The People's Transportation Company operated steamboats on the Willamette River and its tributaries, the Yamhill and Tualatin rivers, in the State of Oregon from 1862 to 1871. For a brief time this co
Alert ad 20 Oct 1870
Stock certificate of the People's Transportation Company, issued to Asa A. McCully.
P. T. Company advertisement placed May 7, 1863, during competition with Oregon Steam Navigation Company on the Columbia and Snake rivers.
The steamer Enterprise, built 1863.
Wenat (sternwheeler)
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Wenat was a stern-wheel steamboat that, under the name Swan, was built and operated, briefly, on the Tualatin River, in the state of Oregon. In 1858, Swan was sold, moved to the lower Willamette River
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…Steam Navigation Company, transferred to P.T. Company ownership with merger of W.S.N. and P.T. Co., dismantled 1869, engines to Umpqua River steamer Swan. Yamhill. Sidewheeler. As of February 1867, this steamer made regular trips on the Tualatin River as far as Hillsboro, Oregon under Capt. Edward Kellogg…
Advertisement for steamer Wenat, from Morning Oregonian, September 17, 1868.
Advertisement placed January 26, 1871 for Wenat and other steamers of the Oregon Steam Navigation Company.