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machinery was sent to San Francisco and put aboard the Hattie Fickett, where it ran two years longer. The Cocopah No. 2 had one deck and a square stern. She measured 147.5 feet in length, 28 feet in width of beam, 3.8 feet in depth, and had a capacity of 231.37 tons. Her last Temporary Register, No. 4, issued at El Paso, Texas, October 21, 1877, and surrendered there December 31, 1881, bears the notation "vessel burned."

95. San Francisco Aha California, April 7, 1867. It was reported that the Nina Tilden and Esmeralda were laid up at Yuma, and Captain Trueworthy and Adams were in Salt Lake "imploring Brigham Young to aid them."

96. Ibid., September 28 and October 15, 1867.

97. "Moapa Stake Records: The A^uddy Mission," February 11, 1866. It was estimated by the Mormons on the A^uddy that only nine thousand pounds of ginned cotton were produced in 1866. Propaganda and repetition between Callville and California seem to have made up the difference.

98. Bancroft, "Scraps: Arizona Miscellany," LXXXII, Pt. 2, 438-39.

99. San Francisco Alta California, September 28, 1867.

100. San Francisco Alta California, October 23 and 24 and November 18, 1867.

10 1. Sykes, op. cit., p. 28. Sykes states that the Esmeralda was beached at the shipyard and her hull was used afterward as a warehouse. In 1874 the Nina Tilden, moored at Port Isabel and leaking badly, was overturned by a heavy bore. Her wreckage blocked the passage to the port and she was subsequently chopped up to clear the channel. See the Yuma Arizona Sejitinel, September 28, 1878.

102. MacMullen, op. cit., p. 25. On May 3, 1867, the "New Steamboat Co." paid taxes on "one steamboat $6,000, three barges, $6,000."

103. San Francisco Alta California, September 24, 1867. The paper reported that in 1867 a barge had gone up to Callville for a load of potatoes and other vegetables but had failed to contact the persons expected, and had taken on a load of salt and lime instead.

104. Territory of Arizona, Acts, Second Legislative Assembly, Prescott, 1866.

105. Navigation of the Colorado River, Resolution of the Legislature of California, Asking Congress to Aid Captain Truesworthy, of San Francisco, to Perfect the Navigation of the Colorado River, in the Territory of Arizona, 40th Cong., 2d sess, H. Misc. Doc. 142 (1868).

106. Salt Lake City Deseret News, June 16, 1869.

107. Callville was the county seat of Pah-Ute County for several years. Troops from Fort Mohave were stationed there and at Las Vegas after the Civil War.

THE AUTHOR

Francis Hale Leavitt is a native of Nevada. He graduated from the Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, in 1933, received the degree of M.A. from the University of Nevada in 1934, and is now working toward his Ph.d. at the University of California.