[4] Dispatch was reported to have cost $18,000 to construct and was said to have been "one of the finest river steamers ever built in this part of Oregon".

[8] It was anticipated that Antelope, once fishing season ended, would be put on the Bandon-Coquille City run, making a total of five steamers daily operating on the route.

[8] As of March 17, 1904, Dispatch, under Captain Thomas White, departed Bandon every morning except Sunday at 7:30 a.m., bound for Coquille City.

[10] With the fall harvest in 1904, the owners of the steamers decided to take advantage of the need for fodder in the towns along the river.

On September 1, 1904, Dispatch, and the steamers Liberty and Favorite offered to deliver baled hay (grass and clover) to Bandon or Coquille City at a price of $11 per ton.

For one baseball game at Bandon, Dispatch came downriver from Coquille with about 400 people aboard, and Telegraph arrived with 150 more.

In one example, on Sunday, June 23, 1907, Dispatch, along with two other steamers owned by the Coquille River Steamboat company, Liberty and Favorite, were chartered for an excursion to Bandon.

[14] On Friday, January 15, 1904, Dispatch, then owned by the Coquille River Steamboat Company, ran into a snag which tore a hole in the bow.

[5] The initial report was that Dispatch's hull had split in two, with the damage so great that the cost of repair would exceed the value of the vessel.

"[15] On October 26, 1904, Dispatch was unloading a cargo of 2,000 cases of canned salmon at Cedar Point, Oregon.

[16] On Monday, November 29, 1909, Dispatch was operating near the town of Bandon with a large number of passengers on board, when, in turning around, the vessel was caught by the fast current of the river and carried downriver into the jetty.

[17] On the morning of April 27, 1910, a small fire was discovered in the hold of Dispatch while the steamer was en route from Bandon to Coquille City.

[18] On the early morning of Saturday, November 29, 1913, Dispatch was blown ashore on the Timmons mud flats just upriver from Moore's mill.

On October 17, 1907, it was reported that Dispatch had been out of service "for some time" waiting for new boilers to arrive from San Francisco.

[21] Dispatch had been kept at a dock pending delivery of the boilers, but the week before the October 17 report, it had been necessary to tow the boat upriver to free up the wharf space for active vessels.

[22] By May 10, 1908, Dispatch was back in service, being scheduled that day to pick up a train-load of excursionists from Marshfield at Cedar Point, transport them to Bandon, arriving at 10:45 a.m., and then depart Bandon at 5:00 to return to Cedar Point to catch the train back to Marshfield.

[23] Late in the afternoon of Saturday November 7, 1908, near Prosper, Oregon, a shaft pin, which connected the sternwheel's driving arm to the wheel itself, broke while Dispatch was underway, causing severe damage, estimated at $1,000, before the machinery could be halted.

[25] On the afternoon of the Wednesday before June 13, 1916, at about 4:00 pm, fire broke out in the boiler room of the Kruse shingle mill, on the river near Prosper.