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Show 5419 Yokey- C 3430 Q When you come over that same route the next day or two or three days later, is that channel you cut through still there? A My experience is it is enlarged, getting the current to go in one channel instead of spreading out and going in two or three. Q From you knowledge of that river what would you say would be the effect of going up or down the river, if trips were made up and down the river with frequency? MR. BLACKMAR: I object to that as purely specula-tive, a conclusion of the witness. MR. FARNSWORTH: This witness was called as a compe-tent witness to advise the court concerning that river, from his own knowledge of it. He has spent years on it, -- THE SPECIAL MASTER: You are asking him for an opinion on a subject which he must be very familiar with from his experience on the river, qualified to give an opinion on it. THE WITNESS: What opinion do you want? THE SPECIAL MASTER: It is not what opinion he wants, it is what opinion you have. ( Thereupon the reporter read the last preceding ques- |