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Show 5266 Chaffin- D 3278 leaves a channel, if you find it. Then she will stay, until your floods come in from some side canyon. When they come in, it starts the silt moving, and you can't always go back the same way you went. You think may be you have got the channel around through here, go around here, jump off somewhere else. When that comes in, it fills up and changes. You have to hunt around to get over and find a place through in those places. For that reason sometimes we got on the bars. Q Measured by time, how many hours or days would you say, generally speaking, does it take to produce those changes in the channel? A when they start to change, they might change over night on you. Q Has that been your experience at times? A That has been my experience; the channel would change over night. Sometimes they would remain where they was for a month pretty well. Q Do you recall where this bar that you call the New year bar was, with reference to Hanson creek? A Yes sir. Down the river about seven miles. Q In 1895 you operated on Hanson creek part of the A Yes sir. Went on there I think it was in February, and operated there until some time about the lot of May, then I |