Customer Files, 1912-1930
Sub-Series
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
Scattered throughout the collection are correspondence and deeds in Spanish. Pitt Ross' personal papers include bills, receipts, and business and personal correspondence. The business correspondence covers his work as attorney before the United States General Land Office as well as material covering his term as Albuquerque City Engineer and Surveyor. His personal correspondence contains information about organizations he was involved with such as the Church Erection Fund for the Presbytery of Rio Grande, Spanish Presbyterian Church. Pitt was on the Board of Trustees and his personal papers also include deeds, correspondence, articles of incorporation for the Presbytery of the Rio Grande and some material for Presbytery of Santa Fe. This material concerns the Presbyterian churches at Mogollon, Jarales and Socorro from 1881-1924. Pitt Ross' ledgers cover newspaper, printing and engineering businesses. The ledgers contain listings of business card printing jobs, as well as printing for Cobb Studio photo cards, and for advertising. Also in this series are Pitt's personal cash account books, daily diaries and surveying notes covering 1871-1923.
Edmund Ross' personal papers include records of the Sons of the American Revolution New Mexico Society, Good Citizens' League of Bernalillo County, American Association of Engineers Albuquerque Chapter, Bernalillo County Democratic Central Committee, Las Bocas Irrigation Company and other local organizations. There are folders containing material from Edmund's jobs as Albuquerque City Commissioner, Bernalillo County Surveyor and District Engineer for New Mexico State Highway Department. Edmund’s U.S. Mineral Surveyor files contain his reports to the Office of the U. S. Surveyor General, including correspondence, plats of the mining claims surveyed, field notes and tabling and calculations sheets.
The Ross Engineering Company (Ross Engineering Office) series contains the company's general business records, ledgers/account books, correspondence, customer files, Homestead claims and surveys, maps and job files. The majority of the correspondence is between the company, their clients and the U.S. Land Office. The customer files contain correspondence, affidavits, petitions, receipts, applications to contest, contracts, maps and plats. There is material in English and Spanish. The files are arranged alphabetically by client's name or land grant name. The homestead records contain homestead entry applications, as well as petitions for designation as stock-raising homesteads under the Homestead Law (Act of December 29, 1916). See the Bureau of Land Management General Land Office Records Official Federal Land Records Site at http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ for more information on Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States, including New Mexico.
The job files contain descriptions of mine and land holdings, U.S. government documents relating to private and public land claims and Santa Fe Railroad land holdings. The correspondence between Pitt Ross and Howel Jones, Land Commissioner for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company, and the Santa Fe Pacific Railroad Company concerns railroad land leases. There are quitclaim deeds and oil and mining claims, and correspondence for McKinley County. The same kind of material is available for the New Mexico Oil Land Agency owned by Edmund Ross and J. G. Mayo. Also available are files on Antonio Sedillo Ditch and Reservoir System built 1923-1925 in Valencia County, New Mexico. The project involved the Furneaux Bros., a farming and stock raising company out of Texas. Included are photographs of work done at the dam.
The majority of the Everitt and Ross Family series concerns the Everitt family. There are diaries, financial journals, record books, address books, deeds, wills and correspondence including correspondence from Annie Reynolds Everitt's family in England. Other correspondence belongs to the Everitt daughters, Edyth, Olive and Evelyn. Edyth Everitt's correspondence includes letters received from Harry Jenks from his job sites around America and Mexico 1904-1910. Edmund Ross' letters to his wife, Evelyn, give a glimpse of surveying in rural New Mexico in the mid 1930s. Olive's correspondence includes letters from her family in England. Among the material from the Ross family is a ledger for E. G. Ross and Sons, 1871-1901, and a folder containing correspondence to and about Edmund G. Ross.
The Photographs series consists of 3 folders of black and white photographs, one color photograph, postcards and one cyanotype. Postcards and photographs can be found throughout the collection as well. The subjects range from family photos to job sites to a train derailment and scenic views. Twenty nine negatives have been transferred to a CD, which is filed in this series.
Oversize materials consist of plats, maps and drawings related to the Ross Engineering Company. There are also Pitt Ross' ledgers for 1881-1922, Ross Engineering Day Book 1927-1929, and receivership ledger for El Dorado Supply Company.
Edmund Ross' personal papers include records of the Sons of the American Revolution New Mexico Society, Good Citizens' League of Bernalillo County, American Association of Engineers Albuquerque Chapter, Bernalillo County Democratic Central Committee, Las Bocas Irrigation Company and other local organizations. There are folders containing material from Edmund's jobs as Albuquerque City Commissioner, Bernalillo County Surveyor and District Engineer for New Mexico State Highway Department. Edmund’s U.S. Mineral Surveyor files contain his reports to the Office of the U. S. Surveyor General, including correspondence, plats of the mining claims surveyed, field notes and tabling and calculations sheets.
The Ross Engineering Company (Ross Engineering Office) series contains the company's general business records, ledgers/account books, correspondence, customer files, Homestead claims and surveys, maps and job files. The majority of the correspondence is between the company, their clients and the U.S. Land Office. The customer files contain correspondence, affidavits, petitions, receipts, applications to contest, contracts, maps and plats. There is material in English and Spanish. The files are arranged alphabetically by client's name or land grant name. The homestead records contain homestead entry applications, as well as petitions for designation as stock-raising homesteads under the Homestead Law (Act of December 29, 1916). See the Bureau of Land Management General Land Office Records Official Federal Land Records Site at http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ for more information on Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States, including New Mexico.
The job files contain descriptions of mine and land holdings, U.S. government documents relating to private and public land claims and Santa Fe Railroad land holdings. The correspondence between Pitt Ross and Howel Jones, Land Commissioner for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company, and the Santa Fe Pacific Railroad Company concerns railroad land leases. There are quitclaim deeds and oil and mining claims, and correspondence for McKinley County. The same kind of material is available for the New Mexico Oil Land Agency owned by Edmund Ross and J. G. Mayo. Also available are files on Antonio Sedillo Ditch and Reservoir System built 1923-1925 in Valencia County, New Mexico. The project involved the Furneaux Bros., a farming and stock raising company out of Texas. Included are photographs of work done at the dam.
The majority of the Everitt and Ross Family series concerns the Everitt family. There are diaries, financial journals, record books, address books, deeds, wills and correspondence including correspondence from Annie Reynolds Everitt's family in England. Other correspondence belongs to the Everitt daughters, Edyth, Olive and Evelyn. Edyth Everitt's correspondence includes letters received from Harry Jenks from his job sites around America and Mexico 1904-1910. Edmund Ross' letters to his wife, Evelyn, give a glimpse of surveying in rural New Mexico in the mid 1930s. Olive's correspondence includes letters from her family in England. Among the material from the Ross family is a ledger for E. G. Ross and Sons, 1871-1901, and a folder containing correspondence to and about Edmund G. Ross.
The Photographs series consists of 3 folders of black and white photographs, one color photograph, postcards and one cyanotype. Postcards and photographs can be found throughout the collection as well. The subjects range from family photos to job sites to a train derailment and scenic views. Twenty nine negatives have been transferred to a CD, which is filed in this series.
Oversize materials consist of plats, maps and drawings related to the Ross Engineering Company. There are also Pitt Ross' ledgers for 1881-1922, Ross Engineering Day Book 1927-1929, and receivership ledger for El Dorado Supply Company.
Dates
- 1912-1930
Language of Materials
From the Collection:
English Spanish
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Collection: 10 boxes (9.22 cu. ft.) + 1 oversize folder
Repository Details
Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository
Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451
cswrref@unm.edu
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451
cswrref@unm.edu