Mohave II

[2]: 53, 174 n.44  The company chose the same builder that made the Gila, San Francisco, shipbuilder Patrick Henry Tiernan.

He built her in San Francisco and had her taken apart, and shipped to the shipyard of Port Isabel, Sonora, at the mouth of the Colorado River.

[3]: 150  The Mohave II weighed 188 tons, was 149.5 feet in length, 31.5 feet abeam, and in addition to being longer and broader, half a foot shallower than the Gila, drawing only a foot of water which permitted her to venture farther into the sloughs and shallows than any other boat.

In 1881, she reached Rioville, Nevada, highest point of steam navigation on the lower Colorado, under her captain Joseph H. Godfrey, nephew of Issac Polhamus.

[2]: 53, 78, 174 note 44 In the face of competition from rival steamboat companies, the owners of C.S.N.C, Issac Polhamus and Jack Mellon had the engine of the old Gila taken out in put in a new boat the 135 foot long Cochan that began work on the river carrying freight for the Searchlight mines in January 1900.