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Show U3 ing light draft but capable of carrying ( sev- sev sell- sell ) ( -eral eral ) tons ( each eacli ) , and manned by crews of six . - . } or eight ( men mem ) The route was navigated by the American ( Pur Fur ) Company regularly ( dur- dur ) ing a period of years down to ( about aboiit ) 1825 , after which it was disused because the trade had receded to interior portions of Illinois that could be ( reached reaclied ) more conveniently ( with witli ) horses . In each of the above cases , early navigation was one of the principal points upon which the court based its opinion . The opinion of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in the same case , discusses ( in iii ) more detail the early navigation of the Desplaines . See Economy Light & Power Co . v . ? United States , 256 Fed . 792 . At page ( 798 79S ) , the court said : No doubt other instances of its use may properly be inferred . It was employed by the ( American Imericau ) Fur Company down to 1825 , and then ( abandoned abaildoned ) for other routes . The trial judge found , as the record shows , that there is no evidence of actual navigation ( within witbin ) the ( memory meinory ) of living men , ( and aucl ) ( there there- there ) fore there would be no present ( interference hiteTference ) with navigation by the building of the ( pro- pro ) posed dam . But it was held that the ( evi- evi ) dence shows the Desplaines a ( navigable uaviorable ) water of the United States , preserved as such by the ( legislation legislatioii ) of Congress . In the early days the fur trade was a ( lead- lead ) ing branch of commerce in the Western |