c. 1904, Photograph, B 13521
Temporary causeway built for sheep to cross a flooded Cooper Creek near Kopperamanna for boarding rail transport at Farina. 32,000 crossed in this way, their drover is said to have been Stuart Field, their owner Sidney Kidman. Notes on the back of the photograph state "Causeway built across Cooper Creek near Kopperamanna, over which 32,000 sheep were crossed for railing at Farina. The causeway was a method of getting sheep across a swollen river. The drover is stated to have been Stuart Field, and the sheep those of Sidney Kidman. 32,000 sheep were taken across in a week or two. Causeway was 140 yards long. A flat bottom boat from Kopperamanna Mission Station was used to assist in its construction"