Various2018-05-112018-05-111937TRA-051-02-003http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11867/727919 page typed transcription, created by Click Relander."Competition among steamship companies operating up and down the Pacific coast was keen in the seventies, R. B. Milroy, court commissioner recalls. In 1873 when he received an appointment to the naval academy at Annapolis Milroy went to Victoria, B. C. to board a boat for San Francisco and go by rail east. The Pacific Steamship Co. and the Pacific Mail Co. competing lines did everything possible to get their boats out first. Milroy had purchased his ticket to go on the Vasco de Gama."NO KNOWN COPYRIGHT The organization that has made the Item available reasonably believes that the Item is not restricted by copyright or related rights, but a conclusive determination could not be made. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.