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[Photograph 2012.201.B0275.0253]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "An irrigation channel near U.S. 283 north of Altus sometimes provides all the water the arable land in this area of the state gets when the long, midsummer months stretch toward autumn with no rain to ease the situation."
Date: January 21, 1981
Creator: McLaughlin, Al
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0275.0252]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Water flows through the irrigation ditches of a cotton field southeast of Altus over the weekend as a three-week irrigation run from Lake Altus was opened."
Date: July 20, 1981
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0275.0254]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "From close up, it looks like a tropical river but nothing could be further from the truth in southwestern Oklahoma where high temperatures and recent dry weather have created more desert-like conditions."
Date: June 29, 1980
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0275.0264]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "As the heat wave continues, so does the release of irrigation water from Lake Altus for farmers in the Lugert-Altus irrigation District."
Date: August 3, 1980
Creator: Long, Paul
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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