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Show 5847 Love- X 3583 Q The you lowered this weight, did you, to the bottom, and determined the depth, and then raised the weight by the windless again/ A Yes, sir. Q Then you took your samples? A Yes, sir. Q Do you now, from your experience there, enter-tain the opinion that the process of lowering that 100 pound weight to the bottom of the river, and then raising it up, would tend to stir up the silt and make your samples much muddier than they other- ice would be? A I have no such opinion; because of the fact that the river was so turbulent of itself that it would do much more to make this condition than by the mere dropping or lowering of the weight. Q I see, Then it is your opinion that the river was so muddy that it was just as bad up at the surface, was just as heavily laden with solid matter at the surface, as near the bottom? Mr. Blackmar. I think is repetition. Mr. Farnsworth. I submit that it is not. Mr. Blackmar. Well, I submit that it is. |
