The R.F. Matejcek Papers consist of materials related to Matejcek's actions as secretary of the Lankin Farmers Union. In 1940, one of his tasks was to write North Dakota politicians and other influential persons regarding the placement and fuel source for a Rural Electrification Association (REA) plant. The Farmers Union felt a plant needed to be built closer to the counties in northeastern North Dakota than the plant being planned for Grand Forks. The group also felt that lignite coal would be an ideal source of cheap energy, as opposed to the diesel plant in Grand Forks. As part of this campaign, Matejcek sent letters to North Dakota senators Gerald P. Nye and Lynn Frazier, as well as to William Lemke and Usher Burdick, North Dakotans in the U.S. House of Representatives. Matejcek also corresponded with Governor John Moses, Henry Slattery of the REA, Charles Vogel, the Democratic National Committeeman for North Dakota, and Glenn Talbott, President of the North Dakota Farmer's Union.

Also included is a 1938 report of the Chippewa Power Cooperative regarding the cooperative's operating costs. The report was created as a result of a meeting of Minnesota cooperatives in November 1938, in Mankato, Minnesota. Finally, there is a newspaper clipping from the Minneapolis Tribune (March 7, 1965). The clipping reports on the possibility of using lignite coal as a means of producing cheap power.