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While Seattle merchants sneer at their neighbors, a secret fund has been raised in Olympia to build a direct road from Olalla to the Sound, bypassing Tacoma and threatening Seattle's commercial dominance.
Fruit growers in Olalla organized to fight a steamboat syndicate charging double for their passage.
“Freight is carried from Tacoma and Seattle, and vice versa, passing our very doors and at a distance twice that to our own landing by these very boats, for one-half what they cost us to get them here.”
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