on the Lewis river route on December 1, 1904, operating from the Oak Street dock in Portland. There was much talk among steamboatmen that once Leona on the route, a rate war would break out, with some saying Jacob Kamm would carry freight and passengers for nothing. Several years before Kamm had beat the competition on Mascot’s route by similar tactics. Mascot’s agent, Allen Harrison, was quoted in the Oregon Daily Journal:Leonas entry into the Lewis River trade as an opposition boat generated a favorable local press comment: In February 1905, Mascot was returned to the Lewis River route, taking the place of another chartered Oregon City Transportation Company steamer, the sternwheeler Altona. The water level was still low in the Lewis River on February 20, 1905 when Mascot resumed regular service, so it ran only to the forks of the river. The same morning that Mascot returned to regular service, Leona was reported to have arrived in Portland from the Lewis River with "a big cargo of freight and a full passenger list." Leona went into service on the Lewis River route on the morning of November 30, 1904, with Capt. Newt Graham as master, Fred J. Brauer, purser, and William Marshall as on shore manager. In April 1906 Leona was taken off the Lewis River run. The Kamm line was too tough a competitor to be driven off the route. Competition with Relief In May, 1906, Fred J. Brauer announced his plan to place in service as an opposition boat his gasoline launch Relief. Relief was a sternwheeler, with a capacity to carry 15 tons of freight. Its main competitive feature was that it could be handled easily by only two men. Ice on the river In late January and early February 1902 ice on the Columbia, Willamette and Lewis river hindered steamboat navigation. Mascot left Portland on February 4, 1905 transporting cattle for the Lewis and Lake rivers, became the first boat to make that trip for about 10 days. Ice caused trouble downriver on the Columbia to St. Helens, although it had been somewhat broken up by the passage of ships through the river. Steamboats running between Portland and Astoria had iron plates attached to their bows to help them through the ice. Deckhand drowned On the morning of May 20, 1903, William Wisler, a deckhand on Mascot, fell overboard and drowned. The steamer was then