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Show vintor snow ( melts inelts ) in the 209 ( mountains mountaials ) , and ive ( have bavu ) ( what AvIlat ) Ive call the ( June Julie ) rises . TV . T . Graham ( R . 1596 ) , 65 years of age , was sheriff of ( McCurtaiii AleCurtain ) ( County Couilty ) , Okla . . , 4 ( years yeaxs ) . . Testified that small boats were running on the river when he was a boy , but ( he lie ) could ( remember renieniber ) iione except Government ( snag siiag ) boats since 1894 . . He ( had liad ) been on boats and had gone up to old Captain ( Wright's Wrights ) place at a rock ( landing laiidiiig ) just above the ( mouth 11iouth ) of the ( Kianiichi Kiaiiiielli ) . ( lie He ) was the first sheriff of ( McCurtaiii -McCurtaill McCurtaill ) ( County Comity ) , elected ( in ill ) 1907 and served 4 years , He knew of no whiskey boats that came up the river except the little ( sterli-wheel sterliwheel ) boats that would ( have liave ) a ( regular Tegular ) bar ( on oil ) ( them theni ) . These boats ( car- car ) ried ( meat ineat ) , flour , sugar , ( and aiid ) coffee , selling supplies to the people along the river , and carried cotton ( back baclc ) ; they would bring ( in ill ) supplies to the people and ( cany carry ) back the produce of the country . ( Isaac lsaac ) Johnson ( ( B R ) . ( 1597 1.597 ) ) , 62 years old , lives 6 miles south of Idabel Okla . testified that he saw , , boats oil Red River since he ( had haa ) lived there ( 25 years ) ; they used to ( come conie ) up Red River every ( win- win ) ter after the rainy season set in , until the Texas & Pacific Railroad was built ; he did not recall exactly ( what vhat ) year that railroad was built , but since that ( time tinic ) the boats had ( not iiot ) ( run ruil ) regularly ( on oil ) the river . His house is ( light Tight ) on the river ( in ill ) A bend , ( and aiid ) he could see ( up lip ) ( and alld ) ( down doNvii ) the river for ( miles iniles ) . The last boat ( he lie ) ( remembered reniembered ) was about 100 ft . long ( and aild ) 30 ft . - ( wide vide ) , an oil burner he thinks , brought ( from froin ) St . Louis by a factory ill Paris , Texas . It was a ( fiat flat ) bottom boat ( and aild ) ( ran rail ) in 1909 . ( He Ile ) ( sa- sa ) v it ( coining coming ) ( from fvom ) St . , Louis and ( afterwards afterivards ) saw it going back down the river , and again saw it going back up the |