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Show 5059 F. Johnson- D 3071 Then in a few days there would be another one in the sane place. Continually changing. Sometimes the bar would come in in the fall if the year and stay all winter. Other times it would wash out in a few hours, and form back again in as nearly as short a time as it went out. Q Did you have any arrangements whereby you could get the people and the vehicles who were riding on the ferry off when you encountered the sandbars? A Yes sir, we always had a way; we had plenty of planks, two inch planks; we would lay these across the sand where it was miry, and then sometimes there would be a deeper channel next to the shore. There we would put the plank, if the plank was too short to reach we would get rocks and make sort of a bridge to go over. Sometimes we would haul brush in, and rock, and fill up the hole. Q Do you know what condition of the river caused the rearrangement of those sandbars and their forming and disappearing? A I could only give my opinion on that. Usually they would form after the fall rains, that is, in July or August, whenever the rain commenced, then the sandbars would be more prominent than they were before. Q After you returned there in 1910, from what course did you get your supplies? |
