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Show 5293 Chaffin- D 3304 would start to raise a little when the ice would commence thawing. That seemed to have a tendency to change the current of your creek in these low places. You would have that trouble hunting out a place you could get through. Q You say the current of the creek? A Yes. Q What do you mean? Do you mean the side washed, or the river? A I mean the river itself. When your water conditions change, your current changes as your water raised or fell, especially in the low places. Where the dredge set, for instance, it was a nearly flat river; your sandbars would accumulate across the river in this shape ( indicating). You would go in there, and you would have plenty of water, the water kept breaking off, you would go down in there and couldn't get through. Maybe you would come back and go down the other side. This water would go across and hit the ledges on the other side. You have to feel through. That is about the trouble we had. Q How late in the year did you get this floating ice? A Running mush ice, you mean, what I was telling you about? Q Yes. A That would be along the latter part of February, as a rule. |