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Show 192 handle factory is continuing to cut out ash timber and take it down the river . G . TV . Oaks ( R . 1575 ) , Hugo , Okla . . , 70 years ( old- old ) testified that as a boy he saw a steamboat loading cotton at his ( grandfather's grandfathers ) gin . He remembers the old Pine Bluff landing . There were several points along the river where boats landed . Thinks ( steam- steam ) boats went up and down the river until along in the seventies . One he recalled was blown up about at Slate Shoals . Sawlogs were rafted down the river . . L . ( TF W ) . Oaks ( R . 1578 ) , Frogville , Okla . , 1 % miles from Red River , 64 years old , testified that there used to be little boats running up and down . the river which carried out cotton and products of the country before . the coming of the railroads ; they brought in dry goods and groceries and things of that sort from Shreveport and New Orleans ; there were various landings up and down the river where there were stores that got these things from ( steani- steani ) boats . Prior to the coming of the railroads one of the ordinary means of obtaining supplies and ( shlip- shlip ) ping out products of the country was the shipment of goods up and down Red River . Rafting logs ( con- con ) tinued off and on as long as there was merchantable timber in the country . TF . H . . Pearcy ( R . 1570 ) , 76 years old , address Grant , Choctaw County , Okla : Timber was rafted in large rafts to Arthur City from the Boggy and tip the river above there . When the river was low they would send small rafts ; the size of the raft depended upon the stage of the water . . |