Manuscripts
Walter E. Burlingame letter to A.T. McGhee
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Taos Valley Irrigation Project Materials
Manuscripts
This group contains two reports on the Taos Valley Irrigation Project in New Mexico, prepared by Parker N. Black for Alexander Gusdorf. The first contains a physical description of Gusdorf's New Mexico property and its development prospects, while the second volume consists of topographical maps and photographs of the area. Also included is a handwritten financial report on the project, water permit applications sent from Vernon L. Sullivan to Abraham Lincoln Fellows, and a variety of printed matter (1908-1909) related to farming and mining in New Mexico.
mssHM 72322-72326
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Report on the boundaries of the Antoine Leroux land grant
Manuscripts
Certified report by U.S. Deputy Surveyor W.H. McBroom describing the boundaries of the Antoine Leroux land grant no.47, near Taos, New Mexico. Also includes a map of the grant lands and surrounding areas and statements on the land from Jose Martin Maes, Pascal Martinez, Antonio Sanchez, and Suaquin A. Garcia.
mssHM 74609
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Land rights records for property included in the Maxwell Land Grant
Manuscripts
Assorted court records and land deeds related to land originally included in the Maxwell Land Grant. Includes a quit-claim deed for land in San Miguel County, New Mexico, between Madison Calhoun and Henry M. Porter (1882); court records related to Eliza C. Winburn vs. Alice Clara Heck et al. (including Lucien B. Maxwell, Charles Beaubien, and the Maxwell Land Company), 1930; a warranty deed between J.A. Heyde and Company and Thomas P. James for land in Union County, New Mexico (1906); a grid map of land belonging to the Vinson Land Company in Otero County, Colorado; and court papers for Walter Clement et al. vs. William H. Dyer and Charles F. Whitcher regarding the Maxwell Land Grant and Good Fairy Mine (1897). Also includes a manuscript entitled "Fortunes in Western Lands," which speculates on the future of gold mining and territory expansion in the western United States, and some business correspondence belonging to Charles Springer, mainly related to his highway activities in Oklahoma and New Mexico. The donor, Rev. F. Stanley, was the author of The grant that Maxwell bought (1952).
mssHM 73257-73268
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Walter E. Scott [Death Valley Scotty] letter to William F. Keys
Manuscripts
In this letter, Walter Scott tells his friend Bill Keys that he got his letter and is out in the mountains with the mules. He would be home in a week and wanted to drop by and tell him what was on his mind. Scott mentions that "they" are going to make a picture and will tell Bill about it when he sees him. Letter is on Walter Scott's letterhead, The Castle at Death Valley, Goldfield, Nevada. Cover is postmarked Goldfield, Nev., 7AM, June 22, 1935. A second postmark on the verso is from Banning, Calif., 8PM, June 25, 1935. Letter is addressed to Bill Keys, Desert Queen PO, White water, Calif. via Banning.
mssHM 30948
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Walter Pomeroy land grant for a lot in Oregon City, Oregon
Manuscripts
Land Grant to Walter Pomeroy for lot no. five, block no. six on Water Street in Oregon City, Oregon. Signed and with an embossed red paper seal by President William McKinley, Secretary F. M. McKean and the Recorder of the General Land Office on September 13, 1900. The Land grant was recorded in the State of Oregon, County of Clackamas on September 29, 1900 with blind embossed seal of Clackamas County.
mssHM 16949
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"John" letter to "my dear aunt,"
Manuscripts
Typescript of a letter sent from "John" to "my dear Aunt," written while he was at sea heading to San Francisco on board the steamer Tennessee. He writes of leaving New York on the steamer Cherokee, canoing across the Isthmus of Panama, the scenery and native people of the area, and conditions on board the Tennessee. He concludes the letter on April 16 after his arrival in San Francisco, and briefly describes lumber and mining prospects.
mssHM 73059