1 82 A RAFT PILOT'S LOG 



The "Bella Mac" had delivered a raft at Saint Louis. 

 She lay there over night and left for home, LaCrosse, 

 Wisconsin, the next morning at four o'clock. She was 

 leaking and soon began to roll and sank opposite Salt 

 Point Light at the upper end of Saint Louis, a total 

 loss. 



The "Mountain Belle" was bought by E. C. Anthony 

 of Hastings, Minnesota, renamed the "Purchase," and 

 towing a passenger barge, ran to Saint Louis during the 

 World's Fair in that city. Then William McCraney of 

 Winona bought her and had her and a barge in the 

 excursion business at Saint Paul until about 1915, when 

 she was hauled out on the Wabasha ways and dis- 

 mantled. 



The "Louisville" and "Helen Mar" were laid up at 

 North LaCrosse and finally dismantled. 



The "B. E. Linehan" and "Inverness" were sold to 

 Paducah, Kentucky, parties and towed ties out of the 

 Tennessee and Cumberland rivers. 



The "Jessie B." and "Quickstep" were sold south 

 and used rafting and towing logs in barges on the 

 Lower river and its tributaries. 



The "Lizzie Gardner" burned while laid up and out 

 of commission in the Davenport winter harbor. 



The "Pauline" was converted into a short trade 

 packet and operated out of Burlington to Nauvoo and 

 Keithsburg by Captain Thomas Peel in 1891 and 1892. 

 S. K. Tracey and his brother, George S., prominent 

 lawyers in Burlington, were largely interested in this 

 enterprise. Finding the "Pauline" too small, they 

 bought the "Matt F. Allen," a much larger boat, and 

 sold the "Pauline" to parties in Hastings who later dis- 

 mantled her and used her nice machinery on a new boat. 



The "Thistle" operated one or part of two seasons in 



