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Show I 45 . The evidence in that case disclosed that the river had been used by duck hunters , by licensed ( steam- steam ) boats , lumber and log rafts , and by merchants . . See Appendix to this brief page 201 . . In the case of North American Dredging Co . v . . Mintzer , 245 Fed . 297 , the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit , in ( declaring decharing ) the nonnavigability of the San Pedro Canal , cited with approval the above quotation from the case of Harrison v . ( File Fite ) . The Court of Appeals adopted the findings of the District Court on the question of fact , and these are set forth in Mintzer v . . North American Dredging Co . , 242 Fed . 553 . . It appears in that case that the particular ( chan- chan ) nel in question was never used or regarded as ( navi- navi ) gable for any species of water craft other than for duck boats and punts for hunting and fishing id . p . ( 557 0-57 ) ) . However , some of the property adjacent thereto had been acquired by the Standard Oil Company and on a few occasions power boats and scows of light draft were taken up through the San Pablo Creek or Canal and entered this channel on flood tide carrying ( sup- sup ) plies to the Standard Oil Company , but it was found that , excepting periods of high tide , it was ( imprac imprac- imprac ) ticable to use the channel for navigation without deepening it . The Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth ( Cir- Cir ) cuit , in the case of Toledo Liberal Shooting ( Com- Com ) pany v . . Erie Shooting Club , 90 Fed . . 680 , speaking through Circuit Judge Lurton , , and concurred in by Circuit Judge Taft , said ( page 682 ) : : At no time is the greater part of this marsh susceptible of supporting ( "com- com ) |