Chamizal Title Company records, 1733-1908 (bulk 1895-1908).

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Chamizal Title Company records, 1733-1908 (bulk 1895-1908).

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Deeds, legal contracts, business correspondence, maps, and publications documenting Brewster Cameron's activities as trustee in the Chamizal Title Company's resolution of cases in the dispute over the United States-Mexico boundary between El Paso and Ciudad Juarez. Includes correspondence between the title company, landowners, and officials; deeds, leases and contracts with related family genealogy affadavits, and news articles, pamphlets about the dispute. There are also maps and surveys depicting the shift of the Rio Grande over the years. there is also a small amount of Brewster's Cameron's personal and ranching correspondence.

4 linear ft. (8 boxes).

Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 7418730

Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division

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International Boundary Commission, United States and Mexico

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Cameron, Brewster.

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Chamizal Title Company.

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An area between the 1852 Rio Grande channel and the 1907 Rio Grande channel became known as "El Chamizal" and was the subject of ownership disputes between the United States and Mexico. In 1906, the Chamizal Title Company of El Paso, Texas purchased all the underlying Mexican titles and one-third of the overlying titles to the land within El Chamizal. From the description of Chamizal Title Company records, 1733-1908 (bulk 1895-1908). (Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Divi...

Warder, William

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Samaniego, JoseĢ Alberto

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