It belonged for a period of time to Luis Terrazas and was sold by him for the formation of a colony of South African refugees from the Anglo Boer War.
He hired Reeve Merritt and Marshall Latham Bond to represent him before Terrazas and the government of Mexico.
The Humboldt colonists already beginning in 1908 to emigrate to more active Mexican towns like Ciudad de Chihuahua and farming areas like the Mesilla Valley, New Mexico near El Paso, Texas in the United States.
"La colonizacío bóer en Chihuahua y el suroeste de Estados Unidos, 1903–1917.
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