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Show , nor will the fact that 145 it is sufficient for ( pleas- pleas ) ure boating or to enable hunters or fishermen to float their skiffs or canoes . To be navi ¬ gable a watercourse must have a useful ( ca- ca ) pacity as a ( public piiblic ) highway of transportation . Of the evidence the Court said ( p . 787 ) : Witnesses testified that in times of high water there had been no ( successful sitecessful ) ( naviga naviga- naviga ) ¬ tion of it inTecent years , except with a ( gaso- gaso ) line launch ( drawing1 drawing ) but a few inches of water , and ( with witb ) . canoes , ( sldffs shiffs ) , and dugouts of the hunters and fishermen ; that it is not being used to float the products of the fields and forest to market , and can not be ( profit profit- profit ) ably and successfully used for that purpose . The evidence in that case disclosed that the river had been used by ( duck ducl ) hunters , by licensed ( steam steam- steam ) boats , lumber and log rafts and by merchants . The particular instances of the operation of boats , taken from the transcript of the record , are printed in an appendix to this brief on pages 227 , 228 . In the case of ( NortJi NortA ) American Dredging ( Go Co ) . 17 . ( Hintecr 111hitzer ) , 245 Fed . 297 , the Court of Appeals for ( the t1e ) Ninth Circuit , in declaring the nonnavigability of the San Pedro Canal , cited ( with -Nvith Nvith ) approval the ( above abo-Ne aboNe ) quotation from the case of Harrison v . Fite . The ( Court Coiirt ) of ( Appeals A-ppeals Appeals ) adopted the findings of the ( Dis- Dis ) trict Court on the question of fact , and these are set forth in Mintzer v . North American ( Dredging Dredghtg ) Co . . , 242 Fed . , 553 . It appears in that case that the ( par- par ) ( ticular ticiilar ) channel in question was never ( used -used used ) or ( re- re ) garded as navigable for any species of water craft |