Archives West Finding Aid

Scope and Content: Correspondence, court papers, and an engineering blueprint primarily concerning a land condemnation suit in Seattle at Western Avenue. The accession also includes similar materials on other aspects of the railroad's business in Western Washington.

Scope and Content: Six books with calf bindings related to the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company. Five of the volumes contain lists of daily records of materials loaded and unloaded by the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company. Each volume measures approximately 4.5 inches by 7 inches and contains approximately 90 pages. Books number 1 through 5 belonged to R. W. Fletcher, an engineer from Pendleton, Oregon, who worked in the Bridges and Building department of the company. Book number 1 contains information about the route from Portland to Troutdale, from Cascade Locks to Dalles, and from Pendleton to Huron. Book number 2 describes Huron to North Powder. Book number 3 contains information about the route from North Powder to Huntington. Book number 4 logs the route from The Dalles to Barnhart, and book number 5 describes Barnhart to Pendleton.

A sixth volume, of the same size and binding as the other five, contains simple lined sheets instead of the official "record of material" pages in the other volumes. This volume is entitled "Columbia River Miscellaneous Notes, F. C. Schubert, Diary of Gerald Bagnall, Assistant Engineer, Survey of 1900." The first third of the volume is filled with pencil and ink manuscript field notes related to the surveying of areas around the Columbia River. The remainder of the volume does not contain any writing or information.