Forty-Nine (steamboat)

Equally, each voyage would cross that border en route to the boomtown of La Porte, a principal landing at the foot of the Dalles des Morts or "Death Rapids".

The gold rush ended that year, but conflicting accounts exist as to the number of trips completed from Marcus, Washington Terr.

[4] The final southbound run from La Porte allegedly carried only three paying passengers, but free passage was provided for miners who could not afford the fare.

[1][5][6] After striking a floating log near Little Dalles, Washington, the season ended with docking for repairs at the Colville River near Marcus, just above Kettle Falls.

Refloated in 1870, and returned south for repairs,[3] she operated intermittently, such as supplying the Canadian Pacific Railway survey in the Selkirk Mountains undertaken by Walter Moberly in November 1871.