You are correct that the compact's OKTX does require a lurch or stitch to reach
the AROKTX tripoint, but I would argue the matter this way:
The southern terminus of the AROK boundary was always subject to movement
northward and southward (nominally) as the vicissitudes of the south bank of the
Red River required. When the compact took effect, the existing "approximate"
OKTX moved slightly southward to the vegetation line. I would conclude that the
practical effect is that the "stitch" from the vegetation line to the tripoint
would have to align with the accepted AROK boundary (nominally north-south, but
slightly deviant nevertheless). This is the only interpretation that would make
any practical sense in the event of any future adoption of a similar vegetation
line boundary by compact between Arkansas and Texas.
Lowell G. McManus
Leesville, Louisiana, USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "acroorca2002" <orc@...>
To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 10:04 AM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Oklahoma / Texas Border - River Borders
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
> <mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> > Yes! The compact sends cartographers back to the drawing boards
> with their
> > erasers in hand. A well-trained monkey could now find the OKTX
> boundary on a
> > current aerial photo!
>
> & i hope you will train him to take short cuts
> or he might never finish his job
>
> but we have been here before
> perhaps before your time
>
> i think the key bp point tho is that the new oktx regime is
> fundamentally different from the unchanged artx regime
> tho they appear on the outdated topos to be the same regime
> in following a series of vegetation lines that have not existed since
> the time of the first border freezing avulsions shortly after texas
> statehood
>
> there is not even any lurch at the aroktx tripoint on these maps
>
> but since the new oktx pact
> there actually is a lurch & an extralegal stitch of oktx
> which they evidently never thought of when framing the compact
> tho they thought of everything else
>
> the exact dry oktxe point on the vegetation line
> & the path by which oktx travels its wet yes wet terminal stitch
> to meet the unchanged wet aroktx tripoint within the active river bed
> as still correctly depicted at topozone
> are not precisely stated in the new compact
>
> & these can only be presumed to be one of several nearly identical
> but actually distinct alternative points & paths
>
> in reality there is a little hole in oktx here
> & it is especially interesting because it subjoins the tristate point
>
> >
> > The compact says that the implementation and future evolution of
> the vegetation
> > line boundary will never affect the ownership of property or of
> tribal
> > sovereignty in either state. Each state will recognize land titles
> that are
> > legal under the laws of the other. Property taxes for each given
> year will be
> > owed to whichever jurisdiction contains the property or whatever
> portion of it
> > on January 1.
> >
> > Interestingly, the compact had the general support of landowners
> because it
> > brought some sanity to their lives for the first time! Before this
> compact, the
> > Red River segment of OKTX was the sorriest excuse for a state
> boundary in the
> > country.
> >
> > Lowell G. McManus
> > Leesville, Louisiana, USA