This oversized card advertises the services of T.C. Bailey, a Salt Lake City-based land agent and attorney, for “Pre-emption, Homestead, Desert Land, and Mineral Claimants” and provider of “Mineral applications for Patents” and “Maps, Tracings and Deeds of all Descriptions.” On the verso of the card there is a lengthy “notice to settlers” listing the various ways potential claimants can “save a trip to the city” by providing Bailey with requests by mail.

Before working as a land agent and attorney, Bailey was employed as a deputy surveyor. In 1876, he provided the first written description of Bryce Canyon, declaring it to be “the wildest and most wonderful scene that the eyes of man ever beheld.”