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	Oregon and California Railroad
		On the Oregon and California Railroad, twenty-eight miles south of the city of Portland in Oregon, lies the German colony of Aurora, a communist settlement under the direction of Doctor William Keil.
		The hotel of "Dutchtown," which stands on the old Overland stage-route, and is now a station on the Oregon and California Railroad, has attained an enviable reputation, and is regarded by all travelers as the best in the State; and as to the colony itself, I heard nothing but praise.
		On a pleasant September morning the steam ferry-boat conveyed us from Portland across the Willamette River to the dépôt of the Oregon and California Railroad, and soon afterward we were rushing southward in the train along the right shore of that stream—here as broad as the Rhine—the rival of the mighty Columbia.
	www.harvestfields.netfirms.com /05/079.htm (2953 words)

	Medford, Oregon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was named in the 1880s by a civil engineer working for the Oregon and California Railroad for his home town of Medford, Massachusetts.
		Medford was founded along the Oregon and California Railroad line in the Bear Creek Valley, which is part of the greater Rogue Valley.
		This was due to many possible reasons: it was at a midpoint position along the rail line, it was at the center of Bear Creek Valley, and it was near the crossing of Bear Creek.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Medford,_Oregon (684 words)

	Oregon and California Railroad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Oregon and California Railroad was formed from the Oregon Central Rail Road when it was the first to operate a 20 mile stretch south of Portland in 1869.
		This qualified the Railroad for land grants in California, whereupon the name of the railroad soon changed to Oregon and California Rail Road Company.
		In 1887, Southern Pacific assumed control of the railroad, although it was not officially sold to Southern Pacific until January 3, 1927.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oregon_and_California_Railroad (134 words)

	PNWC-NRHS Regional Railroad History
		Below is a partial list of Oregon railroads, some long-gone but many living-on as part of the current network of mainline and short-line railroads the link the towns and industries of Oregon to the rest of the world.
		Short lines are small railroad companies that are entirely their own operation, almost always with a connection of some sort to interchange traffic with another company.
		It was the largest railroad electrification effort in the history of the state of Oregon.
	www.pnwc-nrhs.org /oregon-rr-history.html (1552 words)

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		Pacific Division of the same railroad, extending from Kalama, on the Columbia river, to Tacoma, on Puget Sound, (1(:5 miles), with a branch line (30 miles) to the coal regions of Wilkeson and Carbonado.
		The Oregon and California Railroad (East Side Division), from East Portland to Roseburg, in the Umpqua Valley, a distance of two hundred miles.
		This line.will be extended to Junction City, some miles further, to unite with the Oregon and California Railroad, and eventually, also, in a northwest direction to Astoria, at the mouth of the Columbia river.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /gc/mtfgc/27416/0830060.txt (550 words)

	Oregon History Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Railroad construction, beginning first in the 1860s with the portage lines that bypassed the rapids and falls on the mid-Columbia River, vastly expanded the geographic ties between resources and markets.
		Railroads constructed after 1870—from Portland to the California border, eastward along the Columbia River corridor, and across the Blue Mountains and along the Snake River into Idaho—served as “engines of empire,” according to historian Carlos Schwantes.
		Railroads were symbols of industrial capitalism and required the pooling of enormous financial resources, some of it originating in international banking centers in New York, London, Paris, and Berlin.
	www.ohs.org /education/oregonhistory/narratives/subtopic.cfm?subtopic_ID=30 (546 words)

	Misc. News Articles - GessWhoTo.Com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Oregon: From Astoria, via mouth of the Colitz river, Plymouth, Portland, Milwaukie, Oregon City, Linn City, Lafayette, Nathaniel Ford's, Nesmith's Mills, Marysville, John Lloyd's, Eugene F. Skinner's, Pleasant Hill, to the mouth of the Umpqua river.
		Hood's Railroad Surveying Party, after having completed and corrected the preliminary survey of the contemplated Oregon and California line from Tehama county through Shasta and Siskiyou to the State line of Oregon, were discharged at this place this week.
		The issue forms part of a total of $10,950,000, of which $4,150,000 were issued las year in Germany and the remainder is yet to be issued, the whole is repayable in 1890 at par, with principal and interest payable in New York in gold, and free of all United States Government tax.
	gesswhoto.com /newstage.html (666 words)

