Letters to Senator Henry W. Blair 1895.

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Letters to Senator Henry W. Blair 1895.

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Promoting the Pacific City Colonization Company, a proposed colonization scheme with construction of a railroad in Topolobampo, Sinaloa, Mexico. Portion of a draft of a prospectus also included. With these: letter, Nov. 27, 1881, to the Senator from W. A. Winder concerning an attempt to lease the Coronado Islands from the Mexican government.

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Winder, William Andrew, d. 1903.

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Pacific City Colonization Company.

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Blair, Henry W. (Henry William), 1834-1920

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U.S. senator and representative from New Hampshire, and lawyer, of Plymouth, N.H., and Washington, D.C. From the description of Papers, 1873-1908. (New Hampshire Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 70961428 ...

Owen, Albert Kimsey

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Albert Kimsey Owen (1848-1916) traveled to Mexico in 1873 on a surveying trip for the future Mexican Central Railroad and saw Topolobampo Bay, Sinaloa. Owen dreamed of a railroad linking the United States through Texas to this Mexican port and planned a cooperative colony to be founded on the rich agricultural land nearby. The Mexican government granted him permission to form the Texas, Topolobampo & Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company in 1881, and the first colonists began to arrive in 18...