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#MittieMoore NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE UNDER EXECUTION | Roswell Daily Record Saturday, March 5, 1932
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NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE UNDER EXECUTION 

By virtue of an execution issued out of the District Court of Chaves County, New Mexico on the 25th, day of January 1932, in the suit of Flora Bell, Administratrix, plaintiff against Mittie Moore Wilson, defendant being No. 6799, on the Civil Docket of said Court, upon a judgment rendered in said cause on behalf of the plaintiff in the sum of $367.09, an interest and all cost. I have levied on the following described real estate as the property of said defendant to wit:-

Sections 17 and 18, Township 14 South, Range 24 East, N. M. P. M., subject to mortgage of $462.50, in favor of Bloom Land And Cattle Company;  Also lot 14, Block 8 Thurbers Addition to the City of Roswell, Chaves County, New Mexico; also lots 23, 25, 27, and 31, Block 5, Thurbers Addition to City of Roswell, New Mexico, subject to a mortgage of $2988.39 in favor of Chaves County Building and Loan Association.

Notice is hereby given that on the 24th day of March 1932 at the hour of 10 o’clock a … of said day at the West Front Door of the Chaves County Court House. I will sell said property or so much thereof as is necessary, subject to said mortgages, of the highest and best bidder for cash, to satisfy said execution.

Dated this the 26th of February, 1932

JOHN C. PECK. Sheriff

By E. L. PECK, Deputy

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#BillyYoung #TaxDeeds | Roswell Daily Record Friday, March 2, 1979

Notice of Public Auction of Property Acquired by the State of New Mexico by Tax Deeds

Friday, March 2, 1979, Roswell, New Mexico-page-001.jpg
Friday, March 2, 1979, Roswell, New Mexico-page-001.jpg

#NewContract For Deep Test | #BlackdomRenaissance Roswell Daily Record Monday, March 1, 1920
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#NewContractForDeepTest

The Blackdom Oil Company has signed a contract with a California drilling company for a deep test on 4,200 acres at Blackdom south of this city [Roswell]. The contract provides 'that operations must start within 90 days and actual drilling within 6 months and that th'3 hole must he started with a 20-inch casing and must be drilled to 3,500 feet unless oil or gas is found j in paying quantities  at a lesser depth

The Blackdom Oil Company received a bonus of $1.25 an acre and a bond of $5.000 has been deposited in the bank by the drilling company to insure good faith. 

The National Exploration Company is now ready to drill at Orchard Park and drilling at Picacho was resumed again this morning.


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#RefugeForNegroes | Elkhart [IN] Weekly Truth, September 10, 1903
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Santa Fe., N. M., Sept. 10.--The Blackdom Townsite company was incorporated with a capital stock of $10,000. The purpose is to establish a colony of negroes from the Southern states in Chavez county, the name of town to be Blackdom.

Elkhart [IN] Weekly Truth, September 10, 1903 pg 1

Elkhart [IN] Weekly Truth, September 10, 1903 pg 6

Elkhart [IN] Weekly Truth, September 10, 1903 pg 6

#NegroColonyInNewMexico | The Anaconda Standard [MT] Thursday, September 10, 1903

Denver, Sept. 9--A special to the Republican from Santa Fe, N. M., says the Blackdom Townsite company was incorporated to-day with a capital of $10,000. The purpose is to establish a colony of negroes from the southern states in Chaves county, the name of the town to be Blackdom.

The Anaconda Standard Thursday, September 10, 1903 pg 1

The Anaconda Standard Thursday, September 10, 1903 pg

The Anaconda Standard Thursday, September 10, 1903 pg