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Name Masters 



Ruby George Herold 



owned by Gardner and Companj'. 



Bro. Jonathan C. C. Carpenter 



A. T. Jenks O. J. Newcomb 



R. J. Wheeler Ira Fuller 



Dispatch W. Grant 



owned by Durant Wheeler and Company of Stillwater. 



David Bronson John Hoy 



Evansville Edward Root 



Bun Hersey John Quinlan 



owned by Matt Clark Transportation Company of Still- 

 water, Minnesota. 



Perry Swain 



owned by D. M. Swain of Stillwater. 



Penn Wright H. L. Peavey 



owned by H. L. Peavey of Stillwater, Minnesota. 



In addition to the raft-boats listed above that were 

 regularly engaged in towing logs or lumber rafts to the 

 down-river yards and mills, there were a few small 

 boats doing harbor work and assisting the large boats 

 at some particular places, the "Frank" at LaCrosse, the 

 "Little Hoddie" in Beef Slough, the "Belle of Bell- 

 vue" at Minneiska, the "Bob Burdette" at Stillwater 

 and the "Phil Schaeckel" at Reads and the "Lotus" at 

 Winona. 



The "Jim Watson" is not included, as she was seized 

 by the United States Marshal for debt and her owner- 

 ship and future sphere of operations are much in doubt. 



The list includes seventy-nine regular raft-boats and 

 six "helpers," making eighty-five in all. 



As there were twenty men in an average crew, these 

 eighty-five steamboats gave employment to about two 

 thousand men, counting those actually on board and 



