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Collection Description

Scope & Contents: This collection contains minutes, stock certificates, and other business records related to the company town of McPhee, which was flooded as a result of the Dolores Water Project.

Arrangement: These materials are organized into three groupings (series) as noted below and are chronologically arranged within each series.  The series are organized from highest hierarchical level to lowest; from most general to most specific.

Acquisitions Information: Mrs. Fred (Susan) McPhee Mahony donated these materials to the Center of Southwest Studies on May 7, 1981.  Its accession number is 1981:05001.

Processing Information: The collection was arranged and described by the Center of Southwest Studies' archivist Todd Ellison with the assistance of the Center's student archival assistant Rachael Black for folder data input.  This inventory was prepared by Todd Ellison, March 2005.

Detailed Description of the Collection

Series descriptions
Materials in this collection are arranged by series. The series are numbered consecutively. Because we do not expect to add to this collection, the boxes are numbered in one single numbering scheme starting with 1. Folder numbers start with 1 in each box. Items within each series (e.g., correspondence, reports) and within each folder are arranged chronologically, unless noted otherwise.

Series
1. Board of Directors minutes and annual reports of the McPhee and McGinnity Company (Denver, Colo.), 1928-1938, 4 folders.
2. Stock certificates of the McPhee and McGinnity Company (Denver, Colo.), 1919-1934, 4 folders.  A few loose papers are attached to pages through these four volumes, referring to stock sales, exchanges, attachments, voting, etc.
3. Other records and correspondence of the McPhee and McGinnity Company (Denver, Colo.), 1873-1938, 9 folders.
 
 

Container List
Box 1: McPhee & McGinnity Co. minutes

Folder 1           McPhee and McGinnity Company (Denver, Colo.) minutes of the board of directors, 1928 April 19-1931 Jan. 12.
Folder 2           McPhee and McGinnity Company (Denver, Colo.) annual report, minutes and correspondence, 1931 July 31-Sept. 15 (loose papers separated out from “record of minutes”).
Folder 3           McPhee and McGinnity Company (Denver, Colo.) annual report and minutes, 1931 Feb. 26-1935 Oct. 28.
Folder 4           McPhee and McGinnity Company (Denver, Colo.) minutes of Board of Directors, 1937 April 22-1938 Aug. 1.
Folder 5           McPhee and McGinnity Company (Denver, Colo.) common stock certificates, 1919 June 27-1923 July 17.  Inside the front cover of this volume is a typed list of stockholders on given dates from October 20, 1919, to December 28, 1922.  Some certificate numbers are included on these lists, but the lists are chiefly by name.
Folder 6           McPhee and McGinnity Company (Denver, Colo.) common stock certificates, 1923 July 17-1926 Dec. 31.  Inside the front cover of this volume are seven sheets and slips of various sizes, bearing typed lists of stockholders on dates ranging from December 31, 1923, to January 20, 1926.  The three longer lists include certificate numbers as well as names.

Box 2: McPhee & McGinnity Co. minutes, continued, and other records and correspondence

Folder 1           McPhee and McGinnity Company (Denver, Colo.) preferred stock certificates, 1926 June 15-1934 Oct. 25.
Folder 2           McPhee and McGinnity Company (Denver, Colo.) common stock certificates, 1927 May 31- 1933 Jan. 18.  Inside the back cover of this volume is a typed, undated sheet headed: "Record of changes in stock certificates on account of creation of voting trust."  It lists eight of the certificates whose numbers are included in this volume, but chiefly the numbers run from 17 to 289 (scattered).
Folder 3           C.D. McPhee Contractor and Builder (Denver, Colo.) bills of payment, 1873 May 1 and Oct. 1.
Folder 4           McPhee and McGinnity Company (Denver, Colo.) catalog, 1910.
Folder 5           McPhee and McGinnity Company (Denver, Colo.) correspondence, 1914 Oct. 2.
Folder 6           McPhee and McGinnity Company (Denver, Colo.) correspondence, 1929 June 13-1929 Nov. 7.
Folder 7           McPhee and McGinnity Company (Denver, Colo.) correspondence by Bartels, Blood and Bancroft Attorneys at Law, 1935 Nov.-1936 Dec. (claim of McPhee and McGinnity Company vs. John J. Dowdle).
Folder 8           McPhee and McGinnity Company (Denver, Colo.) correspondence concerning McPhee and McGinnity Company vs. John J. Dowdle, 1937-1938.
Folder 9           Correspondence from Bannister and Bannister law offices, 1941 March 25.
Folder 10         McPhee and McGinnity Company (Denver, Colo.) correspondence by Eaton Young Lumber Company regarding McPhee and McGinnity,1956 July 19, 1956, July 23.
Folder 11         McPhee and McGinnity Company (Denver, Colo.) correspondence regarding court case against Sterling Lumber Company, 1947-1948.