Omak [recto], Jan. 1 1907
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Title
Omak [recto] , Jan . 1 1907
Date.Original
1907
Description
1 ms. map ; 53 x 38 cm. Manuscript town plat for the city of Omak. Scale 200 feet = 1 inch. See another version of the map on verso : http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/maps/id/316 In 1901 , Mr Ben F. Ross , an employee of the Great Northern Railroad , settled with his family in the area that became the town of Omak , Washington. By 1906 , Ross had helped to organize the first accredited school district east of the Cascade Mountains and named it the Omak School District. Taking twenty acres from his own farm and platting it into a twenty five town lots in 1906 , Ross also pointed the town toward the direction of incorporation and was its first and most earnest boosters. He drafted this map for use in its development. The town lay on the bank of the Okanogan River , about thirty miles north from its confluence with the Columbia River and about six miles north of the town of Okanogan. Also incorporated in 1907 , Okanogan was Omak's rival , particularly in the fight for County Seat when the position moved from Conconully in 1915. Okanogan won the seat , but both towns profited from the Conconully Dam Irrigation Project. The U.S. Reclamation Project began in 1907 and the dam was completed in 1910. When the irrigation canals were set in place within the next decade , the project watered over 10,000 acres in the vicinity of Okanogan and Omak. It has continued to prosper with the fruit industry.
Subject
Omak (Wash.)--Maps , Manuscript ; Okanogan County--Maps , Manuscript ; Ross , Ben F .
Type
Image
Genre
Maps ; Town plats
Location Depicted
United States--Washington (State)--Okanogan county--Omak
Rights Notes
No known copyright. Item went into public domain 70 years after the 1937 death of the author.
Identifier
wsu154 ; sc001 3.34 1907 r
Holding Institution
Manuscripts , Archives , and Special Collections , Washington State University Libraries
Digitization
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 1.4 software. These MrSid files were then uploaded into the CONTENTdm database at the Washington State University Libraries.
Format
image/jpg2000
Contributors
Manuscripts , Archives , and Special Collections
Language
English
Source
Is found in SC 1 , Historic Maps Collection https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/finders/sc001.htm at Washington State University Libraries ' Manuscripts , Archives , and Special Collections (MASC) https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc
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