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Transporting passengers and goods, the O&O proved to be profitable. Its founders had expected a loss of around $ 100,000 per year, accepting it as the price to pay to compete with the
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Mail, despite their joint service, protested that the O&O carried three times more passengers and cargo than itself. Pacific Mail, for their part, diversified by adding a stop in
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