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Land & Buildings Correspondence (1957-65), 1957 - 1965

 File — Box: MS98.02, Folder: MS98.02.19
Identifier: Folder MS98.02.19

Scope and Contents

Gill Place – Willcutt interest in buying irrigation pump.

Pacific Power & Light Co. (increase size of substation on property).

State Highway choosing route (Big Horn – Bozeman Trail Highway – 1964).

Map and lawyer correspondence.

Letter from Henry Old Coyote (Office of Solicitor, Dept. of Interior) to Mr. Hyden, Associate Solicitor.

Fencing – Ko-Dek Land Co.

Mortgage of O.E. Lee & Co. (1953) – (2).

Dana Ranch – Willcutt interest in buying it (1963).

Estate of Louis R. Fousek.

Mountain States Telephone – proposed buried cable and map.

Correspondence on passing of deed from Crow to Willcutt (1964).

“Reposed” title of land – Crow Act of 1920.

State highway (Yellowtail Dam – Billings – Crow I.R. – Edgar).

Objection by Willcutt lawyers – “isolate from water many thousands of acres of grazing land…”

Acquisition of George Scotts land being leased by Willcutt’s (80 acres – 1963).

Offer by C.B. Brown to sell “a lot of land” (1962).

Reappraisals of deeded land.

Contract to sell real estate owned by Willcutts to Clarence Keeler.

Agreement to develop cabin sites on Big Horn Canyon where Yellowtail Reservoir will be (1961).

Insurance claim response regarding pump (40 miles south of Hardin on Big Horn River).

Invitation, Bid & Award (Sale of Indian Lands – 1961).

Allotment #2001 (480 acres - $6,723.00).

Appraisals of farm improvements.

List of land holdings (1961)                             deeded = 13,316.80 acres state leases=2,692.19 acres Indian office leases = 14,800.89 acres Indian competent leases = 33,466.29 acres deeded land belonging to individuals other than W’ TOTAL = 67, 428.24 acres.

Request for “Quit Claim Deed” by Ed Kopac’s lawyers.

Cancellation of Insurance Policy.

Letter informing of decision not to build new house by HWW.

Letter accompanying 3 deeds to Crow land purchased for $3,036.50; allotment #’s 786 (120 acres), 2968 (160), 2969 (80) – 1961  etc…

Invitation, Bid & Award (Sale of Indian Lands – 1960) allotment #’s 783, 785 (360 acres - $3,620 acres) and allotments already mentioned.

Private letter responding to bid by W’s for land.

Invitation, Bid & Award (Sale of I lands) – 1960 allotment #3373 (477.80 acres - $7,211.50).

Invitation, Bid & Award (Sale of I lands) – 1959 allotment #364 (140 acres - $1,128.00).

Invitation, Bid & Award (Sale of I lands) – 1959 allotment #316 (318.70 acres - $3,552.00).

Letter from W lawyers concerning interest in buying allotment #’s 1790, 2275, 2568 from Chester Medicine Crow (1958).

Response of J.J. Sullivan to W proposition on buying land offer of $4,500 for 280 acres.

Offer by HWW, Jr. to Richard F. Burla for 320 acres across Woody Creek.

Ed Kopac to HWW concerning Woody Creek shared pasturage.

Response from Burla – declining offer.

Response from Sullivan  - declining offer.

Response to M.H. Tschirgi regarding the financing of acreage (8,000) in 1957 land trade.

Offer to Tschirgi for land SW of allotment #1069.

Response to HWW’s letter reprimanding Kuchera Furniture & Appliance Co. for taking shovel and leaving gate open.

Letter from HWW to Kuchera.

Offer by Kuchera to sell barley.

Minutes from meeting for control of grasshoppers (May 1957).

Map of Ranchers in:  Township 5 South 29 East, Township 6 South 30, Township 5 South 30 East.

Letter accompanying deed of Josephine Three Irons to HWW.

Letter to Ray Prine about working/labor for summer.

Letter/Contract of Release of Pacific Power & Light Co. for damage caused by dozer blading (1955).

Statements of Consumer Capital Credits Allocation (1962-65)

Dates

  • Created: 1957 - 1965

Conditions Governing Access

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Extent

From the Collection: 13.00 boxes

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Creator

  • From the Collection: Willcutt (Family)

Repository Details

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