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Menard County

Description: Blue line print of survey map of Menard County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, blocks or land, cities, and towns. Scale [ca. 1:177,778] (4000 varas to 3/4 of an inch).
Date: 1894
Creator: Warren, W. H.; Blane, F. G. & Ehlinger, L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

South and Southwest Texas (Sheet No. 2)

Description: Map of South Central Texas, showing county lines, towns, roads, and railroads. The map also includes rivers, creeks, and areas of elevation. Relief shown in hachures. Scale [ca. 1:316,800] (5 miles to the inch).
Date: 1894
Creator: Kroeber, Paul
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Cattle-Guard.

Description: Patent for a railway cattle-guard that is simple, inexpensive, and efficient. It prevents the cattle "from traversing a railway-track in order to pass form one field or inclosure to another" (line 12-14). It has spurred rollers, and has a unique way of mounting rollers or rotary ties, in that they do not block the track.
Date: January 5, 1897
Creator: Nevill, William Birt
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cattle-Guard.

Description: Patent for a cattle guard that prevents cattle from blocking railroad tracks. It consists of sharp edged cross ties that sit on the bottom of a shallow pit, guard rails that cover the cross ties, bolts that hold the rails together, and end planks forming v-shaped serrations.
Date: October 10, 1893
Creator: Lynch, Michael L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cattle-Guard.

Description: Patent for a simple and inexpensive cattle-guard that has comprising rollers which can be independently and easily replaced. The bars that hold the rollers can also be easily removed.
Date: January 30, 1894
Creator: Lefléve, Louis
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cattle-Guard for Railroads.

Description: Patent for a cattle-guard for railroads that is "a series of plates or slates mounted with the capability of partial or complete rotation on axes substantially parallel with the rails and between the said rails and on either side of the track so as to span the road bed or space between the ends of the fence" (lines 25-31). The plates have longitudinal flanges with serrated edges.When the cattle step on the guard, they will experience pain and avoid the spot.
Date: February 6, 1894
Creator: Lee, Jacob M.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Map of the Texas & Pacific Railway and connections.

Description: Map shows railroad connections throughout Texas, north to St. Louis, Missouri, and west to Pueblo, Colorado. Oklahoma is shown divided into Oklahoma and Indian Ter[ritory]. Texas and Pacific route shown in orange color. Map is from Annual Report of the Directors of the Texas and Pacific Railway Co. to the Stockholders, for the fiscal year ending December 31st, 1898. Scale not given.
Date: 1899
Creator: Texas & Pacific Railway
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Texas.

Description: Map shows late nineteenth century Texas geography, counties, cities, and railroad lines. Includes index to railroad lines and index to cities. Inset: [Texas Panhandle]. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not indicated.
Date: [1890..1899]
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Chicago Great Western Railway: "Maple Leaf Route"

Description: Map shows the extent of the Chicago Great Western Railway, additional railroads, counties, waterways, cities and towns for Iowa, southern Minnesota, northern Missouri, south and central Wisconsin, north and central Illinois, and portions of South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas. Scale not given.
Date: 1897
Creator: Poole Brothers
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Bosque County, State of Texas.

Description: Map shows tracts of land with landowners names and patents; towns and portions of adjacent counties where property boundaries extend beyond county limits. Scale [1:66,667].
Date: 1890
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Schleicher County.

Description: Map shows land patents, block and tract numbers, landowners, towns, railroads, oil leases for Sun Oil Co., and and proposed drilling sites. Scale [ca. 1:66,667].
Date: 1898
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Map of Runnels County.

Description: Map shows land patents, block and tract numbers, landowners, towns, railroads. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [ca. 1:66,667].
Date: 1898
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Map of Clay Co.

Description: Map shows late nineteenth century railroads, land parcels, tract numbers, landowners, land patents, and towns; "Texas Emigration and Land Company's Premium Surveys"; portions of adjacent counties where property boundaries extend beyond county limits. Scale not given.
Date: 1896
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Palo Pinto County.

Description: Map shows late nineteenth century Palo Pinto County, Texas land ownership, railroads, land grants, and course of the Brazos River; railroads grands and Texan Emigration and Land Company's premium surveys; additional handdrawn annotation for petroleum well location. Scale [1:66,667].
Date: 1898
Creator: Pressler, Herman
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Map of Jack County.

Description: Map shows late nineteenth century Jack County, Texas land tracts, patents, landowners, and townships for Jack County; portions of adjacent counties where properties extend beyond county limits; handwritten annnotations for petroleum prospecting activity. Relief shown by hachures. Scale [1:66,667].
Date: 1895
Creator: Pressler, Herman
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Jack County.

Description: Map shows property tracts, landowners, and town locations for Jack County; portions of adjacent counties where properties extend beyond county limits. Relief shown by hachures. Scale not given.
Date: [1895..1915]
Creator: Texas Blue Print Company
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library
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