1925 – Series of letters registering an Arizona cattle brand in Sonora and requesting permission to transport livestock between the United States and Mexico
Sonora, Mexico to Arizona: 1925. In this series of five typed letters, exchanged between 4 August and 9 November 1925, the Little Boquillas Ranch near Hereford, Arizona registers a cattle brand for use in Sonora, Mexico and arranges a meeting to obtain approval to move cattle across the border. In Spanish, but translated transcripts will be provided. All in nice shape.
On 4 August, the General Treasury of the Sonoran State replied to a query (not included) from the Cananea Cattle Company of Sonora, either on behalf of or in partnership with the Boquillas Land and Cattle Company, informing it that the cost to register a new cattle brand was $15.30.
On 19 August, the Treasury notified the Boquillas Land and Cattle Company that it’s application to register a cattle brand with the Titulo de Marca de Herrar could not be processed because it was in a foreign language (English) and not Spanish.
On 1 October, the General Treasury informed the Boquillas Land and Cattle Company that it had reviewed its brand registration request and that “no mark of branding was found equal or similar to the one referred to and designed [and] in August. . ..”
On 9 November, the General Treasury informed the Boquillas Land and Cattle Company request that it would be willing to discuss the reexportation of imported cattle.
It is likely that the brand registered by the Boquillas Land and Cattle Company was one of the two listed in the 1921 Brand Book for the State of Arizona (shown in the image but not included in this lot; available online).
. Very good. Item #009962In 1833 the Mexican government issued a land grant of 18,000 acres to Rafael Elias Gonzales family titled San Juan de las Boquillas y Nogales (Saint John of the Little Springs and Walnut Trees). These first settlers initially were successful, but the Apache soon drove them out, and the land remained unpopulated until after the Gadsden Purchase of 1853, when some Americans attempted to settle in the region but were, likewise, driven off.
American settlers returned after copper and silver were discovered near what became Tombstone and Bisbee, this time in mass. In 1880, San Francisco businessman George Hearst took advantage of a forgotten Gadsden Purchase clause and purchased the entire Boquillas land grant from Elias Gonzales's descendants and sold some land parcels as ranches, farms, etc. After George Hearst's death, his son, William Randolph Hearst, sold the remaining property to the Kern County Land and Cattle Company which formed the Boquillas Land and Cattle Company. This new company established the Little Boquillas Ranch and evicted the squatting American homesteaders.
The ranch remained in operation until it was purchased by the Tenneco Oil Company in 1971 which exchanged it for other land with the Bureau of Land Management . The Bureau of Land Management then used the ranch to establish the San Pedro National Conservation Area. (See Wikipedia for more information.)
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