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[Letter from Edward S. Arentz to Mr. Sayles, November 24, 1939 (open access)

[Letter from Edward S. Arentz to Mr. Sayles, November 24, 1939

Letter from Edward S. Arentz to Mr. Sayles informing Sayles that an unknown document wasn't included in the previous letter because it was a holiday. There is a handwritten note at the bottom of the letter, "Should have quick claim from H. C. Hendrick or complete [..] off.d."
Date: November 24, 1939
Creator: Arentz, Edward S.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from R. F. Rood to Sayles and Sayles, November 23, 1939] (open access)

[Letter from R. F. Rood to Sayles and Sayles, November 23, 1939]

Letter from R. F. Rood to Sayles and Sayles discussing the estate of Herman P. Faris.
Date: November 23, 1939
Creator: Rood, R. F.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Jack Sayles to J. W. Glahn, November 2, 1939] (open access)

[Letter from Jack Sayles to J. W. Glahn, November 2, 1939]

Letter from Jack Sayles to J. W. Glahn discussing requirement sheets and abstracts for several properties covered by oil and gas leases held by the Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Company. The notegram is copied to C. F. Rayburn.
Date: November 2, 1939
Creator: Sayles, Jack
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from R. F. Rood to Sayles and Sayles, October 27, 1939] (open access)

[Letter from R. F. Rood to Sayles and Sayles, October 27, 1939]

Letter from R. F. Rood to Sayles and Sayles discussing abstracts and other documents relating to an oil and gas lease to the Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Company from Robert Bruce Wiggins, Ruth Wiggins, Thomas Darrel Wiggins, and Sarah Wiggins in Hemphill County, Texas.
Date: October 27, 1939
Creator: Rood, R. F.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Jack Sayles to J. W. Glahn, October 23, 1939] (open access)

[Letter from Jack Sayles to J. W. Glahn, October 23, 1939]

Letter from Jack Sayles to J. W. Glahn, copied to F. F. Claunts, discussing the purchase of land in Hemphill County and the required documentation of the purchase.
Date: October 23, 1939
Creator: Sayles, Jack
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter From R. F. Rood to Sayles & Sayles, October 18, 1939] (open access)

[Letter From R. F. Rood to Sayles & Sayles, October 18, 1939]

Letter from R. F. Rood to Sayles & Sayles discussing documents related to the Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Company's Webb, Vollmert, Miller, and Johnson leases. The letter is on the letterhead of the Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Company.
Date: October 18, 1939
Creator: Rood, R. F.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Donald Prentice to Sayles & Sayles, February 18, 1939] (open access)

[Letter from Donald Prentice to Sayles & Sayles, February 18, 1939]

Letter from Donald Prentice to Sayles & Sayles discussing a payment to Johnnie White for his expenses relating to the case, W. O. Rainwater vs. Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Company.
Date: February 18, 1939
Creator: Prentice, Donald
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

Clara 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 1:31680
Date: 1939
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
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
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
Sand-Dune Reclamation in the Southern Great Plains (open access)

Sand-Dune Reclamation in the Southern Great Plains

"Among the most striking manifestations of the destruction of soils and crops by the windstorms of recent years are the gigantic sand dunes that have formed on some of the lighter soils of the Great Plains. Specialists of the Soil Conservation Service who were assigned to a study of the problem have been successful in devising methods by which these immense piles of sand, which have covered cultivated lands and good native sod, can be leveled and stabilized. Of still greater value to the farmers and ranchers in areas subject to this soil shifting are the methods of cultivation and land use that recent study and experiments have revealed as the best means of protection against the formation of dunes. This bulletin is written for the benefit of those farmers and ranchers who are faced with the problem of protecting their lands against possible damage from dune formation of with the more immediate problem of restoring lands that have been made temporarily useless by the invasion of these monstrous wind-blown piles of sand." -- p. i
Date: 1939
Creator: Whitfield, Charles J. & Perrin, John A.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Cause No. 4035: Answers and Depositions of E. Williams and C. C. Chinn] (open access)

