News item on bill (H. R. 6702) "For the protection of the people of the Indian Territory, providing for the laying out of towns, the leasing of coal and other mineral, timber, farming and grazing lands, and for other purposes." Jan. 20,...
The Great Northern Railway encompassed several railway companies, including the St. Paul and Pacific Railway Company and the Minnesota and Pacific Railroad Company, by way of owning the majority of stock. After financial problems, the Northern...
The Northern Pacific Railway company was the first railroad to run through the northern tier of states, connecting Lake Superior to Puget Sound. Its contruction began with an estimated forty-seven to sixty million acres of land grants from the...