Petroleum-Engineering Study of the Lake Creek Field, Montgomery County, Texas (open access)

Petroleum-Engineering Study of the Lake Creek Field, Montgomery County, Texas

Report issued by the Bureau of Mines over petroleum-engineering studies conducted at the Lake Creek field. As stated in the introduction, "this report is an engineering analysis of the reservoirs in the Lake Creek field and includes estimates of the initial volume of gas and the recoverable hydrocarbon liquid and oil" (p. 5). This report includes tables, maps, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: November 1948
Creator: Hill, Harry Blackburn & Vogel, Felix A., Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Regional Water Plan: Region H, 2016, Volume 1. Main Report (open access)

Regional Water Plan: Region H, 2016, Volume 1. Main Report

Water plan for Region H describing water resources and suppliers in the area, usage statistics and forecasts, water needs, water management strategies, water conservation methods, drought response plans, financing methods, and the process of creation of the plan.
Date: November 2015
Creator: Region H Water Planning Group
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ground-Water Resources of Montgomery County, Texas (open access)

Ground-Water Resources of Montgomery County, Texas

Report on the ground water in Montgomery County contained in sands of the Catahoula Standstone, lower part of the Jasper aquifer, Burkeville aquiclude, Evangeline aquifer, and Chicot aquifer.
Date: November 1971
Creator: Popkin, Barney P.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Records of Wells, Drillers' Logs, Water-Level Measurements, and Chemical Analyses of Ground Water in Chambers, Liberty, and Montgomery Counties, Texas, 1980-84 (open access)

Records of Wells, Drillers' Logs, Water-Level Measurements, and Chemical Analyses of Ground Water in Chambers, Liberty, and Montgomery Counties, Texas, 1980-84

"This report presents the results of the hydrologic data collection on new large-capacity and other selected wells, including well location and completion data, driller's logs of the strata penetrated, water levels, and chemical quality of the produced water" (p. v).
Date: November 1987
Creator: Williams, James F., III; Coplin, L. S.; Ranzau, C. E., Jr. & Lind, W. B.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Groundwater Resources of Montgomery County, Texas (open access)

Groundwater Resources of Montgomery County, Texas

Report on the groundwater resources in Montgomery County, Texas. The report explores the size of aquifers, quality of the water in the various aquifers, and the possible effects of the groundwater becoming a commercial water source.
Date: November 1971
Creator: Popkin, Barney P.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Weed-Turning Attachment for Plows. (open access)

Weed-Turning Attachment for Plows.

Patent for a weed turning attachment for plows, which is adjustable to different size weeds.
Date: November 23, 1909
Creator: Baxter, Thomas J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Grinding-Mills. (open access)

Improvement in Grinding-Mills.

Patent for an improvement in grinding mills which purports to save time.
Date: November 15, 1870
Creator: Westmoreland, Joseph M.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Supporting-Shelf. (open access)

Supporting-Shelf.

Patent for a supporting shelf specifically for clocks. The supporting shelf keeps the clock balanced.
Date: November 3, 1914
Creator: McDonald, John A..
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Stove-Damper. (open access)

Stove-Damper.

Patent for stove-damper by using “a damper-valve which not only subserves the usuall function of an ordinary cooking-stove damper which works over the smoke-exit flue, but also acts as a draft regulating device to provide for regulating the draft the damper is thrown to a closed position.” (Lines 19-26) Illustration is included.
Date: November 27, 1900
Creator: Witcher, John C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Brick-Machines. (open access)

Improvement in Brick-Machines.

Patent for an improvement brick machines that includes "an endless chain of molds at the bottom of the press box [...] in combination with a pressing plate and a cut-off plate" (lines 18-22).
Date: November 2, 1875
Creator: Fisher, Charles N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Method of Baling Cotton. (open access)

Method of Baling Cotton.

Patent for a new and improved method of baling cotton. This design "is to gin, condense, and bale the cotton in one continuous operation and to so effectually reduce the size of the resulting bale of cotton in this first, original, initial process as to make it of suitable dimensions and density for market or transportation by rail or sea to final destination" (lines 13-19). It consists "in compressing the same in the form of a continuous sheet, lapping said sheet before it has time to expand in the form of a bale, and subsequently applying pressure to expel the air from between the layers" (lines 29-33).
Date: November 18, 1890
Creator: Rembert, Henry
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History