/1880 2104 254

Fargo Library Association Fargo Cass 9 12/11/1882 2107 337

North Dakota Non-Partisan Prohibition Alliance Fargo Cass 9 250,000 06/13/1889 2119 187

Fargo Loan Agency Fargo Cass 5 100,000 06/27/1887 2115 526

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Fargo Construction Company Fargo Cass 3 420,000 04/28/1883 2108 270

Fargo Lumber Company Fargo Cass 02/23/1883 2108 115

Fargo Water & Steam Co. Fargo Cass 6 75,000 08/12/1880 2104 350

Fargo Savings & Loan Association Fargo Cass 5 250,000 11/16/1882 2107 308

Dakota Bankers Association Fargo Cass 11 1,000 02/18/1881 2105 94

Eastern Dakota Railroad Fargo Cass 5 1,500,000 12/19/1882 2108 10

Fargo & Southwestern Railway Co. Fargo Cass 5 4,000,000 08/20/1881 2105 326

Fargo Laramie Northern Railway Co. Fargo Cass 7 1,000,000 01/31/1884 2109 456

Fargo Insurance Co. Fargo Cass 11 100 12/23/1880 2105 36

Fargo Missouri River and Pacific Railroad Company Fargo Cass 8 8,000,000 05/02/1884 2110 236

Fargo Electric Light & Power Co. Fargo Cass 3 30,000 11/08/1881 2106 47

Northwestern Electric Light Heat & Power Co. Fargo Cass 3 100,000 11/21/1881 2106 56

North Dakota University Fargo Cass 9 05/19/1881 2105 185

Masonic Temple Association of City of Fargo Fargo Cass 7 50,000 12/01/1881 2106 70

Yexa(?) Hose Company Fargo Cass 3 10,000 05/03/1886 2113 108

St. Marks Evangelical Lutheran Church Fargo Cass 5-12 06/11/1887 2115 268

Milbank Kibby & Tower City Rail Road Co. Fargo Cass 8 200,000 11/21/1881 2106 72

Fargo Electric Light & Power Co. Fargo Cass 12/08/1881 2106 76

Fargo Opera House Association Fargo Cass 7 50,000 12/08/1881 2106 77

Duluth Fargo & Black Hills Railway Co. Fargo Cass 11 1,000,000 03/08/1884 2110 59

Fargo Insurance Company Fargo Cass 05/09/1881 2105 167

Thompson Farm Company Fargo Cass 5 50,000 03/21/1888 2117 9

Dakota Pharmaceutical Association Fargo Cass 8 12/13/1886 2114 503

Shiloh Lodge A.F.& A. M. of Fargo Fargo Cass 3 01/09/1885 2111 149

Fargo Republican Company Fargo Cass 5 25,000 04/23/1881 2105 147

First Skandinavian Baptist Church of Fargo, Dakota Territory Fargo Cass 3 02/26/1888 2116 462

Nordstjesnen Publishing Co. Fargo Cass 5 5,000 03/29/1882 2106 269

Plymouth Congregational Church of Fargo Fargo Cass 3-9 12/20/1886 2114 527

Fargo Incandescent Light Company Fargo Cass 5 100,000 04/06/1888 2117 65

Fargo Land & Trust Company Fargo Cass 5 100,000 01/18/1881 2106 54

Fargo College Fargo Cass 11 03/28/1888 2117 26

Dakota Light & Fuel Co. Fargo Cass 9 50,000 04/14/1886 2112 532

Norwegian Danish Pantapasidan Evangelical Lutheran Church Fargo Cass 3 01/23/1880 2104 198

Fargo Agricultural Society Fargo Cass 9 10,000 05/21/1881 2105 192

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Fargo Gas Light Co. Fargo Cass 10/31/1881 2106 34

Fargo Street Railway Company Fargo Cass 11 10,000 08/25/1881 2105 340

South Dakota Mission Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church Fargo Cass 7 02/21/1887 2115 61

Dakota Guaranty Savings Bank Fargo Cass 7 25,000 03/04/1887 2115 98

Fargo Gas Light & Fuel Co. Fargo Cass 11 50,000 10/17/1881 2106 27

Mutual Telephone Company Fargo Cass 3 30,000 11/01/1883 2109 282

Fargo Gas Wheel & Iron Works Co. Fargo Cass 7 100,000 03/16/1882 2106 244

Fargo Gas and Electric Company Fargo Cass 4 250,000 03/19/1889 2118 395

Fargo Loan Agency (increase of stock) Fargo Cass 5 5,000,000 09/26/1889 2119 461

First Baptist Church of Fargo Fargo Cass 3 08/09/1881 2105 288

Kissner Hotel Company Fargo Cass 7 40,000 04/19/1887 2115 255

Red River Valley Life and Accident Benefit Association Fargo Cass 5 02/17/1882 2106 188

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Fargo Fargo Cass 02/18/1882 2106 179

Dakota Light and Fuel Company Fargo Cass 04/26/1886 2113 65

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Fargo Fargo Cass 5 02/01/1882 2106 157

Dakota Lumber Company Fargo Cass 3 10,000 09/08/1881 2105 377

Dakota Telephone Company Fargo Cass 3 50,000 11/01/1883 2109 280

Rector Mining Company Fargo Cass 5 500,000 03/05/1887 2115 148

North Dakota Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church Fargo Cass 7 11/28/1887 2116 326

Minnesota and Dakota Railway Company Fargo Cass 9 5,500,000 10/04/1887 2116 214

Minnesota and Dakota Railway Company (Change of Direction in Rail Line) Fargo Cass 10/10/1887 2116 231

Democrat Publishing Co. Fargo Cass 3 3,500 01/04/1884 2109 399

Young Men's Christian Association Fargo Cass 5 10/29/1886 2114 409

Fargo & Northwestern Railway Co. Fargo Cass 12 500,000 08/25/1881 2105 334

St. Joseph Convent Presentation Order of Fargo Fargo Cass 3 12/27/1883 2109 370

Fargo & Southern Railway Company Fargo Cass 13 100,000 06/25/1881 2105 248

Farmers Mutual Benefit Fargo Cass 3 11/27/1883 2109 318

Farmers Trust Company Fargo Cass 3-7 35,000 10/15/1887 2116 239

Congregational Church of Fargo Fargo Cass 3 12/30/1881 2106 98

Fargo and Northern Railroad Company Fargo Cass 9 100,000 04/19/1886 2113 20

Argus Company Fargo Cass 3 100,000 05/08/1881 2105 305

Fargo and Southern Elevator Company Fargo Cass 5 50,000 08/02/1884 2110 405

Presbyterian of Faris Dakota Territory Faris Edmunds 3-11 01/08/1889 2118 278

Congregational Church of Faulkton Faulkton Faulk 3 01/26/1884 2109 431

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Dakota Land Improvement Company Faulkton Faulk 4 5,000 12/26/1882 2108 12

Faulk County Agricultural Association Faulkton Faulk 7 10,000 07/03/1885 2112 84

Aberdeen Faulkton and South Western Railway Company Faulkton Faulk 6 750,000 04/15/1887 2115 290

Faulkton Building and Loan Association Faulkton Faulk 14 500,000 05/14/1887 2115 342

Faulk County Abstract Company Faulkton Faulk 4 10,000 02/23/1889 2118 401

Faulkton Creamery of Faulkton Faulkton Faulk 11 5,000 05/10/1888 2117 166

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Faulkton Faulkton Faulk 9 05/28/1888 2117 204

First Southern Trinity Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church Fertile Walsh 3-9 07/14/1886 2114 168

Flandreau Creamery Company Flandreau Moody 8 5,000 03/14/1888 2116 560

Bank of Flandreau (Decrease in Capitol Stock) Flandreau Moody 20,000 12/18/1885 2112 298

Southern District Pharmaceutical Association Flandreau Moody 5 03/15/1887 2115 164

Flandreau Building Association Flandreau Moody 5 1,000 04/25/1881 2105 139

Bank of Flandreau Flandreau Moody 7 50,000 05/19/1883 2108 303

Second Presbyterian Church of Flandreau Flandreau Moody 3 08/31/1880 2104 368

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Flandreau Flandreau Moody 3 07/29/1880 2104 331

Flandreau Library Association Flandreau Moody 7 03/14/1883 2108 168

Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Flandreau Flandreau Moody 3 09/29/1882 2107 246

Moody County Agricultural Association Flandreau Moody 6 03/31/1883 2108 202

Roman Catholic Church of Sts. Simon & Jude in Flandreau Flandreau Moody 4 03/08/1884 2110 43

Farmer & Merchants Grain & Elevator Co. Flandreau Moody 5 2,000 11/04/1885 2112 236

Bank of Forest City Forest City Potter 5 50,000 04/21/1887 2115 275

Forest City & Watertown Railroad Forest City Potter 11 800,000 04/07/1886 2112 510

Forest City and Watertown Railroad Company at Forest City Forest City Potter 12/01/1887 2116 329

Forest City and Southeastern Railroad Company Forest City Potter 9 4,000,000 03/23/1888 2117 13

Forest City Land and Improvement Company Forest City Potter 7 300,000 04/20/1889 2119 29

Forest City and Sioux City Railroad Company Forest City Potter 7 5,000,000 04/16/1889 2118 549

Forest City Milling Company Forest City Potter 7 50,000 09/22/1887 2116 191

Bismarck and Missouri River Railroad Company Forest City Potter 5 10,000,000 03/14/1888 2116 558

Potter County Agricultural Society Forest City Potter 11 09/13/1884 2110 501

First Presbyterian Society of Forest River Forest River Grand Forks 3 01/26/1879 2104 180

Dakota River View Cemetery Forestburg Sanborn 5 03/29/1886 2112 487

First Congregational Church of Forman Forman Sargent 3-9 01/14/1889 2118 257

First Evangelical Lutheran Church of Fort Abercrombie Fort Abercromb Richland 3 12/13/1886 2114 499

First Congregational Church Society of Abercrombie Fort Abercromb Richland 3 04/10/1886 2112 527

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Retrieve Silver Mining Company Fort Buford Hutchinson 3 100,000 05/01/1888 2117 132

Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Congregation of the Unaltered Augsburg Confessio Foster (twp) Beadle 3 03/27/1889 2118 477

Fountain Townsite and Land Company Fountain Brookings 5 50,000 05/10/1879 2104 84

Roman Catholic Church of St, Ann of Frankfort Frankfort Spink 3 04/16/1884 2110 151

Farmers Elevator and Warehouse Frankfort Spink 7 10,000 07/29/1887 2116 42

Frankfort Methodist Episcopal Church Frankfort Spink Not Listed 01/14/1889 2118 277

Advent Christian Church of Frankfort Frankfort Spink 3 12/11/1888 2118 168

Frankfort Building and Loan Corporation Frankfort Spink 9 200,000 04/16/1886 2113 9

Frankfort & East Valley Railroad Company Frankfort Spink 6 1,000,000 01/04/1884 2109 391

Congregational Church of Frankfort Frankfort Spink 3 09/28/1883 2109 211

Frederick Board of Trade Frederick Brown 7 10,000 10/21/1884 2111 32

Frederick Mill Co. (Increase In Capitol Stock) Frederick Brown 20,000 12/14/1885 2112 290

First Presbyterian Church of Fredrick Frederick Brown 3 08/17/1883 2109 136

Ordway Frederick & Bismarck Railroad Co. Frederick Brown 7 250,000 05/08/1883 2108 288

Bank of Frederick Frederick Brown 5 25,000 12/01/1886 2114 462

Farmers Elevator Company of Frederick Frederick Brown 7 5,000 06/24/1887 2115 511

St. Frederick Roman Catholic Church at Frederick Frederick Brown 4 04/17/1889 2118 479

Frederick Methodist Episcopal Church Frederick Brown 5 04/20/1885 2111 426

Frederick Farmers Alliance Frederick Brown 7 5,000 03/30/1888 2117 33

Frederick Mill Company Frederick Brown 7 12,000 10/05/1885 2112 209

Dakota Farmer Elevator Co Freeman Hutchinson 9 5,000 03/30/1886 2112 490

German Evangelical Lutheran St. Paul's Congregation Unaltered Augsburg Confe Freeman Hutchinson 3-9 01/26/1889 2118 323

Webster Chapel of Ramsey County Freshwater (tw Ramsey 4 06/30/1888 2117 334

German Free Evangelical Church of Friedenthal Friedenthal Hutchinson 3-9 07/19/1886 2114 185

German Evangelical Lutheran Church of Friedeusthal Dakota Friedeusthal Bon Homme 3 05/31/1887 2115 416

Ft. Thomas Improvement Company Ft. Thomas Pembina 5 30,000 03/24/1883 2108 189

Galena Smelting Company Galena Lawrence 5 50,000 05/07/1887 2115 332

Bank of Galena Galena Lawrence 5 10,000 11/08/1886 2114 420

Spring Hill Cemetery Association Gann Valley Buffalo 3 12/13/1888 2118 172

Garden City Methodist Episcopal Church Garden City Clark Not Listed 07/28/1888 2117 418

Deuel County Bank Gary Deuel 3 or 5 50,000 10/08/1888 2118 51

Cemetery Association Deuel County Gary Deuel 5 08/11/1882 2107 173

Deuel County Agricultural Society Gary Deuel 3 07/18/1884 2110 364

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Gary Gary Deuel 3 06/14/1882 2107 50

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Gary Mill Company Gary Deuel 5 2,000 12/27/1880 2105 43

Farmers Produce and Fuel Company of Gary Gary Deuel 5 1,000 04/07/1887 2115 231

First Presbyterian Church of Gary Gary Deuel 3 10/08/1883 2109 232

Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Tabor Congregation Georgia Grant 3-11 05/08/1886 2113 173

Germantown Presbyterian Church of Dakota German Town Turner 3 09/06/1886 2114 326

Congregational Church of Gettysburg Gettysburg Potter 3 07/27/1885 2112 212

Gettysburg Cemetery Association Gettysburg Potter 5 125 10/19/1886 2114 403

First Methodist Episcopal Church Gettysburg Potter Not listed 05/28/1887 2115 406

First Baptist Church of Gettysburg Gettysburg Potter Not Listed 11/05/1887 2116 282

Potter County Farmers Elevator Company Gettysburg Potter 9 1,500 08/06/1888 2117 475

Potter County Agricultural Association Gettysburg Potter 7 2,000 08/21/1885 2112 162

Beulah Presbyterian Church of 113.66 Hand County Gilbert (twp) Hand Not Listed 11/06/1886 2114 414

Bank of Gilby Gilby Walsh 3 50,000 12/22/1887 2116 382

Gilby Cemetery Corporation Gilby Grand Forks 3 07/03/1885 2112 40

St. Paul Scandinavian Evangelical Lutheran Church Gilby Grand Forks 3 03/25/1889 2118 426

Presbyterian Church of Gilby Gilby (twp) Grand Forks 3-11 09/09/1887 2116 156

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Gill, County of Cass, Territory of Dakota Gill Cass Not Listed 03/08/1889 2118 413

Congregational Church of Gladstone Gladstone Clark 3 09/21/1883 2109 199

Gladstone Athenaeum Association Gladstone Stark 11 1,000 03/21/1888 2117 3

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Gladstone Gladstone Stark 3 02/05/1885 2111 216

Gladstone Woolen Mill Co. Gladstone Stark 9 100,000 02/19/1886 2112 387

Presbyterian Church of Glasston Glasston Pembina 3 03/07/1888 2116 527

Congregational Church of Glen Ullin Glen Ullin Morton 3 05/06/1885 2111 472

Glen Ullin Cemetery Association Glen Ullin Twp. Morton 5 12/08/1885 2112 244

Albert Barnes Memorial Church of Glencoe Dakota Glencoe (twp) Burleigh 5 10/04/1888 2118 39

Goodwin Cemetery Association Goodwin Deuel 6 03/30/1886 2112 488

First Baptist Church of Goodwin Goodwin Deuel 6 07/05/1881 2105 253

Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Grafton Walsh 5 02/19/1886 2112 383

Grafton Amusement Company Grafton Walsh 7 10,000 04/01/1885 2111 359

Walsh County Stock Breeders Association Grafton Walsh 3 12,000 06/11/1885 2112 1

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Grafton Grafton Walsh 3 06/11/1883 2109 22

Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church of Grafton Grafton Walsh 3 04/16/1883 2108 240

Duluth, Dakota and Manitoba Railway Grafton Walsh 7 500,000 10/10/1887 2116 236

Our Saviors Evangelical Lutheran Church Grafton Walsh 3 07/03/1882 2107 78

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First Presbyterian Church of Grafton Grafton Walsh 3 10/18/1882 2107 265

Bank of Grafton Grafton Walsh 12/26/1881 2106 92

Grafton Union League Grafton Walsh 3 05/09/1888 2117 164

First Baptist Church of Grafton Grafton Walsh 3 01/29/1884 2109 434

Walsh County Agricultural Society Grafton Walsh 5 10,000 10/15/1886 2114 385

Grafton Brass Band Grafton Walsh 4 08/13/1883 2109 127

Zion Church of the Evangelical Association of North America Grand Centre Grand 3 10/02/1885 2112 202

Grand Forks Roller Mills (reduction of Directors) Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 05/29/1888 2117 210

Grand Forks Hotel Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 3-7 150,000 07/11/1888 2117 301

St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church of Grand Forks Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 07/26/1884 2110 377

Order of Bachelors (O.A.B's) Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 04/07/1886 2112 523

Grand Forks Creamery Grand Forks Creamery 5 5,000 01/30/1888 2116 420

Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Grand Forks Dakota Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 04/19/1887 2115 252

Grand Forks City Street Railway Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 250,000 03/23/1889 2118 466

Zion Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church Grand Forks Grand Forks 5 03/25/1889 2118 421

Grand Forks Opera House Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 3-7 100,000 03/23/1889 2118 467

Grand Forks Building Savings and Loan association Grand Forks Grand Forks 9 125,000 02/24/1882 2106 192

Grand Forks Telephone Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 5 5,000 03/07/1882 2106 219

North Dakota Masons and Odd Fellows Aid and Accident Association Grand Forks Grand Forks 9 02/21/1889 2118 380

Plain Dealer Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 5 25,000 02/14/1889 2118 362

Grand Forks Telephone Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 5 05/02/1882 2106 307

Pioneer Club Grand Forks Grand Forks 7 5,500 10/13/1882 2107 261

Grand Forks and Dakota Southern Railroad Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 7 3,000,000 01/18/1888 2116 396

Plaindealer Printing Co. Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 10,000 05/21/1881 2105 189

Grand Forks Electric Light Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 5 25,000 09/09/1886 2114 337

Grand Forks Lumber Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 5 200,000 04/04/1884 2110 121

Northwestern Electric Light and Power Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 4 50,000 04/13/1888 2117 91

Nelson County Land Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 75,000 04/30/1884 2110 190

Dakota Investment Co. Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 50,000 05/13/1884 2110 219

Grand Forks Baseball Association Grand Forks Grand Forks 3-7 1,250 04/01/1887 2115 219

Herald Printing Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 7 25,000 06/04/1889 2119 140

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Thompson County Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 10/04/1884 2111 12

Grand Forks Gas and Electric Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 6 200,000 05/11/1889 2119 86

Herald Printing Company Grand Forks Grand forks 7 15,000 02/08/1884 2109 466

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Grand Forks Bridge Co. Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 30,000 07/28/1881 2105 272

Norwegian and Danish Methodist Episcopal Church (Election of Directors) Grand Forks Grand Forks 03/08/1887 2115 169

Norwegian and Danish Methodist Episcopal Church of Grand Forks Grand Forks Grand Forks 5 03/15/1887 2115 170

Bank of Grafton Grand Forks Grand Forks 5 30,000 10/31/1881 2106 35

Grand Forks Building and Loan Association Grand Forks Grand Forks 10 500,000 12/16/1886 2114 508

North Dakota Trust Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 50,000 01/09/1883 2108 44

Grand Forks Manufacturing Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 5 25,000 05/17/1882 2106 343

Farmer's Mutual Livestock Protective Association Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 30,000 10/18/1887 2116 247

Grand Forks Publishing Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 25,000 06/26/1883 2109 48

Pioneer Club Grand Forks Grand Forks 100,000 10/30/1882 2107 285

Grand Forks Rollin Mills Grand forks Grand Forks 7 100,000 06/23/1883 2109 44

Bank of Grand Forks Grand Forks Grand Forks 5 50,000 10/05/1882 2107 256

Devils Lake Town Site Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 7 3,000,000 11/24/1882 2107 314

Grand Forks Fireman's Relief Association Grand Forks Grand Forks 7 12/29/1888 2118 215

Vermont Loan and Trust Company (increase of stock) Grand Forks Grand Forks 250,000 09/28/1887 2116 205

Plymouth Congregational Church of Grand Forks Grand Forks Grand forks 3 07/02/1885 2112 34

Fargo Grand Forks and Pembina Railroad Co. Grand Forks Grand Forks 11 1,500,000 02/08/1883 2108 87

Grand Forks Loan and Land Company of Grand Forks Grand Forks Grand Forks 3-7 50,000 09/12/1887 2116 165

First Baptist Church of Grand Forks Grand Forks Grand Forks 5 09/05/1887 2116 147

Vermont Loan & Trust Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 10,000 03/19/1883 2108 175

Dakota Thorough Bred Cattle Nursery Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 250,000 08/20/1885 2112 159

Antelope Valley Farming Co. Grand Forks Grand Forks 7 20,000 12/21/1885 2112 301

Banner Lodge No. 19 Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 02/02/1886 2112 369

Red River Farming Co. Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 40,000 06/14/1882 2107 46

Union Elevator Co. of Grand Forks Grand Forks Grand Forks 7 30,000 06/14/1882 2107 48

Dakota Investment Company (increase of stock) Grand Forks Grand Forks 100,000 11/25/1887 2116 321

St. Bernard's Ursuline College & Convent Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 12/31/1885 2112 326

Incandescent Lamp Company of Grand Forks Dakota Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 50,000 07/13/1889 2119 279

Grand Forks Banking Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 7 50,000 07/18/1882 2107 94

Grand Forks Land & Improvement Co. Grand Forks Grand Forks 7 150,000 04/05/1883 2108 220

Grand Forks & Missouri Valley Rail Road Co. Grand Forks Grand Forks 5 500,000 08/10/1882 2107 169

Independent Order of God Templar Building Association of Grand Forks Grand Forks Grand Forks 7 10,000 06/02/1887 2115 436

Northwestern Scandinavian Farmers Mutual Fire and Hail insurance Company o Grand Forks Grand Forks 7 06/09/1887 2115 450

Grand Forks County Agricultural Society Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 10,000 11/17/1885 2112 246

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Dakota Gas and Fuel Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 5 100,000 10/20/1887 2116 257

