Content Description Letters received primarily by Manley M. Gillam regarding his association with the Pecos Irrigation and Improvement Company. The letters, sent during 1893 and 1894, are from investors in the Pecos Irrigation and Improvement Company, Charles Eddy, William Bonbright, and C.C. Blodgett. The letters discuss opportunities in southeast New Mexico with the enterprise. Mr. Gillam, who was an advertising and newspaper man from Philadelphia, appears to have purchased some land in the Pecos Valley and...

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Pecos Valley land and water transactions. Includes court case files, Desert Land Act applications, water appropriation rights and New Mexico State and Territorial records of Lincoln, Eddy, Chaves, Otero, and San Miguel counties. The bulk of material focuses on land and water rights, and the access to streams and ditches.