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[Letter from James M. Hunter to Dr. Joseph Pound, December 1899]

Description: Letter from James M. Hunter to Dr. Joseph Pound concerning the doctor's son, and the book that Dr. Pound misplaced: "I am truly sorry that you have lost that most valuable narrative...'Who is Capt Banta'." At the end of the letter Hunter details what eggs are selling for in his town and tells Pound not to move up there if it would cause to much of a sacrifice.
Date: December 1899
Creator: Hunter, James M.
Partner: Dr. Pound Historical Farmstead

Nueces Sheet

Description: Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date: 1893
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Location: 29.75 -100.25
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Rock Springs Sheet

Description: Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date: 1893
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Location: 30.25 -100.25
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Nueces Sheet

Description: Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:125000
Date: 1896
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Location: 29.75 -100.25
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Edwards County

Description: Cadastral map of Edwards County in the Hill Country region. This map includes a notation for Kickapoo Spring which is marked on Survey 25 in the Gulf, Western Texas and Pacific Railroad Company (G. W. T. & P. R. R.), Block 2. Scale [ca. 1:133,334].
Date: February 1893
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Edwards County

Description: Map of the Hill Country region covering Edwards County, Texas. Kickapoo Spring is located on Survey 36 in G. W. T. and P. RR Co. Block 2, as shown on map. The Middle and East Forks of the Nueces River, and the South Fork of the Llano River are shown on map. Scale ca. 1:133,334 (4000 varas per inch).
Date: 1893~
Partner: Texas General Land Office

Wind-Wheel.

Description: Patent for a wind-wheel "designed to secure a rapid descent of the pump-rod and thus enable the wheel to raise more water in a given time" (lines 8-10). Damaging the wheel proper with the forcefulness of rapidly descending water is avoided in this design.
Date: April 27, 1897
Creator: Pippin, John William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

W. M. Locke, District and County Surveyor of Bexar District

Description: Business correspondence written on letterhead from the late 19th century. Letterhead contains decorative images, stylized text with surveyor name, and text reading: "Bexar District Comprises the Following Counties: Bexar, Crockett, Edwards, Lipscomb, Ochiltree, Roberts, Hemphill, Gray," in lithographic print by Geo. D. Barnard & Co. St. Louis. Letterhead contains the names Will H. Bonnell, L. L. Lacy, Deputies.
Date: 1895
Partner: Texas General Land Office
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