Moose River Livestock Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 4 50,000 10/27/1885 2112 226

Grand Forks Incandescent Light Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 100,000 07/21/1888 2117 433

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Grand Forks Grand Forks Grand Forks 4 04/26/1879 2104 66

Security Improvement Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 3-15 100,000 07/27/1889 2119 310

First Presbyterian Society of Grand Forks Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 07/15/1879 2104 112

Vermont Loan and Trust Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 9 75,000 09/08/1886 2114 330

Grand Forks National Gas and Fuel Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 7 100,000 09/04/1886 2114 319

Grand Forks Opera House Company Grand Forks Grand Forks 6 50,000 07/22/1889 2119 297

Grand Forks Cadet Band Grand Forks Grand Forks 3 480 06/30/1886 2114 137

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Grand Rapids Grand Rapids Lamoure 6 03/29/1886 2112 474

First Reformed Church of Grand View Grand View Douglas Not Listed 02/10/1887 2115 48

Dakota Mortgage & Land Trust Co. Grand View 3 100,000 09/10/1885 2112 178

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Grandin Grandin Cass Not Listed 01/19/1887 2114 575

Grandin Alliance Elevator Company Grandin Cass 9 5,000 07/27/1887 2116 29

First Congregational Church of Grandview Grandview Douglas 3 12/15/1883 2109 345

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Grant Twp. Grant Twp. McCook 4 06/05/1885 2111 563

Grashull Agricultural Ditch Company Grashull Lawrence 5 5,000 01/26/1887 2115 18

Congregational Church of Greenleaf, County of Hand Greenleaf Hand 3-9 01/17/1889 2118 290

Groton Linseed Oil Company Groton Brown 9 60,000 04/27/1888 2117 126

Presbytery of Aberdeen Groton Brown 3 5,000 05/02/1885 2111 458

Groton Methodist Episcopal Church Groton Brown Not Listed 09/16/1887 2116 177

Groton Building and Loan Association Groton Brown 9 500,000 04/10/1888 2117 82

Farmers Mutual Insurance Co. Groton Brown 7 03/19/1885 2111 328

Groton Linseed Oil Company (change of amount of directors) Groton Brown 3+ 09/12/1889 2119 435

Union Elevator Company of Groton Groton Brown 7 5,000 11/13/1884 2111 61

First Presbyterian Church of Groton Groton Brown 3 03/22/1883 2108 186

Brown County Banking Company Groton Brown 5 50,000 09/12/1889 2119 429

Zoar Church of the Dakota Conference of the Evangelical Association of North A Groton Brown 3+ 07/07/1888 2117 343

Farmers Bank Groton Brown 5 35,000 05/20/1886 2113 422

Groton Roller Milling Company Groton Brown 4 25,000 04/23/1887 2115 284

Bank of Groton Groton Brown 3 50,000 11/01/1883 2109 288

Congregational Church of Groton Groton Brown 3 05/29/1883 2108 334

Groton Union Cemetery Association Groton Brown 3 03/24/1886 2112 460

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Wild Rice Farm and Stock Company Hall (twp) Sargent 5 25,000 01/18/1887 2114 555

Hamilton Artesian Well Company (increase of stock) Hamilton Pembina 7 10,000 12/24/1888 2118 220

Hamilton Artesian Well and Water Works Company Hamilton Pembina 7 5,000 06/09/1887 2115 453

Hamilton Elevator Company Hamilton Pembina 3 100,000 08/19/1882 2107 184

Presbyterian Church of Hamilton Hamilton Pembina 3 08/13/1884 2110 452

Bank of Hamilton Hamilton Pembina 3 10,000 01/07/1886 2112 341

Christian Union Congregational Church of Hanksinson, Brightwood Township Hankinson Richland 5 06/16/1887 2115 495

Griggs County Blooded Stock Association Hannaford Griggs 9 20,000 03/27/1889 2118 483

Harlen Creamery Company Harlem Sargent 7 2,500 03/17/1888 2116 570

First Holland Christlyke Gereformeerde Hert Harrison Douglas ?? 03/02/1885 2111 284

Harrison Hotel Company Harrison Douglas 5 2,000 04/23/1887 2115 283

First Protestant Reformed Church of Douglas County Harrison Douglas 7 03/15/1884 2110 78

First Reformed (Dutch) Church of Harrison Harrison Douglas Per Discipli 09/26/1889 2119 463

Harrold Cemetery Association Harrold Hughes 3 05/24/1887 2115 371

Hartford Cemetery Association Hartford Minnehaha 3 07/14/1882 2107 87

Hartford Tow Company Hartford Minnehaha 5 10,000 01/21/1889 2118 301

Farmers Alliance of Harford Hartford Minnehaha 7 5,000 10/24/1887 2116 269

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Hartford Hartford Minnehaha 3 09/17/1885 2112 274

Erwin Buying and Shipping Association Hartland Kingsbury 5 3,000 08/06/1887 2116 68

Bethania Meuigheds Cemetery Corporation Hartland (twp) Kingsbury 5 03/31/1887 2115 215

Bethania Evangelisk Luthersk Meuighed Hartland (twp) Kingsbury 6 03/31/1887 2115 217

Congregational Church of Christ of Hartland Hartland Twp. Kingsbury 3 11/19/1885 2112 248

Evangelical Lutheran St. Peter Congregation Hartland/Badge Kingsbury 3 03/10/1888 2116 541

Hatton Farmers Alliance Company Hatton Traill 7 02/29/1888 2116 514

Evangelical Lutheran St. Paul's Congregation of Havana Havana Deuel Not Listed 09/26/1888 2118 34

First Holland Presbyterian Church of Havana Havana (twp) Deuel Not Listed 11/18/1887 2116 310

Tabor Church of the Evangelical Association of North America Havanna Deuel 3+ 09/16/1886 2114 288

Iron and Battle Creeks Flume and Mining Company Hayward City Custer 4 40,000 11/09/1878 2104 27

Iron Creek Flume and Mining Company Hayward City Custer 5 25,000 09/12/1878 2104 21

Foster Creek Mamuluke & Rosebud Mining Company Hayward City Custer 4 20,000 03/20/1879 2104 77

Battle Creek Flume and Mining Company Hayward City Custer 3 20,000 07/23/1878 2104 1

German Evangelical St. John's Church Hebron Morton 5 12/18/1885 2112 298

Bank of Hecla Hecla Brown 3 35,000 12/07/1888 2118 152

Hecla Cheese and Creamery Company Hecla Brown 5 1,000 07/13/1888 2117 329

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First Methodist Episcopal Church Henry Codington 3 04/23/1884 2110 182

Brett Baker Company Henry Codington 5 50,000 06/24/1889 2119 217

Congregational Church of Henry Henry Codington 3 03/26/1883 2108 198

German Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Organization of the Unaltered Augsburg Co Henry Brown 3-11 12/09/1886 2114 490

Hermosa Ice Company Hermosa Custer 3 50,000 08/13/1887 2116 89

Hermosa hill City and Western Railroad Company Hermosa Custer 5 750,000 03/10/1888 2116 538

Bank of Hermosa Hermosa Custer 7 35,000 07/06/1886 2114 158

Custer County Agricultural Mineral and Stock Association Hermosa Custer 7-11 2,500 09/05/1887 2116 149

Hayward Group Silver Mining Company Hermosa Custer 11 250,000 08/21/1886 2114 164

Farmers Shipping Association of Hetland Hetland Kingsbury 9 10,000 02/18/1889 2118 373

Rosendal Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Highland (twp) Minnehaha 3 06/16/1888 2117 264

Hosanger Norske Evangeliske Lutherske Meuighed of Clark and Day Counties D Highland (twp) Clark 3 12/24/1888 2118 204

Farmers Hail Association Highmore Hyde 11 02/21/1889 2118 398

Phoenix Hotel Company of Highmore Highmore Hyde 5 3,000 09/05/1888 2118 10

First Congregational Church of Highmore Highmore Hyde 3 11/30/1885 2112 255

Highmore Cemetery Association Highmore Hyde 5 04/20/1887 2115 262

Anglo Dakota Loan and Trust Company Highmore Hyde 5 100,000 05/31/1887 2115 424

Highmore Hotel Company Highmore Hyde 5 1,500 06/21/1887 2115 502

Hill City Miners Union Hill City Pennington 3-9 10/08/1889 2119 496

Hillsboro Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church Hills Traill 3 02/26/1885 2111 247

Hillsboro Driving Park Association Hillsboro Traill 5 3,000 12/17/1886 2114 510

Hillsboro Opera House Company Hillsboro Traill 5 10,000 08/16/1888 2117 513

Hillsboro Cemetery Association Hillsboro Traill 5 08/16/1888 2117 519

Presbyterian Church of Hillsboro Hillsboro Traill 3 09/22/1884 2110 516

Hillsboro Farmers Elevator Company Hillsboro Traill 7 6,000 03/28/1887 2115 198

Hans Johnson Mercantile Company Hillsboro Traill 5 25,000 08/28/1889 2119 411

Fargo, Grand Forks and Pembina Railway Company Hillsboro Traill 5 1,500,000 02/11/1887 2115 52

First Norwegian Methodist Episcopal Church of Hillsboro Hillsboro Traill 3 08/02/1882 2107 133

Methodist Episcopal Church of Hillsboro Hillsboro Traill 3 06/02/1882 2107 26

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Hitchcock Hitchcock Beadle 3 05/26/1883 2108 326

First Presbyterian Society of Hitchcock Hitchcock Beadle 3 11/07/1882 2107 300

Maplewood Cemetery Association Holabird Hyde 5 06/01/1885 2112 264

Hooper Church of the Reformed Church of America Hooper City Emmons 3 08/20/1885 2112 272

Congregational Church of Christ In Hope Hope Steele 3 12/18/1883 2109 350

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Queen Bee Mill Co. Hope Griggs 3 50,000 02/27/1883 2108 126

Zion Presbyterian Society of Edmunds County Hosmer Edmunds 3-11 03/25/1889 2118 470

Dakota Hot Springs Company Hot Springs Custer 3 2,000,000 10/24/1882 2107 283

Evergreen Cemetery Association Hot Springs Fall River 9 10/17/1887 2116 242

Battle Mountain Marble and Improvement Company Hot Springs Fall River 5 1,000,000 06/29/1887 2115 541

Minnekahta Bank Hot Springs Fall River 3 25,000 06/11/1888 2117 254

Black Hills College Hot Springs Fall River 11 12/01/1887 2116 332

First Presbyterian Church of Hot Springs Hot Springs Fall River 3-11 10/04/1889 2119 486

Houghton Farmers Elevator Company Houghton Brown 9 1,000 10/24/1888 2118 83

Congregational Church of Howard Howard Miner 3 01/06/1885 2111 142

Evangelical Lutheran St. John's Congregation of Unaltered Augsburg Confession Howard Miner 3 04/15/1887 2115 286

Howard Norsk Evangelical Lutheresk Minighed Howard Miner 3 02/08/1884 2109 464

Beach Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church Howard Miner 4 06/28/1884 2110 327

Howard Union Congregational Church Howard Mines 3 09/27/1882 2107 241

Miner County Agricultural & Industrial Association Howard Miner 25 07/31/1885 2112 132

Ladies Library Association of Howard Howard Miner 7 01/07/1886 2112 340

Miner County Stockman and Driving Park Association Howard Miner 5 2,000 06/08/1887 2115 442

Security Bank of Dakota Howard Miner 5 10,000 02/06/1885 2111 227

First Presbyterian Church of Huffton, Dakota Huffton Brown 3 03/10/1888 2116 535

First Presbyterian Church of Hunter Hunter Cass 5 04/14/1887 2115 120

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Hunter, County of Cass Hunter Cass Not Listed 07/28/1887 2116 36

Hurley Cemetery Association Hurley Turner 7 02/10/1885 2111 238

Harmony Presbyterian Church of Hurley Hurley Turner 3 07/11/1883 2109 75

Hurley Cornet Band Hurley Turner 3 06/05/1884 2110 272

Hurley Building and Loan Association Hurley Turner 7 2,500 07/08/1889 2119 261

First Regular Baptist Church of Hurley Hurley Turner 3 07/01/1883 2109 103

Grace Church Hurley Hurley Turner 5 05/09/1884 2110 205

Capital City Mining Company Huron Beadle 5 500,000 12/19/1887 2116 370

Huron Street Railway Company Huron Beadle 5 50,000 05/26/1883 2108 324

Huron Electric Light and Power Company Huron Beadle 3 50,000 10/27/1886 2114 406

St. Peters German Evangelical Lutheran Church of Huron Huron Beadle 3 02/12/1883 2108 92

Beadle County Agricultural Association Huron Beadle 9 10,000 08/14/1883 2109 132

Dakota Publishing Company Huron Beadle 3 2,000 11/01/1886 2114 412

Huron Creamery and Cold Storage Company Huron Beadle 5 6,500 02/24/1888 2116 497

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First Congregational Church of Huron Huron Beadle 3 09/03/1884 2110 487

Farmer's Beadle County Protective Association Huron Beadle 11 50,000 07/16/1885 2112 78

Capitol City Building and Loan Association of Huron Dakota Huron Beadle 5 250,000 04/09/1887 2115 240

Norwegian and Dane Free Lutheran Church of Huron Huron Beadle 4 04/10/1889 2118 445

Traders Banking Co. Huron Beadle 7 100,000 01/20/1885 2111 172

Roman Catholic Church of St. Martin in Huron Huron Beadle 3 07/11/1884 2110 347

James River Lodge I.O.O.F. No. 32 Huron Beadle 3 08/10/1883 2109 124

National Land and Trust Company Huron Beadle 5 250,000 01/12/1889 2118 252

Alliance Aid Association Huron Beadle 9 12/15/1888 2118 185

South Dakota Telephone and Telegraph Company Huron Beadle 3-7 10,000 09/18/1889 2119 449

Duluth Huron & Denver Railroad Company Huron Beadle 10,0000,00 08/19/1885 2112 157

First Baptist Church of Huron Huron Beadle 3 05/19/1881 2105 182

North American Investment Company Huron Beadle 5 500,000 01/17/1887 2114 563

Huron City Railway Company Huron Beadle 3 100,000 07/31/1886 2114 222

Free Swedish Lutheran Church Huron Beadle 6 09/21/1887 2116 185

Dakota Mortgage Banking Co. Huron Beadle 3 20,000 12/28/1885 2112 316

Dakota State Bindery Company Huron Beadle 5 15,000 05/16/1887 2115 346

Empire Coal Company Huron Beadle 5 500,000 01/23/1888 2116 401

Dakota Coal Economizing Co. Huron Beadle 4 6,000 03/08/1886 2112 420

Beadle County Abstract Company Huron Beadle 5 20,000 01/24/1889 2118 317

Rubel Furniture Company Huron Beadle 3 1500 08/31/1885 2112 174

Huron Building & Loan Association Huron Beadle 7 1,000,000 02/09/1885 2111 265

Dakota Packing and Provisions Company Huron Beadle 4 10,000 10/01/1886 2114 369

Huron Coal and Mining Company Huron Beadle 3 500,000 05/23/1887 2115 369

Union League Club of Huron Huron Beadle 4 11/23/1883 2109 315

Northwestern Life Insurance Co. Huron Beadle 5 100,000 02/12/1886 2112 375

Northwestern Pressed Brick Company Huron Beadle 5 5,000 05/09/1882 2106 322

Beadle County Bank Huron Beadle 7 20,000 01/29/1883 2108 62

Dakota Farm Mortgage Company Huron Beadle 7 1,000,000 10/27/1887 2116 271

Northwestern Savings Loan and Building Association Huron Beadle 7 20,000,000 02/18/1889 2118 375

Huron Furniture Company Huron Beadle 3-5 15,000 01/21/1888 2116 405

Kilpatrick Post No. 4 of Dakota G.A.R. (conduct election of Trustees Huron Beadle 04/02/1885 2111 399

Huron City Mill company Huron Beadle 3 30,000 08/02/1884 2110 399

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Huron Huron Beadle 3 09/03/1881 2105 369

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Huron Printing and Bindery Company Huron Beadle 5 100,000 04/17/1889 2118 558

Huron Co-Operative Supply Company Huron Beadle 7 5,000 06/22/1888 2117 285

City Bank Huron Beadle 3 25,000 06/22/1883 2109 39

Merchants Protective and Collecting Association Huron Beadle 3 10,000 03/15/1887 2115 158

Grand Lodge of Dakota Knights of Pythias Huron Beadle 3 05/13/1886 2113 260

Grace Church of Huron Huron Beadle 3 06/13/1883 2109 30

First Presbyterian Society of Huron Huron Beadle 3 07/05/1881 2105 256

German Congregational Church of Huron Huron Beadle 3 12/08/1886 2114 487

Kilpatrick Post No. 4 of Dakota G.A.R. (conduct election of Trustees Huron Beadle 5 04/10/1885 2111 400

Huron Stone Company Huron Beadle 3 30,000 11/20/1880 2105 28

Democrat Publishing Company Huron Beadle 5 15,000 03/23/1885 2111 340

Huron Masonic Hall Building Co. Huron Beadle 5 2,000 08/10/1881 2105 294

Central Dakota Mortgage Company Huron Beadle 3 10,000 03/08/1884 2110 41

Houston Baptist Church of Houston Huston Douglas 3 06/30/1883 2109 56

First Presbyterian Church of Boundary Congregation Hyde Park Pembina 3 05/20/1883 2108 319

Inkster Presbyterian Church Inkster Grand Forks 3 06/19/1885 2112 12

Congregational Church of Inkster Inkster Grand Forks 3 07/13/1885 2112 65

Farmers Elevator Company of Ipswich Ipswich Edmunds 7 6,000 07/03/1886 2114 141

Ladies Library Association Ipswich Edmunds 7 09/20/1886 2114 347

First Baptist Church Ipswich Edmunds 3 07/26/1884 2110 384

Congregational Church of Ipswich Ipswich Edmunds 3 09/27/1884 2110 529

First Baptist Church of Ipswich Ipswich Edmunds 3+ 08/10/1886 2114 230

Continental Loan and trust Company of Ipswich, Dakota Ipswich Edmunds 5 200,000 08/13/1888 2117 497

Holy Cross Catholic Church, Ipswich Dakota Ipswich Edmunds Not Listed 07/05/1887 2115 432

Edmunds County Abstract Company Ipswich Edmunds 6 10,000 11/04/1889 2118 568

Mortgage Bank and Investment Company Ipswich Edmunds 7 500,000 06/13/1887 2115 483

Kimball Mortgage Company Ipswich Edmunds 5 100,000 11/23/1887 2116 316

Bank of Ipswich Ipswich Edmunds 3 25,000 05/26/1887 2115 384

Ipswich Creamery Company Ipswich Edmunds 3 3,500 05/21/1888 2117 188

Fifth Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church Ipswich Edmunds 4 07/09/1884 2110 341

Edmunds Agricultural Fair Association Ipswich Edmunds 11 5,000 06/15/1886 2114 78

Congregational Church of Ipswich Ipswich Edmunds 3 01/13/1884 2109 471

Union Congregational Church of Liberty Township County of Edmunds Ipswich Edmunds 3-9 05/23/1889 2119 110

Iroquois Public and Lodge Hall Association Iroquois Kingsbury 11 5,000 06/24/1887 2115 513

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Iroquois Building and Loan Association Iroquois Kingsbury 9 2,000 03/04/1887 2115 106

Bank Of Iroquois Iroquois Kingsbury 3 25,000 01/01/1886 2112 327

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Iroquois Iroquois Kingsbury 3 08/26/1885 2112 170

Bank of Iroquois (Acceptance of Provisions) Iroquois Kingsbury 01/21/1888 2116 400

Farmer and Merchants Bank Iroquois Kingsbury 3 100,000 06/05/1888 2117 220

Congregational Church of Iroquois Iroquois Kingsbury 3 04/10/1885 2111 367

South Dakota Farm Mortgage Company Iroquois Kingsbury 5 25,000 04/25/1888 2117 124

Iroquois Roller Flouring and Feed Mill and Elevator Company Iroquois Kingsbury 7 15,000 08/26/1887 2116 120

Bethel Church Society of the Dakota Conference of the Evangelical Association Irving Spink 3 11/14/1888 2118 108

Pioneer Publishing Co. Jamestown Stutsman 3 5,000 09/25/1885 2112 195

Congregational Church of Jamestown Jamestown Stutsman 3-9 10/07/1889 2119 493

Jamestown Alert Printing Co. Jamestown Stutsman 3 40,0000 07/07/1883 2109 62

North Dakota Loan & Trust Company Jamestown Stutsman 9 100,000 05/13/1882 2106 336

St. James Protestant Episcopal Church of Jamestown Jamestown Stutsman 7 08/27/1881 2105 344

James River Elevator Company Jamestown Stutsman 5 100,000 10/27/1883 2109 268

Jamestown Building Loan & Savings Association Jamestown Stutsman 11 600,000 05/07/1881 2105 163

Jamestown Hotel Company Jamestown Stutsman 3 120,000 04/27/1886 2113 71

Jamestown Electric Light Company Jamestown Stutsman 3 35,000 12/01/1887 2116 330

Northern Dakota Elevator Co. Jamestown Stutsman 7 50,000 07/27/1885 2112 111

Jamestown Street Car Railway Jamestown Stutsman 5 100,000 12/13/1882 2107 342

Jamestown and Northern Extension Railroad Company (change of route directi Jamestown Stutsman 4 10/11/1889 2119 507

North Dakota Loan and Trust Company Jamestown Stutsman 7 100,000 06/11/1887 2115 470

Windsor Cattle Company Jamestown Stutsman 3 100,000 09/04/1886 2114 321

Brown Brothers and Preston Company Jamestown Stutsman 5 100,000 01/04/1883 2108 37

James River Valley Railroad Company Jamestown Stutsman 7 1,000,000 08/02/1883 2109 108

Jamestown and Northern Extension Railroad Jamestown Stutsman 4 1,600,000 06/08/1889 2119 154

North Dakota Farmer Publishing Company Jamestown Stutsman 6 5,000 08/24/1886 2114 291

Stutsman County Agricultural and Sporting Association Jamestown Stutsman 5 5,000 08/06/1887 2116 71

Dakota & Minnesota Railroad Co. Jamestown Stutsman 5 1,000,000 12/01/1883 2109 336

Jamestown Gas Company Jamestown Stutsman 3 30,000 12/12/1884 2111 111

Jamestown Telegraph & Telephone Company Jamestown Stutsman 3 10,000 06/13/1882 2107 42

