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Show 193 TV . . J . . Oaks ( R . . 1581 ) , 72 years old , residing at Grant , Choctaw County , Oklahoma , stated that ( be- be ) fore the railroad was built to Paris , Texas , some little boats came up Red River . In 1874 and 75 the boats brought salt , tobacco , molasses , and liquor to the mouth of ( Kiamichi Hiamichi ) , and peddled them to the citizens , carrying cotton back to New Orleans . The boats principally came to the mouth of the ( Kia- Kia ) michi , but have gone above there . They have come as high as Arthur City . Q . . Herndon ( R . 1584 , McCurtain County , Okla . , 60 years old , testified that walnut timber was rafted down the river in good sized rafts when he first went there . He saw two steamboats on the river ; the last one in 1914 . It was a Government dredge boat . There was a steamboat landing at old Albion , but he never saw any steamboats land there . Old Rowland was an old steamboat landing , and so was ( Briley's Brileys ) landing . Garrett Igo ( R . 1587 ) , 80 years old , lived in country since 1848 , when he came to Red River County , , Texas , testified that he navigated Red River from 1866 to 1874 . He was Captain of the Belle Crook , , which was in 1866 . He was on the J . L . Briley in 1872 and 1873 . He made a trip or two on the R . T . Briley which was put on in 1876 . These boats ran from Fulton , Arkansas , to the mouth of the Kiamichi , , which was then considered the head of navigation . . They were nearly all ( stern-wheel sternwheel ) boats , , drawing about four feet of water , and carrying 1,000 bales of |