Olympia Improvement Company
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- Jan 8, 1892The Prune Booster's Return: 140 Acres Sold to Twenty Michigan FamiliesJ. R. Chaplin came home from Michigan with buyers for Westside land and a plan to sell Olympia to the East.Olympia, WA
- Jan 11, 1892The $10 Million Dream to Turn Olympia Into the Hub of the NorthwestJ. R. Chaplin pitched a grand Olympia Improvement Company and a ship canal from Black Lake through the Chehalis to Grays Harbor—enough, he promised, to leave Seattle, Tacoma and Portland behind.Black Lake, Olympia, WA
- Apr 19, 1892Buy the Mudflats, Give Them Away, and Pray for a PayrollOlympia's newly organized Improvement Company wants every business man in town to buy one $100 share so it can purchase the tide flats and hand them, free, to any manufacturer willing to set up shop — because railroads and construction crews come and go, but a payroll stays.Olympia, WA