The size of some of the rafts may be imagined when it is known that they yielded from 250,000 to 300,000 feet of lumber.
The principal vessel for this purpose at the time I first visited Lake Tahoe in 1881 was an iron tug, called the _Meteor_.

It was built in 1876 at Wilmington, Delaware, by Harlan, Hollingsworth & Co., then taken apart, shipped by rail to Carson City and hauled by teams to Lake Tahoe.

It was a propeller, eighty feet long and ten feet beam, and cost $18,000.
The first store erected in Glenbrook was placed on piles over the water.

This was built in 1874, by J.A.Rigby and A.Childers.

One morning the latter partner disappeared, and it was surmised that he had fallen into the water and was drowned.