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Show 4960 Edwards- D 2973 BY MR. BLACKMAR: Q Explain just what you mean by that trouble at the time of the high water in locating what you knew to be the best channel, as you stated in that answer. A In traveling up and down the river as many times as we did, we of course got to know places where the water was the deeper, and at extreme high water there was enough back eddies along the banks to aid considerably in going up stream rather than trying out in the main channel. But occasionally, in going up on one side of the bank, we would run into where we knew there were submerged rocks, because at low water they would have been exposed; our only chance then was to cross the river and try another channel on the other side. In doing that, we had trouble with sand bars in the middle of the stream. BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: Q Then you mean at the time of high water going up stream you found it more convenient to take some channel you did not take in low water, and in taking that channel you ran on rocks. Is that it? A At low water those channels and banks were not covered; the water rose about ten feet while we were there. Q If going up stream in time of high water you followed the same course you followed in low water, would you have had |