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[Receipt for Taxes Paid by W. M. Morgan, February 1895]

Receipt for tax paid by W. M. Morgan for the year 1894 on property and real estate worth $2400 and tax of $1740. Stamped paid on February 25th, 1895.

Date: February 1895

Creator: Brown, J. P.

Item Type: Text

Partner: Rosenberg Library

Prospectus of Twelve Central Texas Counties.

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.]

Item Type: Book

Partner: UNT Libraries

Fence-Wire Stretcher.

Patent for a simple and practical fence-wire stretcher that stretches "fence-wire in the construction of fences and also taking up the slack in the wire when it sags at any point throughout the line of fence, the device being simple in construction and easily connected and disconnected from the post, as circumstances require" (lines 14-20).

Date: September 17, 1895

Creator: Baugh, Edward Henry

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Hay-Rack.

Patent for a hay-rack meant to "provide an improved device for holding or clamping hay within reach of livestock, and which while not impairing the feeding of the stock will prevent them from pulling the hay down beneath their feet" (lines 14-19).

Date: April 16, 1895

Creator: Erskine, William James