Item #4717 Message of Elisha P. Ferry Governor of Washington Territory to the Legislative Assembly, Session of 1877. Elisha P. Ferry.

Message of Elisha P. Ferry Governor of Washington Territory to the Legislative Assembly, Session of 1877

Olympia: C. B. Bagley, Public Printer, 1877. First edition. 8vo, 22.5 x 15cm, [3], 20pp. Original gray, printed wrappers. Very good with some wrinkling and wear along top edge and smudging and a few pencil marks to front cover. Clean internally. Washington territorial imprint, an address from Ferry, the tenth governor of the territory, and later the inaugural governor when Washington became a state in 1889.

Includes sections on finances, fisheries, coal and lumber, the territorial library which was in a "very unsatisfactory condition," population, emigration, and the Northern Pacific Railroad which had faced several delays since announcing Tacoma as the planned site of its western terminus in 1873.

Worldcat locates 3 holdings for this 1877 address. Item #4717

Price: $250.00

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