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Show 207 of water . He operated flat boats on ( Bed Red ) ( Rivei' Rivei ) where a cotton boat sank , and ( took tooh ) the cotton off with flat boats . They used their steamboats as trading boats , bringing up sugar , coffee , , molasses , , etc . . , and buying beef , cotton , ( and aild ) cottonseed . . These trading boats operated on the river until the railroads calne ; after that , ( whiskey -whiskey whiskey ) boats ( con- con ) tiiiued to come up the river . He had been up to old Preston twice , in 1849 and in 1909 , . These upper ( Red-River RedRiver ) boats carried from 800 to 1,000 bales of cotton ; they were ( flat-bottomed flatbottomed ) boats , one hundred feet long , and 30 or 40 feet ( wide ivide ) ; 30 feet ( was -svas svas ) the ( average aver-age average ) . Most of the boats running on the river were ( stern-wheel sternwheel stern--wheel sternwheel ) boats . The steamboats had no effect oil the sand bars . The Ham ( Eowell Howell ) and the R . . T . Briley , the Bonnie Lee , and the ( Royal -Royal Royal ) George ran after the Civil War . He remembered Ben Kuntz ( and alid ) John Kuntz . The boats were called the ( Kimtz Kuntz ) ( lines lilies ) . The Era and the New Era , ( both botli ) ran before the Civil War . The Kuntz line and the ( TMor- TMor ) gan line ran up and down upper Red River ; they had a number of boats running on upper Red River along in this section of the country . He ( remem- remem ) bered a boat called the Red River Planter ; it Tan on the river in this section of the country . ( Captain Captaiii ) ( Cheatham Cheathain ) ran the Frontier ; he ( liad had ) a salt ( works ivorhs ) up iii the ( Kiamiclii Kiainichi ) River and rail ( an- an ) other boat called the ( Southern Southant ) . He remembered a boat called the Francis ( Jones lones ) , and the R . . M . Jones and the ( Walla JF'alla JFalla ) ( Buslia Busha ) . . The Jones boat was built to haul cotton off of the old Shawneetown farm . . He remembered a boat called the Jim ( Vni-ner Vniner ) . ( Peo- Peo ) ple living along Red River in those days marketed their crops from October until along in the spring . . During the ( summer suminer ) ( months inoliths ) there - was nothiug up |
