Military Road Grant Lands. Harney County Oregon

Oregon & Western Colonization Company, St. Paul, Minneapolis

Publication: Privately printed, 1910, NP

First edition. 19" x 25" sheet, folded to 9 1/2" x 8 1/4. Printed in brown, green and red. Photographs. On one side of sheet is information and illustrations. Information about Harney County, crops, dairy, poultry, water, irrigation, lumber, railway transportation, Burns. Photographs include agricultural scenes and a photo of downtown Burns. Opposite side of sheet offers a map of the entire state of Oregon with Harney County highlighted. Map printed by Poole Bros. of Chicago for the Great Northern Railway and dated 1910. "The Oregon and Western Colonization Company was incorporated in 1910 as a South Dakota corporation by Watson P. Davidson, Sr., and several other investors, for the purpose of trading in real estates. The corporation acquired 800,000 acres of Oregon lands, including several billion feet of standing timber, from the Willamette Valley and Cascade Mountain Wagon Road. These lands comprised a federal land grant awarded the Willamette Valley company in 1871 to construct a military road and consisted of alternate sections, 15 to 20 miles wide, extending from Ontario, in eastern Oregon, to Albany, midway between the Cascade Mountains and the Pacific." Rare. Light soiling else very good plus.