Prospero Alexandro de Albarado rents the hacienda Santiago for 5 years to Jose Maria Gutierrez de Riva under the following conditions- de Riba has rights to all irrigation water. de Riba must give 1/2 of all wheat grown under irrigation to Albarado. (de Riba pays expenses) maize will be divided once the harvest is in. Any crops de Riba grows on dry-land will be all his. (P. Hayes) (1977)

Miranda, Parral Vecino, petitions to be allowed to take water from River to run his ore reduction works. (T. Sheridan) (1977)

Rodriguez, Parral Vecino, complains that Moreno, Owner of Santa Rosa hacienda, refuses to let him take water for home/ ranch use, even though Canal irrigating hacienda fields passes through Rodriguez' ranch. Rodriguez claims water owned in common. Good description water rights, legal distribution of water. (T. Sheridan) (1977)

Gobernador Barrutia, noting that water shortages in real de Santa Eulalia have forced shut down of several mines and refineries, proposes the construction of a Tanque to catch rainwater runoff from surrounding mountains. (T. Sheridan) (1977)

Testimony in a dispute between the Jesuit colegio and Bartholome de Soza over rent of land belonging to the colegio. Contains information on water rights and availability, as well as some Indian agricultural practices. (R. Perez) (1977)

Gobernador Quigue and Indian naturales of Curcurpe bring suit against Francisco Montes, alias "el Pintor," a Pima Indian who married a Cucurpe woman, annexed much land around a small plot she owned north of Pueblo, and managed to win control of Cucurpe's source of irrigation water. El Pintor accused of: 1) embargoing water, thereby causing many fields in Cucurpe to fail; 2) engaging in the malas costumbres de sacar vino (bacanora?), getting many Indians drunk; 3) assaulting padre Luis Velarde, causing el Pintor to be fugitive in Pimeria Alta before he came to Cucurpe. When asked by a priest to stop making vino, el Pintor replied that "cuando todos lo dexaran lo dexaria el." Much information on land tenure, title registration, etc. Reference to estancia del padre quino 4 leagues upriver from Cucurpe. Includes testimony of many Cucurpe, Tuape residents, including mulatto, mestizo, Spaniards and Indians. (T. Sheridan) (1977)

Following raid of 600 Indians on presidial horseherd of Monclova, virrey orders campaign against invaders. Alday organizes troops, supplies. Documents include lists of vecinos from Santa Barbara, Parral, Huexotitlan (including those of color quebrad, Coyotes y mestizos), and soldiers from Conchos, Cerrogordo, Mapimi, Pasaje, Gallo presidios and Compana volante de Campana participating in campaign. Arms-mounts noted. Also, include rosters of 339 Tarahumara auxiliaries from 34 pueblos. Campaign unsuccessful. Hostile Indians never encountered. Not enough water found. Expedition postponed until tiempo de aguas. Names of hostile Indians not given. (T. Sheridan) (1977)

Concerns grant of two sitios de Ganado mayor with saca de Agua along Rio Florido to Martin Pacheco and possible infringement on lands of Tarahumaras, Tepehuanes from San Miguel de las Bocas*) (1976)

Shortage of wood in the Valley of San Bartolome produces litigation as to who owns what. The lack of trees has caused erosion, leading to floods and washed out fields. Farmers accuse miners of denuding forests. Case goes to the Audiencia in Guadalajara. (T. Barnes) (1976)

Civil case disputing the use of water between a Hacendado and various Indians working on haciendas in the area. (T. Barnes) (1976)