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Economic Impacts of Groundwater Management Standards : In the Panhandle Groundwater Conservation District of Texas

Description: "The objective of this study was to conduct an economic analysis of how the 50/50 management standard would impact irrigated producers in the region and the overall agricultural economy. Specifically this analysis was conducted on three levels: county, hydro-logic area, and representative farm. The study focused on the dynamic changes in agricultural production, saturated thickness, farm revenue, and the capacity to irrigate. A socioeconomic model was subsequently used to estimate changes in th… more
Date: February 28, 2012
Creator: Weinheimer, Justin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Texas Attorney General Opinion: WW-531

Description: Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Will Wilson, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether certain property owned by Texas Technological College in Carson County is exempt from taxation under the laws of the State of Texas.
Date: December 9, 1958
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Evaluating the Ground-Water Resources of the High Plains of Texas: Volume 2

Description: Second volume of a report documenting a study to map the High Plains aquifer and obtain data about various measurements and aspects of the aquifer. This volume provides "supporting basic data including records of wells and county maps depicting well locations, elevation of base of aquifer, elevation of water levels in 1980, and saturated thicknesses in 1980" for the northern third of the study area.
Date: August 1984
Creator: Knowles, Tommy; Nordstrom, Phillip & Klemt, William B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Regional Water Plan: Region A (Panhandle), 2016, Volume 1. Main Report

Description: Water plan for Panhandle Region describing water supply locations and suppliers by county, the state of the water supply in the area, forecasts for future usage numbers, management and conservation plans for both suppliers and users in each county, drought plans, impacts of implementation of the water plan, and the plan making process.
Date: November 17, 2015
Creator: Freese and Nichols, Inc.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Evaluating the Ground Water Resources of the High Plains of Texas: Volume 1

Description: First volume of a report documenting a study to map the High Plains aquifer and obtain data about various measurements and aspects of the aquifer. This volume provides "interpretive information presented as text and related tables and regional figures."
Date: May 1984
Creator: Knowles, Tommy; Nordstrom, Phillip & Klemt, William B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Transmission Mechanism.

Description: Patent for an improved transmission mechanism for changing speed of tractors and other machines, with illustrations. The improvement is in the arrangement and assembly of the component parts to improve efficiency and to provide several different forward speeds as well as a reverse speed.
Date: October 9, 1917
Creator: Ingram, Joseph D.
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Switch.

Description: Patent for a switch for trolley lines that can be triggered from inside the trolley car.
Date: December 12, 1911
Creator: Torrence, Otis M.
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Engine-Starter

Description: Patent for improvements to engine starters that enable the driver of an automobile to start an engine by applying pressure to foot pedals.
Date: June 24, 1913
Creator: Morgan, August C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Driving Mechanism for Tractors

Description: Patent for an invention relating to the engines of tractors that provides "improved transmission gearing for controlling the movements of the machine." (lines 17-18)
Date: August 19, 1913
Creator: Ingram, Joseph D.
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Rotary Churn.

Description: Patent for a manual rotary churn with two dasher blades, including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 12, 1912
Creator: Martin, Harry T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rotary Valve for Steam-Engines.

Description: Patent for a rotary valve for steam-engines that has a simplified valve and less pressure on the valve. It has a rocking valve that is "operating within a steam chest independent of the cylinder and connected therewith by pipes entering through the cylinder ends, a cam movement being provided for rocking the valve" (lines 21-25).
Date: September 18, 1894
Creator: Lester, Frank
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Reversible Steam-Engine.

Description: Patent for "reversible reciprocating steam engines, its objects being to simplify the mechanism for reversing the valve, and to provide a valve in which the area of steam pressure upon its face is reduced to the minimum." (Lines 14-19) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 24, 1894
Creator: Lester, Frank
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Header Device.

Description: Patent for a header device intended for the cutting of maize, sorghum, kafir, and other crops so that the plant heads land on a header platform without too much stalk accompanying the head.
Date: July 21, 1914
Creator: Montgomery, Carroll Hinckley
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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