Notes

Part I. Formation

4. Emigration Preparations

3. Mangum Sun-Monitor, December 11, 1902. See note 2 above.

4. Mangum Sun-Monitor, December 11, 1902. See note 2 above.

5. A minute of contract and guarantee is an archaic legal term used in property law as an agreement.

6. Mangum Sun-Monitor, December 11, 1902. See note 2 above.

7. Mangum Sun-Monitor, December 11, 1902. See note 2 above.

8. “A Colony Meeting,” Mangum Sun-Monitor, December 25, 1902, vol.12:1, No. 52.

9. Escandon, located in the Mexican state of Tamulipas, was a rail stop along the Mexican Central Line.

10. “Rate question,” Mangum Star, January 1, 1903, vol.15, No 26.

11. Mangum Star, January 1, 1903. See note 10 above.

12. “Route to Mexico,” Mangum Sun-Monitor, January 8, 1903, vol.13:1, No. 2.

13. Mangum Sun-Monitor, January 8, 1903. See note 12 above.

14. “The Blalock Mexico Colony,” Mangum Sun-Monitor, January 22, 1903, vol.13, No. 4.

5. Legalities

1. “Is turned down,” Mangum Star, February 5, 1903, vol. 15: 1, No 31.

2. “Claude Blalock Married,” Mangum Sun-Monitor, January 29, 1903, vol. 13, No 5.

3. Mangum Sun-Monitor, January 29, 1903. See note 2 above