Rare Books
Before the General Land Office. : W.J. Swank et al., mineral claimants, vs. the State of California and Jackson D. McCarty, Transferee. : Involving the SE 1/4 of SE. 1/4 of section 19, and lots 7 and 8 of section 30, T. 2 N., R. 12 E., M. D. M., Stockton, California, Land District. : Argument for mineral claimants
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4 United States. General Land Office. Circular Number 393: Regulations… providing for the agricultural entries on phosphate, oil, and certain other mineral lands. Washington, D. C.: GPO, 1915 (2 pieces)
Manuscripts
The collection consists of correspondence, documents, maps, reports, publications, and clippings related to land tenure and water use in and around Mono County (including Mono Basin, Mono Lake, Lee Vining Creek and Rush Creek), Inyo County, and Los Angeles, California.
mssClover
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"Negotiations of Imperial Irrigation District to Sell Its Irrigation System in Lower California Together With Our Compania de Terrenos Holdings to Mexican Government." [subtitle? main title?: "Sale of Lands in Mexico Held in Trust for SP by the Compania de Terrenos y Aguas." File 089-4, Section 1. (~1 linear inch)
Manuscripts
These materials, consisting primarily of correspondence but also including maps, news clippings, photographs, and blueprints, are arranged and bound by topic according to the Southern Pacific's internal organizational schema. There are 160 individual bound items in these 23 boxes. Each grouping is in reverse chronological order as it was originally filed by SP de México administrators. Collection has material in English and Spanish.
mssSPdeMéxicocollection
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[in manila folder marked "Land, Development, and Irrigation Companies, 089-4." Although this item is bulk of the folder, there are also four detailed, colored maps of property in question.] "Lands of Compañia de Terreños de la Baja California. Andrade Litigation." File No. 089-4, Section 1. From (~1.5" linear, maybe more). Apparently one A.F. Andrade appropriated some land in Baja [from the SPM or more likely, the SP] and then tried to sell it in the name of his corporation. Discussion of a fire that burned down a court building in Mexicali that had contained details of a law case (SP vs. Sociedad de Yrrigacion), as well as details of the current case against Andrade. Land in question consisted of 11,700 acres. Includes discussion of Obregon's reaction to this case, other details. Also includes four detailed maps of the area in question, separate from the above Item 1 but loose in the manila folder
Manuscripts
These materials, consisting primarily of correspondence but also including maps, news clippings, photographs, and blueprints, are arranged and bound by topic according to the Southern Pacific's internal organizational schema. There are 160 individual bound items in these 23 boxes. Each grouping is in reverse chronological order as it was originally filed by SP de México administrators. Collection has material in English and Spanish.
mssSPdeMéxicocollection
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"Expropriation of Land in Lower California." File 089-4, Part 1. From (~1.5"). Includes some U.S. govt. docs, such as an item on the American Mexican Claims Commission, dated 1943 ("Established pursuant to the Settlement of Mexican Claims Act of 1942.") Talk about an irresistable force meeting an immovable object: the SP, king of the land-grabbing railroads, versus the Carranza/Cardenas/Camacho land-redistributing agrarian machine! In this body of material, the SPM is trying to reclaim lands they considered theirs by some earlier precedents and agreements, most of which predate the 1917 Constitution. But it's clear from this that even the U.S. govt., in the form of the Agrarian Claims Commission, doesn't think the SP has any claim to certain contested lands in Mexico. On Oct. 8, 1940, ACC Executive Officer George H. Winters politely but firmly responds in a three-page letter to SP VP W.A. Worthington that "It is not clear how the agreements of Dec. 28, 1915 and June 22, 1916 [which he details at the start of letter] can, of themselves, properly be regarded as establishing any interest on the part of the Southern Pacific Company in the lands in question." He goes on to note that "From the language of the first of those arguments it seems to be obvious that the creation of any interest in the lands here involved on the part of the claimant depended upon the performance of a number of conditions subsequent. The record contains no direct evidence as to the performance of those conditions...," etc. This letter is quite revealing of U.S. policy with regard to American land claims. The FDR government's Good Neighborhood-ism colors a lot of this, in fascinating ways. This also involves the SP-sheltered venture known as the "Compa-ia de Terrenos Y Aguas de La Baja California," which is noted elsewhere in this survey (specifically, see II:4, XIII:1, XIII:4). Also contains large envelope with maps, other materials; didn't look inside envelope
Manuscripts
These materials, consisting primarily of correspondence but also including maps, news clippings, photographs, and blueprints, are arranged and bound by topic according to the Southern Pacific's internal organizational schema. There are 160 individual bound items in these 23 boxes. Each grouping is in reverse chronological order as it was originally filed by SP de México administrators. Collection has material in English and Spanish.
mssSPdeMéxicocollection