River Crafts On Upper Mississippi 1900

THISTLER, REED, DAY, YORK, WHISTLER, WINNANS, MITCHELL, LANCASTER, TRUMLY, LAMBERT, OCONNORS, SHORT, BUISSON, DAVIDSON, NEWCOMB, HUNTER, WEIR, DAVIS, BEEDLE, DODDS, BLAIR, STREKTUS, SMITH, WILCOX, DOTTERWISH, DARLING, ALEXANDER, FETTER

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 3/26/2017 at 23:24:33

The Clinton Mirror
W. D. Eaton, Editor
Clinton, Iowa, January 20, 1900

River Crafts

The Dubuque Telegraph Herald prints this rather premature list of rafts and boats to run on the upper river next season;
Rutledge, Wm. Thistler
Weyerhauser, Geo. Reed
Chancy Lamb, A. O. Day
Wanderer, Wm. York
Vivian, James Whistler
Saturn, Geo. Winnans
John Douglas, Abe Mitchell
Eclipse, John Lancaster
J. W. VanSant, George Trumly
Glenmont, R. J. Trumly
Tenbrock, W. H. Mitchell
Musser, S. B. Withrow
Mountain Belle, A. Lambert
Bart E. Linehan, John O’Conners
Inverness, G. L. Short
Kit Carson, Peter O’Rourke
Fontenac, Henry Slocumb
Roberts Dodds, John Pearson
B. Hershey, Cyp Buisson
Ravena, Charles Davidson
Clyde, I. Newcomb
Isaac Staples, Walter Hunter
Junana, Wm. Weir
R. J. Wheeler, Wm. Davis
Quincy, H. Beedle
Will Davis, Gordon Davis
Dubuque, John Killeen
Silver Crescent, Robert Dodds
Volunteer, Wm. Blair
W. J. Young, Walter Blair
City of Winona, J. Strektus
Verne Swain, P. Smith
Lion, H. C. Wilcox
E. Douglas, Frank Smith
Jesse B., George Dotterwish
Cyclone, L. Darling
Percy Swain, S. Alexander
Gardie Eastman, A. V. Fetter

The steamers Flora Clark, Jessie B., Ben Hershey, Pauline, Verne Mack and Henrietta will carry excursion. They will be stationed at St. Paul and Stillwater most of the time.