Lewiston-Clarkston And The Clearwater Country. Idaho - Washington / [Title Page] Lewiston-Clarkston And The Clearwater Country. Idaho --- Washington / The Land Of Sunny Skies, Where Fortune Waits To Help The Man Who Tills The Soil, Trims The Tree And Trains The Vine

Northern Pacific Railway

Publication: General Passenger Department, 1911, St Paul

9" x 6" in colorful pictorial wrappers. 72pp; frontis of a map of the Clearwater Country; photo illustrations throughout; two maps (including the frontis). Promotional booklet offering an overview of the history, geography and topography of the Clearwater area near the eastern Washington and northwestern Idaho border. It highlights the specific advantages of settling in the region, including the irrigation projects underway; crops; poultry production; various fruit crops, including cherries, peaches, apples, and grapes; nurseries; wheat crop yields; raising live stock; and the opportunities for diversified farming. The booklet is filled with “signed” and dated testimonials and many statistics regarding crop and livestock production. Includes a page directed to the Northern Pacific train service to the area, plus several pages of NP propaganda. 1 3/4" x 5/8" mark on rear wrapper where a label has been removed else clean and bright. Very good plus. This particular 1911 railroad-produced promotional booklet is unusually scarce, not often seen on the market.

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