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Coeur d’Alene was intended to transport ore from the mines of the Coeur d’Alene area. [16] Proved to be a very lucrative boat, with net earnings sometimes $2,000 per trip. [ 16 ] Coeur d’Alene cost $24,800 to build, and with freight rates at $40 per ton, the steamer was able to pay for itself after 90 days of operations. [ 81 ]
Amelia Wheaton was a stern-wheel driven steamboat that operated on Lake Coeur d'Alene and the St. Joe river from 1880 to 1892. This was the first steam-powered vessel to operate on the lake and the adjacent river. [1] [2] This boat was sometimes referred to as simply the Wheaton.
A steamboat on fire: General Slocum, a New York City sidewheeler, still burning after a fire that killed more than 1,000 people. Steamboats on the Columbia River system were wrecked for many reasons, including striking rocks or logs ("snags"), fire, boiler explosion, or puncture or crushing by ice. Sometimes boats could be salvaged, and ...
Coeur d'Alene Lake, officially Coeur d'Alene Lake (/ ˌ k ɔːr d ə ˈ l eɪ n / KOR də-LAYN), is a natural dam-controlled lake in North Idaho, located in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. At its northern end is the city of Coeur d'Alene. It spans 25 miles (40 km) in length and ranges from 1 to 3 miles (5 km) wide with over ...
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Flyer was the first vessel ordered by the Columbia River and Puget Sound Navigation Company, a concern formed by Capt. U.B. Scott and others, which already controlled the fast sternwheeler Telephone on the Columbia River, and on Puget Sound, the then new and fast sternwheeler Bailey Gatzert as well as the express passenger boat Fleetwood. [1]
There were important steamboat operations on many lakes that ultimately were tributary to the Columbia River, both in the United States and in Canada. These routes included Okanagan Lake, Arrow Lakes, Kootenay Lake and Kootenay River, and lakes Coeur d'Alene and Pend Oreille.
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