San Antonio River Authority Annual Report: 1937-1987 (open access)

San Antonio River Authority Annual Report: 1937-1987

Annual report of the San Antonio River Authority describing goals, activities, and accomplishments during fiscal years 1937-1987
Date: 1988~
Creator: San Antonio River Authority
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio River Authority Annual Report: 1991 (open access)

San Antonio River Authority Annual Report: 1991

Annual report of the San Antonio River Authority describing goals, activities, and accomplishments during fiscal year 1991.
Date: 1992~
Creator: San Antonio River Authority
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio River Authority Annual Report: 1992 (open access)

San Antonio River Authority Annual Report: 1992

Annual report of the San Antonio River Authority describing goals, activities, and accomplishments during fiscal year 1992.
Date: 1993~
Creator: San Antonio River Authority
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio River Authority Annual Report: 1993 (open access)

San Antonio River Authority Annual Report: 1993

Annual report of the San Antonio River Authority describing goals, activities, and accomplishments during fiscal year 1993.
Date: 1994~
Creator: San Antonio River Authority
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
San Antonio River Authority Annual Report: 1994 (open access)

San Antonio River Authority Annual Report: 1994

Annual report of the San Antonio River Authority describing goals, activities, and accomplishments during fiscal year 1994
Date: 1995~
Creator: San Antonio River Authority
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Region, Volume 17, Number 1, January/February 1990 (open access)

Region, Volume 17, Number 1, January/February 1990

Monthly newsletter of the Alamo Area Council of Governments describing news and events of relevance to the agencies.
Date: January 1990
Creator: Alamo Area Council of Governments
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Region, Volume 16, Number 9, September/October 1989 (open access)

Region, Volume 16, Number 9, September/October 1989

Monthly newsletter of the Alamo Area Council of Governments describing news and events of relevance to the agencies.
Date: September 1989
Creator: Alamo Area Council of Governments
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Animal Trap. (open access)

Animal Trap.

Patent for Animal Trap especially adapted for the extermination of mice and similar rodents.
Date: 1920-09-5
Creator: Fredrick, Willaim.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton Cleaner and Separator. (open access)

Cotton Cleaner and Separator.

Patent for cotton cleaner and separator. This will allow cotton to be cleaned without twisting or tangling, while removing dust, dirt and leaves.
Date: February 14, 1922
Creator: Hillmann, Charles
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pneumatic Cotton Picker (open access)

Pneumatic Cotton Picker

Patent for an improved Pneumatic Cotton Picker. This invention was created to eliminate the tendancy for leaves to be bundled in with the cotton when picked by other Pneumatic Cotton Pickers.
Date: December 10, 1918
Creator: Radford, Will H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hay-Press. (open access)

Hay-Press.

Patent for improving baling presses by reconstructing the press to make it more efficient and simple. Also, this improvement allows the plunger to automatically return after the press stroke is finished.
Date: March 11, 1919
Creator: White, John F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Records of Wells, Water Levels, Pumpage and Chemical Analyses of Water from the Carizzo Aquifer in the Winter Garden Area, Texas, 1970 through 1977 (open access)

Records of Wells, Water Levels, Pumpage and Chemical Analyses of Water from the Carizzo Aquifer in the Winter Garden Area, Texas, 1970 through 1977

Updates records in the ground-water pumpage,water level monitoring programs and continues the water quality monitoring program.
Date: September 1980
Creator: Elder, Glenward R.; Duffin, Gail L. & Rodriguez, Eulogio, Jr.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Ground-Water Resources of the Carrizo Aquifer in the Winter Garden Area of Texas: Volume 1 (open access)

Ground-Water Resources of the Carrizo Aquifer in the Winter Garden Area of Texas: Volume 1

Report on the ground-water resources of the Winter Garden area of Texas, their recharge rates, annual precipitation, declining water levels, and more.
Date: September 1976
Creator: Klemt, William B.; Duffin, Gail L. & Elder, Glenward R.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Early History of Panna Maria, Texas (open access)

The Early History of Panna Maria, Texas

This report describes the history of the place Panna Maria and its traditions.
Date: October 1975
Creator: Baker, T. Lindsay
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Health Service Region 8 Annual Report: 2017 (open access)

Texas Health Service Region 8 Annual Report: 2017

Annual financial report of the Texas Department of State Health Services documenting income, expenditures, and other relevant financial information for fiscal year 2017. The report covers topics such as Hurricane Harvey, Zika Virus/ other diseases, and child safety.
Date: 2017
Creator: Texas. Department of State Health Services.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Baseline Risk Assessment of Ground Water Contamination at the Uranium Mill Tailings Site Near Falls City, Texas: Revision 1 (open access)