	The Quarterly Or. Hist. Society 1919 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		As the railroad company was unable to make the payments due under the mortgage in 1878, the rolling mill company began suit to recover January 23, 1879, and had the receiver, Revette, appointed, who conducted the management more than a year, or until April 17, 1880.
		Amid the rosy railroad prospects in 1880-81, Central Pacific extensions to Oregon by the route of Humboldt River, Goose Lake, Sprague River, Pengra Pass and Middle Fork oF the Willamette River, possible connection wlth the Scottish narrow gauge were often heralded.
		Viilard's move to protect his Oregon and California Railroad from competition of the growing narrow gauge was the logical one of gaining control of the invader.
	gesswhoto.com /ohs-railroad.html (2659 words)

	rrcc-forfeiture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The railroads were actually delaying settlement by withholding land they were supposed to sell to the public; the railroads should not be rewarded for their speculative holding of lands.
		The Oregon and California forfeiture was preceded by the Oregon land fraud trials of 1903 to 1910.
		One was that railroads were not entitled to be rewarded for their speculation: with the backing of the U.S. Supreme Court, the railroad was paid only the $2.50 per acre it was supposed to have received.
	www.endgame.org /rrcc-forfeiture.html (11097 words)

	Historical Gazette: Oregon Trail 1883 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Henry Villard was born in Speyer, Germany in 1835, the son of a Bavarian judge.
		In 1874, the German bondholders of certain American railroad companies which had defaulted after the panic of 1873, sent him to the United States as their representative to report the conditions of the Kansas Pacific and the Oregon and California railroad.
		In April 1879, Villard began the construction of a system of railroads to occupy the valley of the Columbia river and the new wheat and pasture country east of the Cascade mountains.
	www.aracnet.com /~histgaz/hgv2n10.htm (502 words)

	Oregon History Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Oregon's Political Landscape: The onset of the Civil War and the rise of the Republican party shaped Oregon’s political landscape for the next several decades.
		Oregon Populism: The “Oregon System,” a distinctive set of political and social reforms, was directly linked to events, circumstances, and economic conditions elsewhere in the United States.
		New Direction in Oregon Politics: George Chamberlain and Oswald West emerged as reform figures in the early years of the twentieth century, signaling a shift toward progressive politics in Oregon.
	www.ohs.org /education/oregonhistory/narratives/chapter.cfm?chapter_ID=000BC6A8-A669-1DF7-B66380B05272006C (474 words)

	Jackson County, Oregon - Oregon.com
		Jackson County's borders originally ran south to California, west to the Pacific Ocean, east to Lane County, and north to Umpqua and Douglas Counties.
		Currently, Jackson County includes 2,801 square miles and its boundaries extend to California in the south, Josephine County in the west, Douglas County in the north, and Klamath County in the east.
		Gold discoveries in the Rogue and Illinois River valleys in the 1850s and completion of a wagon road connecting the county with California to the south and Douglas County to the north led to an influx of non-native settlers.
	www.oregon.com /counties/jackson.cfm (694 words)

	Medford Southern Oregon Rogue Valley Jackson County
		Pear orchards bloom profusely in the spring, surrounded by snow-capped peaks still white with the last snows of winter and the summers are warm.
		Medford, the county seat of Jackson County, is the industrial, retail, and professional center of Southern Oregon and Northern California.
		But when the railroad company requested a $25,000 "bonus" for the privilege, Jacksonville refused to pay and the railroad built a station at Middle Ford on Bear Creek.
	www.rogueweb.com /medford (519 words)

	The Oregon Story \| A Chronology of Farming in Oregon
		Congress ratifies the Oregon State Constitution, and the state accepts the congressional proposal to be admitted to the Union.
		Wheat farming in Eastern Oregon begins to grow rapidly with the new mode of shipping wheat from the area.
		Oregon and California Railroad is established in the Willamette Valley.
	www.opb.org /programs/oregonstory/farming/timeline.html (848 words)

