Soil map, Texas, Robertson County sheet

Map displays soil types along with lakes, rivers, coal mines, towns, churches, schools, roads, and railroads. Includes legend and soil profiles.
Date: January 8, 1909
Creator: United States. Bureau of Soils.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
Soil Survey of Robertson County, Texas (open access)

Soil Survey of Robertson County, Texas

Text describes the area, climate, agriculture, and soils of Robertson County, Texas.
Date: January 8, 1909
Creator: Bennett, Hugh H. & Shaw, Charles F.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Bale-Ties. (open access)

Improvement in Bale-Ties.

Patent for "an improved fastening or tie for cotton-bales, &c.; and it consists of two angular plates, secured at the rear part to one end of the band generally used in baling cotton, &c., and the front part thereof being provided with V-shaped jaws, which engage with angular slots in the opposite end of the band." (Lines 12-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: January 30, 1877
Creator: Hanson, Asbury J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper. (open access)

Cotton-Chopper.

Patent for a cotton chopper, which "may be operated from either wheel" (lines 12-13).
Date: January 25, 1910
Creator: Stepleton, James T.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History