Jamestown Creamery Company Jamestown Stutsman 5 5,000 01/31/1888 2116 425

First Baptist Church of Jamestown Jamestown Stutsman 3 06/13/1882 2107 52

Jamestown Elevator Company Jamestown Stutsman 3 300,000 07/20/1882 2107 99

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First Presbyterian Church of Jamestown Jamestown Stutsman 6 08/16/1880 2104 356

Der Deutschen Verem of Jamestown Jamestown Stutsman 5 20,000 09/25/1885 2112 199

Jamestown Turnverein of Jamestown Jamestown Stutsman 5 25,000 03/25/1881 2105 133

Northern Dakota Elevator Company (increase of stock) Jamestown Stutsman 7 100,000 09/24/1886 2114 357

North Dakota Telephone & Telegraph Company Jamestown Stutsman 3 50,000 10/20/1883 2109 260

James River Valley Railroad Company Jamestown Stutsman 5 1,000,000 07/29/1882 2107 127

South Eastern Dakota Railroad Company Jamestown Stutsman 5 1,000,000 12/02/1886 2114 475

St. James Catholic Church of Jamestown Jamestown Stutsman 3 07/23/1884 2110 385

James River Valley Stock Raising Association Jamestown Stutsman 3 50,000 07/11/1883 2109 77

Jamestown Light & Water Works Co. Jamestown Stutsman 3 500,000 02/07/1883 2108 82

Jamestown Library Association Jamestown Stutsman 11 01/20/1883 2108 74

Jamestown College Jamestown Stutsman 9 01/04/1884 2109 393

James River Lumber Company Jamestown Stutsman 3 25,000 07/14/1883 2109 86

Stutsman County Elevator Company Jamestown Stutsman 3 24,000 08/22/1882 2107 192

Jamestown Law Library Jamestown Stutsman 9 20,000 02/21/1888 2116 490

Jamestown Livestock Company Jamestown Stutsman 5 10,000 03/13/1888 2116 556

Jamestown Hotel Jamestown Stutsman 3 150,000 02/12/1883 2108 90

Jamestown Methodist Episcopal Church of Jamestown Jamestown Stutsman 3 07/30/1880 2104 344

Dakota Building and Loan Association of Jamestown Jamestown Stutsman 11 09/16/1882 2107 215

Kampeska Cemetery Association Kampeska Codington 6 03/13/1886 2112 432

Kampeska Methodist Episcopal Church Kampeska Codington Not Listed 06/27/1887 2115 525

Kampeska Milling Company Kampeska Codington 5 15,000 11/17/1887 2116 302

Zion Church Society of the Dakota Conference of Evangelical Association of Nor Kellerton Hamlin 3 06/28/1889 2119 220

First Presbyterian Church of Kensington Kensington Walsh 3 08/13/1884 2110 448

First Presbyterian Church of Keystone Keystone Dickey 3 09/06/1883 2109 179

North Dakota Dairymen's Association Kibby Cass 5 12,000 01/06/1882 2106 113

First M. E. Church at Kidder, Lincoln County Kidder Lincoln 5 08/28/1878 2104 8

First United Bretheran Church of Kilborn Kilborn (twp) Grant Not Listed 06/13/1889 2119 181

First Baptist Church of Kimball Kimball Brule 3 04/21/1884 2110 169

Brule County Well Drilling Company Kimball Brule 3 800 08/30/1882 2107 195

Farmers and Traders Bank of Kimball (Increase of Stock) Kimball Brule 8 50,000 08/11/1886 2114 267

Kimball Townsite Company Kimball Brule 5 6,000 05/09/1882 2106 318

Kimball Milling Company Kimball Brule 3 15,000 07/06/1886 2114 157

Brule Lodge No. 44 A. F. and A. M. Kimball Brule 3 04/02/1888 2117 50

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Brule County Fair Association Kimball Brule 5 5,000 08/06/1884 2110 432

St. Lawrence Investment Company Kimball Brule 3 1,000 08/21/1884 2110 464

Index Publishing Company Kimball Brule 5 10,000 06/06/1883 2109 1

Brule County Agricultural Society Kimball Brule 5 06/30/1882 2107 67

Farmers and Traders Bank Kimball Brule 3 25,000 08/19/1884 2110 460

Presbyterian Church of Kimball Kimball Brule 3 04/13/1882 2106 277

Our Lady of the Rosary County of Codington, Territory of Dakota Kranzburg Codington 5 03/31/1888 2117 42

Campbell County Methodist Episcopal Church La Grace Campbell 3 08/28/1885 2112 273

La Grace Land & Improvement Co. La Grace Campbell 3 100,000 02/25/1884 2110 9

Congregational Church of LaGrange La Grange Yankton 3-9 12/03/1887 2116 337

First Presbyterian Church of LaFoon LaFoon Faulk 3 06/26/1885 2112 230

Farmers Bank of South Dakota, in the County of Kingsbury Lake Preston Kingsbury 5 5,000 04/27/1889 2119 50

Lake Preston Cheese Company Lake Preston Kingsbury 5 500 07/27/1888 2117 452

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Lake Preston Lake Preston Kingsbury 5 08/27/1889 2119 404

Congregational Church of Preston Lake Preston Kingsbury 3 12/30/1881 2106 95

Lake Preston Building and Loan Association Lake Preston Kingsbury 7 50,000 06/14/1887 2115 490

Farmers Shipping Association of Lake Preston Lake Preston Kingsbury 5 1,200 10/21/1884 2111 30

Merchants Exchange Bank Lake Preston Kingsbury 5 20,000 12/17/1887 2116 362

Kingsbury County Board of Trade Lake Preston Kingsbury 5 01/04/1882 2106 104

Bloom Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Lake Sinai Brookings 3 05/11/1889 2118 514

Roman Catholic Church of St. John the Baptist Lakeport Yankton 3 09/22/1884 2110 523

Lakeport Horse and Livestock Company Lakeport Yankton 5 1,600 06/22/1887 2115 509

Dakota Methodist Episcopal Church Lakota Nelson 12/09/1885 2112 279

Farming and Stock Company of Lakota, Nelson County, Dakota Territory Lakota Nelson 3 25,000 06/06/1888 2117 240

Lakota Creamery Company Lakota Nelson 5 4,000 03/03/1888 2116 518

Owl Club of Lakota Dakota Lakota Nelson 7 5,500 03/25/1887 2115 196

First Presbyterian Church of LaMoure LaMoure LaMoure 3 10/25/1883 2109 262

Board of Trade town of Lamoure Lamoure Lamoure 5 03/04/1884 2110 26

Baptist Church of Lamoure Lamoure Lamoure 3 08/25/1885 2112 169

LaMoure County Creamery LaMoure LaMoure 5 5,000 02/19/1888 2116 483

Northern Pacific LaMoure and Missouri River Railroad Company LaMoure LaMoure 5 1,850,000 12/10/1886 2114 494

Farmers Elevator Company of LaMoure LaMoure LaMoure 5 5,000 03/02/1889 2118 404

LaMoure Stock Breeders Association LaMoure LaMoure 3 2,500 04/05/1889 2118 498

Missouri River Roscoe and Duluth Rail Road Company LaMoure Lamoure 13 1,400,000 08/04/1887 2116 60

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Western Oil and Mining Company LaMoure LaMoure 5 100,000 08/30/1888 2118 6

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Lamoure Lamoure Lamoure 4 03/29/1886 2112 473

Lampton Cemetery Corporation Lampton Walsh 3 09/16/1885 2112 183

Cavalier County Bank Langdon Cavalier 3 25,000 12/06/1887 2116 349

J. A. Hobis Methodist Episcopal Church of Langdon Langdon Cavalier Not Listed 06/13/1889 2119 201

Dakota Land and Townsite Company Langdon Cavalier 3 07/19/1887 2116 9

North Dakota Land and Townsite Company Langdon Cavalier 3 11/21/1887 2116 314

Cavalier County Democrat Publishing Company Langdon Cavalier 5 2,300 08/05/1887 2116 66

Cavalier County Agricultural Society Langdon Cavalier 11 50,000 08/22/1888 2117 545

Bank of Langdon Langdon Cavalier 4 12,000 02/07/1888 2116 448

Presbyterian Church of Langdon Langdon Cavalier 5 08/08/1888 2117 483

Langford Methodist Episcopal Church Langford Marshall Not Listed 10/22/1888 2118 19

Finis Apostolic Lutheran Church of Lara Township Lara (twp) Brown 9 03/28/1887 2115 117

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Larimore Larimore Grand Forks Not Listed 05/09/1889 2118 512

First Presbyterian Church of Le Beau Le Beau Walworth 3 10/08/1883 2109 234

Le Sueur Elevator Company Le Sueur (twp) Kingsbury 5 10,000 09/14/1888 2118 23

Isadorah Mining Co. Lead Lawrence 5 200,000 03/13/1886 2112 437

Mugwamp Mining Company Lead Lawrence 5 1,000,000 12/09/1884 2111 105

Satterfield Oil Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/28/1886 2113 511

Magnolia Gold and Silver Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/02/1886 2113 558

Rochester Black Hills Gold Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 500,000 08/30/1887 2116 132

Harrison Oil Company Lead City Lawrence 7 1,000,000 07/16/1888 2117 319

Saint Patrick's Roman Catholic Church of Lead City Lead City Lawrence Not Listed 06/18/1888 2117 273

Tornado Consolidated Gold & Silver Mining & Milling co. Lead City Lawrence 3 1,000,000 09/08/1883 2109 181

Isadora Mining Company (increase in capital stock) Lead City Lawrence 5 250,000 09/14/1888 2118 18

Canadian Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/25/1886 2114 120

International Oil Company Lead City Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/25/1886 2113 478

Blackstone Oil Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,000,000 06/14/1886 2114 72

Pennsylvania Oil Company of Dakota Lead City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/02/1886 2113 548

Glenwood Gold & Silver Mining Co. Lead City Lawrence 3 1,500,000 12/11/1884 2111 113

Revenue Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 07/14/1888 2117 326

Lead City Bank (Acceptance of Amendments) Lead City Lawrence 3 08/23/1887 2116 109

Hawkeye Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/26/1886 2113 487

Lead City Hose Company No. 2 Lead City Lawrence 5 06/20/1888 2117 280

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North Star Gold & Silver Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 3 10,000,000 08/08/1879 2104 120

Axiom Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 3 1,250,000 10/26/1888 2118 85

Wall Street Gold and Silver Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 3 2,000,000 05/27/1886 2113 502

Kimberly Gold and Silver Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/07/1888 2117 245

Star Lodge No. 9 Ancient Free and Accepted Masons Lead City Lawrence 5 07/26/1887 2116 20

Lead City Bank Lead City Lawrence 3 10,000 01/20/1883 2108 73

Lead City Bank (increase in stock) Lead City Lawrence 01/07/1888 2116 391

Lead City Lodge No. 17, I. O. O. F. Lead City Lawrence 5 50,000 06/29/1887 2115 544

Homblende Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 4 2,500,000 12/03/1888 2118 139

Great North Western Oil Company Lead City Lawrence 9 2,500,000 05/26/1886 2113 491

Retriever Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/02/1886 2113 560

Commonwealth Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 2,500,000 04/30/1886 2113 98

Silver Brick Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 7 1,250,000 05/22/1886 2113 448

Bald Mountain Silver and Gold Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 02/15/1888 2116 480

Wild West Silver Mining co Lead City Lawrence 9 1.250,000 04/08/1886 2112 520

Quincy Silver Mining Co. Lead City Lawrence 6 150,000 04/10/1886 2112 529

Crown Point Mining Co. Lead City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 04/14/1886 2112 530

Beaver Oil Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,500,000 02/14/1888 2116 478

Northside Gold and Silver Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 7 1,000,000 04/07/1887 2115 236

Tornado Consolidated Gold and Silver Mining and Milling Company (increase of Lead City Lawrence 5 07/05/1889 2119 249

Silver Bar Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/19/1886 2113 375

Eagle Oil Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,000,000 02/05/1887 2115 40

Illumination Oil Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,000,000 01/24/1887 2115 8

Champagne Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,000,000 06/05/1886 2114 5

Lead City Miners Union Lead City Lawrence 3 02/24/1880 2104 208

Ingersoll Silver Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 7 1,250,000 05/14/1886 2113 343

Dido Gold and Silver Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 7 1,250,000 05/08/1886 2113 178

Comstock & Belfast Mining Co. Lead City Lawrence 7 750,000 04/12/1886 2112 539

Plutus Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,000,000 02/25/1888 2116 507

Grand Army Gold and Silver Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/08/1886 2113 176

Lead City Gold & Silver Mining Co. Lead City Lawrence 5 500,000 03/22/1886 2112 455

Lucile Gold & Silver Mining Co. Lead City Lawrence 7 400,000 03/25/1886 2112 465

Black Hills Railroad Company Lead City Lawrence 5 500,000 06/12/1881 2105 229

Amazon Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/22/1886 2113 426

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Lead City Hose Company Lead City Lawrence 5 20,000 10/16/1880 2104 395

Josephine Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 3 1,250,000 05/14/1886 2113 315

Ontario Silver & Gold Mining Co. Lead City Lawrence 9 1.250,000 04/08/1886 2112 518

Monitor Gold and Silver Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/19/1886 2113 371

Monroe Gold and Silver Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 3 2,500,000 01/26/1889 2118 329

Deadwood and Lead City Horse Rail Road Company Lead City Lawrence 5 50,000 11/27/1878 2104 29

Superior Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 04/30/1886 2113 93

Young American Gold and Silver Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 3-11 2,500,000 02/05/1889 2118 346

Double Standard Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 7 1,250,000 05/13/1887 2115 340

California Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 3,000,000 05/13/1886 2113 248

Syracuse Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 250,000 04/30/1886 2113 91

Pennsylvania Oil Company Lead City Lawrence 7 2,500,000 05/22/1886 2113 439

Deadwood Lead Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 250,000 05/14/1886 2113 318

Cumberland Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 12 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 197

Home Rule Gold and Silver Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 9 420,000 05/08/1886 2113 188

Horn Silver Mining Co. of Ruby Basin Lead City Lawrence 7 1,250,000 04/15/1886 2112 543

Ingleside Gold and Silver Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/25/1886 2113 463

Ivanhoe Silver Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 3 2,500,000 05/19/1886 2113 354

Socrates Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 225,000 05/19/1886 2113 368

Keystone Gold and Silver Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 4 2,500,000 05/13/1886 2113 278

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Lead City Lead City Lawrence 3 02/03/1881 2105 85

Java Silver Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 8 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 226

Gladstone Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 7 1,250,000 04/20/1886 2113 46

Sunset Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 213

Lead City and Whitewood Toll Road Company Lead City Lawrence 3 1,000 08/31/1878 2104 14

Box Elder Silver Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,500,000 05/25/1886 2113 470

Deer Mountain Silver Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 2,500,000 04/26/1886 2113 61

Hartford Gold and Silver Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 2,500,000 12/08/1886 2114 480

Tennessee and Kentucky Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,000,000 04/26/1886 2113 59

St. Paul Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,000,000 05/19/1886 2113 365

Lead City Oil Company Lead City Lawrence 7 1,000,000 04/18/1888 2117 107

Empire Oil Company Lead City Lawrence 5 250,000 01/19/1887 2114 577

Calloa Gold and Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 4 1,250,000 05/08/1886 2113 181

Mountain Rose Gold and Silver Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 04/15/1886 2113 3

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Lead City Miners Building Association Lead City Lawrence 5 07/13/1882 2107 90

Appleton Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 06/07/1886 2114 7

Nyjer Hill Tin Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 02/01/1888 2116 433

Back Hills Railroad Company Lead City Lawrence 07/17/1882 2107 93

Big Sioux Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/22/1886 2113 455

Alta Italia Silver Mining Company Lead City Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/19/1886 2113 352

Congregational Church of Lebanon Lebanon Potter 3-9 05/23/1889 2119 99

Bank of Leeds Leeds Cass 5 25,000 10/17/1889 2119 525

Lennox Cemetery Association Lennox Lincoln 3 03/09/1882 2106 226

Ebenezer German Presbyterian Church of Lennox Lennox Lincoln 3 01/17/1889 2118 292

Lincoln County Agricultural Association Lennox Lincoln 7 07/20/1881 2105 269

German Evangelical Lutheran Immanuel Church of Lennox Lennox Lincoln 3 08/15/1889 2119 379

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Lennox Lennox Lincoln 3 07/19/1880 2104 324

Church of Christ Lennox Turner 3 09/22/1884 2110 511

First Presbyterian Society of Leola Dakota Territory Leola McPherson 3-11 07/02/1887 2115 559

Fidelity Loan Company Leola McPherson 5 25,000 05/17/1889 2119 96

Green Mound Cemetery Association of Leola McPherson County Leola McPherson 5 09/15/1887 2116 172

Evangelic Lutheran St. Takobin Genecide of Leola Leola McPherson 3-11 04/12/1888 2117 88

Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church of Leonard Leonard Cass Not Listed 05/31/1887 2115 421

Congregational Church of Christ of Lesterville, Dakota Lesterville Yankton 5 02/02/1889 2118 336

Congregational Church of Letcher Letcher Miner 3 03/02/1883 2108 134

Farmers Warehouse Company Letcher Sanborn 7 10,000 08/10/1886 2114 266

Liberty Farmers Alliance Liberty Brown 5 1,000 05/28/1888 2117 206

Liberty Centre Methodist Episcopal Church Liberty (twp) Beadle Not Listed 11/14/1887 2116 295

Richland County Agricultural Society Lidgerwood Richland 5 10/12/1888 2118 56

Farmers Elevator Company Lidgerwood Richland 7 5,000 07/19/1889 2119 294

Salem Church Society of the Dakota Conference of the Evangelical Association o Lincoln (twp) Douglas 3+ 05/02/1889 2119 63

Lisbon Building and Loan Association Lisbon Ransom 9 250,000 03/03/1887 2115 132

Lisbon Library Association Lisbon Ramsey 3 01/20/1885 2111 170

Lisbon Board of Trade Lisbon Ransom 9 02/15/1884 2109 474

St. Aloysius Church of Lisbon Lisbon Ransom 5 08/18/1886 2114 282

Standing Rock Mining Company Lisbon Ransom 9 250,000 03/12/1884 2110 66

Lisbon Electric Light Company Lisbon Ransom 5 25,000 01/03/1883 2108 31

Lisbon City Band Lisbon Ransom 5 08/13/1889 2119 368

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Lisbon Republican Company Lisbon Ransom 5 1,300 05/25/1882 2107 12

Lisbon Street Railway Co. Lisbon Ransom 3 10,000 11/07/1882 2107 295

Lisbon Brick & Tile Company Lisbon Ransom 3 25,000 05/18/1882 2107 1

Newport Union Church Society Lisbon Ransom 5 04/25/1882 2106 294

Lisbon Telephone Company Lisbon Ransom 5 25,000 01/03/1883 2108 33

First Presbyterian Church of Lisbon Lisbon Ransom 3 05/05/1884 2110 200

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Lisbon Lisbon Ransom 3 08/08/1882 2107 162

Ransom County Agricultural and Driving Park Association Lisbon Ransom 9 5,000 09/14/1885 2112 180

Alpha Mining Company Lisbon Ransom 4 500,000 11/06/1883 2109 300

First Baptist Church of Lisbon Lisbon Ransom 3 08/01/1883 2109 106

Southwestern Lumber Company Lisbon Ramsey 3 30,000 07/14/1883 2109 88

Little Muddy Bridge Company Little Muddy Ra Wallette 3 1,000 06/12/1879 2104 104

Lodi Cemetery Association Lodi Clay 6 03/09/1885 2111 298

Lodi Methodist Episcopal Church Lodi Clay 5 05/11/1885 2111 225

Roman Catholic Church of St Patrick Lodi Clay 4 06/11/1885 2112 266

Ludden Methodist Episcopal Church Ludden Dickey Not Listed 06/07/1887 2115 267

Ludden Cemetery Association Ludden Dickey 5 08/12/1889 2119 362

First Baptist Church of Ludden Ludden Dickey 3 03/28/1887 2115 204

Northwestern Loan and Banking Company Madison Lake 5 1,000,000 07/11/1889 2119 270

Madison Bank of Madison Madison Lake 3 50,000 06/30/1884 2110 334

South Dakota State Bindery Company Madison Lake 4 15,000 04/26/1889 2119 44

First Baptist Church of Madison Madison Lake 6 03/08/1884 2110 52

First German Baptist Church of Madison Madison Lake 3 12/09/1885 2112 280

Madison Lodge No. 20 Independent Order of Odd Fellows Madison Lake 3 3,500 10/19/1882 2107 271

Lake County Grain Association Madison Lake 9 2,000 11/02/1885 2112 233

Lakeside Stock Farm Madison Lake 3 100,000 06/11/1887 2115 457

Madison Telephone Company Madison Lake 5 400 06/11/1887 2115 459

Lake Madison Steamboat Pleasure and Improvement County Madison Lake 3 50,000 06/11/1887 2115 461

Lake County Publishing Company Madison Lake 7 5,000 10/19/1889 2119 539

Madison Fair and Trotting Association Madison Lake 5 9,000 09/20/1889 2119 454

Madison Motor Railway Company Madison Lake 5 30,000 08/05/1889 2119 338

Alliance Warehouse Company Madison Lake 7 10,000 10/18/1887 2116 254

Madison Electric Light Heat and Power Company Madison Lake 3 50,000 02/18/1889 2118 384

Madison Cemetery Association Madison Lake 3 10/25/1883 2109 265

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Mutual Publishing House Madison Lake 5 5,000 12/22/1887 2116 374

National Loan and Banking Company Madison Lake 5 1,000,000 03/30/1889 2118 485

First Seventh Day Adventist Church of Madison Madison Lake 3 04/28/1884 2110 183

American Mortgage and Investment Co.; Madison Lake 3 100,000 07/09/1885 2112 56

Madison Building and Loan Association Madison Lake 7 500,000 02/13/1888 2116 471

Madison Opera House Company Madison Lake 5 5,000 04/16/1884 2110 149

Roman Catholic Church of St. Thomas Madison Lake 3 02/15/1884 2109 479

Lake County Agricultural Association Madison Lake 7 07/18/1885 2112 88

First Methodist Episcopal Church Madison Lake 3 12/31/1883 2109 383

American Mortgage and Investment Company Madison Lake 5 500,000 05/06/1887 2115 327

Lake County Bank Madison Lake 3 10,000 03/07/1881 2105 103

Bank of South Dakota Madison Lake 5 100,000 07/25/1889 2119 306

Dakota Book & Stationery Co. Madison Lake 3 5,000 04/20/1885 2111 428

Madison Bank of Madison Lake Madison Lake Lake 3 100,000 02/03/1885 2111 212

First Presbyterian Society of Manchester Manchester Kingsbury 3-11 10/11/1886 2114 379

