'Provisional' Arrieta issues

San Jose de la Boca

Recently a typewritten five peso voucher from San José de la Boca in the northwest of the state, dated 22 October 1914, and supposedly signed by Arrieta and Juan B. Fuentes, has appeared. This is a companion to the ten peso voucher^{[image needed]} that was already listed in catalogues.

These were a local issue and not acknowleged by Arrieta in his later listing.

The other 'provisional' issues comprises notes with legends referring to both Topia, in the northeastern Sierra Madre, and Durango. They consist of a $1 from Topia and a $5 and $10 from Durango dated December 1914 and another $1 from Topia and $5 and $10 (two types) from Durango dated March 1915.

All are very primitive, with simple typefaces, handwritten numbers and a ‘Gobierno Constitucionalista’ validating seal on a blank back. They carry the names of Arrieta, as governor, and Juan B. Fuentes, as secretary. Some values have the letter ‘S. B.’ , ‘S.C.” or ‘S.D.’ which suggests at least four S[eries] ( -, B, C, D). Possible reasons for these makeshift issues are a failure of the Guadalajara firm to deliver, and the primitive resources some of Arrieta’s supporters found at their disposal.

Topia

On 26 November 1915 Epifanio Hernández wrote from Mexico City to governor Mariano Arrieta asking him to exchange $5,000 in vales issued by Domingo Arrieta in Topia^{ADUR, Fondo Secretaria General de Gobierno (Siglo XX), Sección 6 Gobierno, Serie 6.7 Correspondencia, caja 7, nombre 57}. On 3 December Mariano Arrieta told Hernández that he could not do anything and Hernández should apply to Domingo Arrieta, in Monterrey^{ADUR, Libro Copiador 303, Telegramas 23 April 1915 - 10 April 1916, p372}. On 4 December Secretario Interino F. Castaños wrote to Arrieta in Monterrey (and Saltillo) that the people of Tamazula and Santiago Papasquiaro, knowing that they had to exchange the Arrieta notes as well as the Topia boletas had come to the city to do so. He was telling Arrieta so he could sort it out when he came to Durango^{ADUR, Libro Copiador 303, Telegramas 23 April 1915 - 10 April 1916, p380) and likely ADUR, Fondo Secretaria General de Gobierno (Siglo XX), Sección 6 Gobierno, Serie 6.7 Correspondencia, caja 7, nombre 57}.

Durango

Some notes are dated December 1914.

In a later telegram to Carranza^{CEHM, Fondo XXI-4, telegram Arrieta to Carranza 13 January 1916} Arrieta acknowledged that he had issued the following amounts. These might be just the Durango notes or might include the Topia notes (above).

A second issue was dated March 1915.

A typo ('dsl' instead of 'del' in the title) is known.

Again, in his telegram to Carranza Arrieta acknowledged that he had issued the following amounts (figures in telegram corrected^{ibid. Arrieta's telegram suffered from omissions and mistakes in transmission. It read: 'TENGO EL HONOR DE INFORMAR A ESA PRIMERA JEFATURA QUE EL MONTO DE PAPEL MONEDA EMITIDO POR MI EN ESTADO ES DE $3.118,437, COMO SIGUE:
EMISIÓN DE AGOSTO DE 1914, BONOS DE A $5.00, SERIE “A”, DEL NÚMERO 1 AL 10,000 $500,000 (SIC); BONOS DE A $5.00, SERIE “E”, DEL NÚMERO 1 AL 10,000 $500,000; EMISIÓN DE DICIEMBRE DE 1914, BONOS DE A $0.50 SERIE “F” DEL NÚM 1 AL 200000, $100,000; BONOS DE A $1.00 SERIE “F” DEL NUM 1 AL 400000, $400,000; BONOS DE A $5, SERIE “F” DEL NUM 1 AL 41000 $205,000; BONOS DE A $10.00, SERIE “F” DEL NUM 1 AL 30000, $300,000. EMISIÓN DE AGOSTO DE 1915, BONOS DE A $5.00 DEL NUM 1 AL 1000, $25,000. PROVISIONALES EMISIÓN DE OCTUBRE DE 1915 BONOS DE A $10.00, SERIE “A” DEL NUM 1 AL 400 $406,000; PROVISIONALES EMISIÓN DE BONOS BLANCOS BONOS DE $1.00 DICIEMBRE DE 1914 DEL NUM 1 AL 24677, $24,677 (PROVISIONALES), BONOS DE A $5.00 DICIEMBRE 1914 DEL NUM 1 AL 16084 $80,420. BONOS DE A $1 MARZO DE 1915. “S B” DEL 1 AL 17000 $10,000; BONOS DE A $5.00 MARZO 1915. “S B” DEL 1 AL 23292 $116,460; BONOS DE A $10.00 MARZO 1915 “S B” DEL 1.00 AL 20250 $202,500, BONOS DE A $10.00 MARZO 1915 “S A” DEL NUM 1 AL 10991, $109,910; BONOS DE A $10 MARZO 1915 “S D” DEL 2624 AL 6221 NÚMEROS REPETIDOS $35970. TOTAL $3,118,437 (TRES MILLONES CIENTO DIEZ Y OCHO MIL CUATROCIENTOS TREINTA Y SIETE PESOS) SALUDOLO ATTE. EL GENERAL E J DE LA DIV DE DURANGO'.
So he admits to issuing $3,118,437 but his list only totals $3,015,937 or when corrercted for obvious errors $3.024,947 so the unlisted issues made up another $93,490,}):

Known numbers suggest that at least the $10 Series SD total is incorrect.

So, to summarise the Durango issues: