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Show 75 tute it a part of the public waters of the state . Harrison v . File , 78 C . C . A . 447 ; 148 Fed . 781 . A stream is navigable in fact only where it affords a channel for useful commerce and of practical utility to the public as such . The fact that there is water enough in places for rowboats , or small launches , answering ( prac- prac ) tically the same purpose , or that hunters and fishermen pass over the water with boats ordinarily used for that purpose , does not ( ren- ren ) der the waters navigable . Schulte v . Warreny 218 ( 111 Ill ) . loc . cit . 119 , 13 L . R . A . ( N . S . ) 745 , 75 N . E . 785 . It is held that navigable waters must be capable of practical general uses . Hubbard v . . Bell , 54 111 . 110 , 5 Am . Rep . 98 . If its location is such and its length ( and ancl ) capacity so limited that it will only ( accommo accommo- accommo ) date a few persons it can not be considered . a navigable stream for any purpose . It must be so situated , and have such length and capacity , as will enable it to accommodate the public generally as a means of ( transpor transpo'r- transpor ) tation * * * . sje sfc sfc But even though this ( so-called socalled ) river be ( re- re ) . garded as navigable , in this very restricted . sense , for small uses in the floatage of logs , . and for skiffs and dugouts during high water , . when the roads are bad , as is usual in most swamp and overflowed districts , nevertheless , such local limited and intermittent forms of , , use can not transform waters otherwise ( non- non ) navigable into navigable streams , or catalogue them among public waters of the state ; ; ( and and- and ) |