New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-08-19
BOATS FOR LOUISIANA TRADE
ACTIVITY CF WESTERN BUILDERS
BOATS AND BARGES DESCRIBED

The Louisville Cos.rier-yournal, of Mon
day, gives chapter concerning boat-build-
inc around the falls, and mentions the fol-
lowing among the boats building by David
S. Barmore:
The Southwestern, owned and com
manded by Captain L. +. Jacobs. She is
the largest stern-wheel boat ever built for
the Red river trade, having a carrying ca
pacity of one thousand tons. She is com
pleted, and will leave for New Orleans and
Red river this week.
The Lightest will be all her name indi-
Gates being the lightest craft afoat, with
capacity OF two hundred and fifty tons.
Captain A. p. Rcdman will command her
in the Red river trade, where she viii, no
doubt, prove her efficiency, being well
adapted to that stream by her small
draft and peculiar construction. She is 1876
feet long. % feet beam and 3 feet hold.
Captain John w. Blanks Ouachita packet
is on the stocks, and fast approaching COM
| pletion. and when finished will be the finest
and fastest boat that ever has entered that
| trade, having a good, easy model, with
power well applied. Her dimensions are:
| 220 feet long, 50 feet beam, 80 feet foor s
! feet hold, with IA feet length of buckets
She will be completed about the twentieth
| of September. Mr.. Barmore is also putting
| up the frame of the Katie for Captain James
| NJ. White, a veteran steamboatman of great
| popularity along the line of his trade from
| New Orleans to Greenville. usually known
as the Bends trade. This accomplished
gentleman will have the honor of command
| ing the finest and fastest boat that has ever
| turned q wheel on the Mississippi river.
| Her dimensions are: 2S5 feet in length, 46
feet beam, 9 feet hold, and her model made
| with a view to speed. She will be launched
| in October, and finished about the middle OF
November Hepple & Rogers build her
cabin, and John b. Davies, of the Washing
ton Foundry, her powerful engines.
Captain Dan Richards has built two boats
somewhat smaller than the majority of
| boats already described, though not inferior
in workmanship and model. The first one,
the Iberia, was commenced the first of
| June and will be completed this week.
| This boat has been built under the super
vision of Captain Trinidad for the Bayou
Teche trade. She has a beautiful model,
and it is thought that she will be very
| fast for boat OF her power. Her dimen-
sions are l35 feet long, 25 feet beam, 5 feet
hold; cabin full length and very tine will
! carry about 80 tons. Captain Hodges
boat. Bertha" is the second boat built by
! CAPTAIN Richards, and is not inferior to any
boat built at this port of her kind. She is a
sternwheel boat, and peculiarly adapted to
the Red river trade, for which she was
| built She was commenced the fifth day OF
June, and will be completed and leave fol
New Orleans next week. Her dimensions
are I35 feet long, 80 feet beam, 4 feet hold
capacity 400 tons.
The Louisville Commercial, of a recent
date, says:
The monster boat that Captain James
Howard is building for Captain George Pc
gram Will be the largest boat that evel
tloated on our Western rivers. She is moi
exactly the longest, but has greater ton
mage than any other. Her extreme lengtl
is $50 feeth over all; beam tifty-ive feet
extreme width over all, ninety-twO feet
depth OF hold ten feet four inches: double
set OF bits fore and aft, and four sets o
breasthooks; extra bulkhead, double, five
inches thick; cylinders, thirty-six inches
ten feet stroke. They are going to use th'
endless chain for lowering and raising
freight to and from the hold. 1t is capable
of raising 1000 barrels per hour, great i'm
provement on the old way. 1t is the larges
boat built this season anywhere, and Cap
tain Pegram is the king of boat builders
James Howard built the first boat whel
! he was only nineteen years old He beachet
boat below his present yard, and put tals'
sides on her. After he had completed it a
an outlay of near thousand dollars, thu
owner anchored her in the middle of th'
| river anu refused 10 pay ior ner JdlHei
Howard knew the boat was out of his lega
jurisdiction, and he took fifty men aud cap
tured her. The captain begged, and after
promise Howard let him go, but has neve
been paid to this day for his first boat HI
is now building a boat for Captain Perry
for Red river; one for Captain Kennison, TO
the Attakapas trade Uuckapaw); a ferry
boat like the Bowman, and barge for tn
Southern Navigation Company, to run from
New Orleans to Galveston. He is likely t
build five more. He lately launched tn
Diana for the same company. In the Pc
gram boat they will use one million feet o
oak timber. Captain Howard employs in hi
yard one hundred and fifty hands, and pay
ont every Saturday night for labor SlS5t
The time bell now in use has stood there fO
thirty years. Pegram's boat will hav
buckets sixteen feet; width, thirty-tw
inches: diameter of the wheel, forty feet
1t is safe to say there is more material Il
the mammoth boat than in the Kentuck
river boats, and all the others Oh the stocks
Among the fine boats that Captain How
ard has built for Captain Pegram, may b
mentioned the Ruth No. /, Ruth No 2, DIV
Branch, Ida Handy, Looney, Julia, Lum
nary, and w. X. Arthur.