❖ MOSQUITO ON RIVER ICE ❖ WINTER 1930

N.R. LANG (ex-SALEM)
A light draft boat built in 1880 by Capt. Geo. Raabe.
Original 1930 photo from the archives of the Saltwater People Log©

In this photo above the steamer N. R. LANG was on her way from Camas to Portland with a load of paper when caught in ice that closed around her at Ryan's Point, 1 1/2 miles upstream from the Interstate bridge. She was reported held in the frozen mass 150 yards from shore. Provisions were carried across the ice during the afternoon and with steam being kept up aboard, while Captain Ed Williams and other of her company were prepared to make the best of the situation. 

1900: rebuild for Joseph Kellogg.
1918: Owned by Western Transportation Co of Portland
1940: She was scrapped for metal.