Eastern Oregon Land Company records, 1884-1953.

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Eastern Oregon Land Company records, 1884-1953.

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The records primarily document the operations of the company's office in Ontario, Oregon, headed at various times by Thomas W. Clagett, P. Hetherton, and Charles P. Flegel. Materials include correspondence, legal documents, leases, reports, maps, statistics, and financial records concerning agricultural operations of the company in Deschutes, Grant, Malheur, Moro, Sherman, Wasco, and Wheeler Counties, Oregon. References can also be found to banking, conservation, fencing, irrigation, labor problems, railroads, livestock grazing (Blue Mountain, Dayville, Prairie City, and Mount Vernon), and timber lands.

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Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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Clagett, Thomas

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Physician and tobacco planter, of Leesburg, Va. From the description of Papers, 1834-1852. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32960132 Clagett resided in Leesburg, Loudoun County, Va., where he was treasurer of St. James' Church. He appears to have owned a farm managed by Nelson Ryon in Nottingham [Prince Georges County], Maryland. Thomas M. Locke, of Baltimore, Maryland, was Clagett's agent for sale of wheat, tobacco, etc. From the description of Pape...

Eastern Oregon Land Company.

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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 5...

McMenzie, William, fl. 1910-1940

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Martin, Edward, b. 1819.

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Flegel, Charles P.

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Hetherton, P.

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