Manchester Farmers Shipping Association Manchester Kingsbury 5 5,000 08/31/1887 2116 135

Mandan Creamery Company Mandan Morton 3 5,000 04/05/1888 2117 62

West Missouri Colony Bureau of North Dakota Mandan Morton 3 10,000 06/02/1886 2113 545

Mandan Building Association Mandan Morton 7 1,000,000 06/13/1883 2109 27

Roman Catholic Congregation of St. Joseph Mandan, County of Morton Mandan Morton 5 01/30/1888 2116 416

Pioneer Publishing Company Mandan Morton 3 17,000 08/27/1883 2109 159

St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Mandan Morton 3 03/07/1885 2111 289

Greenwood Cemetery Mandan Morton 5 01/04/1883 2108 35

First Baptist Church of Mandan Mandan Morton 3 04/27/1882 2106 302

Mandan Street Railway Company Mandan Morton 5 50,000 06/13/1884 2110 299

Mandan Roller Mills Company Mandan Morton 6 50,000 06/13/1884 2110 297

Greenwood Cemetery Mandan Morton 5 02/23/1882 2106 190

Upper Missouri Navigation Company Mandan Norton 5 3,000 05/18/1883 2108 300

Emerson Institute of Mandan Mandan Burleigh 5 05/24/1880 2104 284

Pioneer Land & Business Association Mandan Morton 5 24,000 01/17/1882 2106 125

HS Fellow Methodist Episcopal Church of Mandan Mandan Morton 3 01/04/1882 2106 106

Dakota Coal Mining & Fuel Co. Mandan Morton 5 50,000 12/31/1881 2106 102

Division Number 1 of Board of Erin Ancient Order of Hibernians Mandan Morton 5 03/19/1889 2118 457

Northwestern Land & Improvement Association Mandan Morton 7 10,000 11/03/1881 2106 44

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Merchant & Mechanic Bank of Mandan Mandan Morton 5 30,000 03/28/1881 2105 130

Mandan Congregational Church Mandan Morton 3 10/01/1881 2105 398

First Presbyterian Church of Mandan Mandan Morton 5 09/27/1881 2105 391

North Dakota Co-Operative Mercantile Company Mandan Morton 9 30,000 06/10/1889 2119 163

Roman Catholic Church of St. Timothy in Manvel Manvel Grand Forks 3 04/16/1884 2110 158

Mapes Townsite Company Mapes Nelson 5 25,000 09/21/1883 2109 196

First Baptist Church of Mapes Mapes Nelson 3 10/03/1883 2109 224

St. Olaf Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Maple River (tw Ransom 5 03/19/1889 2118 418

Sawyer Steam Plow Company Mapleton Cass 5 80,000 09/29/1885 2112 197

First Presbyterian Church of Mapleton Mapleton Cass 3 09/18/1882 2107 218

Pease Valley Presbyterian Church March Charles Mix 3 07/01/1889 2119 238

Jackson Cemetery Association March Charles Mix 5 07/01/1889 2119 235

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Marion Junction of Dakota Marion Junction Turner Not Listed 07/28/1888 2117 416

Marion Junction Presbyterian Church Marion Junction Turner 3 08/22/1882 2107 190

Imanuels German Presbyterian Church of Marion Junction Marion Junction Turner 3 06/20/1889 2119 215

Martin's Valley Stock Company Martin's Valley Custer 4 5,000 05/13/1886 2113 269

Chamber of Commerce of City of Mayville Mayville Traill 7 06/02/1886 2113 568

Congregational Church of Mayville Mayville Traill 3 08/04/1882 2107 149

Mayville Elevator Company Mayville Cook 3 20,000 08/04/1885 2112 145

Mayville Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Mayville Traill 3 03/04/1886 2112 407

Goose River Investment Co. Mayville Traill 3 100,000 03/24/1886 2112 463

Mayville Roller Skating Rink Co. Mayville Traill 7 15,000 09/01/1884 2110 477

Foster Methodist Episcopal Church of Mayville Mayville Traill Not Listed 04/20/1889 2118 529

Goose River Investment Company (decrease of capital stock) Mayville Traill 3 30,000 02/26/1889 2118 403

Beidler & Robinson Lumber Co. Mayville Traill 3 50,000 03/24/1885 2111 349

Goose River Telephone Company Mayville Traill 5 2,000 01/18/1887 2114 557

Farmers Elevator Company of Mayville Mayville Traill 5 6,000 07/31/1888 2117 461

Congregational Church of Meckling Meckling Clay 3 10/09/1885 2112 214

Medora and Black Hills Railroad Co. Medora Billings 5 10,000,000 05/15/1884 2110 234

Medora Stage & Forwarding Co. Medora Billings 3 30,000 12/08/1884 2111 103

Farmers Elevator Company Mellette Spink 7 50,000 07/10/1884 2110 344

Drifting Goose Lodge N. 85, I.O.O.F. Mellette Spink 3 12/05/1888 2118 148

First Presbyterian Society of Mellette Mellette Spink 3 06/09/1883 2109 9

Congregational Church of Melville Melville Foster 3 08/25/1883 2109 153

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St. Gertrude's Church Menno Hutchinson 3 01/31/1884 2109 445

First Congregational Church of Michigan City Michigan City Kelso 3 09/28/1883 2109 214

Michigan Townsite & Land Improvement Company Michigan City Nelson 3 15,000 05/16/1883 2108 298

Roscoe Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Moody County Midway Moody 3 09/29/1882 2107 244

Duluth Milbank and South Western Railway Company Milbank Grant 5 3,000,000 10/12/1887 2116 234

Grant County Agricultural and Mechanical Association Milbank Grant 7 5,000 06/15/1886 2114 76

Congregational Church of Milbank Milbank Grant 3 01/29/1885 2111 209

Roman Catholic Church of St. Lawrence in Milbank Milbank Grant 3 07/23/1884 2110 423

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Milbank Milbank Grant 3 02/11/1882 2106 175

Duluth Milbank Huron and Chamberlain Railroad Company Milbank Grant 6 1,800,000 09/07/1889 2119 420

Advance Publishing Company Milbank Grant 7 3,000 08/31/1888 2118 8

Farmers Joint Stock Elevator Company Milbank Grant 7 3,000 08/27/1888 2117 556

Milbank Driving Park Association Milbank Grant 9 5,000 08/26/1886 2114 304

Milbank Creamery Company Milbank Grant 5 10,000 04/17/1885 2111 403

Grant County Fuel and Supply Company Milbank Grant 5 1,000 08/30/1887 2116 129

Milbank Building and Loan Association Milbank Grant 9 500,000 05/04/1888 2117 147

Dakota Methodist Publishing Company Milbank Grant 9 10,000 05/25/1889 2119 118

Milbank Egan and Sioux City Railway Company Milbank Grant 7 1,300,000 09/07/1889 2119 418

Milbank Library Association Milbank Grant 7 08/02/1882 2107 141

Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Salem's Congregation of Milbank Milbank Grant 3 08/02/1885 2112 143

Millard Cemetery Association Millard Faulk 5 04/18/1889 2118 561

Canby Post No. 12 Department of Dakota Grand Army of the Republic Miller Hand 5 06/27/1887 2115 530

Hand County Abstract Company Miller Hand 3 5,000 04/01/1889 2118 489

Hand County Agricultural Fair Association Miller Hand 11 2,000 09/22/1885 2112 186

Ree Valley and Hand County Agricultural Society Miller Hand 7 08/02/1887 2116 73

St. Lawrence and Miller Rail Road Company Miller Hand 6 50,000 02/14/1887 2115 54

Board of Trustees of the Miller Methodist Episcopal Church Miller Hand 10/08/1884 2111 19

First Presbyterian Society of Miller Miller Hand 3 08/04/1882 2107 152

Hand County Elevator Company Miller Hand 5 50,000 07/31/1885 2112 124

Hand County Farmers Alliance Elevator Company Miller Hand 11 10,000 08/20/1888 2117 530

Board of Trustees of the Miller Methodist Episcopal Church Miller Hand Not Listed 03/21/1888 2117 5

Miller Mutual Building Association Miller Hand 9 200,000 01/15/1884 2109 410

Ree Valley Lodge No. 62 I.O.O.F. Miller Hand 3 03/17/1885 2111 326

Miller Mutual Building Association Miller Hand 9 200,000 03/11/1886 2112 427

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Trustees of Funds & Property of the United Brethren Church in /Dakota Milltown Armstrong 7 09/23/1880 2104 379

Milltown Cemetery Milltown Hutchinson 3 05/07/1884 2110 203

Territorial Normal School at Milnor Dakota Milner Sargent 11 09/15/1887 2116 174

Simpson Methodist Episcopal Church of Milnor Milnor Sargent 9 03/26/1886 2112 466

Milnor Land Company Milnor Sargent 6 25,000 01/11/1884 2109 405

Milnon Scandinavian Lutheran Free Church Society Milnor Sargent 3 01/19/1886 2112 353

Sargent County Mill Company Milnor Sargent 7 15,000 06/21/1886 2114 97

Dakota Mortgage Loan Corporation Milnor Sargent 3 50,000 08/25/1883 2109 156

Sargent County Banking Company Milnor Sargent 5 50,000 08/04/1887 2116 62

Presbyterian Church of Milnor Milnor Sargent ?? 04/10/1885 2111 363

Presbyterian Church of Milton Milton Cavalier Not Listed 07/06/1888 2117 341

Milton Farmers Co-Operative Association Milton Cavalier 7 5,000 12/27/1888 2118 225

Milwaukee Junction Town Lot Company Milwaukee Junc Miner 5 03/21/1882 2106 253

First Presbyterian Church of Miner Miner Miner 3-11 02/28/1887 2115 96

Mines Townsite Company Mines Mines 3 6,000 09/21/1882 2107 234

Mouse River and Dakota Southern Railroad Company Minneapolis 5 8,000,000 04/30/1887 2115 310

Minneapolis St. Paul & Saulk Ste. Marie Railway Company of Minnesota, Wisco Minneapolis Hennepin 13 21,000,000 06/12/1888 2117 355

Redwater & Belle Fourche Milling and Irrigation Co. (Increase Cap. Stock) Minnesela Butte 250,000 03/04/1886 2112 410

Mandan Cattle Company Minnesela Lawrence 5 100,000 01/20/1883 2108 71

Minnesela Town Lite and Water Power Company Minnesela Butte 6 50,000 02/08/1887 2115 42

Minnesela Flour Milling Co. Minnesela Lawrence 5 20,000 05/25/1881 2105 201

Butte County Irrigating Ditch Company Minnesela Butte 3 10,000 03/06/1884 2110 31

Black Hills Creamery Company Minnesela Butte 5 6,000 03/02/1889 2118 408

Minnewaukan Presbyterian Church Minnewaukan Benson 08/17/1886 2114 236

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Minnewaukan County Minnewaukan Benson 05/11/1886 2113 195

Bank of Minnewaukan Minnewaukan Benson 3 25,000 03/15/1884 2110 76

Vincent Methodist Episcopal Church of Minot Minot Ward Not Listed 09/24/1887 2116 196

Presbyterian Church of Minto Dakota Minot Ward 7 02/06/1888 2116 439

First Baptist Church of Minot Minot Ward Not Listed 04/27/1888 2117 130

Bank of Minot Minot Ward 5 100,000 09/09/1887 2116 158

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Minto Minto Walsh 3 03/21/1884 2110 93

Roman Catholic Church of St. Patrick in Minto Minto Walsh 4 04/16/1884 2110 145

Minto Roller Mill & Elevator Co. Minto Walsh 5 35,000 12/19/1883 2109 357

Bank of Minto Minto Walsh 4 50,000 04/24/1885 2111 443

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Farmer's Elevator Company of Minto Minto Walsh 9 2,500 01/13/1886 2112 348

Forest Rivers Bank Minto Walsh 5 30,000 12/28/1882 2108 21

Knox Presbyterian Church of Minto Minto Walsh 5 10/11/1886 2114 382

Miranda Farmers Elevator Company Miranda Faulk 9 5,000 08/03/1888 2117 467

Congregational Church of Miranda, County of Faulk Territory of Dakota Miranda Faulk 3-9 08/25/1887 2116 118

Congregational Church of Mitchell Mitchell Davison 3 08/18/1881 2105 331

Mitchell Printing Company Mitchell Davison 3 12,000 04/21/1888 2117 118

Mitchell Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Davison County Dako Mitchell Davison 3 02/23/1889 2118 386

Mitchell Street Railway Company Mitchell Davison 4 50,000 05/15/1883 2108 296

Mitchell Dry Goods Company Mitchell Davison 3 10,000 03/19/1889 2118 452

J. M. LeVake Lumber Company Mitchell Davison 3-5 7,000 11/26/1888 2118 134

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Mitchell Mitchell Davison 3 04/28/1884 2110 186

Mitchell Building and Loan Association Mitchell Davison 9 500,000 02/24/1887 2115 80

Mitchell Building and Loan Association (stock split) Mitchell Davison 9 04/10/1889 2118 526

Mitchell Library Association Mitchell Davison 9 1,000 02/07/1882 2106 166

First Baptist Church of Mitchell Mitchell Davison 3 03/29/1882 2106 259

Security Bank Mitchell Davison 3 25,000 07/25/1885 2112 106

Farmers Purchasing & Shipping Association Mitchell Davison 7 10,000 03/19/1886 2112 451

Dakota University Mitchell Davison 3 04/27/1885 2111 445

St. Mary's Parish of Mitchell Mitchell Davison 3 02/27/1883 2108 131

Chanka Lodge No 21 Independent Order of Odd Fellows Mitchell Davison 3 04/21/1887 2115 276

Milwaukee Pressed Brick Co. Mitchell Davison 5 5,000 06/29/1882 2107 65

National Homestead Monument Association Mitchell Davison 3 10/07/1885 2112 210

Dakota Agricultural and Livestock Association Mitchell Davison 11 6,000 09/09/1886 2114 333

South Eastern Dakota Agricultural Fair Mitchell Davison 11 09/30/1880 2104 386

First Presbyterian Church of Mitchell Mitchell Davison 3 11/05/1880 2105 9

Davison County Horse Breeding Association Mitchell Davison 3 5,000 04/02/1888 2117 48

Holy Family Church at Mitchell Mitchell Davison 3 02/02/1885 2111 199

Bank of Mitchell Mitchell Davison 4 25,000 07/14/1882 2107 81

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Mitchell Mitchell Davison 3 03/06/1883 2108 150

Montrose Bank Montrose McCook 3-7 10,000 06/07/1886 2114 18

First Baptist Church of Montrose Montrose McCook 3 12/12/1882 2107 339

Montrose Roller Mill Company Montrose McCook 7 7,500 07/28/1888 2117 455

McCook Agricultural Society Montrose McCook 7 01/17/1887 2114 569

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Montrose Cemetery Corporation Montrose McCook 3 03/08/1882 2106 232

Merton Cemetery Association Morton Clark 3 08/06/1888 2117 469

Farmers Alliance Elevator & Warehouse Co. Mt. Vernon Davison 11 5,000 04/02/1886 2112 497

Mt Vernon Cemetery Association Mt. Vernon Davison 3 05/28/1883 2108 329

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Mt. Vernon Mt. Vernon Davison 3 03/19/1883 2108 177

First Free Methodist Church of Mt. Vernon Mt. Vernon Davison 5 11/29/1886 2114 473

First Baptist Church of Myron Myron Faulk 3 09/27/1886 2114 363

Congregational Church of Christ at Myron Myron Faulk 3 05/18/1885 2111 525

German Baptist Church of Plum Creek Near Bridgewat McCook 3 01/19/1886 2112 359

Congregational Church of Christ at Lake Henry Near Lake Henr Kingsbury 3 01/21/1886 2112 362

Bank of Neche Neche Pembina 6 12,000 02/01/1887 2115 32

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Neche Neche Pembina Not Listed 04/19/1887 2115 122

Union Congregational Church New England Ci Hettinger 3-9 08/02/1887 2116 53

First Holland Christelyke Reformed Kerk New Holland Douglas 6 03/31/1884 2110 110

Presbyterian Church of New Madison New Madison Lake 3 04/23/1881 2105 149

Rockford Creamery Company New Rockford Eddy 7 5,000 06/02/1888 2117 216

New Rockford Cemetery Association New Rockford Eddy 3 08/06/1888 2117 472

Baptist Church of New Rockford New Rockford Eddy 3 09/25/1885 2112 193

First Congregational Church of New Rockford New Rockford Eddy 3 07/20/1885 2112 82

Dakota County Bureau New Salem Morton 4 5,000 01/03/1884 2109 388

Deutsche Evangelical Friedent Gemeinde of New Salem New Salem Morton 3 12/19/1883 2109 352

Farmers Corporation Newark Marshall 11 20,000 05/10/1888 2117 170

Simpson Methodist Episcopal Church Newark Marshall Not Listed 06/01/1889 2119 11

Newark Milling and Elevator Company Newark Marshall 11 20,000 09/14/1888 2118 21

Newark Elevator Company Newark Marshall 3 15,000 04/09/1889 2118 518

First Apostolic Lutheran Church of Norden Norden Hamlin 9 06/15/1885 2112 6

First Baptist Church of Nordland Nordland Kingsbury 3 12/31/1883 2109 380

Denver Cemetery Association Nordland Kingsbury 5 03/16/1885 2111 314

First Methodist Episcopal Church Nordland Kingsbury 06/06/1884 2110 280

Northville Elevator Company Northville Spink 3 5,000 04/20/1885 2111 423

First Presbytery Society of Northville Northville Spink 3 06/09/1883 2109 5

Fairview Cemetery Association Northville Spink 7 02/13/1883 2108 101

Wesleyan Methodist Church of Northville Northville Spink 3 07/01/1882 2107 72

Northville Methodist Episcopal Church Northville Spink Not Listed 08/15/1888 2117 500

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Bergens Norsk Evangelical Lutherske Weirghed Norway Clay 5 01/13/1887 2114 560

Grans Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Norway Clay 3 01/28/1887 2115 20

Oakes Building and Loan Association Oakes Dickey 11 500,000 09/17/1887 2116 179

Central Dakota Agricultural Association Oakes Dickey 13 10,000 07/18/1888 2117 428

Prospect Hill Cemetery Association Oakes Dickey 3 07/03/1889 2119 243

Bank of Oakes Oakes Dickey 5 35,000 11/08/1886 2114 424

First Baptist Church of Oakes Oakes Dickey 3 03/28/1887 2115 205

Oakes Milling Company Oakes Dickey 5 40,000 06/05/1888 2117 238

First Presbyterian Society of Oakes County of Dickey, Territory of Dakota Oakes Dickey 3 01/03/1888 2116 384

First Evangelical Scandinavian Society of Oakes Oakes Dickey 3-11 10/18/1888 2118 67

Hillside Cemetery Association Oberon Benson 3 04/26/1889 2119 46

German Reformed Odessa Church of Township 96 North of Range 57 in Yankto Odessa (twp) Yankton 3-11 01/08/1889 2118 263

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Oelrichs Oelrichs Fall River 3-11 04/21/1888 2117 111

Church of St. Blanche Oelrichs Dakota Oelrichs Fall River 5 06/01/1889 2119 22

Oelrichs Packing House Company Oelrichs Fall River 3 50,000 01/05/1889 2118 249

Oelrichs Cemetery Association Oelrichs Fall River 5 06/10/1889 2119 166

Okobojo Cemetery Association Okobojo Sully 3 05/12/1888 2117 175

St. Procopins Roman Catholic Church of Ola Dakota Ola (twp) Brule 5 04/20/1889 2119 18

Oldham Baptist Church Oldham Kingsbury 3 04/07/1887 2115 232

Oldham Shipping Association Oldham Kingsbury 7 2,000 08/16/1888 2117 501

Trustees of the Free Methodist Church of Olivet Olivet Hutchinson 3 05/17/1887 2115 357

True Williams and Company Olivet Hutchinson 3 100,000 01/26/1888 2116 414

Church of Christ Olivet Hutchinson 3 05/23/1885 2111 543

First Free Methodist Church of Olivet Olivet Hutchinson 3 08/10/1881 2105 290

Olivet Society of Brethren Church Olivet Hutchinson 3 05/28/1883 2108 317

Cold Springs Creamery Olivet Hutchinson 5 4,000 02/27/1885 2111 253

Oneota Methodist Episcopal Church Oneota (twp) Brown Not Listed 04/16/1888 2117 99

Congregational Church of Onida Onida Sully 3 08/24/1883 2109 150

Onida Land & Building Association Onida Sully 4 9,600 05/08/1885 2111 500

Onida Cemetery Association Onida Sully 5 05/22/1886 2113 450

Sully County Bank Onida Sully 3 25,000 09/18/1889 2119 440

Ordway Bismarck & Northwester Railway Co. Ordway Brown 5 500,000 05/30/1883 2108 339

Central Dakota University Ordway Brown 7 11/15/1884 2111 64

Ordway Bismarck and Northwestern Railway Co. (sep. of classes of stocks) Ordway Brown 5 5,000,000 10/27/1886 2114 408

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Ordway Bismarck and Northwestern Railway Company (change of route) Ordway Brown 05/28/1887 2115 401

Ordway Cemetery Association Ordway Brown 5 10/26/1888 2118 87

Elm River Library Association Ordway Brown 7 2,000 01/27/1882 2106 145

Aberdeen Bismarck and Northwestern Railway Company (name change from Or Ordway Brown 5 05/09/1888 2117 156

Ordway Bismarck and North Western Railway Co. (change of RR direction) Ordway Brown 5 500,000 09/20/1886 2114 349

Ordway, Bismarck and Northwestern Railway Co. (Stock Split and Classification) Ordway Brown 5,000,000 05/31/1887 2115 423

Methodist Episcopal Church of Ordway Ordway Brown 3 09/12/1882 2107 203

Orient Creamery Company Orient Faulk 5 1,000 04/09/1888 2117 73

Farmers Elevator Company Oriska Barnes 3 10,000 07/22/1886 2114 192

Congregational Church of Osceola Osceola Kingsbury 3-9 12/03/1888 2118 144

Osceola Shipping Association Osceola Kingsbury 7 5,000 08/13/1888 2117 495

Blom Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Oslo (twp) Brookings 3 12/07/1888 2118 153

Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church of Lake Campbell Oslo and Medar Brookings 3 07/30/1887 2116 45

First Baptist Church of Page Page Cass 3 07/30/1887 2116 49

Palisade Building Association & Improvement Co. Palisade Twp. Minnehaha 7 1,000 03/15/1886 2112 439

Palisades Improvement Company Palisades (twp) Minnehaha 5 50,000 03/27/1888 2117 19

