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Show Blake 954 anything to impede the boats? A No. Q If a person navigating that river had a map or chart showing the rapids and the more or less permanent bars, I suppose it would be easier to go down the river than it would be going without any map, is that so or not? I am asking for information. A Not in the case of the rapids; they change; the boulders which form the rapids -- which are the cause of the rapids are sometimes shifted of carried away during high water. Q But the location of a rapid, as I understood you to testify, remained practically the same from year to year? Yes. So a map containing the location of the rapids or a chart containing the location of the rapids and the location of the more or less permanent bars, would be of aid in navigation, wouldn't it, of a greater aid than going without it? I believe so, your Honor. THE SPECIAL MASTER: That is all. I simply asked that question because I have not heard any witness testify so far that he went down with a map, unless Mr. Hoyt testified that to a certain extent he used a War Department map in drawing comparisons. If I am wrong on that, I just wanted to be corrected. MR. HOYT: I had the regular river survey map. 2924 |
