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Show Record down until I got a depth and then pulled it up. After that I recorded the depth and then put the bottle in the sampler and low- 3860 ered it down again. The bottle does not go quite as far down as the weight, because the bottle is on the weight. The whole torpedo goes down to the bottom in a horizontal position. The top of the 3861 bottle was in most cases 1.2 feet above the bottom of the weight. The plate opposite page 20 in Exhibit 494 is a cut of the sampler which I used. When that is let down the weight is hocked on by a little piece of strap iron in such a way that the bottom of the weight is 1.2 feet from the top of the bottle. The method I used in taking my samples was not identical with the method that have been used by the department, because I did not use the cap in the bottle with a hole that had a paper pasted over it. I found that I could not let this weight down in such a way as to puncture that hole, because at a period of high water the amount of submerged matter that was carried was so great that it would lodge on this carrier ( indicating) and the weight could not get down far enough to strike the plunger and arm; so, I left that hole in the cap open and lowered it to the bottom and pulled it directly to the surface again in such a way that it would not be filled when it reached the top. Samuel Kenneth Love testified on re- cross examination 3862 as follows: In taking my samples I had the weight on this contrivance shown on Exhibit 494, and I did not remove it at all in taking my samples. In taking my sample I did not get my bottle down to a point closer than one and a fraction feet from the bottom of the river. I knew when my weight was at the lowest point from the effect of the windlass arm, from a feeling that the weight had 3863 stopped. I let it go until the weight had gone down to a point where it would sink no more before I stopped. I do not know anything about how deep the mud was that was penetrated by this torpedo- shaped weight; but it would be small, because I lowered it by means of a brake on the windlass. |