Okanogan, the Land of Opportunity
One booklet (unp., ill, photos, tables, 17 x 12 cm.) promoting the Okanogan area as a land of great opportunity for settlers. It describes the potential opportunities in fruit and livestock raising, wheat farming, and mining and how the Columbia & Okanogan steamboats provide access to the area. Also mentions the recreational opportunites of Lake Chelan; centerfold photograph of fishermen at Dumphy Falls. Includes a schedule of the sailings between Wenatchee and Brewster. There are black and white photographs of sternwheeler steamboats sailing on rivers on both covers. Distributed at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition in Seattle, 1909. Published by the Columbia & Okanogan Steamboat Company.
Details
Creation Date: 1909
Catalog ID: 2019.25.1.3
Call Number: EPH/979.728/C723o/1909
Object Types: booklet
Creator: Wenatchee, WA
Dimensions: Height 17 cm . Width 12 cm
Related Subjects: Columbia & Okanogan Steamboat Company Okanogan valley sternwheeler steamship travel brochure, promotional Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Lake Chelan Dumphy Falls wheat farming irrigation land settlement cattle ranching fruit industry Brewster, WA Wenatchee, WA fishing Okanogan County
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