Reservoir Characteristics of the Eunice Oil Field, Lea County, New Mexico (open access)

Reservoir Characteristics of the Eunice Oil Field, Lea County, New Mexico

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines on the oil and gas production of the Eunice oil field in southeastern New Mexico. Properties of the oil field, and analysis of the oil and gas produced are presented. This report includes tables, maps, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: July 1939
Creator: Anderson, C. C.; Hinson, H. H. & Schroeder, H. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mammals of New Mexico (open access)

Mammals of New Mexico

Summary of the species of mammals native to New Mexico, including a map of the life zones, descriptions of the physiographic features, and lists of characteristic zone-marking plants, birds, mammals.
Date: December 1931
Creator: Bailey, Vernon
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Petroleum Engineering Report, Big Spring Field and Other Fields in West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico (open access)

Petroleum Engineering Report, Big Spring Field and Other Fields in West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico

Report issued by the Bureau of Mines over petroleum engineering studies conducted in Texas and New Mexico. The results of the studies are presented and discussed. This report includes tables, maps, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: November 1936
Creator: Carpenter, Charles B. & Hill, Harry Blackburn
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preventing Soil Blowing on the Southern Great Plains (open access)

Preventing Soil Blowing on the Southern Great Plains

"Soil blowing is often a serious problem from December to May [in the Southern Great Plains], when the soil is, in many cases, bare and winds are high. This period is often referred to as the 'blow season.' The whole art of preventing and controlling soil blowing consists in keeping nonblowing materials on the surface. These may be crops, crop residues, or clods. When crops are absent, the essential feature in preventing soil blowing is the use of implements that lift clods and other nonblowing materials to the surface rather than implements that pulverize or destroy them.... Since tillage is dependent on implements, it seems of first importance to consider the implements that may be used to discuss their merits and shortcomings in relation to soil blowing.... From the general principles stated and the specific examples of implement use given, most farmers can probably decide on the correct applications for their farms." -- p. 1-3
Date: 1937
Creator: Chilcott, E. F. (Ellery Franklin), 1885-
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geology and Fuel Resources of the Southern Part of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico: Part 3. The La Ventana-Chacra Mesa Coal Field (open access)

Geology and Fuel Resources of the Southern Part of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico: Part 3. The La Ventana-Chacra Mesa Coal Field

From abstract: This report describes the geology and coal deposits of an area including about 1,000 square miles in southeastern San Juan, northwestern Sandoval, and northeastern McKinley Counties, in northwestern New Mexico.
Date: 1936
Creator: Dane, Carle H.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Strawberry Culture: Western United States (open access)

Strawberry Culture: Western United States

Revised edition. "This bulletin applies both to the western portions of the United States in which ordinary farm crops are grown largely under irrigation and to western Oregon and Washington where irrigation is not essential for strawberry production but may be profitable. It describes methods practiced in the more important commercial strawberry-growing districts of the West; it aims to aid those persons familiar only with local and perhaps unsatisfactory methods, as well as inexperienced prospective growers. The fundamental principles of the irrigation of strawberries are substantially the same as those of irrigating other crops. Details must necessarily be governed largely by the character of the crop grown. Since strawberries in the humid areas frequently suffer from drought which causes heavy losses in the developing fruit, the information may prove suggestive to many growers in those areas who could install irrigation systems at small expense. This bulletin gives information on soils and their preparation, different training systems, propagation, planting, culture, the leading varieties, harvesting, shipping, and utilization." -- p. ii
Date: 1933
Creator: Darrow, George M. (George McMillan), 1889-
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Safety Cars of the United States Bureau of Mines (open access)

Safety Cars of the United States Bureau of Mines

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines discussing the mine stations and safety cars used to reach miners in distress. As stated in the report, "the purpose, equipment, personnel, and construction of its safety cars" is presented. This report includes an illustration, and a map.
Date: March 1931
Creator: Forbes, J. J. & Ankeny, M. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

El Paso Gap Quadrangle

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:48000
Date: 1936
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Native and Adapted Grasses for Conservation of Soil and Moisture in the Great Plains and Western States (open access)

Native and Adapted Grasses for Conservation of Soil and Moisture in the Great Plains and Western States

