hendricks abrams carle (1 Ergebnisse)

Folio. 89, [3] pp. With over 150 photo illustrations, text illustrations, illustrated ads. Self-printed colour-illustrated softcovers, cover art photos of agricultural products front cover, ad for Hazelwood Cream Separator on back cover (minor chipping & slight tears to corners, fore-edges, head & foot of spine), still G copy. First edition of this well-illustrated agricultural journal issued by the Homestead Co. touting all of the potential agricultural opportunities in Oregon, Washington, Montana, and Idaho, with an emphasis on the "Good Roads" movement. A couple of the articles specifically cite examples of well-built roads, their potential economic advantage, and the goods and money which will flow after that. Hendricks (1863-1943) former editor and part owner of the Oregon Statesman newspaper, investor in the Salem Street Railway Co., first superintendent of the state training school for boys, and even director of the 1910 census in Western Oregon, was a major proponent of the Homestead and Good Roads movements in Oregon.