Address to the Pioneers of Sunnyside and the Yakima Valley at the Golden Jubilee Pageant.
| dc.contributor.author | Fleming, A. G. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-07T22:09:07Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-06-07T22:09:07Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1952-06-02 | |
| dc.description | 10 sheets 8.5 x 11 inch. Typed. Final sheet annotated in pencil on verso. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | "In the early 80s the Northern Pacific Railroad was building the first transcontinental railroad to the Puget Sound Territory. They selected Commencement Bay as their terminal and plated a town site which they named Tacoma. As an inducement to the railroad company to build a road through the wilderness, congress gave them a land grant consisting of every odd section reaching for 20 miles on each side of the railroad. In 1889 they decided if they were to operate on a profitable basis it would be necessary for them to assist in the promotion and development of the territory tributary to the railroad. That year, Walter N. Granger, a representative of the company, a dynamic man of vision and action, came to the valley to investigate and appraise the possibility of starting an irrigation project. In 1890 the Northern Pacific, Yakima, and Kittitas Irrigation Company was formed with Paul Schultz, who was the Western Land Agent for the railroad, as president, and Walter N. Granger as secretary and manager. This company, in turn, purchased from the railroad their land grants located in this district." | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | MNS-061-05-001 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11867/7857 | |
| dc.publisher | UNKNOWN | en_US |
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| dc.title | Address to the Pioneers of Sunnyside and the Yakima Valley at the Golden Jubilee Pageant. | en_US |
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