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Show Record into three or four channels and there had been no boat there 3441 but me to make a channel. It is desirable to go on the river at a minimum stage when the river is dropping. I recall coming up to your office, but I don't recall telling you that the Green River always had a channel if you knew where to find it. I did tell you that there was no difficulty in going up and down the Green River after you made a channel. If I go downstream when the river is falling and make a channel, in making a trip after that I have on hesitation about coming back; I know where I am all the time and come right on through. I have done it and can do it 3442 again. If you hit a sand bar at this time of the year going at good speed it will feel as if you has struck a rock. You may find two or three hundred feet where the river is spread out, with maybe three or four channels. There are a few places where you would 3443 strike hard. Right today, if I knew that a boat had not been down the Green River this year, and if somebody wanted me to take two thousand pounds of supplies down the Green River, I would tackle the job if there was compensation enough and I would reach my destination in the course of time; and after that trip if some one else should come along and wanted me to report it, I wouldn't 3444 have nearly as much hesitation about taking on that job. I would feel that after the first trip had been taken the later trip would be easier. H. T. Yokey testified on redirect examination as follows: The channel cuts most when the water is falling. There is always a current where the most water is running and it will collect there and commence to cut. When the water is rising there will be crossing bars in different places on the inside of the 3445 bends; when the water falls it cuts and spreads out and deposits maybe a few hundred yards or a half mile further down. Then is when you should be running your boats to make a channel. In the trips that I have made down the river I have generally found the channel and the deepest water pretty near in the same |