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This file contains typed and handwritten correspondence, primarily from H.C. Barr to Henry Watts. These letters contain personal news and discuss the weather and crops in Alberta (including the effects of an ongoing drought), excitement about oil discoveries in the area, news of other farms and businesses, and advice about the availability of work and viability of land sales. The file also includes one letter from Leighton and Gilbert Company to Henry Watts requesting the payment of interest from an account.
This file contains a handwritten letter from H.C. Barr to Henry Watts. The letter discusses a miner who wishes to buy land owned by Watt, a new law that levied a tax on undeveloped farmland at 1$/acre, Barr's steps toward collecting unpaid commission from O.N. Gilbert, and information about land managed by the Pittsburgh-Alberta company.