Park River Driving Park and Agricultural Fair Association of Park River, Walsh Co Park River Walsh 5 1,500 07/18/1888 2117 423

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Park River Park River Walsh 3 11/17/1884 2111 67

Park River Baptist Church Park River Walsh 3 06/19/1885 2112 9

First Presbyterian Church Park River Park River Walsh 3 01/14/1885 2111 156

Farmers Union Elevator Co. Park River Walsh 11 10,000 02/15/1886 2112 378

Park River Creamery Company of Park River Park River Walsh 7 5,000 03/30/1888 2117 32

Turner County Farmers Alliance Company Parker Turner 9 20,000 05/10/1888 2117 168

Turner County Agricultural Society Parker Turner 7 1,250 03/17/1884 2110 82

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Parker Parker Turner 3 07/30/1881 2105 281

Parker Mill Company Parker Turner 3 25,000 02/05/1885 2111 220

First Presbyterian Church of Parker Parker Turner 3 05/07/1880 2104 274

Parker Cemetery Association Parker Turner 3 08/21/1880 2104 359

First Baptist Church of Parker Parker Turner 5 07/29/1880 2104 338

Parkston Opera House Company Parkston Hutchinson 3-11 1,000 04/27/1889 2119 48

Zion Congregational Church of Parkston Parkston Hutchinson 3-9 10/27/1888 2118 89

German Congregational church of Parkston Parkston Hutchinson 3-9 10/27/1888 2118 91

First Methodist Episcopal Church Parkston Hutchinson Not Listed 07/29/1887 2115 547

First Baptist Association of Parkston Parkston Hutchinson 3 05/20/1887 2115 360

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Evangelical Lutheran Emanuel's Congregation Pearl McCook 3 08/30/1888 2118 3

Pembina Bridge Association Pembina Pembina 3 2,000 07/18/1879 2104 114

Icelandic Printing Company Pembina Pembina 5 3,000 10/12/1888 2118 53

Pembina Mill Company Pembina Pembina 3 12/12/1881 2106 81

Pembina Elevator Company Pembina Pembina 4 50,000 11/29/1886 2114 467

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Pembina Pembina Pembina 3 04/20/1881 2105 141

Dakota and Northwestern Railroad Company Pembina Pembina 7 2,000,000 08/27/1889 2119 414

Pembina Mill Company Pembina Pembina 50,000 06/23/1883 2109 53

Pembina County Creamery Company Pembina Pembina 5 8,000 01/23/1888 2116 393

Manitoba Pembina and Grand Forks Railroad Co. Pembina Pembina 5 1,000,000 10/20/1882 2107 273

Congregational Church of Pembina Pembina Pembina 6 06/01/1882 2107 22

Pembina Milling & Manufacturing Co. Pembina Pembina 4 50,000 03/13/1886 2112 434

North America Milling and Elevator Company Pembina Pembina 4 25,000 10/10/1887 2116 228

Grace Church Pembina Pembina 08/05/1886 2114 252

First Presbyterian Church of Pembina Pembina Pembina 5 04/29/1880 2104 272

Pembina Hotel Company Pembina Pembina 7 6,000 05/11/1881 2105 165

Pembina Mill Co. Pembina Pembina 4 15,000 06/03/1880 2104 306

Pembina County Telephone Company Pembina Pembina 3 5,000 10/31/1888 2118 94

Pembina Building and Loan Association Pembina Pembina 9 400,000 02/09/1888 2116 450

First Congregational Church of Christ in Petersburg Petersburg nelson 3 09/18/1888 2118 25

Free Evangelical Lutheran Church of Petersburg Petersburg Bon Homme 3-9 07/19/1886 2114 180

First Presbyterian Society of Pierpont Pierpont Day 3-11 01/29/1889 2118 331

First Baptist Church of Pierpont Dakota Pierpont Day 3 12/11/1888 2118 158

Security Mortgage & Investment Co. Pierre Hughes 3 50,000 08/22/1883 2109 149

Presbytery of Southern Dakota Pierre Hughes 3 07/09/1883 2109 68

Signal Publishing Company Pierre Hughes 3 12,000 07/06/1883 2109 66

Dakota Construction & Hotel company of Pierre Pierre Hughes 5 25,000 08/27/1883 2109 165

Pierre Electric Light and Power Pierre Hughes 5 50,000 06/13/1889 2119 183

Hughes County Abstract Co. Pierre Hughes 3 10,000 04/19/1889 2119 8

Mutual Investment Company Pierre Hughes 5-11 10,000,000 05/21/1888 2117 190

Pierre Savings Bank Pierre Hughes 7 50,000 05/15/1888 2117 179

Capital Building Company Pierre Hughes 5 50,000 10/21/1889 2119 543

Pierre Livestock Company Pierre Hughes 5 100,000 08/14/1889 2119 373

Free Press Company Pierre Hughes 5 5,000 05/28/1888 2117 208

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Connecticut Land Company Pierre Hughes 5 100,000 10/31/1889 2119 542

McDonald Horse Company Pierre Hughes 3 500,000 11/19/1888 2118 120

Pierre Cemetery Association Pierre Hughes 4 2,000 02/09/1882 2106 172

Security Mortgage and Investment Company (acceptance of amendments) Pierre Hughes 11/08/1888 2118 102

Pierre Publishing Company Pierre Hughes 4 20,000 04/19/1889 2119 5

Interstate Land Company Pierre Hughes 5 100,000 10/19/1888 2118 74

Pierre Pontoon Ridge Company Pierre Hughes 6 100,000 05/28/1889 2119 129

Tenth Street Methodist Episcopal Church Pierre Hughes Per Discipli 11/02/1889 2119 575

Pierre Street Railway Company Pierre Hughes 5 50,000 04/05/1883 2108 218

Bank of Commerce Pierre Hughes 7 100,000 04/29/1889 2119 57

Yankton, Okobojo and Fort Buford Rail Road Company Pierre Hughes 4 15,000,000 04/27/1883 2108 263

First Presbyterian Society of Pierre Pierre Hughes 3 04/28/1883 2108 273

Pierre Gas & Light Company Pierre Hughes 5 50,000 05/01/1883 2108 279

Park Addition Association Pierre Hughes 3 100,000 05/09/1883 2108 294

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Pierre Pierre Hughes 3 05/24/1881 2105 211

Western Loan & Trust Company Pierre Hughes 3 50,000 08/29/1883 2109 166

First Congregational Church of Pierre Pierre Hughes 3 09/17/1881 2105 386

Pierre Ferry & Transfer Co Pierre Hughes 3 10,000 04/12/1886 2112 538

South Dakota Livestock Association (increase of stock) Pierre Hughes 5 500,000 01/24/1887 2115 7

Northwestern Straw Fuel Company Pierre Hughes 3+ 10,000 09/11/1886 2114 294

Pierre Union Bridge & Transfer Co. Pierre Hughes 7 2,000,000 12/26/1885 2112 312

River Side Cemetery Pierre Hughes 3 12/23/1884 2111 133

Western Loan and Trust Company (Increase in Capital Stock) Pierre Hughes Not Listed 250,000 04/19/1886 2113 19

Synod of Dakota Pierre Hughes 3 11/11/1884 2111 50

Hughes /County Agricultural Fair Association Pierre Hughes 5 5,000 07/09/1885 2112 54

Pierre Loan and Savings Company Pierre Hughes 5 50,000 12/18/1886 2114 518

Pierre City Railway Co. Pierre Hughes 5 25,000 07/03/1885 2112 47

Black Hawk Medicine Co. Pierre Hughes 3 50,000 04/03/1886 2112 502

Northwestern Grain & Land Co. Pierre Hughes 5 8,000 01/12/1886 2112 347

Security Mortgage and Investment Company (increase of stock) Pierre Hughes 100,000 05/20/1887 2115 359

South Dakota Livestock Association Pierre Hughes 5 100,000 05/19/1885 2111 530

Pierre Water Works Co. Pierre Hughes 5 125,000 05/16/1885 2111 517

Western Loan and Trust Company of Pierre (certificate of acceptance) Pierre Hughes 11/10/1887 2116 291

Pierre & Southwestern Railroad Company Pierre Hughes 7 5,000,000 05/24/1884 2110 251

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Pierre City Railroad Co. Pierre Hughes 5 25,000 06/08/1885 2111 567

Western Loan & Trust Company Pierre Hughes 3 50,000 09/22/1884 2110 505

Dakota Loan & Trust Co. Pierre Hughes 4 100,000 11/09/1885 2112 239

Central Insurance Company of Dakota Pierre Hughes 3 50,000 03/04/1885 2111 286

Roman Catholic Church of Sts Peter & Paul in Pierre Pierre Hughes 3 07/23/1884 2110 427

Dakota Loan & Trust Co. Pierre Hughes 3 100,000 02/27/1885 2111 276

Duluth Pierre and Black Hills Rail Road Company Pierre Hughes 7 3,000,000 10/01/1886 2114 371

Western Loan and Trust Company Pierre Hughes Not Listed 1,000,000 11/13/1886 2114 442

Pierre Publishing Company Pierre Hughes 5 10,000 04/11/1884 2110 132

Citizens Bank Pierre Hughes 3 50,000 01/13/1886 2112 285

Missouri Valley Land and Cattle Co. of Pierre Pierre Hughes 5 50,000 08/07/1886 2114 262

Western Loan & Trust Co. of Pierre Pierre Hughes 75,000 11/27/1885 2112 259

Box Elder Water Company Pinkerton Pennington 3 10,000 01/11/1883 2108 50

First Congregational Church of Plankinton Plankinton Aurora 3 07/14/1882 2107 84

Farmers Livestock Association Plankinton Aurora 5 08/03/1889 2119 330

State Livestock Association Plankinton Aurora 5 03/21/1889 2118 463

Plankinton Dairy Company Plankinton Aurora 7 2,500 06/22/1887 2115 505

Farmer's Mutual Protective Association Plankinton Aurora 5 11/19/1884 2111 73

Citizens Building and Loan Association Plankinton Aurora 9 500,000 06/09/1887 2115 455

Security Life and Accident Association Plankinton Aurora 5 01/29/1889 2118 326

Aurora County Agricultural Fair Association Plankinton Aurora 11 1,500 06/04/1887 2115 440

Bank Of Plankinton Plankinton Aurora 5 50,000 11/27/1885 2112 253

Dakota Mutual Relief Association Plankinton Aurora 5 02/24/1887 2115 129

Journal Printing Company Plankinton Aurora 9 10,000 01/08/1887 2114 553

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Plankinton Plankinton Aurora 3 03/19/1883 2108 180

Dakota Mutual Relief Association Plankinton Aurora 5 02/24/1887 2115 78

Farmers Elevator Co. of Plankinton Plankinton Aurora 9 5,000 04/02/1886 2112 499

Dakota Hail Association Plankinton Aurora 7 02/09/1889 2118 354

Aurora County Agricultural Society Plankinton Aurora 5 5,000 07/03/1883 2109 64

Plankinton Academy Plankinton Aurora 9 04/09/1886 2112 525

Pleasant Hill Burying Ground Association Pleasant Hill Hutchinson 3 11/08/1886 2114 418

Fire Steele Valley Dairy Association Pleasant Valley Aurora 7 400 04/23/1886 2113 52

Pleasant Valley Presbyterian Church of Meade County Pleasant Valley Meade 3-11 10/12/1889 2119 499

Lodi Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church Pleasant Valley Clay 3 12/08/1882 2107 333

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Portland Building Association Portland Traill 3 5,000 11/01/1887 2116 277

Bruflats Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Portland Traill 6 04/13/1888 2117 93

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Portland, County of Traill, Dakota Territory Portland Traill Not Listed 01/19/1889 2118 283

Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church of Powell Powell Edmunds 5 02/27/1885 2111 262

Welsh Congregational Church of Powell Powell Edmonds 3 12/01/885 2112 257

Suigsaas Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church of Prairie Farm Prairie Farm Brookings 3 05/23/1883 2108 311

Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church of Prairie Queen Prairie Queen Lake 3 09/06/1884 2110 495

Congregational Church of Grove Hill Prairie Twp. Union 3 08/12/1880 2104 353

Oregon Colonization Company Prohibition City Stark 8 10,000 08/25/1884 2110 470

Free Methodist Church of Providence Providence Hutchinson 3 01/11/1886 2112 343

Putney Methodist Episcopal Church Putney Brown Not Listed 09/16/1887 2116 176

Badus Farmers Alliance Company Ramona Lake 5 3,000 08/09/1888 2117 486

St. John's Roman Catholic Church of Ransom Ransom Sargent 5 05/09/1889 2118 538

Black Hills Livestock Association Rapid City Pennington 5 12/10/1880 2105 32

Lower Rapid Ditch Company Rapid City Pennington 3 15,000 01/10/1881 2105 57

Pennington County Industrial Association Rapid City Pennington 5 50,000 07/27/1885 2112 109

Box Elder Land & Livestock Company Rapid City Pennington 6 100,000 07/29/1885 2112 113

Western Dakota Land & Mortgage Co. Rapid City Pennington 3 10,000 02/27/1885 2111 256

Rapid City Water Company Rapid City Pennington 5 200,000 09/29/1882 2107 249

Black Hills Central Railroad Company Rapid City Pennington 5 1,600,000 06/17/1889 2119 198

West Salem Gold and Silver Mining and Milling Company Rapid City Pennington 7 300,000 02/05/1887 2115 36

Golden Reef Mining and Milling Company of Rapid City, Dakota Rapid City Pennington 5-9 200,000 09/12/1887 2116 163

Silver Bar Mining and Milling Company Rapid City Pennington 5 1,250,000 06/22/1887 2115 507

Rapid City Wyoming and Western Railway Company of Rapid City Dakota Rapid City Pennington 6 1,000,000 06/13/1887 2115 476

First Presbyterian Church of Rapid city Rapid City Pennington 3-11 02/25/1887 2115 90

Mutual Water Company Rapid City Pennington 4 5,000 05/09/1883 2108 292

Dakota Nebraska Loan and Trust Company of Rapid City, Dakota Rapid City Pennington 7 100,000 02/18/1887 2115 86

Rapid City oil and Coal Mining Company Rapid City Pennington 11 2,000,000 08/04/1886 2114 245

Olive Tin Mining Milling and Manufacturing Company Rapid City Pennington 5 500,000 12/17/1888 2118 203

Gate City Mining Company Rapid City Pennington 7 1,000,000 12/03/1887 2116 342

Rapid City Water Works Rapid City Pennington 3 100,000 06/18/1880 2104 313

Keystone Land & Cattle Co. Rapid City Pennington 5 500,000 12/13/1884 2111 120

Evergreen Cemetery Association Rapid City Pennington 5 09/24/1888 2118 31

Rapid City Electric and gas Light Company Rapid City Pennington 11 None Listed 08/30/1886 2114 302

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Rapid City Harney Peak and Southwestern Railway Company Rapid City Pennington 5 2,500,000 07/23/1888 2117 435

Hermosa Hydraulic Company of Dakota Rapid City Pennington 5-9 1,000,000 08/15/1887 2116 90

Bergen Scandinavian Evangelical Lutheran Church of Rapid City Rapid City Pennington 3 08/17/1887 2116 102

Lakota Oil and Coal Company Rapid City Pennington 7 600,000 01/19/1889 2118 296

Roman Catholic Church of St. Mary's of the Immaculate Conception of Rapid Cit Rapid City Pennington 5 08/23/1887 2116 110

Louray Gold Company of Rapid City Rapid City Pennington 5-9 1,000,000 08/25/1887 2116 115

Rapid City Trotting Horse Company Rapid City Pennington 5 2,000 06/01/1889 2119 136

Mountain View Cemetery Company Rapid City Pennington 7 10,000 08/21/1888 2117 540

Buckeye Livestock Company Rapid City Pennington 3 99,000 02/02/1885 2111 203

Alice Mining Company Rapid City Pennington 7 250,000 06/29/1887 2115 552

Percheron and Arabian Importing Horse Company Rapid City Pennington 3 40,000 10/07/1887 2116 222

Rapid City Library Association Rapid City Pennington 5 01/24/1881 2105 73

Rapid City Board of Trade Rapid City Pennington 11 05/20/1886 2113 415

Inca Silver Mining Company Rapid City Pennington 7 1,000,000 10/03/1887 2116 212

Western Dakota Land and Horse Company Rapid City Pennington 3-7 300,000 08/02/1888 2117 464

Deer Creek Oil Company Rapid City Pennington 5 10,000,000 09/08/1886 2114 328

Black Hills Lime Company Rapid City Pennington 5 50,000 05/19/1886 2113 361

Glyndoor Slate Company Rapid City Pennington 7 500,000 08/10/1886 2114 264

Brown Irrigating Ditch Company Rapid City Pennington 4 10,000 04/23/1881 2105 145

Rapid City Tin Mining Company Rapid City Pennington 7 1,000,000 05/22/1886 2113 434

Black Hills Detective Association Rapid City Pennington Not Listed 07/20/1887 2116 10

Rapid River Milling Company Rapid City Pennington 7 60,000 07/29/1889 2119 311

Rapid Gold Mining Company Rapid City Pennington 5 2,000,000 01/21/1889 2118 305

Crystal Hill Mining Company Rapid City Pennington 5 1,250,000 06/02/1886 2113 570

Rapid City and Jamestown Improvement Company Rapid City Pennington 5 100,000 02/09/1889 2118 351

Black Hills Mining and Milling Company Rapid City Pennington 5 1,500,000 07/17/1886 2114 176

Mineral Hill Gold Mining Company Rapid City Pennington 9 1,000,000 06/10/1886 2114 35

Congdon and Henry Hardware Company Rapid City Pennington 3 50,000 03/12/1888 2116 544

Manufacturers Water Power Company of Rapid City Rapid City Pennington 3 5,000 04/06/1889 2118 507

Rapid Creek Lumber and Boom Co. Rapid City Pennington 3 10,000 02/10/1886 2112 374

Rapid City Mining Company Rapid City Pennington 5 500,000 10/31/1881 2106 32

Rapid Valley Irrigating Company Rapid City Pennington 3 15,000 02/07/1879 2104 52

Odd Fellows Temple Building Association of Rapid City Rapid City Pennington 9 20,000 04/06/1887 2115 226

Queen Bee's Fold Mining and Milling Company Rapid City Pennington 7 1,500,000 06/10/1886 2114 29

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German Mining Company Rapid City Pennington 5-9 2,500,000 05/25/1887 2115 380

Sunny Side Gold and Silver Mining and Milling Company Rapid City Pennington 7 2,000,000 01/21/1889 2118 307

Lakota Banking and Investment Company Rapid City Pennington 3 50,000 04/21/1888 2117 120

Rapid City Fair Association Rapid City Pennington 9 10,000 04/30/1886 2113 89

Montana Gold Mining Company of Rapid City Rapid City Pennington 5 500,000 10/14/1889 2119 502

First Congregational Church of Rapid City Rapid City Pennington 3 01/18/1881 2106 52

Rapid City Street Railway Co. Rapid City Pennington 7 100,000 01/04/1886 2112 335

Bailey Loan Company (amendment) Rapid City Pennington 5 250,000 03/25/1889 2118 469

Gate City Mill Co. Rapid City Pennington 3 60,000 01/04/1886 2112 337

Cedar Rapids Gold Mining Company Rapid City Pennington 9 `3,000,000 05/15/1884 2110 224

Pennington County Bank Rapid City Pennington 7 50,000 03/19/1888 2117 1

Black Hills Ditch Company Rapid City Pennington 3 25,000 08/06/1878 2104 6

Rapid City Coal Mining Company Rapid City Pennington 5 5,000 08/31/1878 2104 11

Golden Age Consolidated Gold Mining Company Rapid City Pennington 7 2,500,000 06/02/1886 2113 579

Silver Belt Mining Company Rapid City Pennington 5 1,500,000 06/02/1886 2113 577

Black Hills Tin Mining Company Rapid City Pennington 3 2,000,000 12/19/1888 2118 221

Harney City Tin Mining Milling and Manufacturing Co. Rapid City Pennington 3 1,500,000 03/18/1886 2112 447

Harney Hotel Rapid City Pennington 7 40,000 03/22/1886 2112 456

Dakota Wyoming and Western Rail road Co. Rapid City Pennington 7 12,000,000 05/12/1882 2106 330

Rapid Creek Lumber and Navigation Company Rapid City Pennington 3 50,000 03/07/1887 2115 151

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Rapid City Rapid City Pennington 6 03/27/1882 2106 257

Rapid City & Southwestern Railroad Co. Rapid City Pennington 5 500,000 03/06/1886 2112 413

Bailey Loan Company Rapid City Pennington 5 250,000 03/02/1889 2118 411

Rapid City Gas & Light & Fuel Co. Rapid City Pennington 5 50,000 03/29/1886 2112 485

Rapid City Driving Park Rapid City Pennington 9 5,000 08/02/1884 2110 393

Western Improvement Ditch Co. Rapid City Pennington 3 10,000 09/03/1881 2105 364

Rapid City Masonic Temple building Association Rapid City Pennington 5 30,000 04/20/1882 2106 285

Republican Publishing Co. Rapid City Pennington 7 1,500 07/23/1884 2110 374

Black Hills Publishing Company Rapid City Pennington 3 3,000 09/19/1889 2119 439

Farmers Elevator Company of Raymond Raymond Clark 5 7,000 07/26/1888 2117 447

First Presbyterian of Raymond Raymond Clark 3-11 04/23/1886 2113 54

Congregational Church of Raymond Raymond Clark 3 05/16/1884 2110 239

Farmers Elevator Company of Raymond Raymond Clark 5 2,000 08/04/1887 2116 56

Dakota Eummuer Telephone Company Redfield Spink 7 100,000 10/11/1886 2114 376

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South Dakota Investment Company Redfield Spink 11 500,000 02/20/1889 2118 389

Farmers Elevator Co. of Redfield Redfield Spink 9 15,000 05/21/1885 2111 532

South Dakota Land and Improvement Company Redfield Spink 7 200,000 10/12/1889 2119 517

North Western Mortgage Trust Company Redfield Spink 5 50,000 10/22/1887 2116 265

Redfield College Redfield Spink 7 05/03/1887 2115 323

Spink County Bank Redfield Spink 5 50,000 04/18/1884 2110 162

Spink County Agricultural Association Redfield Spink 15 05/25/1882 2107 10

Redfield Building and Loan Association Redfield Spink 11 500,000 05/20/1886 2113 537

North Western Improvement Company Redfield Spink 5 100,000 01/18/1887 2114 571

First German Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Redfield Redfield Spink Not Listed 05/31/1887 2115 420