	Nevada-California-Oregon Railroad Depot and Locomotive House and Machine Shop--Three Historic Nevada Cities: Carson ...
		The peak years of the railroad were from 1906 to 1912, and it was during this period of prosperity that the depot was built.
		By 1914, however, the railroad took a downward swing, and by 1917, NCO was forced to sell 64 miles of the main line and all of its Nevada holdings to the Western Pacific Railroad.
		From 1917 to 1937, the depot served as a Western Pacific passenger and freight depot, and from 1937 to 1975 it served as offices for the railroad.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nR/travel/nevada/nco.htm (412 words)

	Oregon California & Eastern Railroad/ Weyerhaeuser Woods Railroad
		A loaded Oregon California and Eastern log train during the final years of operation.
		Built as Oregon Washington Railway and Navigation Company #1110, re-numbered to #59; to Oregon Railway and Navigation Company #59, to Union Pacific #530, to Oregon Railway and Navigation Company #65, to Klamath Falls Municiple Railway #1 1917, to Oregon California and Eastern #1 1919.
		A solution to the motive power needs was finally found in 1976 with the delivery of seven re-manufactured locomotives from Morrison- Knudson of Boise, ID. The seven were all ex-Union Pacific General Electric built U25B's that were re-powered with EMD model 567 prime movers removed from ex-Baltimore and Ohio FB units.
	www.trainweb.org /highdesertrails/oce.html (1600 words)

	Oregon Railroad & Transportation museum - Brief History of the Oregon & California Rail Road (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Southern Pacific officially assumed control of the O&C on May 12, 1887 and on December 17, 1887 the line was completed over the Siskiyous with the driving of a golden spike in Ashland.
		While referring to Cow Creek canyon, it states..."It was in this remote canyon area that "the big slide of 1890" caused the relocation of 3 and 1/2 miles of the railroad from the west bank to the east bank of Cow Creek.
		The new O&C will be at first a tourist shortline, hauling excrusions for the Oregon Railroad and Transportation Museum; but eventual right of way extensions will take it into wine Grape coultry 9 miles East of Winchester; and along the route, possible freight business may be found.
	www.osrm.org /ocr/history_ocrr.html (606 words)

	Canby Depot Museum - Historical Society
		It's location is in the century-old railroad station which Southern Pacific, it's owner since 1887, said in 1978 was the oldest remaining in Oregon.
		General Canby was a friend of the O&C Railroad's chief, Ben Holladay, and a veteran of Seminole, Civil and Mexican Wars, he had arrived in Oregon the week before Canby was mapped, to serve the Pacific Northwest as the U.S. Army's Columbia Department commander.
		The building is a reminder of the vision of the 1870 railroad promoters and of the railroads role in the first century of the Canby area's development.
	www.canby.com /chamber/depot/histsoc.htm (723 words)

	FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code
		In one part of the bill it was alleged, without particulars showing the constituent items, that the total value of the property in Oregon, held under the lease, consisting of approximately 670 miles of road, with rolling stock, stations, terminals, and appurtenances, amounted to $43,594, 886.73.
		The criticism made in the bill, that the railroad commission act violated the state Constitution in conferring upon the commission authority to exercise legislative, executive, and judicial powers, has been answered by the decision of the state court sustaining the statute.
		The provision of the statute that suit might be brought in the state court to set aside orders of the commission upon the ground that the rates fixed were unlawful, or that the regulation or practice prescribed was unreasonable, did not infringe the rights of the complainants.
	caselaw.lp.findlaw.com /scripts/getcase.pl?navby=case&court=us&vol=230&invol=537 (1307 words)

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		The Oregon and California Railroad subsequently rerouted the railroad through the center of the Rogue River Valley where they proceeded to start a new town.
		Land for the townsite and railroad purposes was donated to the Railroad by local landowners, C.C. Beekman, C. Mingus, C.W. Brobeck and Ira J. Phipps, and on December 20, 1883, the town was founded.
		Due to the rail stop in the center of the rich agricultural/orchard producing Rogue River Valley, the town grew rapidly and by 1890 Medford housed 1,791 residents (1990 population of Medford was 49,900, while Jacksonville was 2,005).
	w3.gsa.gov /web/p/interaia_save.nsf/0/6d48b6c0c45dc100852565d90053a04e?OpenDocument (833 words)

