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| Advertisement | Puget Sound Real Estate and Lumber (1906) |
| Company/Advertising Agency | Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad |
| Publication Source | Washington magazine, Vol. 2 (1) |
| Publisher | Washington Magazine Publishing Company |
| Publisher Location | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle |
| Publication Date | September 1906
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| Advertisement Text | More free land for settlement: Coming of Milwaukee Road will give access to valuable homestead and timber lands in Washington. The construction of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad across the State of Washington to Puget Sound will place Seattle and the outside world in touch with much timber land in this state that has been overlooked on account of its inaccessibility. Some of the most valuable timber land in the State of Washington will be tapped by this road...Choice farm land in Washington sells for from $10 to $75 an acre, and even higher. When government land, equally as good, can be obtained practically free, it would be foolish for anyone to pay these high prices. |
| Contextual Notes | Beginning in 1906, the Milwaukee Road (Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad) constructed railroads in the Pacific Northwest. Horace Chapin Henry, a Seattle businessman, supervised and managed the construction of the 450-mile route from the Montana-Idaho border to Seattle (completed in 1909).
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| Category | Nature and the environment
Railroad travel
Real estate and land development
Cost and standard of living |
| Subjects (LCTGM) | Real estate development--Washington (State); Lumber industry--Washington (State) |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Investments |
| Geographic Coverage | United States--Washington (State)--Seattle
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| Digital Collection | Early Advertising |
| Digital ID Number | ADV0290 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Pacific Northwest Collection. 979.705 WM |
| Object Type | Advertisement |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original drawing in RGB at 400 dpi, saved in TIFF format, changed to indexed color, enhanced and resized using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm software's JPEG2000 Extension. 2008. |
