More and better river steamers were put into service moving supplies up river.
Holmes smiled with satisfaction as we overhauled a river steamer and left her behind us.
He thought that the ripples were caused by the wash of a river steamer going down the Hudson outside.
To move men and supplies to the gold fields, service by river steamers was inaugurated in 1858.
Several river steamers were built to haul materials to Glenora to aid the project.
Slowly the north was opened up with the help of river steamers.
Gardiner is a town near the mouth of the Umpqua where several river steamers were built.
The company also built barges, river steamers and small cargo ships.
Large river steamers worked the river until quite recently.
But 1912 also brought some very good news for all the local river steamers, and the area in general.