Eastern Oregon Land Company.

The Eastern Oregon Land Comany, headquartered in San Francisco, owned and operated large farms and ranches in eastern Oregon.

To finance the building of wagon roads, the U.S. Government (as with the railways) granted to builders parcels of land on either side of the proposed route. These lands were then often re-sold to investors or speculators. One such route was a military wagon road from Fort Boise to Fort Dalles on the Columbia River, planned in 1867. In 1876, over 500,000 acres formerly granted as part of this project to the Dalles Military Road Company were sold for $125,000 to Edward Martin of San Francisco, who formed the Eastern Oregon Land Company. Through this transaction Martin and his company became one of the largest land owners in the state.

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