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Show 4981 Dugan- D 2994 low water. In running my own boat, coming up stream, our greatest difficulty is at points where bars cross completely across the river, making shallow water all the way, insufficient draft for a small boat, and becoming stuck on sand on these bars is quite common; especially in warm weather I would get out and wade across the stream, with an oar, clear across, and pick out where the water might be a little bit deeper, if I couldn't do it with my eye, where I might get my boat through without too much trouble. Q Did you always find a place where it was deeper? A You generally find a place where it was a trifle deeper, but invariably those places where there wasn't a channel it was always shallow water and your boat would drag going across; just a question of working your way through. MR. BLACKMAR: That is all. CROSS EXAMINATION BY MR. FARNSWORTH: Q Invariably shallow clear across? A Yes, at these points where we had trouble and the channel would pinch out on us, invariably be shallow all the way across. Q You know that spot, did you, from former experience? A Yes, we generally tried to go through a point where |