----- Forwarded Message ---- From: Norman Kincaide <norman.kincaide@yahoo.com> To: kincaid@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, December 9, 2008 11:03:03 AM Subject: Deeds and legal descriptions Dear Kincaid listers, I hope this message reaches you all in a timely fashion. I have been researching the deed and legal descriptions of the Sanford/Kincaide ranch where I grew up in Pueblo County, CO. My Dad asked me to look into a matter in which his name was still attached to our ranch which was sold in 1983 to the Pueblo Bank & Trust Co. So I went to the Pueblo County Court House, a beautiful grand building that was awe inspiring when I was a kid and especially when the Christmas lights decorated its grand ediface. I found that my Dad still had a fraction of mineral rights attached to two lots, one of 24 acres and one of 28 acres in section 21. But the section number was incorrect (it should have been section 20) and applied to a section to the east of where our ranch was. I verifed this with the Mapping office in the court house. So the lesson here is if the section or the lots in a deed don't match what is indicated on the map or the survey there may be clerical error in the legal description or on the survey itself. This error had been carried on the original deed for the mineral rights in 1985 and not discovered until I looked at the deed and brought it to the mapping department and the mapping director and I looked at the interactive map that showed the wrong section, a section that belonged to one of our neighbors and was never part of our ranch. So this has inspired me to look further into the origin of the Sanford/Kincaide ranch in Pueblo County, CO. So I am going to look at all of the deeds pertaining to W.I. Sanford, my step-grandfather, who started farming and ranching in Pueblo County, CO in 1911. Sincerely Norman Kincaide