"The information given in this bulletin should enable farmers in the Great Plains and Western States to select from the more common species of grasses some one or more suited to their needs [for soil and water conservation]. Common harvesting equipment and farm machinery can be adapted to the proper handling of native grasses. This brings the cost of such work within the means of most farmers." -- p. i. Among the grasses discussed are wheatgrass, buffalo grass, bluestem, grama, Bermuda grass, wild rye, hilaria, Sudan grass, bluegrass, panic grasses, dropseed, and needlegrass.
Date: 1939
Creator: Hoover, Max M. (Max Manley), 1895-
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geology and Fuel Resources of the Southern Part of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico: Part 2. The Mount Taylor Coal Field (open access)

Geology and Fuel Resources of the Southern Part of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico: Part 2. The Mount Taylor Coal Field

From introduction: The present report describes the general geology and the economic resources of the [Mount Taylor Coal] field. The area adjoining this on the west was mapped by Sears; the area adjoining on the north was mapped by Dane.
Date: 1936
Creator: Hunt, Charles B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Crops Against the Wind on the Southern Great Plains (open access)

Crops Against the Wind on the Southern Great Plains

"This bulletin briefly traces the circumstances which have created the soil problems in the southern Great Plains and shows how the hand of man has hastened present troubles. But it goes further and deals with the methods now being used to solve the problem on nature's own terms." -- p. 2-3. Some of the solutions discussed include contour farming, terraces, water conservation techniques, crop lines, and revegetation.
Date: 1939
Creator: Rule, Glenn K. (Glenn Kenton), 1893-
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mineralogy of Drill Cores from the Potash Field of New Mexico and Texas (open access)

Mineralogy of Drill Cores from the Potash Field of New Mexico and Texas

From summary: This report details the survey of the potash field of southeastern New Mexico and adjacent parts of Texas. The material described in this report was obtained from drill cores and well cuttings.
Date: 1932
Creator: Schaller, Waldemar T. & Henderson, Edward P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geology and Fuel Resources of the Southern Part of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico: Part 1. The Coal Field From Gallup Eastward Towart Mount Taylor, with a Measured Section of Pre-Dakota(?) Rocks Near Navajo Church (open access)

Geology and Fuel Resources of the Southern Part of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico: Part 1. The Coal Field From Gallup Eastward Towart Mount Taylor, with a Measured Section of Pre-Dakota(?) Rocks Near Navajo Church

From abstract: The report describes the geology and coal deposits of the southwestern part of the San Juan Basin, N.Mex. The field lies northeast of the town of Gallup, on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, and is an irregular tract of about 630 square miles in central and west-central McKinley County; it includes the southeast corner of the Navajo Indian Reservation.
Date: 1934
Creator: Sears, Julian D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Geology of the Santa Rita Mining Area, New Mexico (open access)

Geology of the Santa Rita Mining Area, New Mexico

From abstract: The Santa Rita mining area (pl. 1), covering 35 square miles of semiarid mountainous land, lies within the Silver City 30-minute quadrangle, Grant County, N. Mex., and includes the most productive part of the Central or Hanover mining district. Ore was produced in this district as early as 1804 and production continued intermittently for a century before the developments were undertaken that led to large-scale copper mining, which began in 1912. The output of zinc, lead, and iron increased markedly about the same time.
Date: 1935
Creator: Spencer, Arthur C. & Paige, Sidney
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Canutillo Quadrangle

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:62500
Date: 1930
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Commercial Possibilities of the Texas-New Mexico Potash Deposits (open access)

Commercial Possibilities of the Texas-New Mexico Potash Deposits

From Introduction Results of Test: "Among the domestic potash resources which were brought to the attention of the country during and after the war but were not utilized as a source of potash, although they indicated that they might furnish the cheap potash desired, were the potash deposits occurring with the think rock-salt formations of western Texas and southeastern New Mexico."
Date: 1930
Creator: Wroth, James S.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
United States Earthquakes, 1938 (open access)

United States Earthquakes, 1938

Report discussing earthquake activity in the United States during 1938. The report is broken down by regions and has sections for specific earthquakes.
Date: 1938
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library