Unemployed contractor David Harris thought he hit the jackpot when he found an abandoned steel barge in the Columbia River. He hoped to sell it for scrap. WSJ's Joel Millman reports.

An abandoned, over 100-foot barge was removed from the Columbia River outside of the community of Rainier last month. On Dec. 3, it settled at its new temporary home on a dry dock in North ...

But it wasn't completely abandoned. In 2009 ... "There's all the history behind it and it's just such a cool barge. People have tried and tried to make it into something, and finally we've ...