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Show 146 -- 142-- means; the banks are not permanent, except where it is against rock walls. R. 313 [ R. 314] " By the Special Master: " Q But Mr. Farnsworth means in general. " A Well, I would not want to say that, in general, the river bed was permanent, no, sir. I could not say that. This type of river, if I were comparing this with the Mississippi River, or with the Platte, which I know nothing about, except what I have read - " By Mr. Farnsworth: " Q Let me put this question to you, abandoning that for the moment; Assuming that we consider this river and these bars to which you have made reference, and which were reported on in 1909, as most unstable in their character, shifting, etc., if you have the same volume of water, substantially, running down around that bar, it would not make much difference to a men living on the river that wanted to go by boat up and down it and take supplies upon it, whether the channel got a little deeper on the right side than on the left side, or whether it went off 20 feet one way or the other, would it? " A It might make a very material difference. " Q Oh, it might; but practically, you as a man of experience know that it would not in any manner be of importance with reference to the navigability of the stream; is that not true? " A No, sir. " Q That is not true, and you would still say that it was not true if people did go up and down it and used it? " A Now? |