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Show 5297 Chaffin- D 3308 it always left this stuff settle there. Then your small stream of water wound its way through where it could. As your water begins to rise you would start moving off again, down to the next place. BY THE SPECIAL MASTER: Q As I understand, the same conditions did not prevail where there was a gravel bed as where there was a sand bed? A That is right. Q More permanent channel? A More permanent channel. Where the river runs swift, and the gravel beds was, it took a life time to make much of a change. There is a place I can see quite a change, where we used to drive across the California bar with the wagon set on the running gears. Today you can't go across there, at all, you could get through with your horse, take him over the rapids. It would be too bad. That has took a long time to make them changes. That is where the gravel is. BY MR. BLACKMAR: Q What effect did the rise and the fall of the river during the months when you had the rain have upon the river? A The rise and fall then would wash this silt in, and |