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Show 5296 Chaffin- D 3307 THE SPECIAL MASTER: That is just summing up what he has already testified to. MR. FARNSWORTH: His testimony is, any changes that came after the river started to rise were changes out of the channel, over in the still water. MR. BLACKMAR: I didn't understand it that way. A That is not the way I put it. When it raised it made a channel. For instance, we will take -- w e will say, some certain place along the river where the dredge was built, there was still water. In extreme low water, along in February, you had to pick around and push a small boat to get over. The boat that drawed a foot of water, you couldn't get her over. Then, after the river raised a foot -- before then you would go out and wouldn't find a place you could get your boat through -- but after the river raised a foot you could always find a place; might be on the west side of the river tomorrow. BY MR. FARNSWORTH: Q Was that where there was still water? A That is where the water was still. This sedimentary silt settled -- if you had a flood there, the river was high, and it went down slow, the water was clear, it didn't leave so much sand. But if you had a flood that went down quick, |
