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Show 7247 Blake- C 5227 Q I am referring only to when you were going down stream. A No, I got pocketed below Fort bottom while I was running a race with the Marguerite; took another channel and went some little distance down, expecting it would break through, and it didn't, and I had to turn around, and they beat me to camp. Q Did you carry any poles on any of these boats for the purpose of getting off of sandbars? A No, nothing but our oars. Q Nothing but your oars? A Always carried oars, in case of engine trouble. BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: Q Where is this woodruff place, how far down the river, do you know? A It is what is called Foot bottom, some six or eight miles above Fort bottom; must be sixty miles down the river Q What was there there? A It was a large bottom that had been squatted on by a surveyor by the name of Robert Foot, in the expectation of making a fruit ranch out of it. He built a two- story frame house on that bottom. Q On the bottom? A Yes; rafted the lumber from Greenriver down -- I don't know for certain whether he rafted it from Greenriver, or the ranch; but he rafted it Gown the river. MR. BLACKMAR: I think that is all. |