Olympia Citizens Organize to Explore Nisqually Pass
A public meeting in Olympia moves to fund and equip an expedition to locate a viable pack trail through the mountains to Fort Simcoe.
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Pursuant to notice, a meeting was held in the Town of Olympia on the evening of Tuesday, the 5th of March, for the purpose of making arrangements to secure an immediate examination of the Nisqually Pass and the route south of Mount Rainier. A large number of citizens were present. Elwood Evans, Esq., was elected chairman and Richard Lane secretary. The valuable information given by Messrs. Packwood and Blankenship went to show that there was every reason to believe that this route could be made available for a pack trail at comparatively little expense. A committee was appointed to solicit subscriptions to fit out a commission of three or more persons, said commission to start at as early a day as practicable and proceed through the Nisqually Pass to Fort Simcoe.
“The valuable information given by these gentlemen went to show that there was every reason to believe that this route could be made available for a pack trail at comparativly little expense.”
The quest for a mountain pass route from Olympia remains a perennial topic in Washington, evolving from 19th-century pack trails to modern highway infrastructure debates (such as the long-sought improvements to state mountain corridors).
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