Soil map, Texas, Ellis County sheet

Map displays soil types along with creeks, lakes, rivers, ferries, roads, railroads, towns, and schools. Shows numbered sections. Includes legend and soil profiles.
Date: October 13, 1911
Creator: United States. Bureau of Soils.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Soil survey of Ellis County, Texas (open access)

Soil survey of Ellis County, Texas

Text describes climate, agriculture, and soils of Ellis County, Texas.
Date: October 13, 1911
Creator: Bennett, Frank; Burke, R. T. (Richard Thomas Avon) & Lounsbury, Clarence
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

Soil map, Texas, reconnoissance survey, central Gulf coast sheet

Map displays soil types along with bayous, creeks, rivers, swamps, towns, counties, roads, railroads, and experiment stations.
Date: December 20, 1911
Creator: United States. Bureau of Soils.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Soil map, Texas, reconnoissance survey, panhandle sheet

Map displays soil types along with creeks, rivers, railroads, towns, and counties. Includes legend and soil profiles.
Date: October 26, 1911
Creator: United States. Bureau of Soils.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Reconnoissance soil survey of the central Gulf coast area of Texas (open access)

Reconnoissance soil survey of the central Gulf coast area of Texas

Soil survey of twelve counties on the central part of the Gulf Coastal Plain of Texas bordering the Gulf of Mexico. The counties are Brazoria, Matagorda, Calhoun, Aransas, Refugio, Bee, Goliad, Victoria, Jackson, Wharton, Dewitt, and Karnes. Text describes the area, climate, soils, agriculture, irrigation, and drainage of these counties.
Date: December 20, 1911
Creator: Carter, William T. (William Thomas)
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Reconnoissance soil survey of the panhandle region of Texas (open access)

Reconnoissance soil survey of the panhandle region of Texas

Soil survey of 26 counties in the panhandle region of Texas. Included are Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley, Gray, Hall, Hansford, Hartley, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lipscomb, Moore, Ochiltree, Oldham, Parmer, Potter, Randall, Roberts, Sherman, Swisher, and Wheeler counties. Text describes the area, climate, soils, agriculture, and irrigation of these counties.
Date: October 26, 1911
Creator: Carter, William T. (William Thomas)
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Annual Report of the Office of Experiment Stations, June 30, 1910 (open access)

Annual Report of the Office of Experiment Stations, June 30, 1910

Volume provides a summary of the progress of each agricultural experiment station. Also includes statistics, discussions of foreign investigations, and selected studies.
Date: September 14, 1911
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experiment Station Record, Volume 23, 1910 (open access)

Experiment Station Record, Volume 23, 1910

Volume provides abstracts of agricultural experiments conducted during the year. Also includes statistics, convention reports, bulletins, bibliographies, and listings for Spanish edition publications from the Porto Rico station. Name and subject indexes start on page 801.
Date: 1911
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experiment Station Record, Volume 24, 1911 (open access)

Experiment Station Record, Volume 24, 1911

Volume provides abstracts of agricultural experiments conducted during the year. Also includes statistics, convention reports, bulletins, and bibliographies. Name and subject indexes start on page 801.
Date: 1911
Creator: United States. Office of Experiment Stations.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Checklist of United States Public Documents, 1789-1909, Third Edition Revised and Enlarged, Volume 1, Lists of Congressional and Departmental Publications (open access)

Checklist of United States Public Documents, 1789-1909, Third Edition Revised and Enlarged, Volume 1, Lists of Congressional and Departmental Publications

This listing is "an approximately complete checklist of all public documents issued by the United States Government during the first century and a quarter of its history." (p. vii) List of bureaus, departments, divisions, offices, etc. starts on page 1683.
Date: 1911
Creator: United States. Superintendent of Documents.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Essential Factors in the Formation of Producer Gas (open access)

Essential Factors in the Formation of Producer Gas

From Introduction Scope and Purpose of Inquiry: "The Bureau of Mines, to which the testing and analyzing of fuels as carried on by the United States Geographical Survey has been transferred, is continuing producer-gas investigations at the testing station at Pittsburgh, Pa. Results of the gas-producer tests made at the coal-testing plant erected at St.Louis, Mo., and of a study of some of the problems that came up in the tests have been published by Geological Survey. Results of the tests made at Norfolk, Va., and Pittsburgh, Pa. and of further studies of particular problems, will be published by the Bureau of Mines."
Date: 1911
Creator: Clement, J. K.; Adams, L. H. & Haskins, C. N.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Flow of Heat Through Furnace Walls (open access)

The Flow of Heat Through Furnace Walls

From Introduction: "This bulletin contains a statement of certain results that will be embodied in a report describing investigations of the combustion of fuel made by the United States Geological Survey and the Bureau of Mines in a specially constructed long furnace."
Date: 1911
Creator: Ray, Walter T. & Kreisinger, Henry
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Apparatus and Methods for the Sampling and Analysis of Furnace Gases (open access)

Apparatus and Methods for the Sampling and Analysis of Furnace Gases

From Introduction: "It is the purpose of this paper to describe some apparatus and methods which have proved satisfactory to those engaged in the chemical work of the investigations mentioned. While these methods and apparatus have been designed more particularly with regard to analysis of furnace gases, their use is by no means limited to that purpose."
Date: 1911
Creator: Frazer, J. C. W. & Hoffman, E. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Résumé of Producer-Gas Investigations: October 1, 1904-June 30, 1910 (open access)

