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Disking New Land

Description: Photograph of Pat Martin farm in Valliant district. Herschel Ginn is disking new land with heavy disk. Martin says the disk cuts stove wood as it prepares corn land.
Date: April 19, 1956
Creator: Hayes, E. J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

H. C. Walker, LRSCD Board Member

Description: Photograph of H. C. Walker, LRSCD Board Member, riding a horse. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Board Member since 1939. Old time cowboy and stockman. Saw first train to Idabel. Attends state and national soil conservation meetings regularly. Ate a rare steak in Omaha but remarked "I've had 'em get well hurt nor worse than this." Walker lives alone except for horse and sheep and cattle."
Date: July 19, 1956
Creator: Hayes, Earl
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

H.C. Walker

Description: Photograph of H.C. Walker sitting outside on the horse. He was a long time board member of Little River Soil Conservation district. He was an old time cowboy and stockman.
Date: June 19, 1956
Creator: Hayes, Earl J.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Land Conservation, Management and Utilization

Description: Photograph of harvest cutting. It takes good logs to make good homes. To keep this mill operating continuously the Stauter Lumber Company buys logs from the McCurtain County Land Utilization [LU] Project formerly administered by the Soil Conservation Service. Increased timber volume enabled this mill to employ 85 people where none worked before. OK-315-12.
Date: July 19, 1956
Creator: Hayes, Earl J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Trees, Tree Farms, Woodlands, and Forests

Description: Photograph of Alvin Howard, Forest Service [FS] representative at Idabel, Oklahoma, measuring the circumference of a pine tree. "This pine tree would bring $65.00 based on recent bid sales," he says. The diameter tape tells Howard this tree is 31 inches across or diameter at breast height [dbh]. It is 80 feet high. The Soil Conservation Service administered this land for 16 years. OK-243-10.
Date: April 19, 1956
Creator: Hayes, Earl J.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Idabel CCC Camp Grinding Limestone/Ardmore Project/Idabel Camp

Description: Photograph of five UNIDENTIFED Idabel CCC workers using a rock crusher to grind limestone for fertilizer on fields of Soil Conservation Service cooperators. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Rock crusher operated by the Idabel CCC camp grinding lime to be used as fertilizer on fields of Soil Conservation Service cooperators. The limestone at this place contains a percentage of moisture which permits its being ground without dust."
Date: March 19, 1937
Creator: Hufnagle
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grinding Lime

Description: Photograph of a rock crusher operated by the Idabel CCC camp grinding lime to be used as fertilizer on fields of Soil Conservation Service Cooperators. The limestone at this place contains a percentage of moisture which permits its being ground without dust.
Date: March 19, 1937
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Rock Crusher Grinding Lime

Description: Photograph of a rock crusher operated by the Idabel CCC camp grinding lime to be used as fertilizer on fields of Soil Conservation Service Cooperators. The limestone at this place contains a percentage of moisture which permits its being ground without dust.
Date: March 19, 1937
Creator: Hufnagle, Richard W.
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Rock

Description: Photograph of a small economical loose rock, Ardmore District, Idabel Camp, Idabel, OK.
Date: January 19, 1936
Creator: Slack, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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