[Cause No. 4035: Answers and Depositions of E. Williams and C. C. Chinn]

Document in the cause no. 4035, W. O. Rainwater et al. vs. Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Company, containing E. Williams' and C. C. Chinn's answers to prepared questions by the plaintiff's and defendant's attorneys. The document is unsigned.
Date: October 11, 1938
Creator: Chinn, C. C. & Williams, E.
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Subpoena for V. Robert Kerr, E. Williams, and C. C. Chinn] (open access)

[Subpoena for V. Robert Kerr, E. Williams, and C. C. Chinn]

Subpoena requiring V. Robert Kerr, E. Williams, and C. C. Chinn to appear in court to provide testimony in the cause, W. O. Rainwater vs. Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Company.
Date: September 1938
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Soil Defense in the South (open access)

Soil Defense in the South

"This bulletin describes farming practices that conserve soil, and how such practices may be applied to farms in a large part of the South. Its scope is limited to that part of the Cotton Belt extending west from the Georgia-Alabama line to central Texas and southern Oklahoma." -- p. i.
Date: 1938
Creator: Rowalt, E. M.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from H. M. Sapp to Mr. Kempner, May 6, 1937] (open access)

[Letter from H. M. Sapp to Mr. Kempner, May 6, 1937]

Letter from H. M. Sapp to "H. Kempner" regarding the state and cost of repairing the Walters, Oklahoma Cotton County property.
Date: May 6, 1937
Creator: Sapp, H. M.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History

Addington Sheet

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 1:125000
Date: 1937
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
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

Map showing Cattle Trails as used from 1866 to 1895

Map of the cattle trails throughout Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, and Texas, used to travel northward to markets and shipping points. The map also includes state boundaries, major towns, bodies of water, and areas of elevation. Relief shown in hachures. No scale indicated.
Date: 1935
Creator: Loveless, A. C. & Potter, Jack
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from H. J. Scott to Perry Sayles, August 29, 1934] (open access)

[Letter from H. J. Scott to Perry Sayles, August 29, 1934]

Letter from H. J. Scott to Perry Sayles discussing relocation of the Standard Savings and Loan Association from Oklahoma to Texas. He informs Sayles payment on his loan are in arrears and asks what his financial situation is.
Date: August 29, 1934
Creator: Scott, H. J.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Mineral Deed, Amos K. Bass to Perry Sayles] (open access)

[Mineral Deed, Amos K. Bass to Perry Sayles]

Mineral deed certifying the sale of a 3/512 interest in and to the oil, gas, and minerals in and under a tract of land in Eastland and Erath Counties, Texas from Amos K. Bass to Perry Sayles.
Date: August 12, 1933
Creator: Bass, Amos K.
Object Type: Legal Document
System: The Portal to Texas History

The Comanche Country, 1875

Military map of the Indian Territory in the Great Plains, showing Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Kansas. The map includes military trails and posts (abandoned and occupied). State lines, towns, railroads, bodies of water, and areas of elevation are also included. Towns enclosed in brackets were established after 1875. Relief shown in hachures.
Date: 1933
Creator: Riney, W. A.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

The Comanche Country and Adjacent Territory, 1840

Military map of the Comanche Indian Territory in the Great Plains, showing Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Kansas, Colorado, and Nebraska. The map includes military trails and posts (abandoned and occupied). State lines, towns, bodies of water, and areas of elevation are also shown. Towns enclosed in brackets were established after 1840. Relief shown in hachures.
Date: 1933
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

The Comanche Country and Adjacent Territory, 1860

Military map of the Comanche Indian Territory in the Great Plains, showing Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Kansas, and Colorado. The map includes military trails and posts (abandoned and occupied). State lines, towns, bodies of water, and areas of elevation are also shown. Towns enclosed in brackets were established after 1860. Relief shown in hachures.
Date: 1933
Creator: Riney, W. A.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
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