Description
The Inyo Canal
Company Records consist of receipts, financial records, correspondence, and stock agreements
related to water rights and associated land transactions and stock agreements in Inyo
County, California. The Nevada-based company was organized to transport Owens River water
for irrigation and other purposes. The correspondence is primarily addressed to Trenmor
Coffin. Some letters document on-site work supervised by F. McIver. Payroll records note the
names of specific individuals, except for the individual hired to cook. The hired cook is
referred to only as "China Cook," reflecting discrimination against individuals of Chinese
descent during the Chinese Exclusion Act period. Several receipts document transactions in
Lone Pine and Independence, California. Stock sales agreements between the Inyo Land Company
and William J. Sutherland of London, England, and Henry A. Herbert of Muckross, Ireland
document foreign investment interest in land and water in the American West in the late 19th
century. The records are arranged in folders by record type, and then
chronologically.
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