| Title |
Barge or stern-wheel craft used by the Moab Garage Co. on the Colorado River during the 1920s to haul freight or passengers. Photo taken near Moab, Utah |
| Photo Number |
P0063n34 |
| Description |
Photo shows one of the Moab Garage Company boats loaded with passengers near Moab, Utah, in the 1920s |
| Date |
1920; 1921; 1922; 1923; 1924; 1925; 1926; 1927; 1928; 1929; 1930 |
| Textual Date |
1920s |
| Keywords |
Utah; Rivers and Lakes; Boats and boating; Colorado River |
| Subject |
Boats and boating--Green River (Wyo.-Utah)--Photographs; River boats--Photographs |
| Spatial Coverage |
Moab (Utah); Grand County (Utah); Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) |
| Additional Information |
The only people to really be successful at hauling freight and passengers on the Colorado were the Baldwin brothers, owners of the Moab Garage Company, who built and used a number of powered barges and scows in the 1920s. In response to the oil excitement along the Colorado River, in August of 1923 the company put in operation a 20-foot long boat, powered by a four-horsepower Evinrude outboard motor. The craft, named the Punkinseed, carried passengers and light freight. A sternwheel-driven scow operated from 1925 to 1929, hauling equipment to oil fields down the Colorado from Moab |
| Collection Number and Name |
P0063 Riverboat Photograph Collection |
| Collection Name |
River Boats |
| Relation is Part of |
Utah River Running Archives |
| Original Source |
N/A |
| Donated By/Purchased From |
Unknown |
| Rights |
 |
| Type |
Image |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6pc3pj3 |
| Setname |
uum_map_rr |
| ID |
955093 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6pc3pj3 |