Résumé of Producer-Gas Investigations: October 1, 1904-June 30, 1910

From Scope of Report: "The purpose of this report is, therefore, to present in convenient form all the more important data accumulated in the course of the tests described, in order that the results may be readily accessible both to the Government officials having charge of the design, purchase, or care of power plants and to all persons interested in the development of the internal-combustion engine and the gas producer as means for utilizing the energy of fuels."
Date: 1911
Creator: Fernald, R. H. & Smith, C. D.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Commercial Deductions from Comparisons of Gasoline and Alcohol Tests on Internal-Combustion Engines (open access)

Commercial Deductions from Comparisons of Gasoline and Alcohol Tests on Internal-Combustion Engines

From Introduction: "The following report is a summary of the commercial results which were obtained from 2,000 tests conducted by technologic branch of the United States Geological Survey at St. Louis, Mo., and Norfolk, Va., in 1907 and 1908, under the technical supervision of R.H. Fernald, engineer in charge of the producer-gas section."
Date: 1911
Creator: Strong, Robert M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparative Tests of Run-of-Mine and Briquetted Coal on the Torpedo Boat Biddle (open access)

Comparative Tests of Run-of-Mine and Briquetted Coal on the Torpedo Boat Biddle

From Introduction: "With the particular equipment used in the tests both coal and briquets were far from smokeless; consequently the data of this bulletin are applicable only by analogy to parallel operation with a coal more nearly smokeless, but nevertheless applicable with much reliability. It was the original intention to make a set of preliminary steaming tests alongside a dock (which tests furnish material for this bulletin) an to finish with a set of running tests at sea; but the running tests were never made. for lack of time and men."
Date: 1911
Creator: Ray, Walter T. & Kreisinger, Henry
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tests of Run-of-Mine and Briquetted Coal in a Locomotive Boiler (open access)

Tests of Run-of-Mine and Briquetted Coal in a Locomotive Boiler

From Object of Tests: "The primary object of the tests was to study the relative performances of the two types of briquets and of the coal, with reference to efficiency, tendency to smoke, and the ease with which steam could be kept up, when each of the three varieties of fuel was burned at several rates of combustion. Many secondary objects were in mind, the data concerning which are discussed under "Effect of varying rates of combustion," pages 20-27."
Date: 1911
Creator: Ray, Walter T. & Kreisinger, Henry
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Utilization of Fuel in Locomotive Practice (open access)

The Utilization of Fuel in Locomotive Practice

Report that investigates the possibility of conserving coal despite its extensive use in railroad locomotives across the United States. Includes an experiment using different grades of coal in an approximation of a locomotive, as well as data regarding fuel utilization and loss.
Date: 1911
Creator: Goss, W. F. M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Alaskan Coal Problems (open access)

Alaskan Coal Problems

Report discussing coal problems existing in Alaska, which Alaskan coal has high value.
Date: 1911
Creator: Fisher, Walter L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparative Tests of Run-of-Mine and Briquetted Coal on Locomotives (open access)

Comparative Tests of Run-of-Mine and Briquetted Coal on Locomotives

From Introduction: "For purpose of procuring data that could be using in estimating the value of the briquetting process as applied to American fuels, the United States Geological Survey, in cooperation with other interests, began in 1904, at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, certain experiments involving the production and use of bituminous-coal briquets."
Date: 1911
Creator: Goss, W. F. M.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tests of Coal and Briquets as Fuel for House-Heating Boilers (open access)

Tests of Coal and Briquets as Fuel for House-Heating Boilers

From Introduction: "Perhaps the most important result obtained is that showing the relative value of different fuels for domestic purposes. From Table 16. on page 39, it is possible by comparison to arrive at the probable value of any fuel in any part of the country. The figures in the table show that with a sectional boiler the effectiveness of different fuels depends on the number of thermal units they contain. A brief summary of the results of this investigation is given on page 41."
Date: 1911
Creator: Randall, D. T.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experimental Work Conducted in the Chemical Laboratory of the United States Fuel-Testing Plant at St. Louis, Missouri, January 1, 1905, to July 31, 1906. (open access)

Experimental Work Conducted in the Chemical Laboratory of the United States Fuel-Testing Plant at St. Louis, Missouri, January 1, 1905, to July 31, 1906.

From Introduction: "This report therefore covers all such work up to its completion in July, 1906. In the following pages the results of each line of experimental work are given under a special heading indicating the object of the investigation."
Date: 1911
Creator: Lord, N. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Briquetting Tests at the United States Fuel-Testing Plant, Norfolk, Virginia, 1907-8 (open access)

Briquetting Tests at the United States Fuel-Testing Plant, Norfolk, Virginia, 1907-8

From Briquetting Tests: "The briquetting work undertaken at Norfolk had these specific objects: 1. To determine what percent of pitch or other binder was necessary to make a satisfactory briquet out of the coals tested. 2. To investigate the relative merits of different binders. 3. To provide briquets for comparative combustion tests of run-of-mine coal and the same coal briquetted."
Date: 1911
Creator: Wright, Charles L.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Incidental Problems in Gas-Producer Tests (open access)

Incidental Problems in Gas-Producer Tests

From Introduction: "In the course of this study many incidental problems of prime importance have demanded consideration. Among them is the determination, under practically constant conditions, of the duration of gas-producer tests necessary to reduce the possible error to minimum. A discussion of this proper length of test period forms the part of this bulletin."
Date: 1911
Creator: Fernald, R. H.; Smith, C. D.; Clement, J. K. & Grine, H. A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library