Show FIRST RECORDS OF SAN JUAN COUNTY the Hist historical iori cal record survey is a project of nationwide scope it was set up for the purpose of securing an inventory of the city county and state public records from the material gailie gathered red by research workers a condensed inventory will be published which will give descriptions and the locations of all public records in the state in delving through the records workers encountered many interesting items harry D P abbott acted as research worker for the project in san juan county hugh oneil state editor of the survey listed the following items as encountered in san juan the first records of the san juan county court are dated april 26 1880 it shows the appoint metri of armed guards guard s to protect tax collectors against hostile indians on november 28 1832 1802 a meeting was held at which eleven miners attended for the purpose of organizing the gabel mining district to protect their mutual interests they adopted tules rules and regulations for its administration aaion defined its boundaries elected officers anc and defined def ined their duties karl arl A snyder secretary of the meeting was elected first district recorder on april 21 1903 a deed dead was recorded conveying certain public land by jamb jacob johnson district judge to jens niel nielson ison a bishop of bluff ward of the mormon church A photograph is located in the pioneer lo 10 log cabin in monticello which shows the first church building in shiff constructed about 1880 it was a log cabin building preston B albright director 0 of f the colorado survey list some of the finds of his workers as mr air holmes at castle rock reports that he found a document which tells of o f an election held in 1874 to decide upon the pr permanent manent location of the county seat of douglas county colorado the result of this election caused tire the county seat to become loca batea aca on certain certain described and designated signa ted piece of property which by order 6 bithe ahe board wit was to tobe se a town by we na name afe of castle rock the lad described was wag deeded to the county of bo douglas f duglas uglas I 1 by jermiah benniah Jen niah M gould for the consideration of the turn sum of one doll dollar iii this meeting ting therefore there fore on april 7 18 1864 not only gave a permanent per manint location to the county seat of douglas county but also by virtue of the 66 power of one doli I 1 lar created the ikin town of castle rock which town b has increased in value somewhat since that time mr 1 crow a worker in canon city located an unconditional union ticket for 1860 ISCO for abraham lin in coln coin and andrew andrev johnson ari an official guard pais pass through the army lines to fort pickering dated 1865 confederate states of america five and ten cent paper money 1863 1868 1866 these items are arc from a private collection belonging to jonathan seamen clerk of the district acourt court at canon city colorado |