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tract craw.fish lnnd, still the position is pleasant Flores creek fresh and I think the situation would be healthy- You appear to be in error as to the league Survey'd for Clark it does not reach Flores creek-the distance from oyster creek to Flores is 8 or 10 Miles the island of timber in the centre•of Clarks league is full seven miles this side of Flores Creek The land on this side Flores Creek is good praire with a narrow skirt of timber one or two miles down Bastrop creek below the forks. Should my solicitation be granted I ~ould like to have one league between Clarks survey and Flores Creek half a league wide and running down Bastrop creek for quantity. I am told Chocolate creek comes within one league of Austin creek or of Bastrops somewhere near the junction of Austin and Flores-and that there is plenty of timber on Chocolate at that point, I should like one league running through from creek to creek just for a higlvway to get in timber for my buildings For the fourth league I should like to embrace St Louis Island, the Island with trees on it .and so much of the point of main land along the coast as would make up a league on joint acct This will one day be valuable for making salt for a position to accommodate shipping, as a fishing station and for pasturage for cattle which must ultimately be driven there for shipment. ' You will say I am reckoning my chickens before they are hatched-but I mention these things that in case the concession should come on you may know what lands I should like to have reserved if circumstances will permit it- I see no reason why Viesca should not comply with his declaration to Doct Grant, but Smith under date of August 29 th -says nothing of having received any papers from Saltillo- the amount of his letter is that my buildings remain rented at 60$ pr month without a prospect of sale and Mr Grant writes he hopes to send forward the proceeds of my bar silver shortly Mexico is truly a land of promise ! • ! but it requires a deal of patience to wait the performance. As for the future my first object is to free myself from the em- harassments of the steamboat concern and should my concession be granted to come here with all the means I can command to make a permanent location and give my best efforts to the promotion of the interests of the Colony- It would however be folly for me to de- vote the remainder of my life to the occupation of a league of land I must do something on an extensive scale with prospects of ulti- mate advantages of magnitude or do nothing, you and I may in- dulge our imaginations with the pleasing prospect of passing the remainder of life in the tranquility which a snug stock farm appears
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