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General Soil Map, Colorado County, Texas

Description: Map displays soil types along with creeks, towns, schools, churches, power transmission lines, oil and gas pipelines, roads, and railroads. Includes legend and symbols.
Date: 1994
Creator: United States. Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Soil Survey of Colorado 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 Colorado County, Texas.
Date: August 2006
Creator: United States. Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Ground-Squirrel Exterminators.

Description: Patent for an "improved apparatus by means of which ground-squirrels and gophers can be destroyed in their holes, conveniently and effectively, and at small expense" (para. 4). The mechanism works by gassing underground vermin with sulphuric fumes.
Date: July 10, 1877
Creator: Dreyer, Henry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Digging-Machine.

Description: Patent for a digging machine specialized in breaking hard soil and creating ridges that attempt to reduce erosion.
Date: April 5, 1921
Creator: Holly, Charles
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Bee Hive.

Description: Patent for improvements to "that class of bee-hives or bee-houses having a series of compartments..." (lines 15-17) with instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 21, 1878
Creator: Walton, George Slaughter
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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