A company promoted by George W. Brown – who also headed the Mount Tabor Street Railway Company – that was controversially and hurriedly granted a blanket franchise for lines on the streets of East Portland just before that city merged with Albina and Portland in 1891. A similar blanket franchise was granted at the same time to the Willamette Bridge Railway Company. These two franchises neatly divided the East Side into two sectors, one for each company, and covered enough streets to make it difficult for any other companies to create new routes. Widely seen as cynical and anti-competitive, the two franchises were almost immediately revoked by the new combined Portland City Council in July 1891.
| Years of Operation: | 1891 |
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| Preceded By: | None |
| Succeeded By: | None |