RAFTING WITH THE GOOD "TEN BROECK" 139 



Withrow, and Frank LePoint in grateful recollection 

 for their skillful work, cheerful co-operation and genial 

 companionship night and day. They were real partners. 

 When you rouse a man out of his nice berth at 1 1 P.M. 

 or 3 A.M. night after night to "take her" in any part of 

 the river and battle with fog, wind and shoal water, you 

 get a good clear line on his disposition all right. 



My old friend Henry Whitmore was my chief en- 

 gineer for the first season on the "Ten Broeck" and we 

 enjoyed being together again. 



Then James Stedman of LeClaire took charge of the 

 engine-room in 1887 and remained with me until we 

 left her at the close of the season in 1891. 



Our company now had several boats and had to take 

 care of all the Beef Slough or West Newton output for 

 the Lansing Lumber Company of Lansing, Iowa, Da- 

 vid Joyce of Lyons, Iowa, and Fulton, Illinois, Chr. 

 Mueller of Davenport, besides supplying the Clinton 

 Lumber Company, and W. J. Young and Company all 

 above what he could handle with his own two boats. We 

 had rented Wyalusing and Desota bays and some other 

 storage places where we would put rafts not wanted at 

 the mills in safe storage and where we could get them 

 out and run them to the mills during low water when 

 the rafting works were shut down. 



Dropping rafts down one or two days run, shoving 

 them up in some bay, taking off our kit and hiking back 

 to Beef Slough for another raft to be similarly lined up 

 and fitted to run, then taken down to Desota or Lansing 

 and laid up and stripped was not as desirable as long 

 through trips. 



Then when we went after these logs in low water 

 some were aground on the shore and required consider- 



