Portales Ranch Baron Payroll — Roosevelt County

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Portales Ranch Baron Payroll — Roosevelt County

Lost Treasure NM • Roosevelt County County
Description
Portales legend of a ranch-baron payroll cache near the Roosevelt County seat — home of Eastern New Mexico University and the Portales Springs ranching country.
Historical Notes
Portales developed around natural springs on the High Plains and became the Roosevelt County seat in 1903. The town anchors the ranching and peanut-farming country south of Clovis and north of the Caprock escarpment. Open-range barons and early twentieth-century ranch managers appear in eastern New Mexico treasure guides as figures who buried emergency specie in draw country before rural banks matured on the plains. Coordinates mark downtown Portales in Roosevelt County southwest of Clovis.
Status / Verification legend — Legendary or approximate

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