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Bee County Courthouse: Early View from the Houston Highway

Description: Photograph of the Bee County Courthouse while it was still under construction. The three-story courthouse was built by W.C.Stephenson and Fritz W. Heldenfels, and still in use today. Note the barbed wire fence seen in the foreground. Before this courthouse was built, barbed-wire (called bob-wire by cow punchers) proved to be a great benefaction to the ranchmen. It put an end to the cattle drives up the Chisholm Trail to Kansas, and brought an urgent need for a railroad through Bee County. Thi… more
Date: 1912
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Fence-Stay.

Description: Patent for fence stays which have "novel and improved means for effectively bracing and spacing the wires of a fence." The invention "will possess advantages in points of efficiency and durability, is inexpensive to manufacture, and at the same time, is simple in construction and operation."
Date: April 20, 1915
Creator: Benson, Autha C. & Benson, A. C.
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Reel

Description: Patent for a reel for barbed wires. Illustrations included.
Date: July 30, 1912
Creator: Kennedy, William H.
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Wire-Fence Tool

Description: Patent for a wire fence tool that is a combination of a hammer, wire splicer, and a wire cutter (in a metal base construction). This tool performs the ability to cut and adjust wires without any additional components.
Date: March 9, 1915
Creator: Murphy, George W.
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Fence Fabric.

Description: Patent for a new kind of fence fabric that lays flatter, can be made more efficiently, and slips less.
Date: September 24, 1918
Creator: Dobkins, Pearl
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