Pasturage Notice
A legal notice from a Mesa City rancher seeking the owner of a stray horse and payment of pasturage fees, offering a glimpse of frontier property law in practice.
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Mesa Free Press · June 29, 1900 · Page 1
1 min readNotice is hereby given that I have in my pasture, about 3 miles southwest of Mesa City, Maricopa County, Arizona, one dark bay horse branded K. H. on left thigh, aged about five years. That there is a pasturage bill due me of $40, by the owner whose name is unknown to me.
The owner is requested to come forward and pay charges or the animal will be sold as provided by law.
David T. Hibbert.
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