Iowa Old Press

Burlington Hawk Eye
Burlington, Des Moines co. Iowa
March 29, 1849

THE FLINT HILLS- This new and commodious Steam Ferry Boat under the command of Capt. FRENCH, arrived at our landing one day last week. Unlike other ferry boats, she is in all her appointments a regular built steamboat, and is intended, we presume, in low water, to ply between this place and the foot of the lower rapids. Her performances thus far have been very satisfactory; her speed averaging that of most of the Upper Mississippi boats. With such facilities as she offers to travelers and emigrants and inducement is offered for speedily crossing the Mississippi at Burlington which cannot be found at any other point above St. Louis. Since her arrival, she has been crowded with emigrants who are on their way to California. Her present name is the old one of Shockoquon, anglicised, which should have been the sobriquet of Burlington. She has a double engine, two boilers and a Doctor.