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Show 1050 supplies, consisting of boxes of canned goods and a good deal of bedding, weighing somewhere between five hundred and a thousand pounds. The draft of the boat was nine or ten inches. R. 2493- 2494. Cross Examination. ( R. Vol. 13, pp. 2495- 2499) In speaking of proceeding at easy stages, he means it was necessary to make frequent stops to examine the dam sites and the party was not trying to make time. He does not recall both boats being stuck at the same time, since they did not always travel together, the motor on the boat in which he was riding being unruly and it was three- quarters to half an hour later getting started in the morning than the other boat. The boats traveled in sight of each other about half of the time, the other half of the time possibly within half a mile of each other, but he observed no instances where both parties were stuck at the same time. R. 2495. He did not see any so- called sand waves. He would say that the boats were stuck so that it was necessary for the boatmen to bet out of the boat and shove it into deeper water twice in half a day each day, the occurrence depending more upon distance than upon time. R. 2496. " Q Do you think it occurred four times a day that a boatman would stop into the water to push either one of your boats off a bar, or other obstruction? " A If we traveled continuously for half a day, I would say twice would be fairly correct estimate of it." R. 2496. Tom Wimmer was the skipper of the front boat and Andy Wimmer was skipper of the boat in which he [ Thomas] was riding. Both of the boats in tandem naturally got stuck at the same time but he does not know whether or not the tandem condition |