Photograph of the John Briscoe Ranch, part of the 70 acre old cultivated field retired and planted to little bluestem, buffalo, switch, Indian and blue-green grasses about the 1st of March 1945. Mixture was seeded at a rate of approximately 12 pounds per acre. This 10 acres was seeded for permannet pasture on clean cotton land. Yield is estimated to be 30 to 35 pounds combined material per acre. Briscoe retired 135 acres last year on this farm and 65 acres on another farm he owns. Next year he plans to plant 20 additional acres of bluestem on a field no win rye and vetch. Driving the tractor is Curtis Hudson, coopeator, one mile east of Geary, while his brother, Dillard, rides the combine. OK-9260.

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Roman Nose State Park"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Right, the concrete swimming pool in the floor of the canyon is surrounded by native timber, including red cedar, black walnut and cottonwood."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This huge steel ad concrete bust of Chief Roman Nose, Cheyenne Indian, who lived in the canyon near Watonga, marks the entrance to Roman Nose State Park."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Roman Nose State Park swimming pool, Phyllis Scott, and Glen Robinson Study for exams."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Roman Nose State Park"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Below right, cabins in the park overlook the boating lake in the floor of the canyon."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Below, Phyllis Scott relaxes and cools her feet in the stream from "Big Spring" that feeds the park area."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "George Walker of Geary, left, Oklahoma A&M 165 pound wrester, tries hip block on teammate Wayne Flesner, Stillwater as the pair prepares for entry in 1946 state Amateur Athletic Union tournament opening here Friday at the local YMCA."

Photograph of the W.K.Y. watershed. Aerial view of a gullied, natural draw to be controlled by diversion of runoff, sloping and sodding. Field in the lower left will be terraced with outlets onto native grass pasture. The pond is to be constructed near the lower end of the gullied draw. See OK-9112, -9113 and -9119). OK-9114.

Photograph of a former gullied area in a natural drain running through a cultivated field. The gully has been plowed in, banks leveled and with the field terraced. Note the terrace fills (in the background) where terraces cross the drain. The old gully was approximately 4 feet deep and could not be crossed with tillage implements. The field will be contour cultivated and a conservation crop rotation will be followed. Clarence E. Bunch, Soil Conservation Service [SCS] technician, in the photo. Camera station # 7. In cultivated field at the south bank of the gully, looking north, 20 feet north of the idle land area. OK-9047-9[?].

Application for Homestead Tax Exemption from Elva Ferguson in Watonga, OK School District 42, Block 124, Lots 1-6, signed by Elva Ferguson and Deputy County Assessor Melrose Bouher

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Work is going for ward once more on the Canton dam on the North Canadian river about 75 miles northwest of Oklahoma City."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper.