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The Orphan Railroad and the Ram's Horn Right of Way
Get PDF"The Act of Congress granting to the Northern Pacific Railroad Company all odd numbered sections of public lands within a strip forty miles wide co-terminus with the road to be built in Territories of the United States, was a floating grant, that is to say, the lines of the road had to be definitely located before the granted sections could be identified. The Charter of the company, as amended, authorized construction of two lines in Washington Territory; one called the Main Line was to be via, the valley of the Columbia River to a terminus on Puget Sound and the other, called the Branch was to diverge from the Main Line and extend across the Cascade Mountains to the same terminus.
Origin of Washington Geographic Names
Get PDF"It is proposed to continue this series of articles until all of the important geographic names in the State are published.
Auction Sales
Get PDF"Duplicates from the Library of Mr. Henry E. Huntington were sold at the Anderson Galleries, January 8-10, 1923. The collection comprised 1014 lots relating to the Far West and brought $20, 924.50.
Observations and Impressions of the Journal Man'
Get PDF"For ten years, Mr. Fred Lockley has conducted a column in the Oregon Journal devoted to the history of the Oregon Country… Mr. Lockley has in this way secured and printed interviews with several thousand pioneers of the West.
Purchasing Books in Europe
Get PDF"Charles W. Smith, Associate Librarian at the University of Washington, is in Europe on a book-purchasing errand for the University Library.
President Harding in Seattle
Get PDF"The last public address delivered by President Warren G. Harding during his long journey through the United States was in Seattle on the afternoon of Friday, July 27, 1923. The address was devoted to Alaska, from which great Territory he had just returned.
The Grand Coulee
Get PDF"In the arid section of east-central Washington, in what has long been known as the 'Big Bend Country,' there are many narrow but steep-walled valleys commonly called coulees… Grand Coulee is by long odds the widest and longest and deepest of all the coulees in Washington.