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Show 201 V ( Some Soiac ) of it was cedar , out of ( wliich which ) telephone and telegraph poles were made , and ( some soine ) of a still larger class . It ( Avas vas ) the custom to float these logs down the river to sawmills adjacent to the river . Some of them were ( even eveii ) floated to Fulton , Arkansas , and below there even . ( Walnut Waliiut ) logs were floated down the river ; logging was quite a large industry in the Red River valley for a great many years , and ( float float- float ) ing and rafting ( tlie the ) logs down the river was one of the usual and ordinary methods of carrying those logs to market . Texas people used the river for this purpose , as ( well Nvell ) as Oklahoma people . After the invention of motor boats , these boats were used in shoving the rafts along ; but that was not ( done lone ) extensively ; it did not ( seem secia ) to be a success . They ( generally geaerally ) took advantage of the rises and rafted the logs down ( during dming ) a rise . ( The Tlie ) Texas & Pacific ( Bailroad Railroad ) ( was -was was ) built along the river ( in iia ) the early seventies . The boat ( lie he ) spoke of as landing at ( Hickory Ilickory ) Bluff ( Land Land- Land ) ing was a steamboat ; it ( was vas ) ( carrying earryin ) ( cotton cottoii ) for ( some sonie ) point up the river . Up to the time the ( rail- rail ) road came , a large portion of the cotton ( grown groNirii ) on Red ( River rliver ) was ( shipped sllipped ) ( out ont ) by steamboats or flat boats . He did not ( remember remen-lber remenlber ) any boats after the railroad was built to ( Cadclo Caddo ) , ( Oklahoma Oklahonia ) , that was the nearest market other than that afforded by the Texas & Pacific . J . W . Threlkill ( R 1572 ) , 60 years old , address ( Grant G-rant Grant ) , Okla . ? lived nearly all his life near Red River in Oklahoma and Indian Territory . ( He Ele ) testified that his ( recollection recollectio- recollectio ) goes back to 171 or 1722 ( vlieii when ) ( he lie ) was ( eleven eleyen ) years old . The river was not then being ( navigated naviaated ) , only one or ( two tivo ) boats ( came canic ) up the river . He ( saw ssaw ) ( one om ) about ( 187-1 1871 ) ; it wasa ( steamboat stecaniboat ) |