Military Road Grant Lands. 800,000 Acres in Central Oregon. [1911?]

Military Road Grant Lands. 800,000 Acres in Central Oregon. [1911?]

Military roads -- Oregon -- Maps. <br>Land grants -- Oregon -- Maps.

1 map: col., 20 x 19 cm.<br> Scale: 3 in. = 200 mi.<br>Toll roads shown by double lines, military roads shown by dash-dot lines. <br>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 it became known, was reported finished in 1868 and opened that year as a toll road. After the grant lands passed through several hands, the Oregon & Western Colonization Co. purchased the rights to this land in 1908, and began selling the land shortly thereafter.

Oregon & Western Colonization Co.

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Saint Paul, Minn. : Oregon & Western Colonization Co.

[1911?]

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Is part of Military road grant lands : 800,000 acres in central Oregon. <br>UA964.O7 M55x 1911

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