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Show 725 boat from getting into the bank and this happened a number of times. R. 1747. The boat didn't get out of repair, nor the attachment to the cable, but he had to take the boat off to get around the sand- bars. This would happen in low water periods when the river was on a falling stage and that finally in the number of 1933, a shieve broke on the cable and the boat was held in mid-stream as that it tipped over and finally sunk. R. 1747- 1748. In the falling stages the readjustment necessary to accommodate the different stages of the river was to take the boat off of the cable, follow up the channel, get around the bars, bring it down in deeper water and get a car off on the bank, and when the river would fall low enough he would go below the sand- bars and fix then so you could drive a car over the sand- bar. At times he could shift the boat so it would run the current in and out the bars out, but sometimes this couldn't be done. R. 1749- 1750. This would happen on falling stages of the river, and on rising stages, a bar would keep him from getting in close to the shore and the bars would shift at different stages of the river. He never could tell when to expect them or when not to expect them. R. 1751. When the river was falling, it would become shallower all through. " Q. And some bar might appear that would impede the progress of your ferry which in the higher stages would not interfere with the ferry at all, that is true, isn't it? |