Map showing land grant of the Northern Pacific Railroad Co. in eastern Washington and northern Idaho. Corrected up to August 15, 1888. (1888)

Map showing land grant of the Northern Pacific Railroad Co. in eastern Washington and northern Idaho. Corrected up to August 15, 1888. (1888)

Railroad land grants -- Washington (State) -- Maps.

1 map : 97 x 86 cm.<br>Shows drainage, county boundaries, townships, sections and quarter sections, railroad lands sold and unsold, U.S. government lands, school sections. <br>Relief shown by hachures on ancillary and inset maps. <br> Inset: Map showing Northern Pacific Railroad system. On <br>verso: "Map of Washington, northern Idaho & Oregon; Rand McNally & Co., Chicago," text, and ill. <br>Originally folded to 23 x 12 cm.<br>As a major part of the financing of its transcontinental routes, the Northern Pacific (and other railroads) were awarded large grants of land. Part of the Northern Pacific's grant included alternating sections of land for forty miles to either side of their projected line. Much of this land had already been settled, and after the Supreme Court favored the settlers in the matter, Congress compensated the railroads with timbered lands elsewhere.

Northern Pacific Railroad Company

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Buffalo, N.Y. : Matthews, Northrup & Co.

1888

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Maps

wsu 292<br> G4281.P3 1888 .N37x

Washington (Terr.)