I suspect this was the last year that a stern wheeler was used to move barges upriver with supplies for Huslia, Hughes, Hog River (the U.S. Smelting and Refining gold dredge site) and Allakaket. We were not in Huslia in 1958 when the barges arrived. By 1959 the tugboat the TAKU CHIEF was the power behind the barges.