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Memphis party and used for towing logs in barges to 

 mills on Wolf river. I saw her there in 191 5, con- 

 demned and later dismantled. 



The "Moline" was sold to a Kansas City company 

 for excursion work; later went south and was capsized 

 by striking a heavy wire cable with one end fast on 

 shore and the other end to a government fleet out in the 

 river. 



The "F. C. A. Denkmann" was sold and her name 

 changed to "Wabash." She towed corn in barges from 

 the Wabash river to Henderson, Kentucky; was given 

 a new hull and sold to Mill Company at Helena, Ar- 

 kansas. I saw her there last March looking well as ever. 

 She was an excellent towboat. 



The "E. Rutledge" after various ownerships and oc- 

 cupations was rebuilt into the "Orinoco" by Doctor 

 Charles Mayo of Rochester, Minnesota., under the 

 supervision of Captain J. J. Richtmann, who com- 

 manded and piloted her until she was sold to an Ohio 

 river party. She is now owned by the Richland Coal 

 Company and advertised "For Sale" by A. O. Kirsch- 

 ner of Cincinnati as the steamer "Ben Franklin." 



The "F. Weyerhaeuser," built at Rock Island in 

 1893, is still alive and looking well. After serving as 

 "light house tender" on the Upper Mississippi and Illi- 

 nois rivers since rafting days, she has been superceded 

 by the new steel tender "Wakerobin" and was sold last 

 November (1927) to Captain John F. Klein of Cairo, 

 Illinois, to repair and sell again. 



The "J. K. Graves," last of the Weyerhaeuser and 

 Denkmann fleet, had a good steel hull but was narrow 

 and top-heavy. She was sold to Cairo party, and cap- 

 sized in the deep water there and was a total loss. 



The "J. S. Keator" was laid up in Cat Tail Slough 



