Box 1

Scope and Contents An agreement between the representatives and Tomas Cordova to build an acequia so the people of La Joya de Sevilleta Land Grant can use it to farm the land. The representatives had met with Cordova to reach the accord. A law was passed on January 1, 1874 that authorized this acequia on the grant. The direction and lands through which the acequia will run are given in the letter. It will intersect with the acequia madre, filed with Socorro County on December 20, 1887.

Scope and Contents Most of the material in folder 2 is in English. There are two documents in Spanish transfering land ownership from individuals to the Board of Trustees. Contains several mining leases, one for 99 years to G. L. Rule in 1911, a second mining lease to T.B. Everheart and J. H. Batchelder, 1917, and a third mining lease in 1918. Includes an option to buy 16,000 acres for $2.00/acre to H.O. Bursum in 1911 and another to Jose Epitacio Torres in 1914 to buy 20,000 acres at $1.85/acre. Also Trustees'...

Scope and Contents Agreement between Trustees and Engineer Louis R. Goldbaum for a mining lease for gold, silver, zinc, coal, natural gas, etc. Redemption certificate receipts from the Office of Treasurer and Collection, Socorro in 1921 for taxes for 1912, 1913, and 1914. An agreement extending a lease for oil and gas with H.O. Bursum. Official complaint, asking for $200 against Juan De Dios Griego for trespassing sheep, damaging grass and grain and using the waters on the Grant without permission. Another mining...

Scope and Contents This folder contains a quit claim deed, letters on various topics such as payment for allowing grazing and bees on the Grant and the 1931 election of trustees, land lease contract to pasture sheep, petitions to Trustees to claim land on the Grant, warranty deeds, etc., also includes a document listing a tax by the Trustees to raise money for legal costs to challenge in Federal Court Thomas Campbell's purchase of the grant community land. Some of the Trustees listed on these documents are Ramon...

Scope and Contents Partial list of documents in collection, miscellaneous notes and correspondence, ballots for manager and commissioners of the acequia, and ink blotter.

Scope and Content From the Collection: The records of the Board of Trustees of the Sevilleta Grant consist of sales tax records, quit-claim deeds, warranty deeds, receipts, bonds, correspondence, lists of owners, mining, oil, gas and grazing leasing agreements, documents concerning water rights, petitions for land, options to buy land and ballots for the manager and commissioners of the acequia. This collection contains material in English and in Spanish. The material in the folders are arranged by date. The records of...