Mining

Opposition of Motopore vecinos, including Young Juan Baptista de Anza, to appointment of Joachin Joseph de Rivera as justicia mayor on grounds Rivera is unqualified for position and is son of a mulatta woman. Rivera denies racial slur. Mention of unspecified Indian raids, unrest. (T. Sheridan) (1976)

Although incomplete, a very good visita very thorough, covering Ranchos, estancias, haciendas, mines, some stores, labor. Official accounts mixed with local accounts. Excellent for geography and census information. (T. Barnes) (1976)

Very thorough visita of the region of San Francisco de Cuellar by the governor. Excellent census and economic information. Visita included haciendas de labor, haciendas de Sacar Plata, minas y tiendas. (T. Barnes) (1976)

Order form the viceroy on abuse of Indians in Sonora by landowners, miners and government officials. Re-states regulations on Indian labor and wages and land use for stock- raising adjacent to Indian lands. Also reprimands government officials in Sonora for taking matters into their own hands which belonged in the jurisdiction of the governor of Nueva Viscaya. (T. Barnes) (1976)

Raphael sells his 25 year old Negro slave to Antonio for 370 pesos. (T. Barnes) (1976) additional slave sales- 0646-0648- 1 Mulata, age 22, 450 pesos. 0646-0648- 1 Mulata, age 3, 450 pesos. 0659-0661- 1 Mulata , age 37, 470 pesos. 0659-0661- 1 mulato, age 3, 470 pesos. 0665-0665- 1 Mulata, age 2, 100 pesos. 0683-0684- 1 mulato, age 35, 800 pesos. 0683-0684- 1 Mulata, age 35, 800 pesos.

This list is not complete, but helpful still for geography and general status of mining. (T. Barnes) (1976)

Indians of the Valley of San Bartolome are ordered sent to towns and new missions at the juncture of the Concho River and the River of the north. This is contested by the land and mine owners of San Bartolome. Good history and social- organizational information presented by land and mine owners, by Indians, by Franciscan priests and by the governor. (T. Barnes) (1976)

Describes part of a quarrel between land owners and Jesuit missionaries in Sonora. This leads to a question of who had political and judicial authority in that province. (T. Barnes) (1976)

Cause criminal against Nicolas de la Gandara and Gregorio Romero, a Mulatto, for theft of some silver from Cathalina Garcia de Valdes. (T. Sheridan) (1976)

Documents concerning Diego Franco's attempts to denounce as abandoned San Francisco mine belonging to deceased Diego de Maturana. Includes documents concerning mining accident in 1709 which killed 2 laborers, injured 4 others. Maturana's heirs Argue that mine placed under embargo after accident and therefore couldn't be worked. Shortly after Franco award possession of mine, his servants attacked by Indian, Mulatto servants of several other men. (T. Sheridan) (1976)