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An account of auction ledger for the sale of the Borah ranch. A public auction was held on November 24, 1917. Many locals in the Brush Creek Valley and surrounding towns purchased items at the auction. Alfred Borah, along with his wife, Mary, and daughter, Alda, moved to Phoenix, Arizona following the public auction. James F. Shults served as the auctioneer. Later dates from the 1920s are included in the ledger from business dealings Alfred had in...
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A contour sketch map of the Eagle Vanadium Company's consolidated mines, located along Brush Creek. This map was created in August of 1915. Charles G. Walker, a mining engineer and surveyor, may have drawn the map. According to Alda Borah, Charles "Chas" G. Walker was in charge of surveying all the mines on Salt and Brush Creek.
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A land patent given to Mary C. (Grant) Borah by the Land Office at Glenwood Springs. Dated August 8, 1890. This grant was for the "North half of the North East quarter and the East half of the North West quarter of Section twenty-five in Township five South of Range eighty-four West of the Sixth Principal Meridian in Colorado containing one hundred and sixty acres," and was signed J. M. Townsend, Recorder of the General Land Office.
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A warranty deed, given by Mary Borah to Alfred Borah, dated March 16, 1910. The deed signed over the Borah ranch property from Mary to Alfred. The land had been in Mary's name since August 8, 1890, when the Borahs purchased the property.