The Oregon Steam Navigation Company (O. S. N.) was an company in 1860 at by and a partner. A sister company the Oregon Steam Navigation Company (of Washington) was incorporated at on December 29 1860 to direct via arrive along a portion of the Columbia River that was unnavigable by because of rapids.
Blow for the Landing. A Hundred Years of Steam Navigation on the Waters of the West
pages 14. Caxton Printers. Caldwell. ID. 1973
It operated steamships between and ports along the at. Portland and serving the walk and salmon fishing industries.
A railroad was built to serve the steamship industry.
Timmen described the Oregon go Navigation affiliate as "the many-tentacled monopoly of river transportation." The affiliate was incorporated on December 29. 1860 at Vancouver. Washington. Principal shareholders included D. F. Bradforth (one of the owners of the north bank portage railway at the Cascades). R. R. Thompson. Harrison Olmstead. Jacob Kamm and steamboat captains and L. W. Coe. The company then got control over most of the boats on the and rivers.
From 1858 to 1863 the operated 4.5 miles of track between and.
The railroad hauled primarily military and immigrant merchandise.
In 1862 the railroad was sold to the Oregon Railway and Navigation affiliate for $155,000.
Soon afterwards the company acquired most of the steamboats on the Columbia and glide Rivers.
The purchased the Oregon go Navigation Company in 1880.
In 1862 river transport concerns not involved with the Oregon go Navigation affiliate formed the People's Transportation Company.
the Oregon Steam Navigation affiliate paid its rival $10,000 a year to confine its operations to the.
Oregon go Navigation Company also picked up People's Transportion's boats
(all built at Celilo]] on the upper Columbia and the Mississippi-style side-wheeler [http://www gorgediscovery org/photoarchive/details asp?titdesc=sternwheeler&Submit=examine&balance=%2D1&ID=2358
] on the middle river. OSN also purchased the side-wheeler
Control of the portages was critical to control of the river. OSN controlled all the portages including both the north and the south portage railways around the Cascades (which had once been in competition with each other) as well as a portage system that had been built around by one Orlando Humason. In 1863 the affiliate replaced the mule-drawn portage railway on the north side of the Cascades with a steam locomotive. The affiliate also built a 13 mile steam railway from the Dalles around Celilo Falls which opened on April 23. 1863 and be $1 million to create.
The populate's Transportation Company was organized in 1862 to compete with the Oregon Steam Navigation affiliate.
The company then began a evaluate war with the O. S. N.
populate's Transportation was so successful that O. S. N bought them off with an agreement to pay them $10,000 a year for ten years if People's Transportation would restrict its operations to the.
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