Redfield Elevator Company Redfield Spink 7 10,000 12/03/1888 2118 141

Coteau Alliance Redfield Spink 5 100,000 07/06/1888 2117 310

Syndicate Block Company Redfield Spink 5 20,000 05/17/1888 2117 182

Redfield Driving Park Association Redfield Spink 7 2,500 07/16/1888 2117 322

Northwestern Mortgage Trust Company (increase of stock) Redfield Spink 100,000 06/11/1888 2117 253

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Redfield Redfield Spink 3 11/01/1881 2106 40

Redfield Basebal Association Redfield Spink 5 5,000 04/17/1889 2118 555

Redfield Bismarck Northern Railroad Co. Redfield Spink 5 5,000,000 01/15/1884 2109 413

Spink County Land Irrigation and Improvement Company Redfield Spink 7 100,000 09/10/1889 2119 426

Congregational Church of Ree Heights Ree Heights Hand 3 09/24/1885 2112 191

Ree Heights Creamery Company Ree Heights Hand 3 3,000 11/01/1887 2116 275

Ree Heights Water & Coal Company Ree Heights Hand 5 4,500 08/09/1883 2109 122

Farmers Joint Stock Elevator Co. Revilla Grant 7 2,000 03/19/1886 2112 449

Norwegian Lutheran Trinity Church of Revillo Revillo Grant 3-9 08/02/1889 2119 324

Congregation Church of Revillo, County of Grant Dakota Revillo Grant 3-9 03/16/1887 2115 173

Reynolds Opera House Association Reynolds Grand Forks 3 500,000 01/14/1889 2118 190

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Reynolds Reynolds Grand Forks 3 07/13/1883 2109 79

Farmers Elevator Company of Reynolds Reynolds Grand Forks 7 3,500 08/14/1886 2114 273

First Methodist Episcopal Church Richland Miner 3 04/28/1885 2111 452

Richmond Town Site Company Richmond Brown 5 20,000 11/20/1879 2104 175

Rio Cheese Co. Rio Stutsman 7 2,500 07/10/1889 2119 264

Riverdale Townsite Company Riverdale Dickey 5 10,000 06/09/1887 2115 447

Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Augustana Congregation of Brown County Riverside Brown 3 03/08/1886 2112 417

Riverside Ranch Company of Morton County Riverside Ranch Morton 6 200,000 06/17/1886 2114 392

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Boston & Little Rapid Milling & Water Power Co. Rochford Pennington 5 2,000,000 08/03/1883 2109 112

Mineral Hill Mill and Mining Company Rockerville Pennington 3 500,000 09/11/1878 2104 19

Rockerville and Teepee Ditch and Flume Company Rockerville Pennington 3 15,000 02/08/1879 2104 49

Central Telephone and Telegraph Co. Rockerville & R Pennington 5 10,000 04/07/1880 2104 263

Rockford & Rapid Creek Flume Company Rockford Pennington 7 100,000 05/18/1879 2104 88

First German Society of Faulk County Dakota Territory methodist Episcopal Chu Rockham Faulk Not Listed 11/18/1887 2116 311

Presbyterian Church of Rolla Rolla Rolette 3 04/26/1889 2119 42

Mount Pleasant Cemetery Association of Rolla Rolette County Dakota Rolla Rolette 3 06/29/1889 2119 232

First Congregational Church of Rome Rome Davison 3 05/12/1882 2106 325

First Presbyterian Society of Rondell Rondell Brown 3-11 10/17/1888 2118 62

Central Dakota Land Company Roscoe Edmunds 5 100,000 06/28/1884 2110 331

Roscoe Creamery Company Roscoe Edmunds 11 7,000 03/31/1888 2117 40

Methodist Episcopal Church of Roscoe Dakota Roscoe Edmunds Not Listed 04/25/1887 2115 160

Roscoe Cemetery Corporation Roscoe Edmunds 5 5,000 01/03/1888 2116 387

First Presbyterian Church of Roscoe, Dakota Territory Roscoe Edmunds 3-11 11/13/1886 2114 435

Congregational Church of Rose Valley Rose Valley Cass 3-9 07/07/1888 2117 338

Congregational Church of Rosette Park Rosette Park Edmunds 3 11/09/1888 2118 103

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Roswell Roswell Miner 3 07/03/1885 2112 37

Rowena Granite Company Rowena Minnehaha 3 25,000 08/25/1888 2117 552

Ryan Land Improvement Company Rowena Minnehaha 3 25,000 08/25/1888 2117 554

Rowena First Methodist Episcopal Church Rowena Minnehaha Not Listed 01/12/1889 2118 273

Blue Bird Gold and Silver Mining Company Ruby Basin Lawrence 7 1,250,000 05/08/1886 2113 185

Ruby Bell Gold and Silver Mining Company Ruby Basin Lawrence 5 2,500,000 05/06/1886 2113 152

Jumbo Mining Company Ruby Basin Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/04/1886 2113 118

Terisa Queen Mining Company Ruby Basin Lawrence 5 1,250,000 07/17/1886 2114 178

Hot Spur Mining Company Ruby Basin Lawrence 5 1,250,000 05/13/1886 2113 200

Bank of Rugby Rugby Ward 5 100,000 01/04/1889 2118 245

Fairview Cemetery Company Rural Jerauld 5 05/02/1885 2111 464

Union Cemetery Company Rural Jerauld 4 01/19/1886 2112 356

Close Communion German Baptist Church of Plum Creek Rural Hutchinson 3 01/19/1886 2112 358

Miller and Saint Lawrence Street Railroad Company Saint Lawrence Hand 5 15,000 06/06/1889 2119 171

Salem Methodist Episcopal Church Salem McCook 08/13/1886 2114 240

Wildwood Cemetery Association of Salem McCook County, Dakota Territory Salem McCook 5 100 08/11/1887 2116 83

Salem Mill company Salem McCook 5 10,000 05/02/1885 2111 469

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Salem Driving Park Association Salem McCook 5 1,000 05/24/1887 2115 375

Board of Trade of the City of Salem Salem McCook 3-9 1,000 07/06/1889 2119 332

Grand Army Building Association Salem McCook 5 10,000 03/29/1886 2112 478

St. Mary's German Catholic Church of Salem Dakota Salem McCook 4 01/25/1887 2115 10

Lenham Elevator & Lumber Co (name change) Sanborn Barnes 04/22/1885 2111 435

Central Congregational Church Sanborn Barnes 3 08/17/1882 2107 181

Sanborn Coopertown & Turtle Mountain Rail road Co. Sanborn Barnes 9 300,000 07/22/1882 2107 108

Sanborn Gun Club Sanborn Barnes 5 05/22/1884 2110 253

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Sanborn Town of Sanborn County Sanborn Sanborn 3 06/11/1880 2104 320

Sanborn Farmers Alliance Elevator of Barnes County Sanborn Barnes 7 2,500 07/26/1888 2117 450

Sanborn Creamery Company Sanborn Barnes 5 1,800 03/16/1888 2116 568

Leuham Elevator & Lumber Company Sanborn Barnes 4 5,000 06/07/1883 2109 3

Presbyterian Church of Sanborn Dakota Sanborn Barnes 5+ 07/26/1888 2117 425

Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church of Deuel County Dakota Scandinavia (tw Deuel Not Listed 11/26/1888 2118 136

Nordlake Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Scandinavia (tw Deuel 5 12/29/1888 2118 236

Evangelical Lutheran Zion Congregation of Scotland Scotland Bon Homme 3 12/24/1885 2112 310

Scotland Horse Fair and Track Association Scotland Bon Homme 8 4,000 06/21/1886 2114 95

Reformed Behanian Church Scotland Bon Homme 3 05/13/1886 2113 258

First Methodist Episcopal Church Scotland Bon Homme 4 02/02/1884 2110 119

Bon Homme County Bank Scotland Bon Homme 7 50,000 05/28/1885 2111 551

Presbytery of Southern Dakota Scotland Bon Homme 3-11 04/20/1886 2113 24

German Insurance Company Scotland Bon Homme 7 02/07/1883 2108 84

Maxwell & Parmenter Mill Company Scotland Bon Homme 3 50,000 12/30/1885 2112 324

United Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Scotland Scotland Bon Homme 5 05/27/1887 2115 394

Scotland Creamery Company Limited Scotland Bon Homme 5 6,000 12/17/1886 2114 516

Dakota Elevator Company Scotland Bon Homme 10 6,000 02/28/1885 2111 282

Evangelical Congregational German Church at Scotland Scotland Bon Homme 3-9 10/08/1886 2114 374

Prairie Land Company Scotland Bon Homme 3 500,000 02/24/1888 2116 499

A. O. U. W. Building Association Sheldon Ransom 7 2,500 03/21/1889 2118 461

Sheldon Creamery Company Sheldon Ransom 11 5,000 02/24/1888 2116 495

First Presbyterian Church of Sheldon Sheldon Ransom 5 05/20/1886 2113 418

Sherman Cemetery Association Sherman Minnehaha 3 08/15/1889 2119 375

Zion Church of Society of the Dakota Conference (trustee election) Silver Lake Lincoln 3 10/16/1886 2114 428

Zion Church Society of the Dakota Conference of the Evang. Assoc. of North Am Silver Lake Lincoln 3 11/10/1886 2114 430

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Skandinavia Evangelical Lutheran Church of Sims Sims Morton 6 11/25/1885 2112 250

Dakota and New England Loan and Trust Company of Sioux Falls, Dakota Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5+ 200,000 02/21/1887 2115 69

Sioux Falls Driving Park Associati0on Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 20,000 02/26/1884 2110 12

John W. Tuthill Lumber Co. Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 50,000 08/18/1885 2112 152

Sioux Falls Printing and Supply Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5+ 20,000 02/21/1887 2115 71

Sioux Falls Real Estate and Improvement Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3-11 250,000 02/05/1889 2118 343

Sioux Falls and Pacific Short Line Railroad Sioux Falls Minnehaha 6 1,000,000 05/04/1889 2119 77

Northwestern Investment Company (increase of stock) Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 300,000 05/01/1889 2119 62

Sioux Falls Granite Company Limited Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 250,000 08/26/1889 2119 397

Sioux Falls Water Power Co. Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 500,000 05/20/1882 2107 3

Sioux Falls Public Library Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 08/04/1886 2114 253

German-American Loan & Investment Co. Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 60,000 09/14/1885 2112 185

Northwestern Investment Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 100,000 12/05/1888 2118 174

First Congregational Church of Sioux Falls Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 03/06/1879 2104 75

Plainview Farming & Stockraising Co. Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 25,000 01/30/1882 2106 153

Sioux Falls Investment and Improvement Sioux Falls Minnehaha 11 100,000 08/13/1889 2119 365

Our Savior Norwegian Luth. Evangelical Luth. Church Soc. of Sioux Falls Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 02/18/1879 2104 46

German Evangelical Lutheran Church Society of Sioux Falls Minnehaha County Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 06/29/1888 2117 311

Queen Bee Mill Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 6 300,000 01/09/1883 2108 40

Milwaukee Sioux Falls and Red River Railroad Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 13 100,000 04/08/1879 2104 64

Sioux Falls Brick Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 30,000 09/27/1883 2109 209

Dakota Mutual Life Insurance Association Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 09/26/1884 2110 527

Chapter of Calvary Cathedral Sioux Falls Minnehaha 10 09/24/1885 2112 187

Reformed Church of Sioux Falls Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 02/27/1884 2110 22

South Dakota Rapid Transit and Railway Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 7 100,000 05/17/1889 2119 94

Argus Leader Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 25,000 04/07/1887 2115 229

Merchants Bank Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 100,000 11/23/1888 2118 122

Skandi-American Loan and Trust banking Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 10,000 07/11/1888 2117 296

Cascade Milling Company (increase of stock) Sioux Falls Minnehaha 75,000 05/16/1887 2115 352

Sioux Falls Mutual Aid Association (acceptance of provisions) Sioux Falls Minnehaha 12/17/1887 2116 358

Northwestern Investment Company (increase of stock) Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 500,000 05/09/1889 2119 85

Sioux Falls Bottling Works Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 15,000 05/12/1887 2115 337

Western Surety and Investment Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 100,000 02/25/1888 2116 501

First Baptist Church of Sioux Falls Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 11/27/1885 2112 260

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Sioux Falls and Denver Railroad Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 10,000,000 09/19/1889 2119 444

Sioux Falls Water Power Co. Sioux Falls Minnehaha 9 300,000 09/18/1879 2104 148

Sioux Falls Electric Light & Power Co. Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 50,000 02/06/1884 2109 460

Minnehaha Canning Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3-7 30,000 04/13/1889 2118 536

D. Elwell and Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 25,000 07/12/1884 2110 355

First Methodist Church of Sioux Falls Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 05/31/1884 2110 261

Sioux Falls Law Library Association Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 10/15/1885 2112 217

Sioux Falls City Street Railway Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 150,000 03/22/1887 2115 179

Black Hills Loan and Trust Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 7 50,000 02/29/1888 2116 512

Sioux Falls Mutual Aid Association Sioux Falls Minnehaha 11 12/31/1883 2109 376

Sioux Falls Water Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 100,000 06/26/1884 2110 315

Dakota Collegiate Institute Sioux Falls Minnehaha 11 10/17/1881 2106 22

Dakota Union Railway Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 15,840,000 05/30/1887 2115 410

German American Loan and Trust Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 500,000 09/26/1889 2119 466

Bismarck Sioux Falls & St. Louis Rail Road Co. Sioux Falls Minnehaha 11 500,000 11/19/1881 2106 58

Sioux Falls Gas Light Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 50,000 05/02/1888 2117 137

Times Printing Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 5,000 09/28/1881 2105 396

Sioux Falls Brewing Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 50,000 12/27/1881 2106 93

First Baptist Church of Sioux Falls Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 04/02/1881 2108 215

Sioux Falls Granite Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 100,000 12/21/1887 2116 376

Sioux Falls Fence Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 8,000 10/27/1883 2109 270

Yankton Street Railroad Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 100,000 04/23/1889 2119 33

South Sioux Falls Railroad and Rapid Transit Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 300,000 12/17/1888 2118 209

Union Trust Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3-11 100,000 03/07/1887 2115 104

Noble and Johnson Bakery Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 12,500 01/24/1887 2115 5

Press Printing Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 10,000 02/29/1888 2116 510

Sioux Falls Savings Bank (amendment of articles) Sioux Falls Minnehaha 07/09/1888 2117 305

Sioux Falls Investment Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3-9 50,000 03/19/1889 2118 455

Queen City Boat Club Sioux Falls Minnehaha 11 1,000 03/31/1889 2119 3

Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Sioux Falls Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 10/31/1879 2104 163

Wilmar & Sioux Falls Townsite Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3-9 150,000 12/16/1888 2118 231

German American Loan and Investment Company of Sioux Falls (acceptance of Sioux Falls Minnehaha 01/09/1888 2116 390

Sioux Falls Water Power Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 9 800,000 06/01/1882 2107 24

First Presbyterian Society of Sioux Falls Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 08/04/1884 2110 420

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Sioux Falls Foundry & Machine Co. Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 25,000 08/02/1884 2110 403

Sioux Falls Savings Bank Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 50,000 10/15/1886 2114 387

Iowa Sioux Falls & Northern Rail Road Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 7 5,000,000 10/29/1883 2109 275

Sioux Falls Exposition Sioux Falls Minnehaha 11 03/04/1882 2106 216

Sioux Falls Publishing Co. Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 50,000 03/02/1882 2106 205

Sioux Falls Congregational Ladies Aid Society Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 09/04/1888 2117 510

German Verein of Sioux Falls Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 06/12/1880 2104 310

Sioux Falls Yankton and Denver Railroad Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 7 1,000,000 06/18/1889 2119 204

Masonic Temple Building Association of Sioux Falls Sioux Falls Minnehaha 7 40,000 03/07/1882 2106 221

Sioux Falls Club Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3-11 06/08/1889 2119 156

South Dakota Plaining Mill Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 15,000 06/08/1889 2119 158

Dakota Cattle Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 100,000 04/21/1883 2108 257

First Penitarian Church of Sioux Falls Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 03/13/1882 2106 241

Sioux Falls Fairbank & Western Railroad Co. Sioux Falls Minnehaha 7 6,000,000 11/25/1884 2111 83

Dells Mining Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 100,000 12/10/1884 2111 107

Sioux Falls Camp (??) Sioux Falls Minnehaha 7 5,000 05/05/1883 2108 282

Dakota Packing Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3-5 2,500 11/17/1886 2114 450

Security and Guaranty Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3-5 100,000 02/23/1889 2118 393

Sioux Falls Hail Insurance Co. Sioux Falls Minnehaha 7 100,000 02/05/1885 2111 245

McKinney Loan and Investment Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3-9 500,000 11/29/1886 2114 470

Minnehaha Trust Company of Sioux Falls Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 50,000 04/16/1883 2108 233

Seventh Day Adventists Church of Sioux Falls Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 03/14/1882 2106 235

Sioux Falls Stock Yard Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 9 500,000 06/08/1889 2119 169

Dakota Improvement Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 9 100,000 02/04/1881 2105 88

Dakota Brokerage and Investment Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 7 50,000 11/22/1886 2114 457

Sioux Falls Insurance Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 100,000 01/28/1885 2111 197

Dakota Detective Association Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 07/08/1885 2112 51

Southwestern Dakota Agricultural Association Sioux Falls Minnehaha 11 20,000 03/19/1886 2112 452

Sioux Falls Safe Deposit Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5-9 15,000 11/22/1886 2114 454

Sioux Falls Yankton and North Western Railway Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 13 3,000,000 07/23/1889 2119 299

Marriage Fund Mutual Benefit Association of Dakota Sioux Falls Minnehaha 7 10,000 02/04/1882 2106 163

Sioux Falls Gas Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 `50,000 09/05/1883 2109 177

Sioux Falls Leisure Hour Club Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 09/03/1883 2109 173

Sioux Falls Abstract Title Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 250,000 08/05/1889 2119 327

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South Dakota Title Insurance and Trust Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 500,000 10/31/1889 2119 556

Sioux Falls Leader Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 7 25,000 05/28/1883 2108 332

Sioux Falls University Sioux Falls Minnehaha 11 06/25/1885 2112 19

Sioux Falls Railroad Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 100,000 05/22/1883 2108 309

Dakota Farm Improvement Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 10,000 05/19/1881 2105 180

Insurance Company of Dakota Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 100,000 02/26/1883 2108 122

First Swedish Baptist Church of Sioux Falls Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 03/20/1885 2111 334

Minnehaha County Title Abstract and Guaranty Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 100,000 07/27/1889 2119 308

Cascade Milling Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 50,000 05/19/1886 2113 403

All Souls' Church of Sioux Falls, Dakota Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 05/03/1887 2115 321

Western Investment Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 12 300,000 02/27/1885 2111 269

Sioux Falls Jasper Stone Co. Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 100,000 03/02/1882 2106 203

Queen City Cornet Band Sioux Falls Minnehaha 3 03/29/1882 2106 262

Cross Mining Company Sioux Falls Minnehaha 7 20,000 06/24/1880 2104 297

Sioux Falls Public Library Association Sioux Falls Minnehaha 5 02/08/1882 2106 170

Big Spring Scandinavian Baptist Church Sioux Valley Union 3 09/01/1879 2104 135

Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Union Creek Church Sioux Valley Tw Union 3 02/20/1880 2104 205

Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Highlands Sisseton Marshall 3-11 07/15/1889 2119 288

Sitting Bull Places Mining Co. Sitting Bull Pennington 7 500,000 05/27/1880 2104 302

Norfolk Stone Company Smithwick Fall River 5 800,000 11/01/1888 2118 98

Fall River Stone Company Smithwick Fall River 5 800,000 12/17/1887 2116 360

Black Hills Variegated Rock Quarry and Milling Company Smithwick Fall River 3 800,000 08/19/1887 2116 108

Sioux Falls Woolen Mill Company South Sioux Fall Minnehaha 5 100,000 12/31/1888 2118 212

Pioneer Soap Company South Sioux Fall Minnehaha 3 25,000 06/06/1889 2119 173

First Welsh Calvanistic Methodist Church of Marshall County Spain Marshall 5 06/29/1889 2119 228

Lawrence County Agricultural & Industrial Association Spearfish Lawrence 11 10,000 06/24/1884 2110 310

Superior Mining Company Spearfish Lawrence 3 1,000,000 07/26/1886 2114 207

Farmers Protective & Cooperative Union Spearfish Lawrence 7 100,000 03/20/1884 2110 99

Continental Tin Mining Company Spearfish Lawrence 4 1,250,000 07/19/1889 2119 292

Queen City Consolidated Oil Company of Spearfish Spearfish Lawrence 5 1,500,000 06/05/1886 2113 587

Grace Hawthorne Gold and Silver Mining Company Spearfish Lawrence 5 1,250,000 07/16/1886 2114 174

Beaver Consolidated Gold and Silver Mining Company Spearfish Lawrence 7 1,000,000 05/26/1886 2113 498

Spearfish Hose Company No. 1 Spearfish Lawrence 6 1,000 05/05/1888 2117 153

Crow Peak Mining Company Spearfish Lawrence 5 1,500,000 06/29/1886 2114 135

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Dakota College Spearfish Lawrence 11 01/17/1881 2105 64

Spearfish Milling Company Spearfish Lawrence 7 50,000 06/11/1883 2109 20

Spearfish Music & Rink Association Spearfish Lawrence 11 5,000 04/20/1885 2111 415

Spearfish Land and Building Association Spearfish Lawrence 5 50,000 09/24/1886 2114 359

Crawford Mining Company Spearfish Lawrence 5 150,000 09/04/1886 2114 317

First Congregational Church of Spearfish Spearfish Lawrence 3 02/16/1882 2106 184

Iron Creek Mining Company Spearfish Lawrence 5 1,250,000 02/15/1889 2118 371

First Tum Consolidated Mining Company Spearfish Lawrence 7 1,250,000 04/20/1887 2115 273

Spearfish Bald Mountain and Lead City Railroad Company Spearfish Lawrence 7 500,000 02/05/1889 2118 344

Spearfish and Southern Railroad Company Spearfish Lawrence 9 1,000,000 02/27/1889 2118 430

Spearfish Hotel Company Spearfish Lawrence 7 30,000 04/09/1887 2115 243

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Spearfish Spearfish Lawrence 7 08/04/1887 2116 58

Spearfish Mining Company Spearfish Lawrence 5 1,500,000 02/15/1884 2109 476

Rialto Silver Mining Co. Spearfish Lawrence 7 500,000 05/29/1885 2111 560

Lost Channel Placer and Quartz Mining Company Spearfish Lawrence 7 1,250,000 07/29/1886 2114 213

