Vancouver Transportation Company incorporated Jan. 28, 1874, Vancouver, W.T., this certifies that . . . is entitled to. . . shares in the capital stock of the. . . Shares $ 100 Each. [Blank unnumbered stock certificate for the Vancouver Transportation Co.]

Vancouver, W.T. & Portland, OR: Vancouver Transportation Co., Geo.[rge] H. Himes, Steam Book and Job Printer, 1874. Oblong 8vo. 9.75 x 5.5 in. [2 pp (unpaginated).], with woodcut-engraved illustration of the steam sternwheeler, decorative borders, printing on recto & verso, perforated edges at left gutter margin, NF copy, from the library of from the library of Caroline Augusta Gray Kamm (1840-1932), noted socialite and philanthropist in Portland, built home for poor women & girls with the YWCA, and was daughter of PNW pioneer William H. Gray (1810-1889) who traveled to the Lapwai Mission in Lewiston, ID in 1836 where he was the Nez Perce secular agent, and she subsequently later married Jacob Kamm (1823-1912), pioneering Oregon steamship builder, industrialist, entrepreneur, and owner/operator of the Vancouver Transportation Co. An exceedingly scarce original Washington Territory stock certificate issued originally in 1874 at the capitalization of the Vancouver Transportation Co. Jacob Kamm was one of the largest owners of the Oregon Steam & Navigation Co. -- first organized in 1860, joined with James Gray to form this second transportation company, and acquired the George S. Wright, a steamship which operated in the coastal trade between Portland, Astoria, Victoria, and Sitka, Alaska. They then also added the steamship Carrie (only sailed until 1876) which Kamm had also constructed, and thereby formed the Vancouver Transportation Co. Jacob Kamm’s son, Charles Tilton Kamm (1860-1906), was mate, master & pilot of several of the Kamm steamships on the Columbia & Lewis Rivers, including the Undine and Lurline who sailed the Portland, Vancouver, & Astoria route, and eventually became Superintendent of the Vancouver Transportation Co. & Lewis River Transportation Co., before dying suddenly of a stroke at 46. No copies in Worldcat.