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Show 205 Q . . Haradon R 1584 ) , McOurtain ( County CoUlIty ) , Okla . 60 years old , testified that walnut timber rafted down the river in good sized rafts when he first went there . . Game was plentiful , , and ( fur-bearing furbearing ) aidinals were trapped oil both sides of the river . Ee saw two steamboats on the river ; ; the last one ill 1914 . . It was a ( Government Goveriin-ient Goveriinient ) dredge boat . . There was a ( stean-iboat steaniboat ) ( landing laiiding ) at old Albion , , but he never saw any steamboats land there . . Old Rowland was all old ( stean-iboat steaniboat ) landing , and so was ( Briley's Brileys ) ( land- land ) hig . . I think the Briley landing and the old ( -IZow- IZow ) land landing were the ( same saine ) . Garrett ( Icjo Igo ) ( ( E R ) . 1587 ) , 80 years old , , lived in country since 1848 , ( when whell ) he came to Red ( Eiver River ) County , Texas , testified that he navigated Red River ( fron-i froni ) 1866 to 1874 . He was Captain of the Belle Crook , which was ( in iia ) 1866 . He was on the J . . L . Briley in 1872 and 1873 . He made a trip or two on the . R . . T . Briley which was put on in 1976 . These boats ran ( from froni ) ( Pulton Fulton ) , Arkansas , to the mouth of the Kiamichi , which was then considered . the head of navigation . They were nearly all stern wheel boats , drawing about four feet of water , and carrying 1,000 bales of cotton . They were nearly all ( fl61-t fl61t ) bottom boats . There were a ( number numbeT ) of other boats on the river during that time . They ( generally geilerally ) ran from ( January JanuaTy ) up until April . Aboout half a ( bank bailk ) stage was ( required Tequired ) to run a boat . When the boats ( were weTe ) not in use they were tied . up either at Fulton or New ( Orleans Oilealls ) . The boats would go ( through througb ) to New Orleans once or twice in a ( sea- sea ) soli . . There was a raft in the river at Fulton wbich was ( sometimes son-letilnes sonletilnes ) very difficult to get ( fin-ough finough ) . . It would take about tell days to make the round trip froin the ( mouth uiouth ) of the Maimichi to New Orleans . . |