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Ibid., January 24, 1852.

See Sweeny, op. cit., pp. 111-12.

San Francisco Alta California, March 31, 1852.

San Diego Herald, April 3, 1852.

San Francisco Alta California, April 8, 1852.

San Diego Herald, April 30, 1852.

Ibid., June 28, 1852, and San Francisco Alta California, July 11, 1852. The Herald merely states that a contract was awarded to a person in Benicia, but it could be none other than Mr. Turnbull.

San Francisco Alta California, August 2, 1852.

Sweeny, op. cit., p. 276.

Ibid., p. 279.

Loc. cit.

Sweeny, op. cit., p. 281.

Sweeny, op. cit., pp. 281-86, states that a train of twenty-three wagons loaded with quartermaster's goods arrived from San Diego on January 21, 1853, four wagons on February 29, and a wagon "train" on May 8 with forage and supplies.

John Russell Bartlett, Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua, Connected ivith the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, During the Years 18$o, '5/, '52, and '55 (New York, 1854), p. 172.

San Diego Herald, July 9, 1853, and San Francisco Alta California, July 15, 1853. A notation on her register states that the Uncle Sam was lost on June 25, 1853.

Sweeny, op. cit., p. 287, writes under date of June 12, 1853: "The steamer Uncle Sam, while fastened at Ankrim's Ferry, filled with water from some unknown cause, and went down. O'Connell and ten men were sent down to raise her, and after two dayshard work she broke her fastenings on the third and disappeared,"

Yuma Arizona Sentinel, August 25, 1877. Captain Turnbull is described as "an energetic, smooth talking little fellow." Later he is reported to be running a small steamer at Mazatlan.

There is some evidence that the Quartermaster's Department had some intention of constructing a steamer to be operated under army supervision between the mouth of the river and Fort Yuma. The Alta California of March 26, 1853, noted that a seventyton steamer, to be used on the Colorado River, was being contracted for in San Francisco. The plan evidently did not materialize.

Johnson, op. cit., pp. 108-18. George Alonzo Johnson was bom at Palatine Bridge, New York, in 1824, and came to California on the steamer Panama in 1849. He operated steamers on the Colorado River until 1877 and then returned to California. He died at Old Town, San Diego, on November 27, 1903.

San Francisco Alta California, April 9, 1854. Many accounts list the capacity of the Jesup as sixty tons. The Record of Registers, XIII (1854-57), 28, shows that she measured 49^5 tons.

San Francisco Alta California, December 14, 1854, and San Diego Herald, December 9, 1854.

Sacramento Daily Union, August 30, 1855. Concerning the arrival of the Colorado at the mouth of the river the Union reports: "There are four vessels down the river with stores and materials for a new steamer. . . . The steamer running at present has been making five and six day trips, but can only bring thirty or forty tons. Four vessels are lying up at the mouth of the river, to be discharged by teaspoonfuls every five or six days."