Certificate of stock
Subtitle: capital stock, $10,000 ... this certifies that ... is entitled to ... shares in the capital stock of the Cowlitz Steam Navigation Company.
Contributors: Jackson, John R., signer.; Gosnell, Wesley B., former owner.; A. G. Walling & Co.,; Pacific Northwest History Collection.
Publisher: A. G. Walling & Co., Printers
Published: 1867
Place of publication: Portland
Language: eng
Subjects: Cowlitz Steam Navigation Company; Stock certificates; Steam-navigation -- Washington (State) -- History; Steam-navigation -- Washington (State) -- Cowlitz Prairie        Landing
Notes: The Cowlitz Steam Navigation Company was organized to provide steamer transportation along the Cowlitz River in Washington State. Under the direction of John R. Jackson, the firm launched the steamer Rainier in 1867, but the company failed within a year. Jackson was one of the earliest settlers in the southern Puget Sound area. It is improbable that any other company would have survived very long beginning in 1867, as the Oregon Steam Navigation Company was firmly in place by this time.

WSU MASC copy is: 002-118715051.

WSU MASC copy is certificate no. 49, for one share of stock issued to W[esley] B. Gosnell and signed by the three trustees: John R. Jackson, M. Chappellier, and J. T. Kerns, at Cowlitz Prairie Landing, Washington Territory.