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Show Jones- C 401 A Oh, I couldn't tell how many years; some of the old- timers noticed it before I did, some of the older men, they said sometime the river had been over here. Q You were able to tell from appearances it had been many, many years before your arrival? A Yes sir. Q By that would you be able to give the Special Master in this case any judgment as to the number of years? A No, I can not; couldn't even make a guess at it. Q If there had been any other channel visible to you at the time of your arrival in Bluff, than the one occupied by the river then you got there, you would say this, that the existence of the other channel was a very, very long time before your arrival? A Yes sir. Q And this one place where you saw some big trees where there might at some early date have been a different channel at one point there, extended over what distance? A Well, some placed it would be nearly half a mile from the river, but there was more than one place. Q How many such places were there? A I couldn't tell; I know there was more than one place where we saw evidence of large trees having been lodged, away from where the channel was then. Q Whether that occurred during one excessively high flood before the white men got there or not, you can not tell? A No sir. 2367 |