The Arizona sentinel., 1878-09-28

in 1867 was loaded with iron anC
moored below Iaeger's. She was
open. 1t came on to rain very
hard, and she filled and sunk,
iron and all. The river channel
has changed, and she now lies
somewhere under GfoW's ranch.
The Esmeralda was steamed
down here in 1864 by Capt. Thos.
E. Truworthy, who started the
"Union Line" and ran her on
the river about year. In 1860
he left her at Ell Dorado CaIion,
and went to San Francisco over
land There he met the owners
of the Nina Tilden, and with
them formed the Pacific & Colo
RADIO Steam Navigation Company,
in which Hobbs, Gilmore d Co.,
of the box factory, were heavily
interested. Trueworthy did not
come back. The new company
shipped lot of freight down to
the mouth of the river, including
forty-five tons which were taken
to Callville on the Black Crook,
tOWed by the ESmeralda, under
Capt. Bob Rogers, in vain at
tempt to open up trade by water
between San Francisco and Utah.
Steve Thorn went with him. 1t
took five months to make the
trip; two and a half months being
consumed in reaching Ell Dorado
CanOn-the same distance that
Capt. Jack Mellon MAIDS a couple
of weeks ago in seven days. The
Esmeralda, Tilden, Black Crook
and White Fawn were finally sold,
in the Spring of 1867, to Geo. A.
johnson Il Co., the predecessors
of the present Colorado Steam
Navigation Company. The Nina
Tilden was built at San Francisco,
in 1854, for the Philadelphia Mi
ming Company, which was work
ing copper mines on the CalifCr-
MA side of the river, above Au-
brey. They expected to take cut
50 much ore that they wanted to
ship it by their own steamboat
and barges. Capt. Paddy Cor
man steamed her down here from
San Francisco. But her owners
never had any use for her till
they sold her. After running on
the river till 1874 she was mOored,
leaking badly, at the ship-yard,
Port Xsabel. During a big tide
her port bow lines parted. Her
port after line holding, she swung
around, broadside to the current,
and turned clear over, bottom up.
All her joiner-work broke off and
drifted to sea. AS she was OBJ
structing passage of the slough
her bottom was chopped away to
clear her from the boiler, and she
also Aoated of. Her boiler was
raised by Capt. Mellon,
who cut chains under it, at low
water. and fastened these to masts
Of the old Victoria laid across
two batges, one on each side. AS
the tide rose the boiler was
dOated by the barges, and dump
ed where it could be hauled out
at low water. The Victoria was
originally a big barge, 1856 feet
long, which Capt. Trueworthy
was towing on the Sacramento
river. He had toWed as much as
500 tons of freight to Sacramento
OH her. He had her stiffened and
rugged as fOur-masted schooner,
to load her with lum=
Der for building barges, which he
running on the Yang
Use river, China. He was load
ing her for Shanghai when he
to try the Colorado
river instead. She sailed very
well, making 1856 miles in twenty
four hours off the coast of Lower
California, though loaded with
nearly 100000 feet of lumber and
fifty tons of groceries. On arriv- :
ng at the mouth of the river she {
got into bore, dragged over her
lnchor, strained her seams and
;peWed the Oakum out of her bot
ON. Being loaded with lumber
;he could not sink, and was towed /
nto a very narrow slough at Port l
Famine. There was just room to l
laui her in. The tules were very
n iply oi, zach, Cido Of her for SaU-