The Dalles - field notes - Transcript (part 4).

Abstract

"The captain having first ascertained that all was ready below made his way to the wheelhouse and sounded the whistle for all on board and then a toot to cast off when the boat commenced to move off and in a few minutes the Shoshone was out in the stream paddling away for dear life, bound for Portland where she arrived the same evening about 10 o'clock, all safe and sound. This is the steamboat, it will be remembered, that was built by the O. S. N. company on Snake River at Old's ferry over 400 miles west (Sic??) from here to carry freight from that point to Boise City, a distance of 40 or 50 miles."