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| Year | Stories |
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| 1890 | 1 |
| 1892 | 3 |
| 1894 | 1 |
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- Chehalis County Sues the Northern Pacific Over a Road It Says the Railroad Took
The county wants $12,000, charging the railroad with occupying the county road at Porter Creek bluff without providing an equally good replacement.
- Flood Washes Out Two Bridges and Leaves County Roads Cut
The Porter Creek and Garrard Creek bridges were lost in the recent flood; repairs are estimated at $800, with Wynooche road also damaged.
- A Backroom Coup in Montesano: County Democrats Oust Their Chairman
Party leaders declared every office vacant while F. D. Arnold was absent, then elected Edmund Croft to replace him.
- Railroad Tycoon Predicts Pacific Coast Steel Boom
James J. Hill, president of the Great Northern Railroad, outlines the regional economic outlook and argues that the West's raw materials will soon fuel a local industrial revolution.
- The Salmon Wars of Grays Harbor: How Indigenous Engineers Built a River-Scale Machine
Long before the white man’s mills choked the harbor, Native communities along the Quinault and Grays Harbor rivers operated sophisticated hydraulic traps that captured thousands of salmon—a feat of engineering described in 1890 as 'thrilling sport' yet vital to survival.