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Show In the case of Gulf & 47 1 . ( Railway Railivay ) Company of Texas v . ( Dams Davis ) , 26 F . ( 2d ) 930 ( Affirmed , 31 Fed . ( 2d ) 109 ) , the court had under consideration the navigabil ity of a stream known as Mud Bayou . In arriving at the conclusion that the bayou was nonnavigable , the court at page 934 said : The application of this point of view to this case makes its solution easy . There has not been , and is not now , any commerce upon Mud Bayou . No stretch of the most vivid imagination can envision conditions under which it will be in its natural state an aid to commerce . In that case it was admitted that there had been no navigation upon Mud Bayou , but it was also admitted that boats of light draft could conduct commerce over it , should there be a commercial demand . In the case of Oklahoma v . Texas , 258 U . S . , 574 ) the navigability of the Red River ( between betwoeen ) ( Okla- Okla ) homa and Texas was before the this Court . This Court reached the conclusion that the river was ( non- non ) navigable , saying , at page 591 : We conclude that no part of the river within Oklahoma is navigable and therefore that the title to the bed did not pass to the State on its admission into the Union . There had been some sporadic attempts to ( navi- navi ) gate the Red River commercially and these are set forth at page 589 of the opinion : Lanesport Arkansas which is near the , , Oklahoma boundary , has been the usual head |
