One of the principals of the Shoalwater Bay Transportation Company was Lewis A. Loomis (1830-1913), an early businessman in the Ilwaco - Long Beach area of Pacific County, Washington [REF].
A meeting of the shareholders of the Shoalwater Bay Transportation Company was scheduled to have been held on November 15, 1881, where a proposition to increase the capital stock of the company was to be acted upon [REF].