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Mining Sulfur.

Patent for a method of mining sulfur and other things that have similar melting points that is less expensive and more efficient than previous methods. A machine sprays hot fluid at fissures where the mineral exists, melts it, and carries it away in the stream.

Date: April 27, 1897

Creator: Higgins, Pattillo & Carroll, George W.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

W. P. H. McFaddin, Stockman

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes cattle illustration, business name, and text reading: "General Manager, Beaumont Pasture Co."

Date: 1897

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Texas General Land Office

Port Arthur Meat Market

Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead includes livestock illustration and decorative designs with business name in lithographic print, and text reading: "Choice Beef, Pork, Mutton, Veal and Sausage. All Orders Will Receive Prompt Attention." Letterhead contains the names W. C. Jackson; B. J. Johnson.

Date: 1897

Item Type: Letter

Partner: Texas General Land Office

Pen-Cleaning Attachment for Inkstands.

Patent for innovations in "pen-cleaning attachments for inkstands" (lines 9-10). It is a lip that extends past the top of ink-wells, and is meant to prevent blotting. The attachment is "an annular expansible body portion of spring metal adapted to be fitted in the mouth of an ink-well" (lines 93-95)

Date: May 4, 1897

Creator: Higgins, Pattillo