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 pp. 49-50. Sykes has a most reliable and interesting account of the tidal bore based on actual notes taken from a ten-day study at the mouth of the river.

151. See also James Ohio Pattie, Personal Narrative, (Cincinnati, 1831), p. 241, and Rolfe, op. cit., p. 374. Miss Bishop states that it was a common experience to go to bed on the steamer with a view of only the banks and to find on awakening that, although the vessel was anchored in the same place, the banks had disappeared and inundated country was visible for miles on all sides.

152. Lockwood, op. cit., pp. 14-15.

153. Martha Summerhays, Vanished Arizona: Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman (Salem, 191 1), pp. 52-53.

154. Sykes, op. cit., p. 93.

155. Ibid., p. 63.

156. Mills, op. cit., p. 262.

157. Yuma Arizona Sentinel, June 29, 1872. This should be compared with a similar trip in February, six years earlier, when forty-one days were required to cover the same distance.

158. Ibid., August 30, 1873.

159. Ibid., September 27, 1873.

160. There is record of the loss of but three other vessels in the entire history of navigation on the Colorado. The first of these was the schooner Arno near Robinson's Landing in 1859. See San Francisco Alta California, March 30, 1859. The second was the E. A. Rawlins, which sailed from San Francisco on June 27, 1862. The third was the Victoria previously mentioned, which arrived on the Colorado in 1864.

161. Yuma Arizona Sentinel, December 23, 1876.

162. Ibid., January 20, and February 17, 1877.

163. Ibid., April 28, 1877. Both the Montana and Idaho were built at Bath, Maine, in 1865 and 1866 respectively. They were owned by George F, Patten and Jarvis Patten, of Bath, and were later sold to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. See George A. Preble and F. S. Partridge, A Complete Schedule of Vessels Built and Registered at Bath, Maine (Bath, 1879), pp. 43-44.

164. Prescott Arizona Miner, June 21, 1878. Sykes, op. cit., p. 34, states that Port Isabel was dismantled early in 1878.

165. Bancroft, "Scraps: Arizona Miscellany," LXXXII, Pt. i, 133.

166. The sloop Southwester was a 56-foot boat drawing 2 feet of water. Concerning her fate, Hazel Mills, op. cit., p. 273, writes: "The captain intrusted her to a Swede sailor, and she met her end on one of the canyon walls at Short and Dirty Rapids in extreme high water. A few months later when Mellon passed the spot . . . there forty feet above the river he saw the remains . . . wrapped around a pinnacle of rock."

167. William H. H. Benyaurd, "Preliminary Examination of Colorado River, Arizona above Yuma to El Dorado Canyon to Determine the Advisability and Probable Cost of Improving said River," 51st Cong. 2d sess., H. R. Exec. Doc. 18 (1890), p. 3.

168. James J. Meyler, "Preliminary Examination of the Colorado River, Between El Dorado Canyon and Rioville, Nevada," 56th Cong., 2d sess., H. R. Misc. Doc. 67 (1900) p. 6.

169. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Navigation, Merchant Vessels of the United States (Washington, D. C, 1899-1914). The Cochan had a 135-foot keel, 31-foot beam, a 3 -foot hold, and her capacity was 234 tons. She was not listed as being in service after 1908. The St. Vallier was 74.3 feet in length, 17. i feet in breadth, and 3.4 feet in depth, with a capacity of 92 tons. She operated in 191 3 but was not listed as being in service after 19 14.