Willamette Steam Navigation Company
- Willamette Steam Navigation Company
Infobox Defunct Company
company_name = Willamette Steam Navigation Company
company_
fate = sold to People's Transportation Company
foundation = 1865
defunct = 1867
location = Portland, Oregon
successor = [People's Transportation Company The Willamette Steam Navigation Company (W.S.N.) was an American company incorporated in October 1865 to challenge the monopoly on Willamette River inland steam navigation that the People's Transportation Company was attempting to establish.
Organization and Operations
Officers of W.S.N. were D. W. Burnside, president, Portland co-founder Asa L. Lovejoy (1808-1882), vice-president, and J. T. Apperson, secretary. Apperson also served as captain on one of their boats. The steamers "Active" and "Alert" were constructed, and they controlled the "Echo" and one or two others. "Alert" was put on the Portland to Oregon City run, and "Active" and "Echo" worked above Willamette Falls from Canemah (now Oregon City) to Corvallis.
old out to monopoly
Like previous challengers to the monopoly, the Willamette Steam Navigation Company soon sold out to the People's Transportation Company in March 1866.[ [http://www.secstate.wa.gov/History/publications_detail.aspx?p=44 Wright, E.W., ed., "Lewis & Dryden Marine History of the Pacific Northwest", at 135, Lewis and Dryden Printing Co., Portland, OR 1895] ] ][Affleck, Edward L, "A Century of Paddlewheelers in the Pacific Northwest, the Yukon, and Alaska", at 44, Alexander Nicholls Press, Vancouver B.C., 2000 ISBN 0-920034-08-X] ][Corning, Howard McKinley, "Willamette Landings -- Ghost Towns of the River", at 122, Oregon Historical Society, Portland, Oregon (2d Ed. 1973) ISBN 87595-0492-6] ] References
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