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Portfours cabin and claim, possible false homestead claim, Marble Creek Item Info
- Title:
- Portfours cabin and claim, possible false homestead claim, Marble Creek
- Date Created (ISO Standard):
- 1905
- Description:
- Photo text: 'Cabin on claim of Chas. O. portfours. Settlement alleged July 11, 1901. Residence 1902-1903-1904, 2 months each year. A cruiser by profession, and in employ of Clearwater Timber Company, a subsidiary of the Weyerhauser interests. Sold September 27, 1913 to Rutledge Timber Company, also a Weyerhauser concern. He lived at Orofino, Idaho, for a number of years, and previously resided at Troy, Idaho. Photo taken October 19, 1905, shortly after he offered filing.' Note: Marble Creek region homesteads at this time were often part of a homesteads fraud being documented by the US Forest Service.
- Subjects:
- cabin claim pioneer settlers homesteads homesteaders false fake USFS lawsuit
- Location:
- St. Joseph National Forest, Idaho
- Idaho County:
- Shoshone County
- Features:
- Marble Creek
- Latitude:
- 47.25075
- Longitude:
- -116.02043
- Source:
- NARA College Park RG 95; Box 51
- Source Identifier:
- NARA0815DC24
- Type:
- image;stillimage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Language:
- eng
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Portfours cabin and claim, possible false homestead claim, Marble Creek", Archival Idaho Photograph Collection, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/archivalidaho/items/archivalidaho971.html
Rights
- Rights:
- Material determined to be in Public Domain based on date of publication. Material made available by the University of Idaho Library. Please note these materials are not held by University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives. For more information, please contact the institution listed in the Source.
- Standardized Rights:
- https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/