THE AUSTIN PAPERS
powers to authorize me to commence it, upon my own plan or one of your own suggestion, J[osHUA] CHILD Col Ph Austin
AUSTIN TO ELIAS R. WIGHTMAN
DR Sm, I hnve sent Mr Selkerk for the purpose of making up another ~et of hands so as to start another compass. The work that is wanted will not be a very profitable job and rather bad runing. I wish the coast meandered, beginning at Jinnins' camp on Colorado ond meandering down to its mouth, thence along the coast to the Karankaway Bay. I have understood that you had taken up a school and couln not leave there to survey. if this be the case I wish you to let Selkerk have your compass. If it is in any manner injured I will pay you its full value or should you wish to sell it I will give you Eighty Dollars cash for it. I wish you to speak to Burnham for the use of his b'est perogue to take fresh water and provisions along the coast. We cannot do without it and will pay for the hire if Burnham will not lend it. Considering the badness of the running and the quantity of work that must be done before Leagues can be run off I think that this job will not be an object of sufficient importance for you to quit your school. After the coast is all meandered the creeks must nlso be all meandered and a general plot of the whole made and then laid off in Leagues so that it will not be a profitable job for it is probable that not more than one third of the Leagues will be taken for some years-you can do as you please- If you want this job you have had the promise of it, nod can get it. I shall wait here untill the meanders of the coast are all completed. I think the best plan will be to let Selkerk have the compass. Shall come by :Matagorda on my return. s. F. AUSTIN Jany 24, 1830 [Addressed] Mr. E. R. Weightman
R. STOWERS TO AUSTIN
:Mon Clover Jany 20 1830
MY DEAR Sm
I have just rec 4 pr the hands of Antonio l\fonches letters from the U. S. bearing the disa.greeable and unpleasant informution of
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