e/Echo (sternwheeler 1865)

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has gloss	eng: \| \|} Echo was a sternwheel steamboat that operated on the Willamette River from about 1865 to 1873 and was one of the first steamboats to carry what was then considered a large cargo out of Eugene, Oregon. Construction Echo was built for the Willamette River Steam Navigation Company (WRSN) at Canemah, Oregon, a small town just above Willamette Falls which is now part of Oregon City. Echo 's owners as shown on her licensing papers were A. P. Ankeny and John Gates. was launched May 22, 1865 and made her trial trip July 27 in command of Capt. Miles Bell, who was then in the service of the Willamette Steam Navigation Company. By April 1869 Echo was running on the Willamette between Eugene and Springfield, carrying as much as 101 tons of freight, which up to then was the heaviest cargo ever embarked from Eugene. For a short time Echo, running above Willamette Falls, ran in conjunction with the steamer U.S. Grant, running below the falls.
lexicalization	eng: Echo
instance of	(noun) a craft designed for water transportation watercraft, vessel

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