Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "John Raymond Symcox, Norman, President of City National Bank, Norman, President of Farmers National Bank, Cordell"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The story is another keepsake for Mrs. Millie Sturgeon to put away and "look at when I get old."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mrs. George Strobel of Foss, Okla... . craft and home projects fill lonely hours since the death of her 60-year-old railroad worker husband, George, who was killed in an accident on the job."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Wright, of Cordell, will observe their 60th wedding anniversary Monday."

Photograph of an UNIDENTIFIED man standing on a bridge, next to flood damage on Bear Creek, near valley section 2.

Photograph of an UNIDENTIFIED man standing on a bridge, next to flood damage on Bear Creek, near valley section 2.

Photograph of irrigated cotton. Cotton irrigated with water stored in Site 28, Calvary watershed. Small siphon tubes are used because of short runs. Bob Wright, watershed Conservationist, is in the picture. OK-1443-9.

Photograph of irrigated cotton. Cotton irrigated with water stored in Site 28, Calvary watershed. Small siphon tubes are used because of short runs. Bob Wright, watershed Conservationist, is in the picture. OK-1443-9.

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Cordell Christian home, first home for the elderly to be financed and built under the Federal HousingAct of 1959, will open January 1 if all goes well."

Photograph of pipe discharge. View of alfalfa field below Site 26, Calvary watershed after flood storage had discharged through this field 8 days following an 8 inch rain above this site on the morning of August 19, 1961. This field and other fileds downstream have been protected from scour and siltation. OK-1438-12.

Photograph of the principal spillway, Site # 26, Cavalry Creek. View of the permanent pool area afte the water has drawn down from the flood after an 8 inch rain occurred above this site on August 19, 1961. OK-1438-11.

Photograph of a pasture of Midland Bermudagrass above Site 27, Cavalry Watershed. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Midland Bermuda Grass pasture above Site 27, Cavalry Watershed. Grass grows well up to the water line and eliminates and boggy problems."

Photograph of flood storage. Flood storage in Site # 25, Calvary Watershed. This site has a drainage area of 640 acres, 158 acre-feet of floodwater storage and 18 inches outfall pipe. An 8 inch rain occurred above this site on the morning of August 19, 1961. The storage water level was approximately 3 feet below emergency spillway crest. No flooding or scouring occurred below this site. OK-1438-10.

Photograph of pier discharge. A view of alfalfa fields below Site 26 while the pipe is discharging. The structure above the field has a large storage of water because of 8 inches of rain that occurred on August 19, 1961. OK-1438-5.

Photograph of grassed channel, Site 29, Cavalry Watershed above this channel has approximately 117 acre-feet of water stored from an 8 inch rain that fell on Aug. 19, 1961. Water is being discharged slowly through the outfall pipe into the grassed channel of midland Bermuda grass, below. The grassed channel provides good drainage at all times and there is no scour or sediment drainage. OK-1438-2.

Photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph javarsky and Mr. and Mrs. Ken Javarsky are plowing terraced land on the contour. Terraces spill into alfalfa waterway in left background. Waterway produced 400 bales of hay on most recent cutting. Javarsky says with hydraulic equipment very few problems are encountered in plowing the land.

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "First Washita County courthouse stood on this lot in Cloud Chief."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The water tower at Colony was built of bricks made by Indians who went there with John Seger. In the right background is the original Indian School."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Cordell Memorial Hospital is one of two in Washita County. The other one is at Sentinel."

Photograph taken for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Largest wheat elevator in Washita is at Bessie, north of Cordell."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This new First State Bank and postoffice building was opened at Canute this year."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Largest Mennonite Brethren Church in the United States stands at Corn on the same site a dugout was used for the first services."

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "The original home of the superintendent of the Colony Indian School and community now houses the superintendant of the Colony public schools."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "The Washita County courthouse at Cordell is a landmark in western Oklahoma."