Operations
When complete, Williams and Wells put Belle on the run on the Willamette River from Portland to Oregon City, with passenger fares $2 each way. Her schedule was to leave the warehouse at the based on Willamette Falls at 7:30 every morning, was over at the Oregon City dock by 8:00 a.m., stopping at Milwaukie at 8:30 a.m., and reached Portland at 9:30 a.m. At 2:00 p.m. Belle steamed back upriver, reaching the falls again by 4:00 p.m. (Because of a stretch of shallow water on the Willamette near the mouth of the Clackamas River known as the Clackamas Rapids, only smaller vessels could make this run.) Belle also ran on the Cowlitz River and to Fort Vancouver.
By July 1855, Belle was on the route from Portland down the Willamette and then also ran up the Columbia to the lower Cascades, making three runs a week, under Captain Wells, with J.M. Gilman as engineer and N.B. Ingalls as purser. (Ingalls would become one of the longest serving pursers on the Columbia river, serving on many of the famous vessels that ran on the river from the 1850s to his retirement in 1893). Passengers headed up river would disembark at the lower Cascades, travel on the portage road along the north bank, and then board the sidewheeler Mary bound upriver to the next head of navigation, The Dalles. Freight charges were high, $50 a ton on cargo from Portland to The Dalles, but Belle and Mary still could not handle the demand, and other steamers came on the routes, driving rates down to $30 a ton.
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