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Show Id 20-2 and he saw it ( 'asit asit ) Was ( coming Colphlo' Colphlo ) ( tack ba'Cic baCic ) , about 6 or 10 ( miiles miles ) above the ( month niouth ) of the . The ( 4Y03.1 4Y031 ) , ( was yaks ) then oii a little rise . One boat sank at Slate ( Slioals -Shoals Shoals ) . . Ile knew of no ( other otber ) boats except ( laaso- laaso ) line boats that were used in the timber businoss ; they ( were -were were ) ( used iised ) to bring supplies ( up tip ) the river f6X a ( period pariod ) of fifteen years oT so . ( Ash Asli ) , cotton , and sonic ( "walnut walnut iNTalnut ) ( were ivere ) floated ( down dowil ) the river , which could not be ( moved inoved ) ( in iii ) ( low lo-Nv loNv ) water , ( but bA ) when the water was ( high Idgh ) ( enough emongb ) , the ( rafters afters ) ( would -would would ) turn it loose . The ( tix-p- tixp ) ( ber 'bey bey ) ( was -Nvas Nvas ) put into rafts and ( fastened fasteiled ) together ; ( this tliis ) ( logging Ioggincr ) continued for ( ten teli ) or ( fifteen fiftecii ) years ( until mitil ) the ( timber thilber ) was all cut out . The first raft ( was iNas ) ( taken takell ) ( -to to ) ( BHiltoii 11,111toll 11111toll ) , ( Arkansas ArImlisas ) . The timber was taken ( from frolin ) above the ( mouth iiiouth ) of the Boggy , which is 30 or 35 miles above the mouth of the ( Kiamiehi Kiainichi ) ; the ( rafting raftiDu ) continued ( throughout ffirougliout ) all the year at ( any aily ) ( time tinie ) a little rise would take it down . The last rafting he saw occurred about 12 years ago . ( Not INTot ) ( all -till till ) the ( com- com ) ( mercial mucial ) ( timber tiniber ) ( in iii ) this county ( vas was ) rafted down the river ; ( some sonie ) mills were set up there , though the ( handle liaiiffle ) ( fc-letory fcletory ) is ( continuing couthiiiii-io- couthiiiiiio ) to ( cut etit ) out ash ( timber tiniber ) and ( take tah-e tahe ) it down ( the tlie ) river . G . ( W 1,11' ) . ( Oalts Oaks ) ( R . 1575 ) , Hugo , ( Okla Okha ) . , 70 years old , testified that as a boy ( he lie ) saw a steamboat loading cotton at his ( grandfather's grandfathers ) ( gin giii ) . He was not ( sure stire ) ( whether -whether whether ) this was before or after ( the ilic ) civil war . . He ( remembers renie-IMbers renieIMbers ) the old ( Pine Phie ) Bluff ( landing lailding ) . There were several points along the ( river TiVer ) where boats ( lauded handed ) . Thinks ( steamboats stuaniboats ) went up ( and aud ) down the river until along in the seventies . . One he recalled was blown . up , about at Slate ( Shoals Slioals ) . The river used to be deeper ( than tbali ) it is now . . The people ( then tlien ) fished in the river ; they do now occasionally . . Game xtasplejitiful when lie was a boy - ( and aild ) people hunted |