Queen City Hook and Ladder Company Spearfish Lawrence 5 12/10/1886 2114 497

Bank of Spearfish Spearfish Lawrence 9 50,000 04/27/1887 2115 299

Buckeye Placer Mining Company Spearfish City Lawrence 7 125,000 06/14/1886 2114 70

Globe Mining and Milling Company Spearfish City Lawrence 5 3,000,000 07/22/1886 2114 194

Esperanza Silver Mining Company Spearfish City Lawrence 7 1,000,000 05/22/1886 2113 457

Crown Point Oil Company Spearfish City Lawrence 5 500,000 06/09/1886 2114 23

Anchor Mining Company Spearfish City Lawrence 5 2,500,000 06/05/1886 2114 3

Summit Silver Mining Company Spearfish City Lawrence 9 1,000,000 05/19/1886 2113 390

First Baptist Church of Spencer Spencer McCook 3 09/12/1887 2116 167

Spencer Jaspar Stone Company Spencer McCook 9 10,000 05/18/1888 2117 186

Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church Spink Twp. Union 3 09/01/1879 2104 139

Roseni Evangelisk Luthersk Menighed Spink Twp. Union 3 01/02/1884 2109 384

Union Congregational Church Spiritwood Stutsman 3-9 06/10/1886 2114 32

First Scandinavian Baptist Church of Kingsbury County Spring Lake Kingsbury 3 05/07/1885 2111 481

Methodist Episcopal Church of Spring Lake Spring Lake Hand Not Listed 07/19/1887 2115 494

Farmer's Combination Grist Mill Co. Spring Lake Hand 7 4,000 07/13/1885 2112 74

Pleasant View Cemetery Association Spring Lake (tw Kingsbury 7 08/28/1886 2114 308

Spring Valley Shire Horse Association Spring Valley Turner 7 4,000 08/22/1888 2117 547

Springdale Stock Ranche Springdale Ranc Fall River 3 100,000 04/06/1889 2118 505

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Specie Payment Consolidated Gold Mining Co. Springfield Bon Homme 5 25,000 11/01/1881 2106 37

Special Payment Consolidated Gold Mining Co. Springfield Bon Homme 3 2,500,000 02/24/1883 2108 120

Emmanuel Reformed Church in Bon Homme County Springfield Bon Homme Not Listed 04/05/1889 2118 502

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Springfield Springfield Bon Homme 4 04/05/1884 2110 125

Springwells Townsite Mill Power Company Springwells McPherson 6 250,000 11/24/1882 2107 311

St. John Baptist Roman Catholic Church St. John Rolette Not Listed 12/17/1887 2116 364

Bank of St. John St. John Cass 5 50,000 10/17/1889 2119 533

Armory Hall Association St. John Rolette 7 500 07/06/1888 2117 352

Central Methodist Episcopal Church of St. Joseph Township St. Joseph (twp) Pembina 06/04/1886 2113 585

First Methodist Episcopal Church St. Lawrence Hand 4 10/22/1884 2111 35

Turtle Valley Lodge No. 61 Independent Order of Odd Fellows St. Lawrence Hand 3 09/22/1884 2110 513

Business Mens Association of St. Lawrence St. Lawrence Hand 5 25,000 12/27/1887 2116 380

First Presbyterian Society of St. Lawrence St. Lawrence Hand 3 06/30/1882 2107 68

Howell Land Improvement Co. St. Lawrence Hand 9 2,500 02/23/1883 2108 116

Farmers Elevator and Milling Company (increase of stock) St. Lawrence Hand 5 15,000 09/02/1886 2114 312

St. Lawrence Building Co. Limited St. Lawrence Hand 5 5,000 02/29/1884 2110 19

Farmers Elevator & Milling Co. St. Lawrence Hand 5 5,000 05/12/1885 2111 507

Constant Mining Company St. Louis 3 40,000 08/08/1882 2107 156

Farmers Creamery Association St. Olaf Minnehaha 3 5,000 02/13/1889 2118 364

Farmers Cooperative Warehouse Association St. Olaf Minnehaha 7 5,000 09/24/1887 2116 198

St. John's Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation at St. Thomas, Pembin St. Thomas Pembina 3 06/25/1887 2115 427

Red River Valley Club of St. Thomas Dakota St. Thomas Pembina 3 05/01/1888 2117 135

German Evangelical St. Paul's Church St. Thomas Pembina 3 02/24/1888 2116 458

Bank of Saint Thomas St. Thomas Pembina 3 25,000 10/22/1887 2116 267

Baptist Church of St. Thomas St. Thomas Pembina 3 06/09/1883 2109 12

First Methodist Episcopal Church of St. Thomas St. Thomas Pembina 3 07/21/1884 2110 366

St. Benedict Church Stanley Cass 4 04/11/1889 2118 522

Roman Catholic Church of St. Columbkill Star Corners Clay 4 06/11/1885 2112 269

Napoleon Townsite Co. Steel Kidder 7 2,000 07/31/1885 2112 126

Kidder County Republican Publishing Company Steele Kidder 7 3,000 02/11/1889 2118 357

Fort Buford Steele & Southeastern Railway Co. Steele Kidder 5 300,000 12/01/1883 2109 328

First Presbyterian Church of Steele Steele Kidder 3 04/16/1883 2108 243

First Baptist Church of Steele Steele Kidder 3 09/03/1884 2110 483

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Steele Steele Kidder 3 07/27/1883 2109 97

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United Presbyterian Church of Sterling Sterling Burleigh 3 12/18/1885 2112 296

Presbyterian Church of Sterling Sterling Burleigh 5 03/15/1886 2112 443

Silver Sheen Mining Company Sturgis Lawrence 5 500,000 07/26/1887 2116 26

St. Aloysius Catholic Church of Sturgis Sturgis Lawrence Not Listed 06/18/1888 2117 269

Lawrence County Bank Sturgis Lawrence 5 25,000 08/03/1885 2112 150

Western Bank and Trust Company Sturgis Meade 9 250,000 08/19/1889 2119 383

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Sturgis Sturgis Meade 5 12/14/1882 2108 1

First Presbyterian Church of Sturgis Sturgis Lawrence 3-11 05/24/1889 2119 126

Clydesdale and Hambletonian Horse Company of Dakota Territory Sturgis Lawrence 3 50,000 07/30/1887 2116 44

Bear Butte Coal Mining Company Sturgis Lawrence 3 500,000 04/02/1888 2117 46

Black Hills Plaster Company Sturgis Lawrence 3 20,000 10/18/1888 2118 65

G. A. R. Building Association of Sturgis Sturgis Meade 9 10,000 06/08/1889 2119 161

Olive Branch Lodge No. 47 AF and AM Sturgis Lawrence 3 07/11/1885 2112 60

First Congregational Church of Sturgis Sturgis Lawrence ?? 02/27/1885 2111 267

Bank of Sturgis Sturgis Lawrence 7 50,000 05/12/1887 2115 338

Calumet Gold & Silver Mining Co. Sturgis Lawrence 5 2,500,000 04/12/1886 2112 536

Sturgis Fire Protective Association Sturgis Lawrence 3 5,000 06/05/1888 2117 232

Bear Butte Lodge No. 46 I.O.O.F. Sturgis Lawrence 3 03/16/1885 2111 317

Clara Julia Oil Company of Wyoming Sturgis Lawrence 7 500,000 03/07/1887 2115 115

Clydesdale and Hanbletonian Horse Co. Sturgis City Lawrence 5 50,000 05/21/1885 2111 541

Bear Butte Prospecting & Coal Mining Co. Sturgis City Lawrence 5 100,000 10/31/1879 2104 161

Congregational Church of Buffalo County Sulphur Springs Buffalo 3 11/01/1883 2109 285

Roman Catholic Church of St. Joseph of Summit Summit Spink 3 06/06/1884 2110 282

Nidaros Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Sverdrup Minnehaha Not Listed 08/15/1887 2116 32

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Swan Lake Swan Lake Turner 9 04/25/1881 2105 155

St. Theresa's Church Swan Lake Turner 3 01/31/1884 2109 440

Wells County Gazette Publishing Company Sykeston Wells 5 500 03/02/1889 2118 433

Sykeston Cemetery Association Sykeston Wells 5 04/11/1889 2118 531

Congregational Church at Sykeston County Sykeston Wells 3 09/27/1884 2111 1

Bank of Sykeston Sykeston Cass 5 25,000 10/31/1889 2119 559

Society of the Town of Tabor Tabor Bon Homme 5 400 12/17/1888 2118 196

First Bohemian Presbyterian Church of Dakota Tabor Bon Homme 3 11/12/1884 2111 57

Roman Catholic of St. Wenceslaus of Tabor Tabor Bon Homme 3 07/14/1884 2110 356

Leganger Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church Taopi Minnehaha 3 01/25/1887 2115 14

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St. Ansgar Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Minnehaha County Taopi (twp) Minnehaha 3 01/08/1889 2118 387

Scandinavian Lutheran Church & School Association Taopi Twp. Minnehaha 3 5,000 03/22/1886 2112 453

Congregational Church of Tappen Tappen Kidder 3 08/17/1883 2109 139

Hope Cemetery Association Templeton Jerauld 5 06/08/1885 2111 565

Black Diamond Oil Company Terraville Lawrence 7 1,500,000 05/25/1886 2113 475

Bald Mountain Alert Mining Company Terraville Lawrence 5 1,000,000 12/12/1888 2118 170

Silver Star gold and Silver Mining Company Terraville Lawrence 5 1,250,000 04/24/1886 2113 57

Tamarack Gold and Silver Mining Company Terraville Lawrence 3 1,250,000 02/05/1889 2118 338

Methodist Episcopal Church of Tilford Tilford Meade Per Discipli 09/26/1889 2119 465

Tilford Milling Company Tilford Lawrence 5 12,000 03/11/1889 2118 441

Leganger Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Toronto Deuel Not Listed 07/07/1888 2117 316

Toronto Farmers Alliance Elevator Company Toronto Deuel 7 5,000 08/18/1888 2117 525

Dakota and Great Southern Railway Company (Adoption of Resolutions) Tower City Cass 05/26/1887 2115 383

Cass and Barnes Counties Agricultural Society Tower City Cass 9 10,000 12/31/1886 2114 545

Northwestern Milling & Elevator Co. Tower City Cass 7 30,000 04/29/1885 2111 454

First Presbyterian Church of Tower City Tower City Cass 5 06/18/1881 2105 242

First Baptist Church of Tower City Tower City Cass 3 03/20/1882 2106 351

Dakota Western Railway Co. Tower City Cass 13 6,750,000 03/27/1886 2112 472

Tower City Milling Company Tower City Cass 9 20,000 12/02/1882 2107 320

Tower University Tower City Cass 3 02/25/1884 2110 3

Milbank Kibby & Tower City Railroad Co. (Transfer of charter) Tower City Grant 13,800 08/06/1883 2109 119

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Tower City Tower City Cass 3 09/02/1882 2107 196

Towner County Bank Towner Grand Forks 3 50,000 08/25/1888 2117 550

Mouse River Cemetery Corporation Towner McHenry 4 08/30/1887 2116 128

Congregational Church of Towner, McHenry County, Dakota Territory Towner McHenry 3 11/01/1887 2116 280

North Dakota Title Insurance and Trust Company Towner McHenry 5 250,000 05/20/1889 2119 104

Bank of Towner Towner LaMoure 5 100,000 01/04/1889 2118 178

Mouse River Stock Growers Association Towner McHenry 9 5,000 02/11/1888 2116 466

Travare Cattle Co Travare Roberts 3 50,000 11/10/1884 2111 47

Tulare Farmers Alliance Stock Company Tulare Spink 7 20,000 03/23/1885 2111 344

First Presbyterian Society of Turtle River Turtle River Grand Forks 3 03/27/1880 2104 252

First Congregational Church of Turton Turton Spink 3-9 10/30/1889 2119 554

Alliance Hail Association Twin Brooks Grant 9 02/10/1887 2115 50

Twin Brooks Cheese Manufacturing Company Twin Brooks Grant 5 2,000 05/23/1888 2117 193

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Young Peoples Missionary Association Twin Brooks Tw Grant 7 08/18/1885 2112 155

Zion Church Twin Brooks Tw Grant 5 07/18/1885 2112 90

Noble Grand Gold & Silver Mining Co. Two Bit Gulch Lawrence 11 500,000 01/17/1882 2106 123

Plankinton Cemetery Association Twp. # 103 Aurora 5 07/24/1882 2107 112

Tongue River Regular Baptist Church of Pembina County Twp. #162 Pembina 3 12/30/1885 2112 322

Sanborn Memorial Dutch Reform Church Twp. 100 Turner `4 700 08/16/1882 2107 178

Salem's Church of the Evangelical Association of N. A. Twp. 105 Moody 03/14/1885 2111 310

Morgan's Cemetery Corporation Twp. 107 Miner 5 12/19/1885 2112 302

Pleasant Mound Cemetery Twp. 107 Moody 3 02/13/1883 2108 103

Richland Congregation of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church Twp. 135 Richland 3 10/17/1884 2111 25

Moravian Society of Canaan Twp. 138 Cass 3 11/02/1883 2109 293

Mora Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Twp. 142 Cass 3 12/16/1885 2112 294

Tower County Roller Mill Company Twp. 198 Tower 3 50,000 05/20/1884 2110 256

Prospect Methodist Episcopal Church Twp. 51 Lake 4 06/26/1884 2110 318

Lincoln Creamery Association Twp. 90 Clay 5 05/08/1885 2111 496

Bergens Norsk Evangelical Lutheran Church Society Twp. 92 Clay 5 05/11/1885 2111 504

Grandkjeins Evangelical Lutherske Menighed Twp. 93 Yankton 3 12/14/1882 2107 345

St. Peters Congregation of Hanges Synod Twp. 93 Clay 3 04/22/1884 2110 175

Throudhjems Evangelical Lutherske Menighed of Hanges Synod Twp. 93 Yankton 3 12/27/1882 2108 18

Skandavian Baptist Church of Lodi Twp. 94 Clay 3 02/13/1883 2108 106

Dhalsborgs Svewska Evangelical Lutherska Augustana Forsmling Twp. 94 Clay 4 03/12/1883 2108 160

Reformed Friedens Congregation Twp. 96 Bon Homme 3 03/04/1884 2110 29

Salem's Church Society of the Evangelical Association of North America Twp. 96 Turner 3 07/29/1881 2105 276

Den Norsk Dansk Evangelical Lutheran Immanuel Menighed Church Twp. 96 Turner 3 09/21/1882 2107 236

Bethlehem Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Twp. 96 Yankton 3 11/21/1884 2111 76

First Holland Christian Reformed Church of Freisland Twp. 98 Charles Mix 4 10/21/1885 2112 234

Den Morsk Evangelical Lutherske Meldahl Menighed Twp. 98 Yankton 3 03/12/1884 2110 61

Roberts Chapel Methodist Episcopal Twp. 99 Douglas 3 03/17/1885 2111 324

Opdols Menighed Church of Yankton & Turner County Twps 96 & 97 Yankton & Tu 3 02/25/1882 2106 196

Security Bank of Tyndall Tyndall Bon Homme 7 35,000 01/03/1889 2118 242

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Tyndall Tyndall Bon Homme 4 07/29/1885 2112 117

Bon Homme County Agricultural Association Tyndall Bon Homme 5 5,000 08/23/1883 2109 144

Presbyterian Church of Tyndall Tyndall Bon Homme 3 04/02/1881 2105 137

Union Town Presbyterian Society of Union Union Edmunds 3-11 06/07/1886 2114 13

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German Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Congregation of Unaltered Augsburg Conf Valley Hutchinson 3-9 07/07/1888 2117 350

Rector Warden and Vestrymen of a All Saints Church Valley City Barnes 6 08/23/1884 2110 466

Alliance Warehouse Company of Valley City, Dakota Valley City Barnes 5 10,000 06/21/1888 2117 283

Valley City Building Association Valley City Barnes 05/03/1882 2106 310

German Society Methodist Episcopal Church of Valley City Valley City Barnes 3 08/02/1882 2107 136

Barnes County Agricultural & Mechanical Association Valley City Barnes 9 10,000 07/25/1882 2107 117

Congregational Church of Christ of Valley City Valley City Barnes 3 11/26/1881 2106 63

Norwegian Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Valley City Valley City Barnes 3 12/16/1882 2108 4

Record Publishing Company Valley City Barnes 9 5,000 02/14/1883 2108 99

Valley City Lodge No. 28 I.O.O.F. Valley City Barnes 3 04/12/1884 2110 134

Russell & Miller Milling Co. Valley City Barnes 4 100,000 08/08/1885 2112 147

Edwards Blackwell Lumber Company Valley City Barnes 3 5,000 10/03/1883 2109 221

Valley City Brick & Tile Co. Valley City Barnes 5 10,000 01/16/1882 2106 120

Valley City Building Association Valley City Barnes 5 500,000 03/17/1882 2106 249

Methodist Episcopal Church of Valley City Valley City Barnes 3 01/04/1882 2106 110

Valley City & Tustle Mountain Railway Co. Valley City Barnes 10 200,000 08/22/1881 2105 323

Valley City Telephone Company Valley City Barnes 5 15,000 08/22/1882 2107 188

Jamestown and Southern Railroad Company Valley City Barnes 5 30,000 06/07/1888 2117 247

Hillside Cemetery Association Valley City Barnes 7 05/26/1882 2107 14

Valley City Creamery Company Valley City Barnes 7 5,000 03/15/1888 2116 564

Valley Springs Cemetery Association Valley Springs Minnehaha 4 05/02/1879 2104 70

Bank of Verdon Verdon Brown 3 11/26/1888 2118 131

South Dakota Investment Company Vermillion Clay 5 100,000 10/31/1889 2119 565

Vermillion Valley Horse Stock Improvement Company Vermillion Clay 5 5,000 05/09/1889 2119 80

Vermillion Cemetery Association Vermillion Clay 10 500 08/09/1882 2107 166

Clay County Bank Vermillion Clay 5 25,000 03/25/1887 2115 194

Vermillion Ferryboat Company Vermillion Clay 3 2,000 06/22/1883 2109 36

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Vermillion Vermillion Clay 5 06/30/1885 2112 32

University of Dakota Vermillion Clay 7 05/19/1881 2105 172

Independent Congregational Church & Society of Vermillion Vermillion Clay 3 10/11/1880 2104 392

First Congregational Church of Vermillion Vermillion Clay 3 11/29/1881 2106 66

Scandinavian Congregational Church of Vermillion Vermillion Clay Per Discipli 07/25/1889 2119 274

Vernon Creamery Company Vernon Davison 5 1,000 06/05/1888 2117 234

Verona Farmers Elevator Company Verona LaMoure 5 3,000 03/12/1889 2118 442

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First Evangelical Church of Marshall county Victor (twp) Marshall Not Listed 09/28/1887 2116 202

Vilas Union Tow Mill Co Vilas Miner 5 3,500 10/11/1884 2111 22

First Seventh Day Adventist Church of Vilas Vilas Miner 3 02/23/1886 2112 391

Miner County Alliance Shippers Association Vilas Miner 9 2,000 09/12/1887 2116 161

Baptist Church of Vilas Vilas Miner 3 01/16/1885 2111 160

Greenwood Cemetery Association Vilas Miner 5 12/21/1885 2112 304

Mouse River Printing Co. Villard McHenry 5 2,000 02/23/1886 2112 389

Forest Hills Church of Virginia Township, Union County, Territory of Dakota Virginia (twp) Union 5 12/19/1888 2118 233

First Presbyterian Church of Union County Virginia (twp) Union 5 08/27/1889 2119 408

Pleasant Hill Cemetery Association of Virginia Township Union county Virginia Twp. Union 3 06/22/1881 2105 244

St. Cyril and Methodius Roman Catholic Church of Vodnang Dakota Vodnany Bon Homme 5 10/22/1888 2118 79

Volga Brick Manufacturing Company Volga Brookings 5 1,500 05/26/1887 2115 387

Farmer's Shipping Association of Volga Volga Brookings 7 2,500 12/11/1885 2112 284

Volga Mill Company Volga Brookings 11 30,000 02/03/1883 2108 80

First Congregational Church of Volga Volga Brookings 3 07/20/1881 2105 266

Bank of Volga Volga Brookings 7 50,000 04/14/1886 2112 533

Bank of Volga (increase of capital stock) Volga Brookings 7 100,000 02/18/1889 2118 370

Volga Park Horticultural & Forestry Association Volga Brookings 11 1,000 07/22/1885 2112 97

Brookings County Agricultural Fair & Driving Park Association Volga Brookings 9 5,000 07/19/1880 2104 328

First Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church Volga Brookings 8 03/31/1886 2112 493

Olivet Presbyterian Society of Volga Volga Brookings 3 06/13/1881 2105 233

Western Mortgage and Trust Company (increase of stock) Wahpeton Richland 3 125,000 08/06/1887 2116 67

First Baptist Church of Wahpeton Wahpeton Richland 3 11/13/1882 2107 306

Wahpeton Roller Rink Company Wahpeton Richland 3 4,000 01/09/1885 2111 147

Turn-vereiu Vorwaerts of Wahpeton, Dakota Territory Wahpeton Richland 3 08/02/1887 2116 51

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Wahpeton Wahpeton Richland 3 01/21/1885 2111 174

First Congregational Church of Wahpeton Wahpeton Richland 3 06/22/1881 2105 236

St. Johannes Mutual Aid and Benefit Association of Wahpeton, Dakota Territory Wahpeton Richland 3 07/21/1887 2116 18

Roman Catholic Church of St. John the Evangelist Wahpeton Richland 3 03/19/1884 2110 84

Wahpeton Water Company Wahpeton Richland 3 50,000 03/26/1884 2110 105

Wahpeton Burial Association Wahpeton Richland 4 04/25/1887 2115 294

Wahpeton Lighting Company Wahpeton Richland 7 20,000 09/28/1887 2116 206

Wahpeton Board of Trade Wahpeton Richland 9 04/15/1887 2115 292

Wahpeton Telephone Company Wahpeton Richland 9 10,000 03/31/1887 2115 213

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Northern Light Electric Company Wahpeton Richland 3 20,000 05/02/1888 2117 143

John Nelson Mercantile Company Wahpeton Richland 3 20,000 03/22/1887 2115 181

Wahpeton Academy Wahpeton Richland 11 07/17/1889 2119 285

Farmers and Merchants Bank Wahpeton Richland 7 30,000 09/21/1887 2116 187

Western Mortgage and Trust Company Wahpeton Richland 3 100,000 04/20/1887 2115 257

Excelsior Roller Rink Wahpeton Richland 5 6,000 03/16/1885 2111 312

Wahpeton Library Association Wahpeton Richland 7 2,000 04/11/1888 2117 86

Richland County Agricultural & Industrial association Wahpeton Richland 11 25,000 05/13/1882 2106 341

