Northern Pacific Railroad Company: Pamphlet Vol.], Τόμος 11866 |
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... river to its head , which we found from its mouth to be ninety five miles long , flowing through a wide and beautiful valley , whose soil is fertile and productive , well timbered with the pine and cotton - wood , but whose chief ...
... river to its head , which we found from its mouth to be ninety five miles long , flowing through a wide and beautiful valley , whose soil is fertile and productive , well timbered with the pine and cotton - wood , but whose chief ...
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... rivers . This plan will accommodate both Oregon and Washington , and will insure an extension of the Columbia river branch via the Willamette and Sacramento valleys to San Francisco . The connexion , moreover , with the several railroad ...
... rivers . This plan will accommodate both Oregon and Washington , and will insure an extension of the Columbia river branch via the Willamette and Sacramento valleys to San Francisco . The connexion , moreover , with the several railroad ...
Σελίδα 19
... river . They are now connecting these with our roads running through Michigan , Illinois , and Wisconsin . They cannot go north of Lake Su- perior ; the country has been examined , and has been found to be impracticable . Their only ...
... river . They are now connecting these with our roads running through Michigan , Illinois , and Wisconsin . They cannot go north of Lake Su- perior ; the country has been examined , and has been found to be impracticable . Their only ...
Σελίδα 9
... river there should be two branches , one to Seattle , on Puget sound , across the Snoqualmie pass , and the other down the Columbia river to Vancouver . " Captain Mullan says : " Those who have carefully read the foregoing pages will ...
... river there should be two branches , one to Seattle , on Puget sound , across the Snoqualmie pass , and the other down the Columbia river to Vancouver . " Captain Mullan says : " Those who have carefully read the foregoing pages will ...
Σελίδα 10
... river , and along under the foot hills of Snake and main Columbia rivers to the Dalles in Oregon , and from this point via Vancouver to Puget sound , or direct to Portland . In tracing this line on the map you will find it to vary but ...
... river , and along under the foot hills of Snake and main Columbia rivers to the Dalles in Oregon , and from this point via Vancouver to Puget sound , or direct to Portland . In tracing this line on the map you will find it to vary but ...
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Σελίδα 11 - There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
Σελίδα 8 - ... and whenever, prior to said time, any of said sections or parts of sections shall have been granted, sold, reserved, occupied by homestead settlers or preempted, or otherwise disposed of, other lands shall be selected by said company in lieu thereof, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, in alternate sections, and designated by odd numbers, not more than ten miles beyond the limits of said alternate sections: ProOpinion of the Court.
Σελίδα 8 - Pacific coast, and to secure the safe and speedy transportation of the mails, troops, munitions of war, and public stores, over the route of said line of railway and its branches, every alternate section of public land, not mineral, designated by odd numbers, to the amount of twenty alternate sections per mile, on each side of said railroad...
Σελίδα 6 - The sovereignty of a state extends to everything which exists by its own authority, or is introduced by its permission; but does it extend to those means which are employed by congress to carry into execution powers conferred on that body by the people of the United States?
Σελίδα 6 - ... every alternate section of public land, not mineral, designated by odd numbers, to the amount of twenty alternate sections per mile, on each side of said railroad line, as said Company may adopt, through the Territories of the United States...
Σελίδα 11 - An Act to secure homesteads to • actual settlers on the public domain...
Σελίδα 5 - Wisconsin, thence westerly, by the most eligible railroad route, as shall be determined by said company, within the territory of the United States...
Σελίδα 6 - It is of the very essence of supremacy to remove all obstacles to its action within its own sphere, and so to modify every power vested in subordinate governments as to exempt its own operations from their influence.
Σελίδα 10 - That the President of the United States shall cause the lands to be surveyed for forty miles in width on both sides of the entire line of said road, after the general route shall be fixed, and as fast as may be required by the construction of said railroad...
Σελίδα 8 - Office ; and whenever, prior to said time, any of said sections, or parts of sections, shall have been granted, sold, reserved, occupied by homestead settlers, or preempted, or otherwise disposed of, other lands shall be selected by said company in lieu thereof, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, in alternate sections and designated by odd numbers, not more than ten miles beyond the limits of said alternate sections...