at Coquille City at 10:30 a.m., either with the train or with the steamer Myrl. Dispatch then left Coquille City at 12:30 p.m., returning to Bandon at 4:30 p.m. This same schedule was still in effect on May 18, 1905. With the fall harvest in 1904, the owners of the steamers decided to take advantage of the need for fodder in the towns along the river. On September 1, 1904, Dispatch, and the steamers Liberty and Favorite offered to deliver baled hay (grass and clover) to Bandon or Coquille City at a price of $11 per ton. In October 1908, Dispatch, under F.D. White, master, departed Bandon daily at 7:00 a.m. arrived at Coquille City at 9:30 a.m., then departed Coquille City at 1:00 p.m. and returned to Bandon at 3:30 p.m. Dispatch advertised "all kinds of steamboat work done at reasonable prices." Large numbers of people were sometimes transported on the small steamers on the Coquille River. For one baseball game at Bandon, Dispatch came downriver from Coquille with about 400 people aboard, and Telegraph arrived with 150 more. Vessels like Dispatch typically did not run regular schedules on Sundays. They were however available for Sunday excursion trips, which were a popular means of recreation in those times. In one example, on Sunday, June 23, 1907, Dispatch, along with two other steamers owned by the Coquille River Steamboat company, Liberty and Favorite, were chartered for an excursion to Bandon. This excursion, which was billed as "the finest observation train excursion ever seen on the Pacific Coast", was organized by the Coos Bay, Roseburg and Eastern Railway, would be run on the rail line's tracks south from Marshfield to Coquille City, where transfer would be made to the steamers for the water portion of the excursion downriver to Bandon. Groundings and accidents On Friday, January 15, 1904, Dispatch, then owned by the Coquille River Steamboat Company, ran into a snag which tore a hole in the bow. A hard wind was blowing on the steamer's high superstructure, which made the vessel unmanageable. The only course of action was to beach the vessel. After Dispatch was beached, the tide went out, causing the steamer to settle, breaking the hog chains, an important structural component, which could cause severe damage to the boat. The initial report was that Dispatch hull had split in two, with the damage so great that the cost