Wahpeton Mill & Elevator Co. Wahpeton Richland 4 30,000 01/10/1882 2106 118

Red River Agricultural Society Wahpeton Richland 9 10,000 01/14/1889 2118 259

Wahpeton Building Association Wahpeton Richland 11 6,000 05/09/1882 2106 320

Novelty Creamery Company Wahpeton Richland 3 4,000 03/31/1888 2117 38

Northwestern Construction Company of Dakota Wahpeton Richland 3 25,000 04/17/1889 2118 551

First Congregation of Wakonda Wakonda Clay 3 09/06/1886 2114 323

First German Methodist Episcopal Church Wakonda Clay 5 03/01/1886 2112 403

Farmers Produce Company Wakonda Clay 7 10,000 09/27/1889 2119 470

South Pleasant Norwegian Lutheran Church or Congregation Walcott Richland 6 07/22/1886 2114 196

Wall Lake Zion Gemunde Wall Lake Town Minnehaha 3 2110 258

St. Bridget's Church Walshtown Yankton 5 02/02/1884 2110 115

Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Bethlehem Church Wanari Bon Homme 3 11/05/1888 2118 100

Wanduska Improvement Company Wanduska Ramsey 5 12,000 09/21/1882 2107 231

Warner Elevator Company Warner Brown 5 4,000 11/14/1887 2116 304

Warner Mill Company of Warner Dakota Warner Brown 7 20,000 01/10/1889 2118 268

Green Macleod Company Warner Brown 3 10,000 10/09/1885 2112 216

Warner Mill Company (increase of stock) Warner Brown 7 40,000 06/14/1889 2119 190

Farmer's Elevator Company Warner Brown 5 7,500 09/24/1885 2112 204

Bank of Warner Warner Brown 3 25,000 01/24/1889 2118 315

First Presbyterian Society of Warner Warner Brown 3 02/17/1883 2108 109

Warner Methodist Episcopal Church Warner Brown Not Listed 09/22/1886 2114 356

Farmers Alliance Company of Warner, Dakota Warner Brown 5 15,000 09/10/1888 2118 14

Evangelical Lutheran St. Johannes Congregation of Warner Dakota Warner Brown 3 05/09/1889 2119 82

Lutheran Emanuel Church of Plainview Washington (tw Douglas Not Listed 12/17/1886 2114 514

French Pilot Association Watertown Codington 5 2,000 03/13/1885 2111 301

Citizens Loan & Building Association of Watertown Watertown Codington 11 500,000 03/17/1885 2111 321

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Dakota Opera House Watertown Codington 3 05/13/1885 2111 510

Christian Church of Watertown Watertown Codington 5 04/23/1881 2105 151

Lake Shore Improvement Company Watertown Codington 5 500,000 04/21/1887 2115 279

Watertown Alliance Company Watertown Codington 9 10,000 07/28/1887 2116 40

Ritchie Lumber Company Watertown Codington 5 10,000 07/24/1888 2117 440

First Baptist Church of Watertown Watertown Codington 3 03/26/1881 2105 126

Sioux Valley Loan & Trust Company Watertown Codington 3 15,000 01/23/1885 2111 186

Watertown St. Paul & Minneapolis Rail Road Co. Watertown Codington 9 600,000 03/01/1881 2105 101

Watertown Fuel and Gas Company Watertown Codington 7 100,000 07/23/1889 2119 301

Watertown Banking and Investment Company Watertown Codington 9 200,000 03/23/1888 2117 15

South Shore Town Lot and Improvement Company Watertown Codington 4 10,000 08/08/1887 2116 79

Capitol Park Association Watertown Codington 5 100,000 06/04/1889 2119 147

Merchants Bank Watertown Codington 9 60,000 12/07/1886 2114 482

Watertown Hotel Company Watertown Codington 6 50,000 11/14/1887 2116 296

Watertown Land Improvement Company Watertown Codington 6 30,000 08/30/1887 2116 126

Watertown Hotel Association Watertown Codington 7 25,000 06/07/1884 2110 289

Tontine Trust and Investment Company of Dakota Watertown Codington 5 100,000 04/10/1889 2118 519

Duluth Watertown & Pacific Railway Co. Watertown Codington 7 18,0000,00 08/21/1885 2112 160

Watertown Heating Power and Light Company Watertown Codington 5 10,000 03/18/1887 2115 177

Dakota Improvement Company Watertown Codington 3 1,000,000 12/18/1885 2112 300

Lyceum Association of Watertown Watertown Codington 3 10/03/1879 2104 159

Watertown Manufacturing Co. Watertown Codington 5 25,000 03/29/1886 2112 483

First Scandinavian Evangelical Lutheran Congregational Society Watertown Codington 5 12/22/1883 2109 365

Dakota Loan & Trust Co. of Watertown Watertown Codington 5 500,000 12/21/1885 2112 308

Dakota Educational Endowment Association Watertown Codington 6 12/28/1885 2112 313

Watertown and Lake Shore Railroad Company Watertown Codington 5 100,000 03/28/1887 2115 201

Lake Kampeska Improvement Company Watertown Codington 10 1,000 08/14/1886 2114 271

Chalmers Bonded Investment Company Watertown Codington 3 1,600,000 09/20/1889 2119 457

Watertown Building & Loan Association Watertown Codington 9 1,000,000 11/02/1883 2109 290

Dakota Loan and Trust Company of Watertown, Dakota (acceptance of amend Watertown Codington 01/17/1889 2118 314

Kemp Brothers Townsite Co. Watertown Codington 5 4,000 01/23/1884 2109 429

Watertown Water Works Company Watertown Codington 5 150,000 03/10/1888 2116 531

Watertown Public Library Association Watertown Codington 7 02/28/1884 2110 17

Watertown Armory Company Watertown Codington 11 5,000 04/04/1887 2115 222

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South Dakota Livestock Company Watertown Codington 3 100,000 03/18/1889 2118 446

Sioux Banking Company Watertown Codington 3 25,000 03/15/1888 2116 562

Western Land Company Watertown Codington 3 1,000,000 05/20/1887 2115 362

Codington County Abstract Company Watertown Codington 3 10,000 03/13/1888 2116 554

Watertown Courier News Co. Watertown Codington 7 15,000 04/03/1886 2112 500

Watertown Mortgage and Trust Company Watertown Codington 7 200,000 02/21/1888 2116 488

Davenport Town Lot Company Watertown Codington 5 2,000 07/13/1888 2117 323

Codington County Abstract Company Watertown Codington 3 08/11/1886 2114 268

Capitol City Land Company Watertown Codington 5 2,000,000 05/17/1889 2119 102

Codington County Fair Association Watertown Codington 11 10,000 03/06/1886 2112 419

Building Association of Watertown (amendment to provisions) Watertown Codington 2119 90

Watertown Town Lot Company Watertown Codington 9 17,000 02/05/1887 2115 34

Watertown Telephone Company Watertown Codington 9 25,000 04/20/1887 2115 259

Watertown Opera House Company Watertown Codington 7 24,000 02/05/1887 2115 38

Board of Trade of the City of Watertown Watertown Codington 13 02/08/1887 2115 44

Freeman Thayer Post Number 59 Watertown Codington 3 04/20/1886 2113 44

Stokes Jennison Co. Watertown Codington 3 100,000 07/29/1885 2112 119

C.G. Church Company Watertown Codington 3 10,000 08/02/1886 2114 227

Equitable Investment Company Watertown Codington 7 100,000 02/26/1887 2115 92

Watertown Nursery Company Watertown Codington 3 5,000 04/26/1886 2113 63

Watertown and Lake Kampeska Railway Company (appointment of power of at Watertown Codington 06/07/1888 2117 259

Watertown and Lake Kampeska Railway Company Watertown Codington 5 100,000 06/16/1888 2117 260

Commercial Exchange Club of Watertown Dakota Watertown Codington 9 2,500 05/04/1889 2119 70

Lake Kampeska Park Association Watertown Codington 7 24,000 08/05/1886 2114 258

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Watertown Watertown Codington 7 03/09/1880 2104 226

National Building and Loan Association Watertown Codington 7 500,000 06/22/1888 2117 287

Dakota Loan and Trust Company (acceptance of provisions) Watertown Codington 03/11/1889 2118 437

Watertown Cemetery Association Watertown Codington 5 03/18/1880 2104 237

Congregational Church of Watertown Watertown Codington 3 02/05/1880 2104 201

Gray Methodist Episcopal Church of Waverly Waverly Codington 3 07/30/1885 2112 123

Farmer Elevator Company of Waverly Waverly Codington 7 5,000 04/10/1885 2111 370

Waverly Town Site Company Waverly Codington 3 3,000 09/09/1884 2110 497

Waverly Dairy Company Waverly Codington 5 2,000 04/10/1885 2111 379

Bank of Webster Webster Day 5 30,000 10/16/1886 2114 390

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Farmers Exchange Webster Day 5 2,000 07/05/1887 2115 565

Webster City Bank Webster Day 3 20,000 10/02/1888 2118 36

First Church of Christ in Webster Webster Day `3 03/17/1883 2108 171

Day County Agricultural Association Webster Day 7 05/08/1886 2113 167

Coteau Lodge Number 54 Ancient Free and Accepted Masons Webster Day 7 12/28/1886 2114 536

Farmers and Merchants Bank Webster Day 3 25,000 11/15/1888 2118 113

Day County Real Estate Exchange Webster Day 3 20,000 04/05/1886 2112 508

German Society of Minnehaha County of the Methodist Episcopal Congregation Wellington Minnehaha Not Listed 06/13/1889 2119 185

Alliance Company of Wentworth Wentworth Lake 9 10,000 03/03/1888 2116 516

First Presbyterian Church of Wentworth Wentworth Lake 3-11 04/12/1887 2115 245

Rose Hill Cemetery Association Wentworth Lake 5 06/17/1882 2107 56

First Presbyterian Church of Wessington Wessington Beadle 3-11 06/25/1886 2114 127

Wessington Cemetery Company Wessington Beadle 5 12/08/1887 2116 351

Wessington Methodist Episcopal Church of Wessington Wessington Beadle 3 09/14/1882 2107 209

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Wessington Wessington Aurora 3 06/27/1883 2109 50

Wessington Hills Coal Mining Company Wessington Beadle 7 500,000 02/04/1888 2116 436

Prospect Hill Cemetery Association Wessington Spri Jerauld 5 05/24/1887 2115 377

Wessington Springs Seminary Wessington Spri Jerauld 7 10/17/1887 2116 244

First German Society of Jerauld County Wessington Spri Jerauld Not Listed 08/05/1889 2119 350

Hope Reformed Church in Emmons County Dakota Westfield Emmons Not Listed 07/31/1889 2119 281

Williams Methodist Episcopal Church Westport Brown Not Listed 02/02/1888 2116 432

First Presbyterian Society of Wheatland Wheatland Cass 3 10/13/1881 2106 12

Fairview Cemetery Association White Brookings 5 02/27/1886 2112 400

White Farmer's Alliance Elevator Co. White Brookings 7 5,000 07/03/1885 2112 39

First Methodist Episcopal Church of White White Brookings 4 04/20/1885 2111 411

South Dakota Farm Agency White Lake Aurora 5 50,000 12/03/1884 2111 93

Missouri Valley Protective Association White Lake Aurora 7 11/12/1885 2112 242

Evangelical Lutheran Congregation at White Lake White Lake Aurora 4 12/15/1885 2112 290

Roman Catholic Church of St. Peter of White Lake White Lake Aurora 3 10/03/1884 2111 8

White Lake Bank White Lake Aurora 3 15,000 06/10/1885 2111 574

White Lake Creamery Company White Lake Aurora 3 10,000 12/03/1887 2116 344

White Lake Mill company White Lake Aurora 7 15,000 06/06/1884 2110 278

Farmers Purchasing and Shipping Association of White Lake Dakota White Lake Aurora 5 5,000 08/20/1888 2117 529

Presbyterian Society of White Lake White Lake Aurora 3 07/27/1883 2109 100

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First Baptist Church of White Rock White Rock (tw Roberts 3 11/26/1887 2116 324

Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church of White Stone Hill White Stone Hill Sargent 3-9 08/20/1889 2119 385

Whiteside Cemetery Association Whiteside (twp) Beadle 3 04/30/1887 2115 315

First Presbyterian Church of Whitewood Whitewood Lawrence 3-11 12/27/1888 2118 228

Whitewood Banking Company Whitewood Lawrence 5 10,000 11/02/1887 2116 335

Lake Preston Skandinavisk Evangelisk Luthersk Meuighed Whitewood (tw Kingsbury 3 03/28/1887 2115 207

Lake Thompson Norsk Evangelical Lutheran Menighed Whitewood Tw Kingsbury 3 06/04/1884 2110 267

Lake Whitewood Norsk Evangelical Lutheran Menighed Whitewood Tw Kingsbury 3 03/20/1885 2111 337

Bank of Willow City Willow City Bottineau 3-5 50,000 09/28/1889 2119 473

Wheat Exchange Bank of Willow City Dakota Willow City Bottineau 5 100,000 06/06/1889 2119 179

Willow Lake Shipping Association Willow Lake Clark 7 10,000 06/30/1888 2117 331

Willow Lake Methodist Episcopal Church Willow Lake Clark Not Listed 10/10/1888 2117 543

Congregational Church of Willow Lake Willow Lake Clark 3-9 05/09/1888 2117 158

First Presbyterian Church of Wilmot Wilmot Roberts 3-7 06/25/1886 2114 123

Congregational Church of Winfred Winfred Lake 3 08/22/1885 2112 167

Missouri River Land and Improvement Co. Winona Emmons 3 50,000 04/23/1884 2110 178

Zion Church of the Evangelical Association Wittenberg Hutchinson 5 01/17/1881 2105 68

Free Evangelic Lutheran Congregational Association Wolf Creek (tw Hutchinson 3 01/26/1889 2118 321

Evangelical Lutheran St. John's Congregation of Unaltered Augsburg Confession Wolsey Beadle 3 11/27/1886 2114 459

Wolsey Land Mining and Coal Company Wolsey Beadle 7 500,000 03/12/1888 2116 549

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Wolsey Wolsey Beadle 03/18/1884 2110 75

Wolsey & Bismarck Railway Co. Wolsey Beadle 11 500,000 01/04/1886 2112 333

Bailey Lake Cheese Company Woodland (twp Clark 7 800,000 04/18/1889 2118 564

Citizens Bank Woonsocket Sanborn 3 25,000 07/12/1888 2117 488

First Presbyterian Society of Woonsocket Woonsocket Sanborn 3 04/15/1884 2110 139

Capital Investment Company Woonsocket Sanborn 7 250,000 03/21/1889 2118 465

Sanborn County Bank Woonsocket Sanborn 3 50,000 11/30/1883 2109 327

South Dakota Real Estate Association Woonsocket Sanborn 4 10,000 02/16/1887 2115 56

Farmers Elevator and Manufacturing Company Woonsocket Sanborn 5 15,000 07/29/1886 2114 215

American Bank and Trust Company Woonsocket Sanborn 5 500,000 04/20/1886 2113 32

Farmer's Shipping and Purchasing Association of Woonsocket Woonsocket Sanborn 5 5,000 09/12/1887 2116 160

Farmers Protection and Guarantee Corporation Woonsocket Sanborn 7 04/17/1886 2113 12

First Presbyterian Society of Woonsocket (See Page 139) Woonsocket Sanborn 3 04/15/1884 2110 189

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Woonsocket Woonsocket Sanborn 3 02/25/1884 2110 7

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Capital Investment Company Woonsocket Sanborn 7 50,000 01/03/1889 2118 192

Citizens Bank of Woonsocket Woonsocket Sanborn 3 10,000 01/19/1884 2109 425

Lincoln County Dakota Farmers Alliance Warehouse Company No. 1 Worthing Lincoln 3 4,000 08/08/1889 2119 352

Farmers Co-operative Creamery Association Worthing Lincoln 8 20,000 04/16/1883 2108 246

Worthington Cemetery Association Worthing Lincoln 3 12/24/1881 2106 89

Congregational Church of Wyndmere Wyndmere Richland 3-9 10/29/1889 2119 551

Masonic Aid Association Yankton Yankton 11 03/11/1886 2112 430

Dakota Territorial Agricultural Society Yankton Yankton 3 none 08/02/1878 2104 3

Den Skandinaviske Evangeliske Lutherske Trefoldigheds Meuieghed Yankton Yankton 3 08/26/1887 2116 122

Yankton Electric Lighting Company Yankton Yankton 7 25,000 09/13/1886 2114 340

Yankton Heating and Plumbing Company Yankton Yankton 5 10,000 02/25/1888 2116 503

Dakota Publishing Company Yankton Yankton 3 2,500 12/08/1881 2106 74

South Eastern Dakota Telephone & Telegraph Co. Yankton Yankton 6 15,000 06/12/1882 2107 40

Wilcox Lumber Co. (Cert. to Increase Capital Stk.) Yankton Yankton 55,000 03/20/1884 2110 97

Yankton Bank Yankton Yankton 5 25,000 06/06/1882 2107 35

Yankton Pressed Brick Co. Yankton Yankton 5 24,000 03/03/1882 2106 208

Yankton Artesian Well & Mining Co. Yankton Yankton 5 10,000 09/17/1880 2104 373

Yankton Artesian Well and Mining Co. Yankton Yankton 30,000` 02/14/1882 2106 180

Yankton Linseed Oil Company Yankton Yankton 6 33,000 06/24/1889 2119 209

Wilcox Lumber Company(Increase of Capital Stock) Yankton Yankton 40,000 03/19/1884 2110 89

Yankton Loan Trust and Savings Bank Yankton Yankton 5 25,000 05/06/1887 2115 330

Yankton Ferry Company Yankton Yankton 02/04/1882 2106 162

Security Investment Company of Yankton Dakota Yankton Yankton 9 100,000 11/13/1886 2114 443

Missouri Valley Brokerage and Investment Company Yankton Yankton 3-11 200,000 05/20/1887 2115 364

Christ Church Yankton Yankton 3 05/31/1882 2107 18

Yankton Turnverein Society Yankton Yankton 11 12/24/1880 2105 39

Trustees of the Funds and Property of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Dakot Yankton Yankton 6 10/05/1878 2104 24

American Mortgage Company Yankton Yankton 3 100,000 10/01/1887 2116 210

Christ Church Yankton Yankton 3 04/21/1882 2106 290

Wilcox Lumber Company Yankton Yankton 3 40,000 05/09/1883 2108 290

Benedictine Convent of the Sacred Heart Yankton Yankton 3 02/01/1889 2118 348

Sisters of Mercy Yankton Yankton 12/02/1878 2104 31

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Yankton Yankton Yankton 3 01/30/1882 2106 155

First Universalist Parish of Yankton Dakota Yankton Yankton 5 05/05/1879 2104 72

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Skandinavian Lutheran Church of Yankton Dakota Yankton Yankton 3 04/30/1886 2113 87

Reformed Hoffnungs (Hope) Church Yankton Yankton 3-11 07/09/1886 2114 162

Yankton Ferry Company Yankton Yankton 5 8,000 10/03/1881 2105 401

U.S. Soldiers & Sailors Mutual Benefit Association Yankton Yankton 9 08/31/1883 2109 171

Wilcox Lumber Company Yankton Yankton 3 25,000 09/10/1881 2105 379

Yankton Building & Loan Association Yankton Yankton 5 5,000 12/03/1885 2112 277

Yankton Coal Mining Company Yankton Yankton 10 100,000 08/27/1884 2110 472

Yankton Creamery Yankton Yankton 5 3,500 03/03/1883 2108 137

Vangen Norwegian Lutheran Church Society of Yankton Yankton Yankton 3 08/13/1884 2110 446

Dakota Electropathic Medicine Company Yankton Yankton 3 5,000 01/31/1887 2115 30

Bankers and Merchants Accident Association of Dakota Yankton Yankton 10 06/01/1888 2117 211

Yankton and Missouri Valley Railway Company Yankton Yankton 5 3,000,000 03/05/1887 2115 112

Dakota Improvement Building and Construction Company Yankton Yankton 6 100,000 09/10/1884 2110 499

Capitol Coal Mining Company Yankton Yankton 11 25,000 09/22/1884 2110 503

Southern Dakota Mining Co. Yankton Yankton 9 50,000 10/04/1884 2111 6

Phil Kearney Memorial Association of Yankton Dakota Territory Yankton Yankton 7 06/11/1887 2115 467

Yankton Light and Power Company Yankton Yankton 3 25,000 12/17/1888 2118 194

Southeastern Dakota Telephone & Telegraph Co. Yankton Yankton 6 60,000 11/04/1882 2107 291

Dakota Pulp & Textile Co. Yankton Yankton 10 100,000 10/11/1884 2111 23

Western Loan and Banking Company Yankton Yankton 3 100,000 01/08/1887 2114 551

Yankton College Yankton Yankton 9 08/30/1881 2105 354

Electropathic Institute and School of Telegraphy Yankton Yankton 3 01/23/1885 2111 188

Yankton Fire Insurance Co. Yankton Yankton 03/03/1883 2108 136

Yankton Packing Company Yankton Yankton 4 20,000 06/03/1884 2110 270

Yankton Library Association Yankton Yankton 5 06/24/1879 2104 118

Yankton Fire Insurance Co. Yankton Yankton 9 100,000 02/23/1883 2108 117

Southeastern Dakota Industrial Association Yankton Yankton 7 3,000 07/13/1883 2109 90

Die Freir Evngelische Congregation Yankton Yankton 3 02/07/1885 2111 229

Roman Catholic Church of Sacred Heart of City of Yankton Yankton Yankton 3 06/10/1884 2110 293

Yankton Hotel Association Yankton Yankton 11 100,000 05/31/1889 2119 134

Yankton & LeMars Railroad Company Yankton Yankton 13 500,000 10/13/1881 2106 16

Zion's Church of the Evangelical Association of North America Yankton Yankton 3 05/23/1881 2105 195

Yankton Savings Bank Yankton Yankton 5 25,000 07/21/1887 2116 16

Yankton Street Railway Company Yankton Yankton 12 10,000 03/25/1887 2115 189

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Dakota Scientific Association Yankton Yankton 5 09/09/1879 2104 122

Yellowstone Land & Colonization Co. Yellowstone Val Billings 5 36,000 10/21/1880 2105 1

Yorktown Land Company Yorktown Dickey 3 25,000 08/21/1883 2109 142

First Methodist Episcopal Church of Yorktown Yorktown Dickey 3 05/04/1886 2113 116