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Show Record the pump; except in Evinrude motors there is a gear and unless it is kept loaded with hard grease the water will get into the gear. I used to grease mine twice a day. I used the same engine one season, a different engine each season. 4838 I do not think the low water channel shifts on the Green River except as I explained at that one little point. At the different stages of water you get a rearrangement of the sand bars. You don't see them in high water. When the river 6 or 8 feet I can't tell from the operation of my boat whether or not the lo-cation of the sand bars changes. We run into what I call permanent islands. They overflow at that time. We may hit them if we get careless. I do not think the low water channel shifts. I think the current shifts. In making a trip on the river this year you 4839 will find the channel in the same place it was last year. I am never looking for sand bars. I try to find the channel. I do find sand bars sometimes. I don't pay enough attention to them to know whether they were there last year or not. They don't amount to much when I get on them. That looks like my signature on complainant's Exhibit No. 631. I did not dictate it that way. There is one word I want out that is not written in the main line, it is written above the 4840 main line. I want the word " current" on page five, line six, put in there in place of the word " channel". Outside of that, I think it is alright. Complainant's Exhibit No. 631, being statement given by Thomas G. Wimmer to the government, was received in evidence. 4841 I calculated the twenty- five cents per ton mile on two mens' wages at $ 1.50 a day and their board and the gasoline and oil, on a mileage of 100 miles. I have no figures on the board. I just estimated that. I just estimated the average of the trips. 4842 All of it is just an estimate. On the mileage I may have used ninety- five, on the wagon haul and the same on the river. They are both just guess work with me as to distance. On the river I |