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Show 6815 Wimmer- D 4805 still water ( indicating); the current is further over there ( indicating); but that sand that is there now will go away in high water. Then, as it recedes, it deposits, just the same again next year, any more than the difference in the height of the water that counts. BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: Q When that happens the channel may or may not be in that place, is that it? A The channel is not in that place. Q I say, it may or may not be? A Not the low water channel, it is never in that place; this is simply the current of the river comes over there. BY MR. FARNSWORTH: Q As I Understands you, Mr. Wimmer, the actual channel of the river is the same In high as in low water? A I think so; I never found any time I couldn't run in low water except this little point I speak of that forms from the eddy water going up stream and connecting with the down current, that the channel wasn't the same that I couldn't run; we don't always do it, on account of the current; we dodge the current going up stream. Q How does the location of the river and the channel of the river in a given year after the spring high water has sub- |