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Engineer's Report on Dallas - Waxahachie - Ennis Inter-Urban Electric Railway With Possible Extensions to Corsicana: Volume 2, Statistics and Photographs

Description: Book discussing statistics for the finances and infrastructure of Dallas, Waxahachie, Ennis, and Corsicana, Texas and the surrounding areas. There is a map of Dallas and the surrounding areas and several photographs of the various cities throughout the report. The statistics include city taxes, crop reports, public buildings, and local industries.
Date: unknown
Creator: Jones, Fred A.
Partner: Interurban Railway Museum

Soil map, Texas, Ellis County sheet

Description: Map displays soil types along with creeks, lakes, rivers, ferries, roads, railroads, towns, and schools. Shows numbered sections. Includes legend and soil profiles.
Date: October 13, 1911
Creator: United States. Bureau of Soils.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Progress Report 1389]

Description: Progress Report 1389. It was published by the Texas A&M College System's Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, for which R. D. Louis is Director; John H. Southern and Joe R. Motheral are authors of the report. Subjects discussed include farm and land prices from the previous year; land sales in sample counties; information about "owner-operators", cash sales, and mortgage credit; the "veterans land program"; and factors of the previous year's land market.
Date: August 2, 1951
Creator: Texas A & M University System. Texas Agricultural Experiment Station.
Partner: Rosenberg 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

Wheel.

Description: Patent for "improvements in wheels particularly designed for use on harvesters in heavy or muddy ground." (Lines 8-10) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 26, 1891
Creator: Stroud, Wiley N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Muzzle for Stock.

Description: Patent for "weaning and grazing muzzles for stock, the object in view being to provide a muzzle adapted when the head of the animal is elevated to remain closed and when the head of the animal is lowered to open, and thereby permit grazing." (Lines 9-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 21, 1897
Creator: Wingrove, Franklin R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: Big Bang]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: January 17, 1989, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 39 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Electric-Motor Drive.

Description: Patent for an electric-motor drive that can be used specifically with a cotton tramper, including instructions and illustrations.. This invention serves multiples methods of improvement compared to current electric-motor drives, and will make the processes its involved in more efficient, while being inexpensive to construct.
Date: July 31, 1917
Creator: Whitt, Joseph E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improved Hay and Cotton-Press.

Description: Patent for a hay and cotton press, "the operation of which shall be such that the platen, in starting, moves quickly, but as it approaches the end of its movement its velocity decreases, and its power proportionately increases." (Lines 15-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: unknown
Creator: Carey, Stephen Q.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: Ellis Zoning]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: December 10, 1992, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 58 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Report on Proposed Southern Traction Company (Waco - Dallas - Corsicana Interurban): Statistics and Photographs

Description: Book discussing statistics for the finances and infrastructure of the Dallas, Ellis, Hill, McLennan, and Navarro counties Texas. There are photographs of the discussed counties and cities within. The city statistics include finances, population, schools, and local industries.
Date: unknown
Creator: Fred A. Jones Company
Partner: Interurban Railway Museum

Breast-Strap for Harness.

Description: Patent for "a breast-strap so constructed as to obviate pressure on the windpipe of the horse and to transfer such pressure to the shoulders; to obviate chafing or rubbing of the breast-strap upon the shoulders, and to permit them to move freely in advance of each other as a result of the movements of the horse." (Lines 12-18) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 25, 1894
Creator: Russell, Charles H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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