Interstate History - transcription (part 5).
Date
1904
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UNKNOWN
Abstract
"The government in 1864 gave an immense land grant to any one company that would build a railway from the mouth of the Snake river down the Columbia to the sea. To be a section of the transcontinental. Work was begun at a point one mile below the village of Columbus on the north side of the river. By reason of its rough topography that point is a strategic one in railroad building, a fact which strengthened the Northern Pacific's desire to occupy it at once."
Description
13 page typed transcription, created by Click Relander.