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Show 5207 F. Bennett- D 3219 If it is not very heavy gravel it will fall in there and make kind of a half- circle in there. I knew two or three islands that had timber on them, ask and willows, that disappeared. One year it would cut them cut, and another year another one would form somewhere. Q In hours or days now long would it take these shifts in the channel? A They worked pretty fast. Sound almost like thunder dropping in. in one night they will go back a good many feet, one day or night, the stuff will fall in, the vegetation, the trees will fall in. They will go down until the strike bed rock on that side. Q I don't understand what you mean by " they". A I mean those whirls that runs in where, that causes that. The current causes whirls that whirls it in against the bank. Q In making these trips up and down stream to which you have referred, did you always find a channel in the same place? A No sir. I have know to change from one side to another. Q Between trips? MR. FARNSWORTH: He has not said that. THE SPECIAL MASTER: You can ask him. BY MR. BLACKMAR: Q Between the times you were there then? |
