The Maritime Heritage Project

The Sunday Oregonian, October 21, 1888

Of Interest to Gray's Harbor.

San Francisco.

Charles P. Holmes, Charles Hanson, E.O. Herrick, W.J. Adams, C.F.A. Talbot, W.H. Talbot and G.W. Watson have formed a company called the Gray's Harbor Commercial Co. to engage in shipping, the lumber business and in towing vessels in and out of this port. The capital is $150,000. These men are all prominently connected with what is styled here the "pine lumber ring," Mr. Herrick being its president. The company, it is said, proposes to build two or three two boats for service in this port, and to handle all the vessels of the pine trust.

W.H. Talbot said this morning that the men named would meet early next week and decide what to do. He would neither deny or affirm that the company intended to handle the trust's ships, but merely said that at present he considered rates pretty low.

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