Western Land and Irrigation Company Report
Scope and Contents
The Western Land and Irrigation Company Report contains a ledger with a report concerning the business of the Western Land and Irrigation Company. This collection, dated 1908, consists of a bound typewritten report, "The Complete Report upon the Properties, Business and Personnel of the Western Land and Irrigation Co. of Pendleton, Umatilla Co., Oregon.” The report includes information on the company founders, copies of its articles of incorporation, descriptions of its lands, water supply, and water rights, testimonials, and other reports on soil quality and agricultural production in Umatilla County, Oregon. The report also includes detailed maps of the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company, the upper northwest states, Umatilla’s water infrastructure, and the western U.S. Burlington Route railway system. Additionally, there is a pamphlet for “The Furnish Irrigation Project” complete with illustrations of the land, maps and captions, and a blueprint chart depicting the water supply from the Umatilla River from 1897 to 1905. The report provides insight into the language surrounding land and water use at the turn of the twentieth century.
Dates
- Creation: 1908
Creator
- Western Land and Irrigation Company (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Extent
1.5 Linear Feet (1 flat box)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Western Land and Irrigation Company Report contains a bound typewritten report, "The Complete Report upon the Properties, Business and Personnel of the Western Land and Irrigation Co. of Pendleton, Umatilla Co., Oregon" dated 1908. This report includes information on the company founders, copies of its articles of incorporation, descriptions of its lands, water supply, and water rights through maps, documents and a pamphlet, and other reports on soil quality and agricultural production in Umatilla County, Oregon.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Materials found in the collection; provenance is unknown.
- Title
- Guide to the Western Land and Irrigation Company Report
- Author
- Updated by Rayana Weller
- Date
- 2012, 2019
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Whitman College and Northwest Archives Repository