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Show RUSSIA BUYS AMERICAN BOAT Lake Steamer Nevada Wirt Wend Its Way Eastward When Naviga-gation Naviga-gation Opens. Manitowoc, Wis. The Goodrich steamer Nevada, soon after the opening open-ing of navigation, will wend its way eastward, down through the St. Lawrence Law-rence to the Atlantic seaboard, there to take on cargo for a Russian port. M. Seekleshoff of Petrograd, representing repre-senting the Russian government, purchased pur-chased the Nevada from the Goodrich company, the price is said to have been approximately $750,000. The Nevada was built here in 1915, is entirely of steel, 212 feet long, and can attain a speed of 18 knots an hour. The craft cost the Goodrich company $275,000, although it could not be duplicated du-plicated today for that figure. |