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Wildhorse Watershed
Photograph of site 33, Wildhorse Watershed. C. J. Beavers, owner of this site, has sold $20,000 of water to oil companies for drilling purposes in last 2 1/2 years. He also watered neighbors' cattle from this site during drought years of '52, '53, and '54. This site was completed in 1950. Oil wells that were to be drilled in sediment pool were spaced on the edge of water and whipstocked under the pool.
Date:
September 27, 1955
Creator:
Graham, E. O.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Wildhorse Watershed
Photograph of site 33, Wildhorse Watershed. C. J. Beavers, owner of this site, has sold $20,000 of water to oil companies for drilling purposes in last 2 1/2 years. He also watered neighbors' cattle from this site during drought years of '52, '53, and '54. This site was completed in 1950. Oil wells in this field have a spacing of 10 acres each. Wells ther were to be drilled in sediment pool were spaced on the edge of water and whipstocked under the pool.
Date:
September 27, 1955
Creator:
Graham, E. O.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Wildhorse Watershed
Photograph of site 33, Wildhorse Watershed. C. J. Beavers, owner of this site, has sold $20,000 of water to oil companies for drilling purposes in last 2 1/2 years. He also watered neighbors' cattle from this site during drought years of '52, '53, and '54. This site was completed in 1950. Oil wells that were to be drilled in sediment pool were spaced on the edge of water and whipstocked under the pool. Note excellent feed below this stie. Mr. Beavers plans on growing alfalfa below this site and irrigating in the future.
Date:
September 27, 1955
Creator:
Graham, E. O.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Wildhorse Watershed
Photograph of site 33, Wildhorse Watershed. C. J. Beavers, owner of this site, has sold $20,000 of water to oil companies for drilling purposes in last 2 1/2 years. He also watered neighbors' cattle from this site during drought years of '52, '53, and '54. This site was completed in 1950. Oil wells that were to be drilled in sediment pool were spaced on the edge of water and whipstocked under the pool.
Date:
September 27, 1955
Creator:
Graham, E. O.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Site 33, Wildhorse Watershed
Photograph of an aerial shot of two UNIDENTIFED men standing outside of a gated area near Site 33, Wildhorse Watershed. This back description of this particular photograph is extremely faded and hard to read, but from what is salvageable, it proclaims, “Site 33, Wildhorse Watershed. [C. J. Weaver’s] owner of this site. Has sold $20,000 of water to oil companies for drilling purposes in the last 20 years. He also watered neighbors’ cattle from this site during drought years of ’52, 53’, and ’54. This site was completed in 1950. Oil wells were to be drilled in sediment pool were spaced on the edge of water and […] under the pool.”
Date:
September 27, 1955
Creator:
Graham, L. O.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention
Photograph of a fenced in farm pond with nearly completed dam. There is a pipe through the dam which will connect with the tank below for watering livestock. This pond drains 40 acres of grassland. OK-5744.
Date:
May 27, 1957
Creator:
Hufnagle, Richard W.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History