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Texas Attorney General Opinion: O-2999

Description: Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Gerald Mann, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Eligibility of certain bonds of Archer County to participate in the funds accruing to the Board of County and District Road Indebtedness under House Bill 688, Forty-sixth Legislature, Regular Session, 1939.
Date: January 18, 1941
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Soil Survey of Archer County, Texas

Description: 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 Archer County, Texas.
Date: April 1995
Creator: Daigle, Jerry J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Regional Water Plan: Region B

Description: Water plan for Region B describing water resources and suppliers in the area, usage statistics and forecasts, water needs, water management strategies, water conservation plans, drought response plans, the process of creating the plan.
Date: December 2015
Creator: Biggs & Mathews, Inc.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Low Down Binder

Description: Patent for low down binder. "This invention relates to new and useful improvements in low down binders; and the object of the invention is to produce an apparatus whereby it will not be necessary to elevate grain, as in common binders, allowing the same to pass down an incline to the packers" (line 14-19). Illustration included.
Date: May 17, 1904
Creator: Wolf, Davis Levi
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Vehicle - Axle

Description: Patent for a vehicle axle with removable spindle, whereby spindles of different length may be connected to the axle to change the gage of the vehicle--that is, from a narrow - gage vehicle to a wide-gage vehicle, and vice versa - and also permit of the replacement of an old worn spindle by a new one (Matthews, 1902)
Date: March 6, 1902
Creator: Mathews, Arthur R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Mail-Handling Apparatus

Description: Patent for an improved mail handling apparatus for use in trains that has an automatic mechanism to bridge the auxiliary car and the mail car when the car reaching the end of its track, including illustrations.
Date: November 30, 1915
Creator: Kerns, George E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tire-Tightener.

Description: Patent for a device that can easily expand or retract a tire onto the rim of a wheel. This allows for tires to be easily replaced as well as preventing the tire from slipping off the rim while in use.
Date: November 30, 1915
Creator: Leischner, Gotthilf
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow.

Description: Patent for improvements to plows, "designed to loosen and pulverize the upper surface of the ground without turning the same over and without forming furrows, whereby the plowed ground retains its moisture to a greater extent" (lines 7-12) and to also reduce the draft.
Date: May 13, 1902
Creator: Sanders, John
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton-Chopper.

Description: This is a patent for "new and useful improvements in a combined cultivator and chopper" (lines 5-7). The new improvements include a combination chopper and cultivator that will maneuver on both sides of a row of cotton crop.
Date: September 4, 1897
Creator: Latta, William D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Spring-Caster.

Description: Patent for spring casters. "The principal object of the invention is to construct a caster in such a manner that an adequate resilient support will be obtained for the bed without the use of a spring mattress of like device" (lines 9-13).
Date: June 2, 1914
Creator: Smith, James A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Planter

Description: Patent for new and improved planter with illustrations and instructions.
Date: August 11, 1914
Creator: Leischner, G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rotary Engine

Description: Patent for "a new and improved rotary engine which is simple and durable in construction, very effective in operation, and arranged to utilize the motive agent to the fullest advantage, and to permit of convenient and quick reversing whenever desired" (lines 9-15).
Date: September 3, 1901
Creator: Hestand, Hardy & Matthews, Arthur R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sash-Balance.

Description: Patent for improvements in a combined sash balances and fasteners, using two sashes, a rotatable shaft, a ratchet and a friction-wheel; all these parts work together “to simplify the means whereby one sash is made to balance the other and by which either sash may be adjusted without disturbing the other.” (Lines 16-19) Illustration is included.
Date: April 7, 1891
Creator: Ingalls, Alfred
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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