Collection is open for research.
Donated to the Whitman College and Northwest Archives by Louise Jaussaud in April of 1983. The accession number associated with this donation is reto-0391.
The Oregon Steam Navigation Company (O.S.N.) was founded in Washington in 1860 by J. S. Ruckle, Henry Olmstead, and J. O. Van Bergen. The company operated steamships between San Francisco and The Dalles, serving the lumber and salmon fishing industries all along the California coast and the Columbia River. The O.S.N. enjoyed a prosperous monopoly for a number of years, until rate wars with competitors and expensive portage renovations rendered them defunct in 1879.
The Oregon Steam Navigation Company (O.S.N.) was founded in Washington in 1860 by Joseph S. Ruckle, Henry Olmstead, and J. O. Van Bergen. The Oregon Steam Navigation Company, Wallula Agency, records, which date from 1861 to 1862, contain a manifest book maintained by the Wallula office of the O.S.N.