Oregon Improvement Company records, 1880-1896.

Pacific Coast Steamship Company

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Biographical / Historical Notes The Pacific Coast Steamship Company (PCSC) was founded in September 1882 under the name Pacific Steamship Company. This passenger and freight company was based in San Francisco. They shipped a variety of cargo such as vegetables, grain, lumber, coal and iron, and boasted modern, luxurious facilities for their passengers. In the early 1890s, the name Pacific Coast Steamship Company gained permanent resonance, un...

Union Lumber Association, San Francisco.

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Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad.

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Olympia and Chehalis Valley Railroad.

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Colorado Manufacturing Co.

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Puget Sound Shore Railroad Co.

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Seattle Coal and Transportation Company.

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Villard, Henry, 1835-1900

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Henry Villard was a journalist, railway promoter, and financier. Born in Bavaria, he came to the United States in 1853. He worked as a journalist for a variety of newspapers and was a Civil War correspondent for the New York Herald and New York Tribune . In 1873 Villard became a representative for a group of German bondholders of the Oregon and California Railroad, and his career as a railroad promoter in the Northwest was launched. He was president of the Northern Pacific Railroad, 1881-1884. V...

Willamette Steam Mill and Manufacturing Company, Portland, Ore.

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Columbia Railway and Navigation.

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Thurston County Railroad Construction Co.

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Oregon Steamship Co.

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Smith Brothers and Watson.

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Pacific Coast Railroad Company

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The company was incorporated in 1880, as the Columbia and Puget Sound Railroad, to take over the properties of the Seattle and Walla Walla Railroad. It extended its rail line to a total of 58 miles running between Seattle and Black Diamond. It also owned 417 acres of industrial property in North Renton and Black River. Its name change occurred in 1916. From the description of Corporate records, 1880-1970. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 313845142 ...

Oregon Improvement Company

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Mining and transportation company of Washington state, 1888-1896. Henry Villard founded the Oregon Improvement Company in 1880 as a central component in his attempt to dominate the economy of the Pacific Northwest by linking rail, river, and ocean transport. The OIC owned coal mines in western Washington, four small railroads, and a steamship company. They suffered financial problems from the start, and competition for the San Francisco coal market was stiff. They tried ...

Port Townsend Southern Railroad

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Seattle and Northern Railway Co.

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