The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-03-11

gRS sSsssS Days
Isls4l closed--Dec. 81. closed.
lS42 opened March l......................... OF
|Is4z closed-Noy. IA. $500. !.
Is43 opened 10. 4 =
1874 elosed--Jansy 27...................'.'. 40
1874 opened t-Eeby ...'s ~
ls45 cfoscd--Feb'y 4.............-....-'.''.'-'
1s45 opened--Feb'y l9...-....''''''' ''''''''' 10
ls45 closed-Nov. 30....-..-.... ''-..'.'.-..... 20
l846 opened-Jan'y 22....-.................-.. D"
lS47 cIosed--Jan'y S.--..-.-.......-. 49,.
ls47 opened March 81. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. IL
Is4s cfosed--Jany 19....... ...-..............
ls4s opened-Feb.y Observation-Disclosures. 30
Is4s ciosed--Dec. 20..........................e
ls49 opened March l5.....................-. 30
1850 did not close at all. 6a
1851 closed--Dec. l6..................s...--if z
1882 opened Friday, March 5.....-..-.....-..'9 ~
1857 elosed--Dec. l4........--......
1858 opened Wednesday March s........... 50
1893 closed-Dec % .'.......
1854 opened Wednesday, March l............ 81
1855 closed -Jan'y Observation-Disclosures.
1855 opened Saturday, March 10............. AZ
1895 closed-Dec. Z4.......-...
1856 opened Saturday, March 29.............. 95
1856 cosed-Dec. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
1857 opened Wednesday, March 25 81
1s57-S--The river, during the winter of 1873,
was closed at this point about q week, in No
vember-the balance of the time the ferry boat
made her usual trips. The steamer John Heron
made regular trips between this city and Dnouque
all winter Inc hrst steamboat from oeio" Oh
we'd March 10Th.
1858 b9--The river did not close.
1859 closed-Dec. 90.
1860 opened Wednesday, March zs.'"..... SS
1859 closed-Dec. 22.....-.. .......'. ....-....--
1851 opened Saturday March 2..-... ~
1851 ciosed-Dec. q
tsBs onened Wednesday, March &c.. SO
1852 The river did not close frmly--there be-
ing only two three days in which the ferry boat
did not make trips. The first boat arrived from
below. March Sth. -zs.. Sees.
1853 closed-Dec Observation-Disclosures.
1864 opened Wednesday, March 2........... "a
1854 closed-Dec. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. .
1865, opened Tuesday, March Z. The Zoe ran out
in the morning and the steamer Hawkeye arrived
the same evening. ~
1865 ciosed-Dec. I2.........................
1865 opened Saturday, March 24............ 102
1886 ciosed--Dec. observation-disclosures
1867 opened Saturday, April 5...............-. 80
1867 closed Saturday, December l4..........
1868 opened Wednesday, March H.. 81
The above are not the days on which the
ice first moved, or the days on which it first
broke mp. Some years it has half dozen
days of starting aud stopping, of branching
and grinding; &C., but the dates we have
given are the first days in each year when
the ice had stopped running, and the
river closed over in the fall; or when, in the
spring, the channel was so cleared of ice at
this point that steamboats, could come up as
far as our levee.
The arrival Of the first boat is generally
within very few days of the running out of
the ice.
From this to Dubuque the opening of nav
igation is generally several days later, some
times two or three weeks lster,-and from
there to St. Paul, On account of the ice in
Lake Pepin, it is generally month or more
later, though boats usually ply between
the head of Lake Pepin and St. Paul before
the lake is open.
1t is said that the longest period of ice
blockade. at this point, remembered by any
person. was in the winter of 1923, in
which the river closed Nov. IA, and so re-
manned until the 10th of April, in all l47
days.