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Mineral Resources of Alaska: Report on Progress of Investigations in 1934
A report about the potentials and resources available in regards to Alaska's mineral industry.
Date:
1936
Creator:
Smith, Philip S.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Crazy Radio Theatre
According to A. F. Weaver, in his book "Time was in Mineral Wells", the Crazy Radio Theatre broadcast from the lobby of the Crazy Hotel in Mineral Wells over the Texas Quality Network. The show's origin is said to be the selling of "Crazy Water Crystals." Identified are Hal Collins (Manager of the Crazy Hotel), Paul, Ludy, Dick, Jake, Slim. [No last names are given.] Please note the early 12-string steel guitar held by Paul.
Date:
1933?
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Grande Courts Tourist Apartments
A tourist court, built about 1930 by Charlie E. Turner, Harold Dennis, and Clarence Hunt is depicted here. It was located in the 1000 block of West Hubbard Street. Grande [pronounced "Grand-dee"--at least in Mineral Wells] Courts was a national chain of franchise motels. This picture appears in A.F. Weaver's book, "TIME WAS in Mineral Wells", second edition, page 99. The sign reads "Grande Courts Tourist Apts."
Date:
1930?
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[A Crazy Hotel Brochure]
This photograph illustrates a fold-out brochure of the Crazy Hotel with various scenic views of things to see and do around the city, along with different modes of transportation to and from Mineral Wells.
Date:
1930?
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Geology and Mineral Resources of the Butler and Zelienople Quadrangles, Pennsylvania
From abstract: This report is one of a series of publications on the geology and mineral resources of the Appalachian Plateaus. The areas described are the Butler and Zelienople quadrangles, which together include about 450 square miles in Butler, Beaver, and Lawrence Counties, western Pennsylvania.
Date:
1936
Creator:
Richardson, G. B.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Geology and Mineral Resources of the Western Part of the Arkansas Coal Field
From introduction: This report describes the mineral resources of the western part of the Arkansas coal field and considers the features of geologic structure and stratigraphy that are essential to an understanding of the nature of occurrence of the mineral resources. The area is an irregular-shaped tract of about 1,100 square miles in Scott, Sebastian, Crawford, Franklin, and Logan Counties, in west-central Arkansas.
Date:
1937
Creator:
Hendricks, T. A. & Parks, Bryan
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Geology and Mineral Resources of North-Central Chouteau, Western Hill, and Eastern Liberty Counties, Montana
From abstract: This report describes a rectangular area of about 2,600 square miles in Chouteau, Hill, and Liberty Counties, Mont., adjacent to the international boundary. The area is a portion of the Missouri Plateau, a section of the Great Plains province, and lies between the Highwood Mountains, Bearpaw Mountains, and Sweetgrass Hills, of north-central Montana. The southern part of the area is drained by the Missouri River and its tributary Marias River, but the northern part is drained by the Milk River. These streams are trenched in narrow valleys several hundred feet deep. The land surface between them is a rolling plain interrupted by very broad, shallow valleys that probably were eroded during the Pleistocene epoch by large streams whose courses were doubtless diverted from time to time by the continental glaciers. These valleys are now occupied only by very small creeks.
Date:
1937
Creator:
Pierce, William Gamewell & Hunt, Charles B.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Mineral Deposits Near the West Fork of the Chulitna River Alaska
From abstract: The area in the vicinity of the West Fork of the Chulitna River, Alaska, one of those examined in 1931 in connection with the study of mineral resources in districts tributary to the Alaska Railroad, contains numerous prospects but, as yet, no productive mines. Its placer deposits are negligible but some of its lodes may prove valuable for gold and silver and perhaps also for copper and arsenic.
Date:
1933
Creator:
Ross, Clyde P.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Moose Pass-Hope District, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska
This report provides and in-depth description of the Moose Pass-Hope District in Alaska, including on overview of the general area, physical geology, and economic geology.
Date:
1933
Creator:
Tuck, Ralph
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[The Milling Sanatorium]
Dr. H. H. Milling was the first of Mineral Wells' "rubbin' doctors." He operated the Mineral Wells Sanatorium at 315 NW 1st Avenue before building this sanitarium in the 2500 block of SE 6th Avenue - the old Millsap Highway) about 1929. The building was later sold and renamed Irvine Sanitarium. It now [2010] belongs to the Veterans of Foreign Wars, is located at 1400 SE VFW Highway (a branch of SE 6th Avenue), and houses VFW Post 2399. Dr. Milling also owned 60 acres on Pollard Creek in north Mineral Wells that were donated to the state of Texas to use as a State Park, which became SP8. During the Great Depression of the 1930's, the WPA and the CCC made several additions to that park to improve its recreational value: Bridges, a small dam, steps up the mountain, restrooms, etc., all using native sandstone. When Milling Park was determined by the state to be surplus property, it was deeded to the city and later renamed North City Park.
Date:
1935?
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Geology and Mineral Resources of the Baker Quadrangle, Oregon
From abstract: This report presents the results of a rather complete reconnaissance of the Baker quadrangle, Oregon, carried out during brief studies of some mining districts in and near the area.
Date:
1937
Creator:
Gilluly, James
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[1935 An Income Tax Return for Boyce Ditto]
An individual U.S. income tax return for Boyce Ditto for 1935. (Boyce Ditto's Last Will and Testament contained a bequest of money to build the current Mineral Wells Library, which bears his name.)
