Bill of lading for the Steamer CLYDE for shipment of 27 tons #1 pig iron and 15 tons #2 pig iron, May 14, 1886 to St. Louis, Missouri, for the La Grange Iron Co. at $2.00 per ton.
October 29, 1937. - Looking upstream from pilot house of Grafton. Graded bank and mattress weaving about station 219-00. Note curve on which Grafton entered below dike No.79.2L.
The City of Ironton was built in 1879 at Ironton, Ohio and ran in the Portsmouth and Huntington trade. She was very speedy. Later she was sold to the Mississippi River, rebuilt into the Issaquena and ran on the Mississippi River. In 1884 we find her registered at Vicksburg, Mississippi.
. Louis. Later she was sold to a contractor, used as a quarter boat and finally sank about 1934. There was a bald eagle that preceded this boat. She was built in 1879 at Madison, Indiana. She was 202.3 x 30 x 5.4 feet. She ran the St. Louis - Clarksville trade until 1895. During the cyclone of 1896 she broke loose, struck the middle pier of the Eads bridge, St. Louis, Missouri, and sank.
The second James Lee was built at Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1898. Her dimensions were 204 feet in length, 36 feet beam and 5 feet depth of hold. She ran in the Memphis and Friar's Point trade, Captain John H. Darragh commanding. She was eventually converted into an excursion boat at Memphis and renamed the DeSoto, about 1917. In January, 1918 she sank in the ice at Memphis along with the Georgia
The City Of Providence ws an Anchor Line boat built in 1880 . For the St. Louis and Natchez trade. She ws a side wheeler with a texas deck and was later made an excursion boat. Shown here from South St. Louis bluffs above the Iron Mountain railroad tracks as an excursion boat operated by Columbia Excursion Company, she finally sunk in a wreck at St. Louis January 20, 1910. A part of the City
The second Kate Adams was built at the Howard yard, Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1888. She was 250 x 36 x 8.5 feet. She had four boilers and her engines were 22 inches in diameter with an 8 foot stroke. When the third Kate Adams was built she was sold in 1901 and renamed the Dewey. She ran in the Memphis and New Orleans trade with the Julia. Later, she was again sold and called the Lotus Sims. She