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Show 3712 Clark- D 1733 BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: Q What effect did they have on your ferrying? A The effect it would have, getting the boat in to the bank. Lots of times you would run on to these bars and hold the boat as far as fifty feet out from the bank. Q Prevent your navigating across the river? Stop your navigating across the river? A Stop my navigating across the river. Q How long? A We could put this boat in there so as to throw the water in and cut these bars out, and it would hold us up, on, anywhere from half to three- quarters of an hour; sometimes we were not able to do it, and used to have to run across through over this bar, if the water was shallow enough. Then, at times again, we would have to take the boat off the cable and follow the channel up the river, around the bar, and then bring it down the channel in to the bank, so as to get the boat in. Q After you got the boat off the cable how was it navigated? A We would handle it with lines, pull it up and let it down. BY MR. BLACKMAR: Q This ferry boat you operated didn't have any motor on it, did it? |