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Show ( hare here ) for boats to haul 208 out . ( During- During During ) the fall and spring when there was anything to ship out , and the river ( Avas vas ) at the correct stage , the boats ( would -Nvould Nvould ) ( come conie ) up ( and aiid ) take it out . The boats brought ( iner- iner ) ( chants' chants ) goods to Clarksville , Sherman , and Honey ( GTOVC GTOVe ) . Passengers came ( 011 on ) those boats . Except for conveyance ( bjr by ) wagon from ( Skreveport Slireveport ) and Gaines ( Landing Laiiding ) , the navigation of the Red ( Eiver River ) by boat was the only means of ( commerce coininerce ) for this section of the ( country coialtry ) . It was a matter of debate whether the removal of the raft in Louisiana did more to hinder or help the ( navigation navigatioli ) of Red ( Eiver River ) up along the Texas border ; some thought it ( made inade ) the water ( shallower shalloiver ) , and some ( thought thoiight ) it helped . He remembered a steamboat by the name of the Oliver that ran to ( Clarksville Clarh-s-ville Clarhsville ) , Texas . Fort Towson is just a little east of the Kiamichi River . Boats ( sometimes sornetimes ) went a mile up the Kiamichi River to get cotton . When he first came to this country in 1847 there was a great deal of timber growing in the valleys on Red River , both on the ( Oklahoma Oldaboma ) and the Texas side . Cottoiiwood , ( walnut waln-ut walnut ) , ( hickory hichory ) , pecan , ash , ( sycamore sycaniore ) , ( gum guni ) , and bois ( d'arc darc Care ) . He saw cottonwood trees that were five feet in diameter ; and a walnut tree that was 4 feet in diameter ( which iAiiich ) was sold for 900 . F . D . ( Taaffee Yaaffee ) ( R . 1592 ) , Idabel , ( McCurtain -McCuTtain McCuTtain ) County Okla . testified that there had ( been beell ) no ( iiavi- iiavi ) , , gation of the river ( within -withiii withiii ) his recollection and the only boats ( he lie ) saw had ( been beeil ) Government snag boats . . From his observation of the river he would ( judge itidge ) it to be navigable only at a high tide . . The rises are uncertain . To a certain extent the local rises occur from the ( middle niiddle ) of March to ( May Hay ) ; ; then the |