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Bosque County, State of Texas.

Description: Map shows tracts of land with landowners names and patents; towns and portions of adjacent counties where property boundaries extend beyond county limits. Scale [1:66,667].
Date: 1890
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Bosque County, State of Texas.

Description: Map shows tracts of land with landowners names and patents; towns and portions of adjacent counties where property boundaries extend beyond county limits. Scale [1:66,667].
Date: 1890
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Prospectus of Twelve Central Texas Counties.

Description: This book gives an overview of the twelve Blackland Counties of Texas in alphabetical order. For each county, a brief description of the geographic and agricultural characteristics is given as well as statistics on population and county income. Additionally, a geological description of the Black Prairie Region gives more specific aspects of the area and the soil compositions and a final chapter discusses the property market of the area.
Date: 1895
Creator: Crawford, Wilbur F. & [Moore, Monta J.]
Partner: UNT Libraries

Windlass.

Description: Patent for a new and improved windlass. This design consists in "[t]he combination of a frame having the cross-bars near its lower and upper ends, the windlass-shaft journaled in the side pieces of the frame and having the balance-wheels and the pinion, the operating-gears mounted in one side of the frame and one of said gears meshing with said pinion, an upright mounted upon the lower front cross-piece of the frame and having a guide-pulley at its upper end, arms extending laterally from said … more
Date: April 1, 1890
Creator: Bridges, Thomas H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Steam Cooker.

Description: Patent for a new and improved steam cooker. This design consists, "with a water-holder and a funnel-shaped reservoir provided with dependent lugs superimposed thereon, of an open-ended foraminous cylinder fitting within said water-holder, a circular foraminous disk fitting within said cylinder, said disk having a raised rim or flange adapted when the disk is lifted to engage the lugs on the reservoir, and a cover for said water-holder, with means for securing said cover within the reservoir" (l… more
Date: October 21, 1890
Creator: Thomason, Gustave
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sulky-Plow.

Description: Patent for a new and useful sulky plow, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 25, 1898
Creator: Allen, Jefferson Davis
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tongue-Support.

Description: Patent for a tongue support that lessens the weight and wearing of the tongue on the horse's neck. The spring is made of steel, is two or more coils, and sits on the tongue rod. The spring's firmness is adjustable, and only enough weight to hold the tongue in place is put on the animal.
Date: December 12, 1893
Creator: Young, Delma H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tongue-Support.

Description: Patent for an improved wagon tongue spring that weighs less and wears less on the horse's neck than other tongue-supports.
Date: February 20, 1894
Creator: Savage, Thomas N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sulky-Frame for Agricultural Implements.

Description: Patent for "a new and improved sulky-frame adapted for the attachment of several agricultural implements and provided with means for elevating or lowering the frame and the implement thereto attached, whereby the latter is brought in contact with the soil or elevated above such contact." (Lines 16-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 27, 1895
Creator: Carson, John Richard & Denman, Jackson Harvey, Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Grain-Conveyer for Binders, &c.

Description: Patent for improvements in grain conveyers by using a slotted platform with parallel walls on the sides, a conveyer-block having arms and friction-rollers that is moved by an endless chain in between the walls, a lever keyed on a shaft and two gears in constant mesh with each other; all these parts working together to creating a mechanism that drives the conveyers in either direction to accomplish the binding of the grains. Illustration is included.
Date: February 17, 1891
Creator: Schubert, George
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hoe Attachment for Cultivators.

Description: Patent for an improved cultivator with a hoe-attachment that can be "thrown into and out of operation and employed for thinning crops simultaneous with the cultivation of the same with as much convenience and accuracy as the ordinary hand hoe and with greater expedition" (lines 13-18).
Date: February 14, 1893
Creator: Eriksen, Eduard A. O. & Day, William Howell
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hay-Press.

Description: Patent for a hay-press that has a oscillating sweep-arm on the plunger so that the plunger's movements are minimized and the hay can be pressed faster.
Date: June 26, 1894
Creator: Walton, Robert H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Horse and Team Holder.

Description: Patent for "a device adapted to be applied to ordinary vehicles, and designed to be connected with the driving reins, and capable of automatically engaging the horse or team, and by preventing the same from advancing or turning to the right or left or backing, thereby obviating the necessity of tying a horse or team, of dropping the traces, or of leaving it stand with small weights that endanger life." (Lines 12-20) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 21, 1895
Creator: Moore, Franklin Orville
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Snap-Hook.

Description: Patent for a snap-hook that holds together the miscellaneous parts of a harness and dispenses "with a spring for holding the parts together and which cannot in use accidentally open" (lines 12-14).
Date: January 7, 1896
Creator: Nalley, John T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Strainer for Coffee-Pots, &c.

Description: Patent for a strainer for coffee and tea strainers "so constructed as to be attachable in the lower end of the spout or body of the pot, as shown; and the object of my improvement is to construct a strainer to be removable, durable, of minimum cost, and perfect in its operation" (lines 13-18).
Date: April 21, 1896
Creator: McClellan, John A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vertical Gearing for Harvesters and Binders

Description: Patent for "improvements in vertical gearing for harvesters and binders in which the main operating-shaft is carried in a vertical position, thereby securing a larger range to elevate the machine and securing a perfect balance of the machine on the ground-wheels without extending parts of the machine to the front or rear" (lines 8-15).
Date: June 14, 1892
Creator: Schubert, George
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Metal-Banding or Bale-Wiring Tool.

Description: Patent for an improved "banding or bale wiring tool, especially adapted to be inserted in between the bars of a bailing press, to grasp and cut the wire, after said wire has been firmly drawn around the bale, and twist the two ends of the wire together to form a tie" (lines 20-25).
Date: August 15, 1893
Creator: Schubert, George
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bosque County

Description: Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead contains stylized text of county name with designs and courthouse illustration in detailed lithographic print by Clarke & Courts. Letterhead includes names of county officials W. B. Thompson, County Judge; C. W. Tidwell, Co. Clerk; F. P. Smith, Dist. Clerk; T. J. Randal, Treasurer; J. C. Tittle, Co. Assessor; J. N Metcalf, Sheriff; H. S. Dillard, Co. Atty.; John Dyer, Collector; T. L. Greer, Co. Surveyor; Count… more
Date: 1895
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Cotton-Stalk-Breaking Machine.

Description: Patent for a simple and economical stalk breaking machine "which shall admit of the team straddling the adjoining row, and the driving wheel to run in the furrow or stubble" (lines 11-13). The driver sits on one side so they do not get hit with debris. The frame and stalk breakers mechanism are mounted on the running gear of a mower or reaper, and is easily disconnected.
Date: June 26, 1894
Creator: Grimland, Yeren & Ringness, John J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Double-Incline Wrecking-Frog.

Description: Patent for a wrecking-frog that has "a minimum of weight and maximum of strength and durability, which will accurately guide a derailed wheel to replacement upon the track and which is also equally adapted to derailing a train, car or other vehicle when an occasion arises rendering derailment necessary or expedient" (lines 10-16).
Date: October 31, 1893
Creator: Mooney, Patrick T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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