	Jackson County, Medford, Jacksonville and Ashland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Incorporated in 1885, Medford grew around the Oregon and California Railroad and was once known for its extensive orchards.
		One of the highlighted buildings is the Southern Oregon History Center which is housed in the former J.C. Penney store which was built in the Moderne style in 1946.
		The Jacksonville Museum of Southern Oregon and Children's Museum is located at 5th and C streets and features local and regional history exhibits.
	www.visitormags.com /delnorte/features/Jack_Medf_Ashland.html (1523 words)

	Old-growth protection backed ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The BLM is revising its Western Oregon management plan in accordance with a 2003 legal settlement between the federal government and the Portland-based American Forest Resource Council.
		The lands were seized by the federal government after the railroad and the subsequent owner violated an agreement to restrict the property’s sale to homesteaders.
		Tom Partin, AFRC president, said all Oregon and California Railroad lands should be managed through thinning or logging to yield revenue for counties and reduce the risk of fire.
	www.mailtribune.com /archive/2005/1021/local/stories/16local.htm (662 words)

	Douglas County History
		The payments are a vestige of an 1866 federal land grant to subsidize the construction of a railroad from Portland to the California border.
		Because the population of Umpqua County had rapidly increased and met the population requirements for a new county, a new county was created on January 7, 1852, out of that portion of Umpqua County lying east of the Coast Range.
		Meanwhile, in Umpqua County the gold mining boom played out, and the population of Umpqua County decreased until finally in 1862 it was absorbed into Douglas County and ceased to exist.
	arcweb.sos.state.or.us /county/cpdouglashome.html (645 words)

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		In 2001, the BLM paid $7.2 million to Coos County almost solely as payments for its Oregon and California Railroad lands.
		Overall in Oregon, the agency collected $21 million in revenues in fiscal year 2001 from various sources including mineral and mining operations, timber and land sales, grazing fees and land leases, in addition to recreation and communication site fees.
		The agency's Oregon expenses were $181 million in 1998, 169 million in 1999, $201 million in 2000 and $245 million in 2001, with the bulk of the increase in 2001 year due to wildfire assistance and other related costs.
	www.theworldlink.com /articles/2003/01/24/news05.prt (803 words)

	Oregon Blue Book: Notables- Henry Villard
		In 1875 he helped reorganize the Oregon and California Railroad and the Oregon Steamship Company and the following year became president of both companies.
		The railroad's transcontinental line was completed in 1883 under his management, but the costs so far exceeded the estimate that financial pressures forced him to resign from the presidency in 1884.
		Villard's eastern "immigration bureau" drew 30,000 settlers to Oregon in an effort that also benefited the railroad financially.
	bluebook.state.or.us /notable/notvillard.htm (289 words)

	Medford Southern Oregon Rogue Valley Jackson County
		Pear orchards bloom profusely in the spring, surrounded by snow-capped peaks still white with the last snows of winter and the summers are warm.
		Medford, the county seat of Jackson County, is the industrial, retail, and professional center of Southern Oregon and Northern California.
		But when the railroad company requested a $25,000 "bonus" for the privilege, Jacksonville refused to pay and the railroad built a station at Middle Ford on Bear Creek.
	rogueweb.com /medford (519 words)

	Nevada State Historic Preservation - Nevada Historical Markers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This building was constructed as a passenger depot for the Nevada-California-Oregon Railroad, a narrow-gauge line connecting Reno with northern California and southern Oregon.
		It began operations in 1882 as the Nevada and California Railroad.
		In 1917, the Western Pacific Railroad purchased the N.C.O. line from Reno to Herlong, California, and standard gauged it.
	dmla.clan.lib.nv.us /docs/shpo/markers/mark_210.htm (118 words)

	Mail Tribune News - On track for historic status (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		SALEM -- Ashland's Railroad District is one step away from becoming the newest and largest historic district in Southern Oregon.
		The Oregon and California Railroad came to Ashland in 1884, and in 1927, the Natron Cutoff allowed railroad traffic to bypass the Rogue Valley.
		The district remained largely intact, but began a gradual decline, after the railroad bypassed Ashland and the automobile shifted the focal point of the community back to Main Street and the downtown plaza.
	www.mailtribune.com /archive/99/feb99/22299n2.htm (634 words)

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