Steamer Thistle

LAMBERT

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 2/26/2010 at 07:15:29

Sabula Gazette, Sabula, Iowa, October 11, 1890, reprinted in the Jackson Sentinel, Maquoketa, Iowa, October 16, 1890.

Steamer Thistle-

The steamer Thistle passed Sabula the first of the week with a large raft, if not the largest ever sent down the Mississippi River. The raft contained five million feet of lumber, thirty-two cribs, sixteen cribs wide-lumber enough in one raft to stock a good sized yard-worth fully $50,000.