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Title	U.P.R.R. map showing line of branches from U.P.R.R. to Portland Oregon, Puget Sound Wash, Terr, to Montana : to accompany report of G. M. Dodge Chief Eng., (1886)
Creator	Union Pacific Railroad Company.
Date.Original	1886
Publisher	Washington : Philp & Solomons, 1868.
Description	1 map : 69 x 78 cm. Some lines hand colored. This map is from a report by the Chief Engineer of the Union Pacific Railroad, General Grenville Dodge, to the U.P. Board of Directors, advocating the building of a branch line from Salt Lake City to Oregon and the Puget Sound. Dodge suggests the route could be finished by January 1, 1970. However, construction did not begin until 1881 (finally spurred on by a competing railroad), and the Oregon Short Line, as the branch was known, was not completed until 1884.
Subject	Washington Territory--Maps; Union Pacific Railroad Company--Maps; Pacific railroads--Early projects; Railroads--Branch lines--Maps
Type	Image
Genre	Maps
Location Depicted	United States--Washington (Terr.); United States--Oregon; United States--Idaho; United States--Montana; United States--California; United States--Utah; United States--Nevada
Rights Notes	No known copyright. Item is in public domain as it was published prior to 1923.
Identifier	wsu304; HE2791.U55 D63 1868
Holding Institution	Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries
Digitization	Original maps were photographed using a Mamiya R267 camera on 120 film and scanned at 4,000 dpi as TIFF files on a Nikon Super Cool Scan 8000. 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 Report of G. M. Dodge, chief engineer, to the Board of Directors, on a branch railroad line from the Union Pacific Railroad to Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Puget's Sound, 1886. HE2791.U55 D63 1868 at Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc

U.P.R.R. map showing line of branches from U.P.R.R. to Portland Oregon, Puget Sound Wash, Terr, to Montana : to accompany report of G. M. Dodge Chief Eng., (1886)

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