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Show Nielsen- C 454 understand you have given these occasions when you say it was only a foot. Then you have spoken of another occasion when it would be completely dry. Of course we understand it was not two or three feet deep then, and during the flood waters it went up, but during the low water season is it not your observation and conclusion from your knowledge of the river that the average depth of the channel of the stream would be somewheres around two or three feet? MR. BLACKMAR: We object to that now, because that is calling for his conclusion. I think he should state the fact of it if he knows. BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: From your general knowledge of the river in normal times wouldn't the depth be an average of two or three feet? A I think it would, where the river is confined together; but in other places it floods all over, may be half a mule wide, and it wouldn't be so deep there. But where you get the river together in its natural channel, I think it would average two or three feet deep; from one to three feet deep. BY MR. FARNSWORTH: Q You are speaking now of low water season, aren't you? A Yes sir. Q Now, these portions of the river where you have spoken of having observed the very narrow depths, as low as one foot at the point you indicated, would be very much deeper it the channel were more confined? 2420 |
