Illustrations 



Captain W. A. Blair (aetat 54) .... Frontispiece 

 Steamer Morning Star of Davenport in 1911 . . 22 



Steamer Dubuque 41 



This successful steamer owned by the Northern Line, was 

 built at Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1867. She was 233 feet long, 36 foot 

 beam, and 62 feet wide, over all. The "riot" occurred on her at 

 Hampton, 111., July, 1869. She burned in Alton Slough, March, 

 1879. From photograph taken at Winona, Minn. 



Steamers Stillwater and Lady Grace .... 49 



The Robert Dodds shown in the foreground, is going out with 

 one-half of her raft. The view shows a group of raft-boats at 

 the office of the M. R. L. Co. in Beef Slough, which in 188+ 

 turned out 674,000,000 feet of logs and kept 75 towboats busy. 



Steamer LeClaire Belle 57 



One of the best and most successful boats of the old raft fleet, 

 1873-1890. Captain Sam Van Sant owned one-half interest. The 

 author was clerk and watchman in 1878. 



Steamer Clyde 61 



Iron hull, side-wheel rafter, built at Dubuque, Iowa, 1870, 

 for Ingram and Kennedy. Changed to a stern-wheeler by J. M. 

 Turner and A. F. Hollinshead about 1889. Now (1929) towing 

 pig iron on the Tennessee river and owned by The Arrow 

 Transportation Co. She was the first iron hull on the upper 

 Mississippi -very fast but hard to steer and often broken down. 



Steamer Pauline 65 



Built at Stillwater, Minn., 1879, for Durant, Wheeler and 

 Company. Engines ten inches by six feet. Owned and operated 

 later by Captain J. M. Turner of Lansing, Iowa. 



The Artemus Lamb with an excursion party , . 71 



Owned and operated by C. Lamb and Sons of Clinton, Iowa, 

 1873-1898. 



Steamer C. J. Caffrey 79 



Rebuilt at Rock Island for Weyerhaeuser and Denkmann. 

 Launched in 1875, in charge of Captain O. P. McMann of 

 Clinton. She had a long and successful run. 