Baseline Risk Assessment of Ground Water Contamination at the Uranium Mill Tailings Site Near Falls City, Texas: Revision 1

This baseline risk assessment of ground water contamination of the uranium mill tailings site near Falls City, Texas, evaluates potential impact to public health and the environment resulting from ground water contamination at the former Susquehanna Western, Inc. (SWI), uranium mill processing site. This document fulfills the following objectives: determine if the site presents immediate or potential future health risks, determine the need for interim institutional controls, serve as a key input to project planning and prioritization, and recommend future data collection efforts to more fully characterize risk. The Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project has begun its evaluation of ground water contamination at the Falls City site. This risk assessment is one of the first documents specific to this site for the Ground Water Project. The first step is to evaluate ground water data collected from monitor wells at or near the site. Evaluation of these data show the main contaminants in the Dilworth ground water are cadmium, cobalt, fluoride, iron, nickel, sulfate, and uranium. The data also show high levels of arsenic and manganese occur naturally in some areas.
Date: September 1994
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
UMTRA Project Water Sampling and Analysis Plan, Falls City, Texas (open access)

UMTRA Project Water Sampling and Analysis Plan, Falls City, Texas

Surface remedial action will be completed at the Falls City, Texas, Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action Project site in the spring of 1994. Results of water sampling activity from 1989 to 1993 indicate that ground water contamination occurs primarily in the Deweesville/Conquista aquifer (the uppermost aquifer) and that the contamination migrates along four distinct contaminant plumes. Contaminated ground water from some wells in these regions has significantly elevated levels of aluminum, arsenic, cadmium, manganese, molybdenum, selenium, sulfate, and uranium. Contamination in the Dilworth aquifer was identified in monitor well 977 and in monitor well 833 at the southern edge of former tailings pile 4. There is no evidence that surface water quality in Tordilla and Scared Dog Creeks is impacted by tailings seepage. The following water sampling activities are planned for calendar year 1994: (1) Ground water sampling from 15 monitor wells to monitor the migration of the four major contaminant plumes within the Deweesville/Conquista aquifer. (2) Ground water sampling from five monitor wells to monitor contaminated and background ground water quality conditions in the Dilworth aquifer. Because of disposal cell construction activities, all plume monitor wells screened in the Dilworth aquifer were abandoned. No surface water locations are proposed …
Date: February 1, 1994
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Stratigraphy of the Uranium-Bearing Rocks of the Karnes County Area, South-Central Texas -- A Preliminary Report (open access)

Stratigraphy of the Uranium-Bearing Rocks of the Karnes County Area, South-Central Texas -- A Preliminary Report

Report discussing the stratigraphy of uraniferous rocks discovered near Tordilla Hill in Karnes County, Texas. The report contains sections on the stratigraphy of the area, the structure, uranium minerals, descriptions of individual prospects, and a summary.
Date: May 1956
Creator: Eargle, D. Hoye & Snider, John L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Wrench (open access)

Wrench

Patent for an improved model of wrench, designed to work upon the bore of tubes, thimbles, and other forms of pipes. This invention improves on the construction of the wrench, allowing it to be inserted in the end of a tube, and when rotated, be effectively engaged with the tube to turn the same.
Date: March 6, 1917
Creator: Brown, Charley S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Traction-Wheel (open access)

Traction-Wheel

Patent for a traction wheel with a removable gripping surface which will prevent the wheel from slipping on roads or slick surfaces.
Date: January 19, 1915
Creator: Biela, Valentine
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mud Guard. (open access)

Mud Guard.

Patent for an attachable mud guard for any vehicle, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 25, 1914
Creator: Johnson, Tom L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Gear-Wheel. (open access)

Gear-Wheel.

Patent for the construction of a wheel and gear rim that converts any ordinary vehicle wheel into a gear wheel.
Date: June 8, 1915
Creator: Biela, Valentine
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Foot Piece for Cultivators. (open access)

Foot Piece for Cultivators.

Patent for foot pieces of "simple and improved construction whereby the cultivator blade will be held in ground engaging position resiliently with sufficient force to maintain it properly in position in varying conditions of the soil" (lines 10-15). The foot pieces allow for variation in the force with which the blade is maintained in ground, the blade being "quickly and conveniently changed" (lines 24-25).
Date: March 13, 1917
Creator: Myers, Jim H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sanitary Drinking-Fountain. (open access)

Sanitary Drinking-Fountain.

Patent for improvement in sanitary drinking fountains by providing a device in which the “discharge nozzle of the fountain is protected against contact with the mouth of the user, thereby enhance the sanitary nature of the fountain” (lines 16-20). Illustration is included.
Date: October 7, 1913
Creator: Moore, Isham S.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History