Navigable

The Raccoon Fork of the Des Moines River which has the honor to disembogue itself in this City, is a navigable stream. – Several lawyers among whom was S. Sibley, Esq., came down from Adel by way of that classic stream, arriving here yesterday. The frail bark to which they consigned their precious bodies, is commonly called a “Dug-out.”

– Published in the Daily State Register, Des Moines, Iowa, Saturday, April 19, 1862