Pataha City, W. T. (1889)
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Title
Pataha City , W . T . (1889)
Date.Original
1889
Publisher
Portland , Or. : North Pacific History Company
Description
1 view : col ; 30 x 42 cm . Insets : Houser & Harford grain elevator , Harford & Son Bankers , Residence R . M . Smith , and the Residence Mrs . Lillie Stiles . Scanned from: History of the Pacific Northwest : Oregon and Washington . Portland , Or. : North Pacific History Co. , 1889 . v . 2 , p . 422 In 1881 , the newly formed Garfield County held its county seat at Pataha City for one year . It transferred the next year three miles away to Pomeroy , Washington , but the fact that Pataha City held the honor even temporarily shows that the town was strong and growing at that point in time . The name Pataha is a Nez Perce word that means "bushy creek ". The town incorporated in 1875 , as more and more people began to settle there. It became a popular spot after the arrival of three economies : the shipping/transportation industry , winter wheat farming , and flour production . The Pataha-Alpowa stage line stopped in the town , and a shipping business running the Snake River was also established some time after . Prior to 1870 , Pataha was mostly a cattle raising region , but soon prospered as a farming town with the introduction of a hearty strain of wheat . The future looked bright for Pataha until 1886 . In that year the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company built a track running up to the town of Pomeroy and greatly improved transportation methods in the area . However , Pomeroy had long been Pataha City's rival , and refused to extend the line into the next town . Pataha City withered away when more and more businesses and farmers switched from shipping transport to the rails . The gristmill business (the Houser Mill or Pataha Flour Mill for example) continued on for a number of years due to a high international demand for its quality product . However , it too closed down by 1940 , when the federal government placed costly and rigid regulations on small businesses .
Subject
Pataha City (Wash.)--Aerial views--Maps ; Pataha City (Wash.)--Pictorial works
Type
Image
Genre
Maps ; Bird's-eye views
Location Depicted
United States--Washington (Terr.)--Garfield county--Pataha City
Rights Notes
No known copyright. Item is in public domain as it was published prior to 1923.
Identifier
wsu349 ; F852.H67 1889 v . 2 c.2
Holding Institution
Manuscripts , Archives , and Special Collections , Washington State University Libraries
Digitization
Original maps were scanned in color at 400 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 History of the Pacific Northwest : Oregon and Washington , 1889. F852.H67 1889 v. 2 c.2 at Washington State University Libraries ' Manuscripts , Archives , and Special Collections (MASC) https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc
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