Box 1: Arkansas River Basin: Arkansas Basin Development Association --- Arkansas River Basin: Enid Floodway
F 1: Arkansas River Basin: Arkansas Basin Development Association (1948-1949, 1955-1956).
a. Correspondence. Correspondents include N. R. Graham; Glade R. Kirkpatrick; Francis J. Wilson; Harrington Wimberly..
b. "Statement: Col. F. J. Wilson, U. S. Army, Retired, before Public Works Subcommittee of the Appropriations Committees of the House and Senate, May 16, 1955."
c. Arkansas Basin Development Association Newsletter (July 17, 1956).
d. Arkansas Basin Development Association Meeting Program (October 29-30, 1956).
e. Statement: "Future Water Requirements of Oklahoma," by Guy B. Treat and Francis J. Wilson (July 26, 1956).
F 2: Arkansas River Basin: Arkansas Basin Development Association (1957-1958).
a. Correspondence. Correspondents include Francis J. Wilson.
b. Arkansas Basin Development Association Newsletters (January 16, April 19, May 28, and December 26, 1957).
c. Arkansas Basin Development Association Information Sheet: "Data on Central-Southeastern Oklahoma Showing Unemployment-Farm and Federal Relief Problems in This Area."
d. Arkansas Basin Development Association pamphlet: "1957 Officers, Directors, Committees, Resolutions."
e. "Statement of Francis T. Wilson Before the Public Works Subcommittees of the Senate Appropriations Committee and the House Appropriations Committee of the Congress of the United States."
F 3: Arkansas River Basin: Arkansas Basin Development Association (1959).
a. Correspondence. Correspondents include Francis J. Wilson.
b. Arkansas Basin Development Association Newsletters (September 30 and December 11, 1959).
c. Tulsa Chamber of Commerce publication: "There's a River in Your Future . . ."
F 4: Arkansas River Basin: Arkansas Basin Development Association (1960).
a. Correspondence. Correspondents include Francis J. Wilson. This folder contains numerous letters from U. S. senators to Kerr referring to a speech that Charles Ingersoll, a railroad man, made to the
Arkansas Basin Development Association. Ingersoll supported waterway improvement. The senators commented that this was unusual.
b. Arkansas Basin Development Association Newsletters (January 23, February 27, April 27, and May 27, 1960).
c. Itinerary and Map: "Ohio Valley Industrial Tour for Young Tulsa Executives" (June 27-30, 1960).
d. Arkansas Basin Development Association Meeting Program (March 11-12, 1960).
e. Arkansas Basin Development Association Tentative Program, Annual Meeting (March 11-12, 1960).
f. Speech by Robert S. Kerr, Arkansas Basin Development Association Annual Meeting (March 11, 1960).
g. Speech by Wilson, "Development of Oklahoma's Water Resources: The Multiple Purpose Plan for the Arkansas Basin," before the Oklahoma Society of Professional Engineers (May 6, 1960).
F 5: Arkansas River Basin: Arkansas Basin Development Association (1961-1962).
a. Correspondence.
b. Arkansas Basin Development Association Newsletters (May 17, 1961 and August 24, 1962).
F 6: Arkansas River Basin: Canton Project (1949-1950).
a. Memorandum: "Canton Project Water Rights" (April 11, 1949).
b. Bureau of Reclamation: "Plan for Development: Canton Project, North Canadian River Basin, Oklahoma." Appendices. (November, 1950).
F 7: Arkansas River Basin: Canton Project (1951).
a. Correspondence.
b. "Variable Irrigation Repayment: Canton Project, Oklahoma" (July 25, 1951).
c. Bureau of Reclamation: "Plan for Development: Canton Project, North Canadian River Basin, Oklahoma" (August, 1951).
d. Resolution: Canton Irrigation District, re: plans for project.
e. Press Release: Bureau of Reclamation, re: project report (December 6, 1951).
f. Resolution: Oklahoma City Council, re: city water rights (December 26, 1951).
F 8: Arkansas River Basin: Canton Project (1952).
a. Correspondence.
b. Report: Cunningham, M. B., re: Oklahoma City Water (February 6, 1952).
c. Report: Bureau of Reclamation: "Report on the Canton Irrigation Project in Relation to the Interests of Oklahoma City."
d. Report: Cunningham, M. B.: "Report on Effect of Canton Project on Oklahoma City Water Supply" (April 14, 1952).
e. Memorandum: Bureau of Reclamation, re: project negotiations (May 14, 1952).
F 9: Arkansas River Basin: Canton Project (1953).
a. Correspondence. Correspondents include Canton Irrigation District Commission; Johnston Murray.
b. Report: C. H. Guernsey and Company: "Engineering Report: Probable Effects of the Canton Irrigation District on Oklahoma City's Municipal Water Supply" (April, 1953).
c. S. 116. Eighty-third Congress; First Session (1953).
d. H. R. 1096. Eighty-third Congress; First Session (1953).
F 10: Arkansas River Basin: Canton Project (1954-1955, 1957, 1959, 1962).
a. Correspondence. Correspondents include Canton Irrigation District Commission; Federal Aviation Agency.
b. House Document 445. Eighty-third Congress; Second Session (1954).
c. S. 1602. Eighty-fourth Congress; First Session (1955).
d. S. 2053. Eighty-fifth Congress; First Session (1959).
F 11: Arkansas River Basin: Catoosa -- Port of, Port Authority (1962).
Correspondence.
F 12: Arkansas River Basin: Central Oklahoma Project (1951-1952, 1955).
a. Correspondence. Correspondents include Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce; Stanley Draper; N. R. Graham; Guy Treat.
b. Resolution: Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce: re: Study of Navigation on Central Oklahoma Rivers (June 18, 1951).
c. Resolution: Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce: re: Central Oklahoma Project (March 3, 1955).
F 13: Arkansas River Basin: Central Oklahoma Project (1956, 1958-1959, 1961-1962).
a. Correspondence.
b. Report: "Water Requirements for the Development of Central and Southeastern Oklahoma." Partial Draft.
F 14: Arkansas River Basin: Cimarron River Basin (1944, 1946).
Report: U. S. Engineer Office, Tulsa, Oklahoma: "Survey Report on Flood Control" (June 15, 1944). Minor additions by the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors and the Chief of Engineers, U. S. Army.
F 15: Arkansas River Basin: Cimarron River Basin (1952-1953).
a. Report: U. S. Geological Survey and Oklahoma Planning and Resources Board: "Ground-Water Resources of the Terrace Deposits Along the Northeast Side of the Cimarron River in Alfalfa,
Garfield, Kingfisher, and Major Counties, Oklahoma."
b. Statement: Water Use and Control Group, Kansas and Oklahoma: "Statement and Supplemental Statement of Needs and Possible Solutions: AWR Area No. 3, Cimarron River Basin" (1952-1953).
F 16: Arkansas River Basin: Cimarron River Basin (1960-1962).
Correspondence.
F 17: Arkansas River Basin: Enid Floodway (1952-1955, 1957-1958).
a. Correspondence.
b. Enid Report: "Committee Report on Recommended Flood Control and Drainage Improvement" (June 7, 1957).
c. Enid Report: "Local History of Floods and Proposed Flood Control Program" (February 6, 1958).
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