Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Thomas Cobb, a sophomore in animal husbandry at Murray, weighing feed for the bulls."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Former state selective service director Col. Clive E. Murray, left, receives a certificate of achievement from Maj. Douglas Pritchett of the Dallas regional selective service office as Herbert Hope, center, present state draft director, looks on."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Chickasaw Council House, Tishomingo, built in 1897-98 of mammoth pink granite blocks from the nearby quarry owned by the incumbent chief executive, Gov. R. M. Harris, who headed the building committee."

Photograph of Blue River bottom land. Cleared in 1956. Was wet, poorly drained timber land near wortless pasture before clearing and planting to midland bermuda and clover. Planted to bermuda 1957, 500 acre ranch has 200 acres on cultivation. 1959-ran 135 head grown cows and 500 sheep and offsprings. Uses vetch and clover for sown pasture. 10-on hill, 11 on bottom, all was cleared.

Photograph of a silted area of the Washita River, 1-2 feet deep, here 16", originally in alfalfa before flood. Several hundred acres of silted area. This is a silt area, some areas covered with blow sand 3-4 feet deep.

Photograph of pasture with heavy timber in the background. The grassed area was timbered until 1956. 300 acres were cleared to midland bermuda and clover. 2000 acres make up the ranch. The cleared land after planting Bermuda grass increased the ranch's carrying capacity by 30 to 40%. OK-1050-7.

Photograph of timber clearing in the Blue River bottom with angle tree bulldozer. This is heavy, wet, natured overflow bottom that is to be used for pasture. CONTRACTOR: c.b. Bell, Milburn, Oklahoma. OK-941-1.

Photograph of a stump of a huckleberry tree as left by an angle tree bulldozer in clearing Blue River bottomland for pasture. OK-941-6.

Photograph of Hearn Chisholm farm, owner (right), and Paul Jones, Soil Conservation District [SCD] equipment manager, inspecting an improved pasture. This pasture is comprised of black medic, yellow hop clover, bur clover vetch, rye and rye grasses. OK-42-4.

Photograph of a home made border packer filled with concrete.

Photograph of an aerial view, looking west, of Ravia, OK.

Photograph of the ruins of the Wapanucka Institute in Wapanucka, OK. Photo by Fox Co., San Antonio, TX, Oct. 1959.

Photograph of the Wapanucka Institute in Wapanucka, OK. Photo by Fox Co., San Antonio, TX, Oct. 1959.

Photograph of silt caused from floods. Top fence post where sand had silted in during spring flood of 1957. Coffee Farm

Photograph of aerial view of Milles Creek Site 5, Washita detention reservoir. D. A. 3,520 acres. Sediment pool 21. 0 A. , 162 A. D. Flood pool 134 A. , 1,049 A. R. , 3. 58 in. Completed Aug. 1949.

Photograph of seeding King Ranch bluestem with grass drill. Seedbed was prepared with 10 ft. offset disc and harvested after first light rain. This old field area had been used for annual lespedeza pasture prior to the droughts of 1952 and 1953. John Bullman on tractor.

Photograph of arial view of floodwater diverstion and drop inlet equipped sediment trap (pond) protects fertile bottomlands.

Photograph of drop inlet type structure with flood water diversion for sediment control. Drainage area 50 acres. Flood water and sediment from te badly gullied area is brought into the pont (#113) by floodwater diversion from the left. Here the sediment is trapped in the pond and the clear water is drawn off the top 3 ft. (of the pond) through a 15" drop inlet type of metal pipe. Additional work above the diversion was done by enthusiastic farmers. Property line (trees) runs through pond.

Photograph of 1600' long dam. It has a maximum height of 39' and contains 104,500 cu. yards. It is one of 24 planned reservoirs for the Mill Creek system. In addition to reducing the floods on the main stem of Mill Creek it gives 100% protection to the alfalfa field shown in Okla. -9863C.

Photograph of aerial view of protected bottomland below Site 17, Mill Creek.

Photograph of aerial view of bottom land alfalfa just below site 15, Mill Creek. Two years ago Colvert Bros. lost 1,000 bales of alfalfa in one flood. This alfalfa is approximately 1 foot high and ready for cutting. You can see the scour channels in alfalfa, evidence of frequent overflow and damage in the past.