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Mohave I
''Mohave'', the first stern-wheel steamboat of that name running on the Colorado River between 1864 and 1875.
==History==
The ''Mohave'' came to be built by the George A. Johnson Company in response to a challenge to their monopoly of the Colorado River trade. Discontent by miners and merchants in up river mines and settlements over high prices and shortages arose in late 1863. A lack of adequate shipping on the part of the company to carry the volume of cargo caused by the Colorado River mining boom had slowed delivery of goods up river from the ships in the estuary of the Colorado. Additionally steamboat captains were profiteering on the resulting shortages brought on the this bottleneck in the supply chain . The consequence was the arrival of the sternwheeler ''Esmerelda'' for the Union Line, the first ''Opposition Line'', on the river.
George Alonzo Johnson, who had neglected to deal with the building crisis, finally took action and had a third boat built by famed ship builder, John G. North. North built it at his shipyard in San Francisco, in sections and brought it down to the estuary, where it was assembled and launched in the end of May 1864.〔( Scott, Erving M. and Others, ''Evolution of Shipping and Ship-Building in California, Part II'', Overland Monthly and Out West Magazine, Volume 25, February 1895, )〕 The 193 ton ''Mohave'' was 135 feet long and 29 feet by the beam with a 4 foot deep hull.〔
The power of its engines and cargo carrying capacity was illustrated by its May 27 - June 6, 1866 run up river 365 miles to El Dorado Canyon from Yuma, under the command of Captain Issac Polhamus, she carried 225 tons of cargo in a record time of ten days and two hours despite being slowed for four days out of the ten where he made only forty one miles against the strong current of the spring rise of the river. To do it Polhamus had to transfer the cargo off the two barges he was towing, on board his boat, and leave the barges behind.〔( Daily Alta California, Volume 18, Number 5946, 21 June 1866, p.1 col.4 PACIFIC COAST CORRESPONDENCE. LETTER FROM ARIZONA )〕
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