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Hemphill County

Description: Map of the Panhandle Plains region covering Hemphill County, Texas. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: July 1888
Creator: Beaumont, G. N.
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Partner: Texas General Land Office

Gate for Railway Tracks.

Description: Patent for a new and improved gate. This design consists in "[t]he combination, with a shaft crossing a railway-track and provided with weighted depending ends, with rollers connected eccentrically to said ends, a gate connected to said shaft, and lever and bar apparatus for operating said weighted ends from the vicinity of the rails" (lines 41-47).
Date: December 25, 1888
Creator: Jacobs, William Ramsey & Houston, Samuel Callahan
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Railway Rail Fastening.

Description: Patent for a new and improved rail fastening. This design consists in "[t]he combination of the tie having upwardly-inclined ends, the chairs having the recesses on their under sides to receive the ends of the tie, said recesses having their outer ends inclined to correspond with the inclination of the ends of the tie, and the clamping devices connecting the chairs together, and thereby securing them firmly on the ends of the tie" (lines 90-97).
Date: November 27, 1888
Creator: McRae, Daniel M.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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