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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
of your letter to Mr Ware, to him. j\fr ,vare will leave this for Philadn in fom·· or five weeks and as it is uncertain how long I sha.11 1·emain here, as I only wait advices from you to determine my future course; I have told him I would request you to write directly to him on the subject and at foot I give you his address also that of Mr Taylor. • This is not a new project of Mr Wares, he has given his attention to the subject for some time and has better information respecting the colony than any ma.n I have ever met with. On my own subject, I shall get to the Colony in some mode if my solicitation be granted and shall not engage in anything until I know the fate of it. My wish would then be to go to England if I could raise capital enough, to make arrangements for a direct trade,-to procure my equipment and goods at the first European cost, with english artizans and laborers to erect my buildings etc at a cheap rate-and at the same time see what could be done with live oak timber, rail road etc. If a contract could be made for sup- plying_live oak for His Majestys Dockyard it would throw great wealth into the Colony. There is a rail road building here, such an one might be built in the Colony at an expense of 3,000$ pr mile,¾ of which expense would be in the Iron ways, which might be dispensed with; a railroad of live oak would not cost over 1,000$ per mile. I wish you would advise me of your intentions respecting the Hawkins lands, it occurs to me that if you were to set off the lands on the east side of the river it might interfere materially with any arrangement for live oak-besides circumstances might render it advisable to purchase their right or the lands when set off Wbo if: their agent here~ Europe is in a very disturbed state and in all probability we shall soon have a general war there, revolution in Spain and very possibly in Ireland if not in England, These circumstances will drive a large amount of European capital and labor to this side of the ocean if matters can be managed in the colony to preserve tran- quillity and security and the policy of the Gov~ continues to be liberal Texas will spring into importance with astonishing rapidity. HENRY AUSTIN I give you the address of Mr. ,i\r on the envelope
AUSTIN ·ro SA~IUEL M. WILLIAMS [From W1lllnm11 Papers, Ro~••111J,•rg Lll,rnry. Gulve11to11, 'l'rx.]
Saltillo ·March 5. 1831
DR Sm. I recd nothing from you or anyone ·from Texas by the last mail- your last letter Jany. 25. I 11m really uneasy that I got nothing
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