Platte River Development Association: Applications, 1923-1924

The Platte River Development Association Collection contains material documenting the activities of an unincorporated oil company dating 1920 to 1926 and a privately owned supply company dating 1911-1919. It contains the general business records of the old Platte River Development Association and the new Platte River Drilling Association. It contains the general business records of the old Platte River Development Association and the new Platte River Drilling Association. Included are both the old and new association correspondences, by-laws, minutes of trustee meetings and holders of beneficial interests, legal forms; agreements and declaration of trust, irrevocable proxies, beneficiary certificates and receipts from the Platte River holding Company. The collection also contains the receipts and expense records from the Platte River Development Association, Platte River Drilling Association and the Atchison and Hildebrand Company. Also included are special agreement papers from the Drilling Association and financial statements from the Development Association and the Atchison and Hildebrand Company. The C.L. Atchison letters and the business correspondences from the old and new Platte River Associations are all valuable assets to the collection as they examine in detail fraudulent activity found within the business as well as detailing the association’s development as a profitable enterprise.