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Title	Map showing land grant of the Northern Pacific Railroad Co. in eastern Washington and northern Idaho. Corrected up to August 15, 1886. (1886)
Creator	Northern Pacific Railroad Company.
Date.Original	1886
Publisher	Buffalo, N.Y. : Matthews, Northrup & Co.
Description	1 map : 97 x 86 cm. Shows drainage, county boundaries, townships, sections and quarter sections, railroad lands sold and unsold, U.S. government lands, school sections. Relief shown by hachures on ancillary and inset maps. Inset: Map showing Northern Pacific Railroad system. On verso: "Map of Washington, northern Idaho & Oregon; Rand McNally & Co., Chicago" text, and ill. Originally folded to 23 x 12 cm. 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.
Subject	Railroad land grants--Washington (State)--Maps
Type	Image
Genre	Maps
Location Depicted	United States--Washington (Terr.)
Rights Notes	No known copyright. Item is in public domain as it was published prior to 1923.
Identifier	wsu292; G4281.P3 1886.N67
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 as Map showing land grant of the Northern Pacific Railroad Co. in eastern Washington and northern Idaho, 1886. G4281.P3 1886.N67 at Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc

Map showing land grant of the Northern Pacific Railroad Co. in eastern Washington and northern Idaho. Corrected up to August 15, 1886. (1886)

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