Record Details
Lands of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Co. Powder River Valley, Oregon. (1888)
Washington State University Libraries
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Lands of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Co. Powder River Valley, Oregon. (1888) |
| Identifier | http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/zoom/zoom.php?map=wsu519 wsu 519; F851 .O74 1888 http://kaga.wsulibs.wsu.edu/u?/maps,660 |
| Creator | Oregon Railway and Navigation Company. |
| Date | 1888 2000 - 2002 |
| Publisher | [Farmington, Wash. : s.n.] (Portland, Or. : A. Anderson & Co.) |
| Description | 1 map; 39 x 26 cm. Government lands taken and O.R.&N.Co.'s lands both identified by shading. In 1884, The Oregon Railway and Navigation Co. constructed tracks south-east across Oregon from Umatilla to hook up with the Oregon Short Line at Huntington, Oregon, finishing the first transcontinental line to cross Oregon by land (Oregon was previously linked to the east by land across Washington). Upon completion of... |
| Subject | Oregon -- Description and travel -- Maps; Oregon -- Railroads -- Maps |
| Type | Map |
| Coverage | United States -- Oregon -- Baker County |
| 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 Eastern Washington territory and Oregon : facts regarding the resources, productions, industries, soil, climate, healthfulness, commerce and means . of communication / issued for general information with maps and appendix by the Land Department of the Oregon Railway and Navigation . Company, particularly describing the prolific Palouse country and Powder River valley and principal towns in same. |
