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[Photograph 2012.201.B0107.0041]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "OKAY BRIDGE IS OKAY -- KO&G trains began using a new bridge (foreground) over the Verdigris River this week, marking another step in opening the river to navigation by barge tows."
Date: December 9, 1970
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0107.0042]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "What's left Scattered across the Verdigris River at Lenapah are twisted spans of the SH 10 bridge, which collapsed Wednesday when a crane slipped from the pilings and smashed into the structure investigators Thursday were still trying to figure out what caused the pilings to give way."
Date: 1978
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Graded Border Irrigation System

Description: Photograph of a graded boreder irrigation system of 400 acres. Water is pumped from the Verdigris River at H.E. corner of 400 acre field. Water is shown running from feeder ditch through border to field tabs. Field to left of electric fence is in rye and vetch and has had one irrigation. An additional 300 acres will be leveled smoothed ditched and bordered and put into irrgation in 1956. The system provides drainage as well as irrigation.
Date: November 17, 1955
Creator: Hurd and Moreland
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Pryor Project Will Rogers Ranch

Description: Photograph of the Verdigris River forms the southern and eastern boundaries of the 1600 acre "Will Rogers Ranch". In dry summer months when creeks on the ranch run dry this river furnishes an invaluable water supply for the cattle. A water corral is fenced off in the river for the purpose.
Date: April 18, 1938
Creator: Slack, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Pryor Project Will Rogers Ranch

Description: Photograph of the Verdigris River forms the southern and eastern boundaries of the 1600 acre "Will Rogers Ranch". In dry summer months when creeks on the ranch run dry this river furnishes an invaluable water supply for the cattle. A water corral is fenced off in the river for the purpose.
Date: April 18, 1938
Creator: Slack, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Verdigris River, Pryor Project (2)

Description: Photograph of the Verdigris River which forms the southern and eastern boundaries of the 1600-acre "Will Rogers Ranch". In dry summer months when creeks on the ranch run dry this river furnishes an invaluable water supply for the cattle.
Date: April 18, 1938
Creator: Slack, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0107.0047]

Description: Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "This picture shows the extra large piers and foundation used in building the SH 51 bridge west of Wagoner--built that strong so that the bridge can be raised 35 feet more if navigation is ever begun on the Verdigris."
Date: July 18, 1955
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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