 This is the Georgie Oakes at St. Maries. From Steamboats in the Timber: "In 1890 the old steamer Coeur d'Alene, which could haul but fifty tons of ore, was abaondoned and part of her cabins and superstructure placed on a new hull with a carrying capacity of one hundred tons, built by Sorensen and Johnson on Sanders Beach. This new stern-wheeler, the Georgie Oakes - named after a daughter of the president of the Northern Pacific Railroad - was put on the Coeur d'Alene's old run to the Mission, and for a short time hauled out prodigious quantities of ore from the Coeur d'Alene mining region" (pp. 39-40). Click here for next photo. 
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