"Navigation this season opened on the 18th of April. The Lady Franklin arrived on the evening of that day from Galena. Previous to her arrival, there had been eighteen arrivals at our landing from the head of Lake Pepin, and twelve arrivals at the foot of the lake, from Galena and Dubuque.
"During the present season, seventy-eight different steamers have arrived at our wharf, from the points mentioned in the following table. This table we draw mainly from the books of the City Marshal, and by reference to our files.
FROM ST. LOUIS. | |
Boats | No. of Trips. |
Ben Coursin | 19 |
A. G. Mason | 8 |
Metropolitan | 13 |
Audubon | 5 |
Golden State | 8 |
Laclede | 11 |
Luella | 8 |
Cheviot | 1 |
James Lyon | 7 |
Vienna | 5 |
New York | 1 |
Delegate | 1 |
Mansfield | 7 |
Forest Rose | 1 |
Ben Bolt | 2 |
J. P. Tweed | 1 |
Fire Canoe | 2 |
Carrier | 1 |
Julia Dean | 1 |
Resolute | 2 |
Gossamer | 4 |
Thomas Scott | 6 |
Gipsey | 2 |
W. G. Woodside | 1 |
York State | 5 |
Mattie Wayne | 4 |
Brazil | 4 |
Dan Convers | 1 |
Henrietta | 4 |
Editor | 5 |
Minnesota Belle | 8 |
Rochester | 2 |
Oakland | 7 |
Grace Darling | 4 |
Montauk | 3 |
Fairy Queen | 1 |
Saint Louis | 1 |
Americus | 2 |
Atlanta | 1 |
Jacob Traber | 6 |
White Bluffs | 1 |
Arcola | 8 |
Conewago | 10 |
Lucie May | 8 |
Badger State | 5 |
Sam Young | 4 |
Violet | 1 |
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Total arrivals from St. Louis, | 212 |
FROM FULTON CITY. | |
Falls City | 11 |
Diamond | 1 |
H. T. Yeatman | 11 |
Time and Tide | 5 |
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Total from Fulton City, | 28 |
FROM GALENA AND DUNLEITH. | |
Lady Franklin | 23 |
Galena | 30 |
Alhambra | 21 |
Royal Arch | 6 |
Northern Belle | 28 |
Banjo | 1 |
War Eagle | 17 |
City Belle | 30 |
Golden Era | 29 |
Ocean Wave | 28 |
Granite State | 12 |
Greek Slave | 3 |
| ---- |
Total from Galena and Dunleith, | 228 |
FROM DUBUQUE. | |
Excelsior | 23 |
Kate Cassel | 29 |
Clarion | 11 |
Tishimingo | 3 |
Fanny Harris | 28 |
Flora | 29 |
Hamburg | 12 |
| ---- |
Total from Dubuque, | 135 |
FROM MINNESOTA RIVER. | |
H. T. Yeatman | 4 |
Globe | 34 |
Clarion | 12 |
Reveille | 40 |
H. S. Allen | 10 |
Time and Tide | 11 |
Wave | 29 |
Equator | 46 |
Minnesota Valley | 20 |
Berlin | 10 |
| ---- |
Total from Minnesota River, | 216 |
RECAPITULATION. | ||
Number of arrivals from | St. Louis | 212 |
| Fulton City | 28 |
| Galena and Dunleith | 228 |
| Dubuque | 135 |
| Minnesota River | 216 |
| head of Lake Pepin | 18 |
| ---- | |
Whole number of boats, 78. | ||
"It will be seen from the above, that ten more steamers have been engaged in this trade during the present year than last; while in the whole number of arrivals the increase has been two hundred and sixty-seven.
"The business on the Minnesota has greatly increased this year. This was to have been expected, considering the great increase in the population of that flourishing portion of our Territory.