[Mathews-Powell House]

Photograph of the Mathews-Powell House (located at Miller Street) in Queen City, Texas.
Date: 1880
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
Saw Mill Dog. (open access)

Saw Mill Dog.

Patent for a new and improved saw mill dog. This design "is an improvement in the class of dogging apparatus which is affixed to one of the knees of a head-block of the log-carriage" (lines 8-11). The improvement consists in the combination and arrangement of parts, specifically "the notched dog and adjustable slotted drop-catch with the slotted moveable dog-bar and base-stand" (lines 77-79).
Date: November 2, 1880
Creator: Wickham, William J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History