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Show 70 6256 4248 Ross- C MR. BLACKMAR: I object to that question; he has already answered it; he testified it was not so. THE SPECIAL MASTER; X I don't think that precise ques-tion has been asked. BY MR. FARNSWORTH: Q Go ahead and answer the question. Isn't that true? A Not substantially the same, the channel is not, in two succeeding years; any small obstruction after high water has come down, in the lodging of a tree or stump in the river, will alter the channel. Q Well, such a thing as that would be only on occasion, wouldn't it? A Happens very frequently it will build up a bar that will stand through quite high water. THE SPECIAL MASTER: What months are you referring to now? MR. FARNSWORTH: I am referring to the time' when the high spring water subsides, which I understand is somewhere around in the early part of July of each year. THE WITNESS: Yes sir. THE SPECIAL MASTER: May I ask a question right here. BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: Q Supposing you go down the river in July of one year and do not go down again, we will say, until July of the next |