Regional Water Plan: Region I (East Texas), Volume 1. Main Report (open access)

Regional Water Plan: Region I (East Texas), Volume 1. Main Report

Water plan for Region I (East Texas) describing water sources and suppliers in the area, usage statistics and forecasts, water needs, water management strategies for suppliers and counties, water conservation plans, drought response plans, financing of the plan, and the process of creating the plan.
Date: December 1, 2015
Creator: Alan Plummer and Associates
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Regional Water Plan: Region I (East Texas), Volume 2. Appendixes (open access)

Regional Water Plan: Region I (East Texas), Volume 2. Appendixes

Appendices for the water plan for Region I (East Texas) including water management strategies, water needs, water conservation methods, species of concern in the area, financing methods, and related reports.
Date: December 1, 2015
Creator: Alan Plummer and Associates
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Insertible Saw-Tooth. (open access)

Insertible Saw-Tooth.

Patent for an insertible saw tooth, which does not require the use of a separate holder.
Date: March 24, 1908
Creator: Askins, William H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper (open access)

Cotton-Chopper

Patent for "a cheap and simple machine adapted to chop or hoe cotton and simultaneously plow or hill the same; furthermore, to adapt the chopper to form stands composed of any number of plants and at any distance apart, and, finally, to provide means for raising and lowering the plows out of and into operative position and throwing the chopping mechanism into and out of gear, which means are controlled in a convenient manner by the driver or operator" (lines 10-20).
Date: April 19, 1892
Creator: Balshaw, David
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Timber-Jack. (open access)

Timber-Jack.

Patent for timber-jacks which are "particularly adapted for use for persons using cross-cut saws on large pieces of timber."
Date: April 6, 1915
Creator: Barret, James H. & Barret, J. H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn-Power. (open access)

Churn-Power.

Patent for a new and improved motorized churn. This design "has for its object to provide a means for converting a rotary into a reciprocating movement and regulating the range of the reciprocating mechanism" (lines 15-18).
Date: February 24, 1880
Creator: Britain, Thomas J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Railroad-Tie. (open access)

Railroad-Tie.

Patent for railroad ties and especially for a fie made from a log of wood.
Date: April 26, 1921
Creator: Bryant, Joseph D.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Planter (open access)

Planter

Patent for plows whereas a seeder attachment is provided, to allow ordinary one or two horse plows to be readily converted into a planter adapted for planting grains of all kinds.
Date: September 20, 1919
Creator: Carlisle, Marion N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn Power. (open access)

Churn Power.

Patent for a new and improved motorized butter churn. This design is of "a simple and efficient device for converting a rotary into a reciprocating motion, which may be either vertical or horizontal, and is especially adapted to the various kinds of churns, washing-machines, and the like now in the market" (lines 13-18).
Date: January 4, 1881
Creator: Clark, William
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fish and Rat Trap (open access)

Fish and Rat Trap

Patent for fish and rat trap that can catch bait robbers as well as fish to reduce the nuisance for fishermen. The device contains a sensitive trigger release mechanism that can be activated under water at any point.
Date: July 11, 1916
Creator: Cotton, John W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Turf-Type and Early Maturing Annual Ryegrass to Establish Perennial Vegetation: Technical Report (open access)

Turf-Type and Early Maturing Annual Ryegrass to Establish Perennial Vegetation: Technical Report

Technical report describing a project to test turf-type and early-maturing annual ryegrasses for use along roadways.
Date: April 2014
Creator: Cummings, Hennen; Wittie, Roger; Muir, James P.; Bow, John; Molina, Raymondo; Arwine, Tanner et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Petroleum-Oil-Burner (open access)

Petroleum-Oil-Burner

Patent for an oil burner for providing heat, light, and for cooking or baking. It super heats steam in two steam chambers to generate more heat.
Date: February 3, 1903
Creator: Demory, Alexander F. & Barron, William G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Soil Survey of Nacogdoches County, Texas (open access)

Soil Survey of Nacogdoches County, Texas

Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, soil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, land uses and agricultural methods, irrigation, and morphology and genesis of soils of Nacogdoches County, Texas.
Date: 1980
Creator: Dolezel, Raymond & Fuchs, Charles
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Rotary Cultivators and Choppers (open access)

Improvement in Rotary Cultivators and Choppers

Patent for an improvement to the design of a rotary cultivator and chopper, including illustrations.
Date: May 11, 1875
Creator: Fenley, George W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Churn. (open access)

Churn.

Patent is for a churn that accelerates the process.
Date: February 16, 1903
Creator: Frederick, Jeremiah G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dressing Millstones. (open access)

Dressing Millstones.

Patent for "a new and improved mode of dressing millstones for the purpose of grinding every kind of grain into meal flour &c., &c." (lines 4-7) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 4, 1851
Creator: Gaines, Edmund P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Millstone-Dress. (open access)

Millstone-Dress.

Patent for "a new and improved mode of dressing millstones for the purpose of grinding wheat and grain into meal flour" (lines 4-7) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 25, 1854
Creator: Gaines, Edmund P.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Millstone-Dress. (open access)

Millstone-Dress.

Patent for improvement in millstone-dress by “making each of the main grooves in five sections, in combination with shoulders and inclined planes” (lines 17-19), including illustration.
Date: June 26, 1860
Creator: Gaines, James W.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wire-Stretcher. (open access)

Wire-Stretcher.

Patent for a tool that can be used for fence construction by stretching the wires to the desired tension, or for repairing fences by crimping the slack in the wires. Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 5, 1897
Creator: Gardner, Robert J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History

Appleby 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 1:24,000
Date: 1983
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Appleby Quadrangle

Satellite image 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 1:24,000
Date: 2010
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Appleby 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 1:24000
Date: 2013
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Appleby 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 1:24000
Date: 1983
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Broaddus 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 1:24,000
Date: 1984
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History