A RAFT PILOT'S LOG 



who have shown a genuine interest in my task by hunt- 

 ing up and sending me photographs to illustrate the 

 work and information to guide or correct me. I want 

 also to acknowledge the courtesy of my Publisher, Mr. 

 Arthur H. Clark, for his valuable suggestions and 

 changes made in the preparation of this manuscript. 



I want especially to acknowledge my indebtedness to 

 my friend. Captain Fred A. Bill of Saint Paul, Minne- 

 sota, who edited the Life and Adventures of Stephen 

 B. Hanks, published in the Saturday Evening Post of 

 Burlington, Iowa, 1921-1922, and who has made many 

 original and interesting contributions to the Burlington 

 Post and other papers that have encouraged the study 

 of what the preceding generation was doing on our 

 great waterway. 



The Burlington Post also published Recollections 

 of the Old River by Captain J. M. Turner of Lansing, 

 Iowa, from which I secured some of the most interest- 

 ing facts in the captain's long and successful life. 



The Burlington Post in August, 1926, began publish- 

 ing the Memories of Captain Sam R. Van Sant, my old- 

 time employer and long-time business associate, who is 

 better known as Ex-governor of Minnesota for two 

 terms. The chapters are very interesting but it is impos- 

 sible to get the governor to furnish copy regularly. Al- 

 though eighty-three past, he is so active in G.A.R. work 

 and politics that the Memories were laid aside during 

 the presidential campaign. 



My information about early logging on the river 

 above Saint Anthony's Falls was derived from the 

 Personal Narration of Daniel Stanchfield published in 

 the Minnesota Historical Society's Collections, vol. ix, 

 pages 324-362. 



My authority about operations on the Saint Croix 



