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Steam Vessels Employed on the San Francisco-Port Isabel Run iSji-jj

Neivbem: steamer; registered length 198.2 ft.; beam 29.1 ft.; estimated tonnage 943; constructed, Brooklyn, N. Y. 1852; began operation August 1871.

Montana: steamer; estimated tonnage 1004; constructed, Bath, Maine 1865; began operation November 1873.

Idaho: steamer; estimated tonnage 1077; constructed, Bath, Maine 1866; began operation February 1877.

Barges in Use on the Colorado River

Black Crook: overall length 128 ft.; beam 28 ft.; estimated tonnage 31; began operation

on the Colorado River 1864. White Fawn: began operation on the Colorado River 1864. Barge No. 1: estimated tonnage 106. Barge No. 2: estimtaed tonnage 125. Barge No. 5; estimated tonnage 136. Barge No. 4: overall length 165 ft.; beam 33 ft.; estimated tonnage 185; constructed,

Yuma; began operation on the Colorado River September 1872. El Dorado Veagas Yuma Silas J. Lewis: overall length 1 15 ft.; beam 35 ft.

APPENDIX B

Compiled List of Sea-going Vessels Engaged in the San Francisco-Colorado River Trade iS$o to 18']']

Name of Vessel Invincible

Type Captain

Date Sailed or Cleared from San Francisco

Schooner Derby

18$o

Sailed November i

None

18^2

Sierra Nevada

Schooner

Wilcox

Sailed January 24

Capacity

Schooner

Driscoll

Cleared August i 18s3

General Viel

Brig

Hasty

October 7

General Patterson

Schooner

?

Known to have been on river in May 18s4

General Patterson

Schooner

?

Unknown 18SS

Falmouth

Schooner

Meyer

Cleared May 5

Monterey

Schooner

Belcher

Known to have been on river in Apj

George Emery

Brig

Trask

Sailed July 25

Taranto

Schooner

Sanger

Sailed October 1 2

General Patterson

Schooner

Nagle

Sailed November 29