 This is the Idaho on Lake Coeur d'Alene, circa 1914. Notes from Steamboats in the Timber: "The Idaho was a side-wheeler, one hundred and forty-seven feet long with a twenty-tree foot beam, capable of carrying one thousand passengers. Her two wheels were each twenty-one feet in diameter and she had an eight-hundred horsepower dynamo which gave power for one hundred and twenty-five lights. On the first deck was a buffet; on the middle deck were the restrooms, purser's office, two cabins; on the upper deck were two cabins and a wheelhouse. The whole interior was elaborately furnished; and although the Georgie Oakes was still the longest boat on the lake, the Idaho was now the most palatial and had the greatest carrying capacity. She made her first run to St. Maries with two hundred and fifty passengers, and immediately became the most popular boat on the lake. Her weekday schedule was especially arranged to connect with the Electric Line and to give fast service on the lake and up the St. Joe. On Sundays she took hundreds of people to St. Maries on excursion." (pp. 144-145) Click here for next photo. 
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