In 1895 “Who would have thought of the Bosque River being navigable, and of our people shipping vegetables and fruit right out of Stephenville by water?” Such a produce shipment left Stephenville left Stephenville on May 13th bound for the mouth of the Brazos River at Waco. The Stephenville Empire did not have a follow-up story about whether or not the shipment made it to Waco.