On This Day | From the Days of Twain

Steamboating on the Mississippi all but died out about 1898 when the last of the logs were rafted to the mills to the south. Mr. Truax recalls the time when there were rafts of logs from 900 to 1500 feet long, that were towed to points as far south as St. Louis. At one time he saw 22 steamboats at the head of Lake Pippin, waiting to get thru with their rafts of logs.

December 3, 1936 | Ward County Independent