Personal Correspondence, 1951-1979

File — Box: 48, Folder: 2-3

Identifier: VIII

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Series: The section on lands comprises fourteen boxes divided into two parts. The two parts are: A. the Nine Mile Ranch, and B. Scrip. The Nine Mile Ranch section, in Boxes 40-48, contains materials relating to the corporation's main ranch, also known as the Headquarters Ranch, located northeast of Price, Utah. Box 40 contains papers dating from the original acquisition of the Nine Mile Canyon Ranch in 1902, as well as correspondence, agreements, notes on right of ways and easements on the Nine Mile Canyon road, and papers dealing with the Blair Farm near Myton, Utah, also known as the "hay ranch." Box 41 documents a lawsuit over the ownership of Range Valley, Nutter vs. Niles. Offers to purchase the Nine Mile Ranch, made to Preston Nutter over the years, are filed in Box 42. Box 43 contains materials from various governmental agencies, such as the Utah State Land Board, the U.S. General Land Office, and the Federal Land Bank. This box contains land patents, leases, deeds, and other land ownership papers.

The papers in Box 44 concern range improvement programs sponsored by the Soil Conservation Service and the Bureau of Land Management in which the Nutter Corporation participated over the years. Box 45 contains miscellaneous papers detailing their relationship with the B.L.M., including Virginia and Howard Price's comments on the Green River Wilderness Proposal, and B.L.M. requests for right of ways. Box 46 documents several fires which occured on Nutter Corporation land, including one in 1964 which spread to nearby public land and burned several thousand acres. The resulting lawsuit, United States vs. Preston Nutter Corporation, is fully covered by the records in 0his box. Box 47 deals with the on going problems caused by hunters on Nutter Corporation lands. Correspondence, leases, and the papers from the sale of the Range Valley lands to the Wilcox family are filed in Box 48.

The second part of Section VIII deals with scrip certificates. Since most of them were used on the Arizona Strip, many of the documents in Boxes 49-53 pertain to lands in that state. Box 49 contains correspondence about scrip, with scrip dealers, lawyers, and government agencies from 1900 1970. Box 50 concerns mostly one particular certificate, Sioux Half Breed 567 E, which Virginia and Howard Price tried unsuccessfully to redeem for cash in the 1960s and 1970s. Boxes 51-53 contain records of another type of scrip often used by Preston Nutter, Forest Reserve Lieu Scrip. Box 51 documents Preston Nutter's use of the scrip, and an attempt by the Prices in the 1960s to use his remaining certificates to file on forest land in Oregon. Boxes 52-53 contain photocopies of two case files of the U.S. General Land Office, labeled Phoenix 013384 and Salt Lake City 05354, which were obtained by corporation attorney H. Byron Mock for Preston Nutter Corporation vs. the Secretary of the Interior.

Dates

1951-1979

Conditions Governing Access

Twenty-four hour advanced notice encouraged. Materials must be used on-site. Access to parts of this collection may be restricted under provisions of state or federal law.