These tax receipts are for land owned and mortgaged by J. B. Watkins, the J. B. Watkins Land Mortgage Company, and the Orange Land Company. This includes personal property in Lawrence, Kansas (Douglas County). Certificates of redemption for land that the states were bidding off to pay back taxes are also included. The tax receipts and certificates of redemption both include the county name, the name of the original grantee, the number of acres, and the amount of tax.

There is miscellaneous correspondence between the Land Mortgage Company and various county treasurers concerning the accuracy of the tax assessments. For some years, there are lists detailing the lands mortgaged in some counties. These typically include the number of acres of the plot, the farm number, the tax due, and may include the name of the current landowner and the original grantee. A complete example is the tax information for Texas in 1897.