Record Details
Northern Pacific Coal Company, Roslyn, Wash. (1889)
Washington State University Libraries
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Northern Pacific Coal Company, Roslyn, Wash. (1889) |
| Identifier | http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu351 WSU 351; F852 .H67 1889 v. 2 c.2 http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/maps,566 |
| Date | 1889 2000 - 2002 |
| Publisher | Portland, Or. : North Pacific History Company |
| Description | 1 view : col ; 30 x 42 cm. Insets: coal bunkers, chief office. Scanned from: History of the Pacific Northwest : Oregon and Washington. Portland, Or. : North Pacific History Co., 1889. v. 2, p. 514. The Northern Pacific Coal Company came to Roslyn in 1886 due to enormous deposits of soft coal located under the area. By the early 1890s, the mine was the most productive in the state. The mine continued operation until 1963, by which point there was little if any market for the soft coal that... |
| Subject | Coal mining -- Washington Territory -- Roslyn; Roslyn (Wash.) -- Maps; Roslyn (Wash.)-- Pictorial works; Northern Pacific Coal Company |
| Type | Maps; Bird's-eye views |
| Coverage | United States--Washington (Territory)--Roslyn |
| Rights | Contact Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, for copyright information 509 335-6691 |
| Format | Original maps were scanned in color at 400 dpi on a Microtek 9600XL scanner and saved as TIFF files. The TIFF files were converted into the MrSID format at a compression ratio of 12 to 1 using LizardTech's Geospatial Encoder 1.4 software. These MrSid files were then uploaded into the CONTENTdm database at the Washington State University Libraries. image/jpeg |
| Contributor | Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections |
| Language | English |
| Relation | Is part of History of the Pacific Northwest : Oregon and Washington : embracing an account of the original discoveries on the Pacific coast of North America, and a description of the conquest, settlement and subjugation of the vast country included in the original territory of Oregon : also interesting biographies of the earliest settlers and more prominent men and women of the Pacific Northwest, including a statistical and graphic description of the climate, soil, productions, industries, improvements and occupations, as well as the natural advantages and resources and artificial acquirements of the great states of Oregon and Washington. |
