Record Details
Military Road Grant Lands. 800,000 Acres in Central Oregon. [1911?]
Washington State University Libraries
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Military Road Grant Lands. 800,000 Acres in Central Oregon. [1911?] |
| Identifier | http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu517 wsu 517 http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/maps,659 |
| Creator | Oregon & Western Colonization Co. |
| Date | [1911?] 2000 - 2002 |
| Publisher | Saint Paul, Minn. : Oregon & Western Colonization Co. |
| Description | 1 map: col., 20 x 19 cm. Scale: 3 in. = 200 mi. Toll roads shown by double lines, military roads shown by dash-dot lines. As was consistent with the general governmental practice to encourage the opening of the western frontier, a group of pioneers bent on constructing an east-west military wagon road across Oregon were, in 1866, awarded land grants consisting of alternate sections of land within six miles on either side of their road. The Santiam Wagon Road, as... |
| Subject | Military roads -- Oregon -- Maps.;; ;; ;; ;; ;;;; Land grants -- Oregon -- Maps. |
| Type | Maps |
| Coverage | United States-- Oregon |
| Rights | Contact Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, for copyright information 509 335-6691 |
| Format | Original maps were scanned in color at 600 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 1.5 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 . Military road grant lands : 800,000 acres in central Oregon. . UA964.O7 M55x 1911 |
