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Show 3729 Clark- C 1750 them so you could drive a car over them. Q After a stage of water became fixed and you adjusted your ferry to that stage, you didn't have any trouble with bars until that stage changed, did you? A Until that stage changed -- lots of times a bar would form in there and we could pull the boat in there and place the boat in such a position that the current would cut this bar out so you could get up. Q Let me ask you, Mr. Clark,-- THE SPECIAL MASTER: Have you seen this picture, Mr. Farnsworth of the ferry? It may be of some assistance to you. BY MR. FARNSWORTH: Q Now, when you adjusted your boat to a certain stage of water you wouldn't have to make any readjustment ordinarily, except in some very unusual condition, so long as that stage of water continued, would you? A Why, -- as long an that stage continued? Q Yes. A Sometimes we would have to, as I said, go in there and find a bar there and we wouldn't be able to get the boat in there; we could shift the boat so it would run the current in there and it sometimes cut that bar out; sometimes it wouldn't. Q But it didn't very often happen that such an occurrence |