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Continuous Flow of Sandstone Creek
Photograph of Lee Roy Jones, Cheyenne, Okla. , rancher, looking at the water flowing in Sandstone Creek below stream guage No. 3. The creek has flowed continuously since November 1, 1954. In 1952, prior to the completion of the flood control program, the longest continuous flow was 88 days.
Date:
August 31, 1955
Creator:
Whittington, Fred L.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Farm Homes
Photograph of one of the new ranch homes built on the Sandstone-Creek watershed since the flood prevention program was established. Built in 1954 below Site 17. OK-142-1.
Date:
August 31, 1955
Creator:
Whittington, Fred
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control
Photograph of deep plowing for shinnery oak shrub control. This field is badly infested with shinnery oak, being 5 to 20 feet tall when it was deep plowed. The field was drug with cross ties; [unclear] and seeded to rye in the fall of 1957. 22 acres were deep plowed. Eighty five head of cattle were counted as grazing in the filed in March, 1958. OK-658-6.
Date:
March 31, 1958
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control
Photograph of deep plowing for shinnery oak control. The field was plowed 20 inches or deeper in August, 1957. It was seeded to rye in the fall without any seedbed preparation. Sudan or sorghum cover will be established in 1958. Climax native grasses will be seeded in 1959. OK-658-3.
Date:
March 31, 1958
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Land Clearance, Cultivation & Brush and Weed Control
Photograph of Jim Taylor, operator of the Newman-Taylor Ranch, is admiring the tall bluestem grass in one of his pastures. This pasture is being properly grazed and is above Site 17 Sandstone Watershed. Loamy prairie range site. 20 to 25 inch rainfall zone. The hills in the background are of the Red Shale Hill range site. OK-142-7.
Date:
August 31, 1955
Creator:
Whittington, Fred
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Photograph 2012.201.B0409.0985]
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A bust of an Indian warrior abandoned recently at the historic Washita Battlefield site near Cheyenne is valued at $10,000."
Date:
July 31, 1993
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Grain from Sandstone Creek Bottomland
Photograph of Jack Rhoton cutting grain sorghum from Sandstone Creek bottomland on O. L. Boggess farm. Sorghum will be put in trench silo. This is a portion of the 4,700 acres forerly overflowed by Sandstone Creek.
Date:
January 31, 1955
Creator:
Whittington, Fred L.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
New House on Sandstone Creek Watershed
Photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Fowler and daughter, Feye, in front of new ranch home recently built on Sandstone Creek watershed
Date:
August 31, 1955
Creator:
Whittington, Fred L.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Jim Taylor Home
Photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Taylor and son in front of fireplace in new home.
Date:
August 31, 1955
Creator:
Whittington, Fred L.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Pasture of Bluestem Grass
Photograph of Jim Taylor, operator of ranch, admiring the tall bluestem in one of his pastures. This pasture is being properly grazed and is above Site 17 Sandstone Watershed.
Date:
August 31, 1955
Creator:
Whittington, Fred L.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History