Identity elements
Reference code
Name and location of repository
Level of description
Box
Title
Papers and Maps
Date(s)
- 1860-1963 (Creation)
Extent
10 Folders
Name of creator
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
7/1: Papers and maps containing "Information which may be used to file suit against Vidaurri trying to recover 300 acres around the Dolores Ranch, Zapata County, Texas", 1916-1960.
7/2: Same as No. 6 A and including an August 29, 1961, history of the Dolores Ranch founded by Cosme Martinez, 1961-1963.
7/3: Oral Deposition and answers of Mercurio Martinez in connection with the case of Enrique Martinez et. al., vs. Maria Vidaurri de Herbst, et. al., December 7, 1961.
7/4: Papers, maps and correspondence related to the new case of Martinez vs. Vidaurri, 1927-1962.
7/5: Accounts of episodes in the Laredo custom's district by Mercurio Martinez, 1959.
7/6: Copies of "Magazin de La Prensa", 1941.
7/7: Picture of Mercurio Martinez pointing at the two stones placed at Canada de San Andres by Spanish surveyors and picture of the stone house built by Cosme Martinez at Dolores Ranch in 1860.
7/8: Correspondence and papers related to the Dolores settlement road case, 1961-1962.
7/9: Copies of deeds, notes and other records related to the Martinez-Vidaurri land controversy.
7/10: Primarily correspondence between Mercurio Martinez and his son, Mercurio Martinez, Jr., and nephew, Antonio Martinez, 1956-1958.