| Summary: | 596 The North Dakota Indians Red and Assiniboine rivers and were dismantled in Winnipeg i 1883. The Dakota was burned in midstream near Pembina in 1881. The International was dismantled at Grand Forks in 1880. The Selkirk, leaving her moorings at Grand Forks in the spring of 1884, struck a railroad bridge pier and was wrecked. The Arrow was placed on Devils Lake in 1882i The "Minnie H." was launched about the same time by Capt. Heerman and plyed the waters there for many years. At a brief joint session of the senate and house of the state legislature on March 5, 1929 Governor George F. Shafer was presented with a gavel made from the rudder of the "Minnie H". The gavel was presented by Senator Frank H. Hyland of Devils Lake on behalf of Captain Heerman, owner of the boat. Similar gavels were presented Lieutenant Governor John W. Carr, Edwin Traynor, speaker of the house, and Lewis F. Crawford, of the State historical society. One was alos sent to U. S. Senator Gerald P. Nye to be presented to President Hoover. An attempt was made to place steamboats in operation on the James River and in May 1879 the Nettie Baldwin was launched at Jamestown, to ply between there and Grand Rapids. E. Sj Strong, later of the firm of Strong & Chase of Carrington and Jamestown launched the first row boat on Spiritwood Lake in 1882—"The Mary Strong". The "Belle of the Hills" was launched there in 1894. STAGE LINES Antoine Gingras and Norman W. Kitson established Red River Cart lines from Walhalla and Pembina to St. Paul in the '40s. Blakely & Burbank operated a stage and freight line from St. Paul to Fort Abercrombie and later to Pembina in the '60s. The Northwestern Stage Transportation Co. started its first stage coach from Bismarck to Deadwood on May 1, 1877. This stage line was as well equipped as any line in the United States, .and it ran daily stage coaches (except Sunday) from Bismarck through Fort Lincoln to Deadwood, in the Black Hills. The president of the Northwestern Express Stage and Transportation Company was Russell Blakely, and his son, Henry Blakely, long auditor of freight receipts for the Northern Pacific Railway, was in charge of the stage line company's offices at Bismarck during the first three years, 1877-1880. Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.
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