Date:
February 20, 1936
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Mount Eielson District Alaska
From abstract: The Mount Eielson district lies in south-central Alaska, on the north side of the Alaska Range, about 30 miles east of Mount McKinley. The most widely distributed rocks of the district include a thick series of thin-bedded limestone, calcareous shale, and graywacke of Paleozoic, probably Devonian, age. These sediments are cut by a mass of granodiorite which forms most of Mount Eielson and which was intruded probably in late Mesozoic time. The intrusive has sent a multitude of dikes and sills into the associated sediments.
Date:
1933
Creator:
Reed, John C.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Lode Deposits of the Fairbanks District, Alaska
From abstract: To help the mining industry of Alaska and to assist in the development of the mineral resources of the Territory have been the prime motives of the Geological Survey's investigations in Alaska during the past 35 years, in which nearly one half of the Territory has been covered by its reconnaissance and exploratory surveys. It was natural, therefore, that the Alaska Railroad, when it undertook intensive consideration of the problem of finding tonnage that would increase its revenues, should look to the Geological Survey to supply technical information as to the known mineral deposits along its route and to indicate what might be done to stimulate a larger production of minerals and induce further mining developments and prospecting that would utilize its service.
Date:
1933
Creator:
Hill, James M.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Sewerage Disposal Plant
Mineral Wells' Sewerage Disposal Plant was built on the site of the former Elmhurst Park on Pollard Creek, approximately 2 miles SSW of the city. The city obtained the park property, and built the sewerage treatment plant during the recovery from the Great Depression of the 1930's. Shown here is a photograph of a clipping from a newspaper.
Date:
1930?/1939?
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Crazy Fiz]
Products were developed to satisfy the public's search for health during the heyday of the Mineral Wells Health Industry. One of these was Crazy Fiz. Carbon dioxide was infused into mineral water under pressure to create a "Sparkling water" drink labeled "Crazy Fiz." The women in this photograph of the Crazy Water Crystal plant are packaging the Crazy Fiz for distribution. On the back of the photograph is printed "Crazy Fiz 1930's."
Date:
1930/1939
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Drinking Pavilion in the Crazy Hotel]
A caption on the back of the photograph states, "This picture, taken in the 1930's, shows the drinking pavilion in the [lacuna] Crazy Hotel." It was on the south wall of the hotel that the pavilion was located. It featured black marble counter-tops, and a small red tile roof. Servers wore white uniforms, and a machine sterilized each used glass. The price of a glass was set at five cents. The pavilion was operated for several years by Mr. Boyce Ditto, after whom the public library is named. Recognizable are N.E. Adams, last on the right, standing reading a newspaper; and Mrs. Veale, mother of Cecil Young, seated on left. Many people came to Mineral Wells to bathe and to "Drink their way to health" at the many wells and pavilions that catered to the public. This drinking pavilion is still extant, just off the lobby of the "Crazy" (now [2008] a retirement home), but it no longer dispenses mineral water.
Date:
1930/1939
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Oil, Gas and Mineral Lease: C. C. and Ruth Cox to Navarro Oil Company, February 15, 1934]
An unsigned copy of a mineral rights lease between C. C. Cox and wife Ruth, and the Navarro Oil Company, including details of the plot leased and its conditions. Envelope is included.
Date:
February 15, 1934
Creator:
Cox, Charles Claiborne & Cox, Ruth
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Iron Oxide Mineral Pigments of the United States
From Summary: "This report reviews the occurrence of mineral pigments and allied iron ores and the nomenclature and common methods of classifying and testing many commercial mineral pigments used in this country."
Date:
1933
Creator:
Wilson, Hewitt
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Sewing Room
The back of the photograph exhibits a note that this picture was copied from the "Burro", which is the Mineral Wells High School yearbook. The "Sewing Room" was a classroom in the Lillian Peek Home Economics building on the grounds of the high school. The Lillian Peek cottage was built by the WPA in 1937, and was the first free- standing house built specifically for Home Economics education in the State of Texas. It was "Current state of the art" when it was completed. The building now [2008] houses the Creative Arts Center, and is used by the local Art Club as an art workshop and museum.
Date:
1937?
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mineral Industries Survey of the United States: California, Kern County, Mojave District: The Golden Queen and other Mines of the Mojave District, California
Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines discussing the mineral production of mines in Kern County, California. Mining and milling methods of these mines are presented. This report includes tables, maps, illustrations, and photographs.
Date:
January 1937
Creator:
Julihn, C. E. & Horton, F. W.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Geology of Big Horn County and the Crow Indian Reservation, Montana: with Special Reference to the Water, Coal, Oil and Gas Resources
From introduction: This report contains information concerning the geology of Big Horn County and the Crow Indian Reservation and their resources in ground water, coal, oil, and gas. These facts were collected in the course of studies for about a dozen field projects, which ranged in character from reconnaissance studies of large areas to very detailed mapping of certain tracts to show the occurrence of oil and gas. Consequently, the information at hand, either as to the geology or the resources, is not equally complete and definite for all parts.
Date:
1935
Creator:
Thom, W. T., Jr.; Hall, George Martin; Wegemann, Carroll H. & Moulton, G. F.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Bureau of Mines Multiple-Diaphragm Recording Subsurface-Pressure Gage
Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines on the measuring of temperature and pressure in oil and gas wells. Descriptions of the instrumentation developed and used for these measurements are presented. This report includes tables, graphs, and illustrations.
Date:
November 1935
Creator:
Berwald, W. B.; Buss, H. A. & Reistle, C. E., Jr.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Contact Mining District, Nevada
From abstract: This report summarizes the results of a reexamination, in 1930, of the Contact mining district, in Elko County, northern Nevada. A report published as a result of a visit in 1910 summarizes the major features of the geology of the district, and the principal new data in the present paper pertain to mining development occasioned by the completion of a railroad through the camp in 1925.
Date:
1935
Creator:
Schrader, Frank C.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library