The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 53, July 1949 - April, 1950 Page: 407
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The Claim of Texas to Greer County
surveyed by Jones and Brown, and Clark, and did not wish
to repudiate the work.97 Also the department was busy with
other matters. In 1919 the legislature of Texas passed an act
directing that a suit be instituted in the Supreme Court of the
United States for the purpose of determining and settling the
boundaries between that state and Oklahoma. The United
States Coast and Geodetic Survey in 1923 undertook to locate
the portion of the one hundredth meridian in controversy by
a modern, scientific method of triangulation, and concluded
that the true meridian ran 371.5 feet east of the Kidder monu-
ment. The line surveyed by Jones and Brown, and Clark was
the line desired by Oklahoma, while Texas insisted on a line
running north from the Kidder monument, three quarters of a
mile farther east.
The dispute as to the location of the one hundredth meridian
upon the ground was decided by the Supreme Court in 1926.98
It was clear to the court that a line running north from the
Kidder monument, which line had not been run or marked
upon the ground, could not be regarded as the established
boundary acquiesced in and adopted by the parties in the suit.
The court concluded that the boundary was the true one hun-
dredth meridian extending north from its intersection with
the south bank of the south fork of Red River to its intersection
with the parallel of 36 3o', and that the line should be marked
by a commissioner appointed by the court, whose report should
be subject to its approval. Samuel S. Gannett was subsequently
designated as a commissioner to run, locate, and mark the
boundary between Oklahoma and Texas along the true one
hundredth meridian.
Prior to the establishment of the line by Gannett, Oklahoma
made a serious effort to reach an agreement with Texas relative
to any land transferred from one state to the other. The legis-
lature on January 31, 1929, adopted House Concurrent Resolu-
tion No. 4 which provided for the appointment of a committee
to be composed of three members from each house and the
97Statement of Mr. A. D. Kidder to the author, 1946.
98sklahoma v. Texas (United States, Intervenor), Supreme Court Reporter,
XLVII, 9. Oklahoma brought suit before suit was commenced by Texas.407
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