Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1917 — RUSSIA BUYS AMERICAN BOAT [ARTICLE]

RUSSIA BUYS AMERICAN BOAT

Lake Steamer Nevada Will Wend Its Way Eastward When Navigagation Opens. Manitowoc, Wis. The Goodrich steamer Nevada, soon after the opening of navigation, will wend its way eastward, down through the St. Lawrence to the Atlantic seaboard, there to take on cargo for a Russian port. M. Seekleshoff of Petrograd, representing the Russian government, purchased the Nevada from the Goodrich company, the price is said to have been approximately $750,000. The Nevada was built here in 1915, is entirely of steel, 212 feet long, and can attain a speed of 18 knots ah hour. The craft cost the' Goodrich company $275,000, although it could not be duplicated today for that figure.