1'.HE AUSTIN PAPERS 615 tory of not less than one tliousand spindles? With authority to warrant tbnt encouragement I could ensure the establishment of the manufactory at once. I should think both the Govt and Gen' Teran would be favorable to this enterprise. Perhaps it would be judicious to apply to Teran for pecuniary aid for the object as he has funds expressly for such purposes and it might add to the secur.ity of the property if some Govt funds were at hazard as a loan for encouragement-yet it would not be well to be entangled with the Govt in the matter any further than policy might require to make him believe such establishments require encouragement. Mr Ware wishes you to write him on the subject as we may not be here when yom· reply comes I give you his address on the ·envelope. I shall wait here doing nothing until I hear from you. My Sister l\fr 5 Holley now here with the family of Mr La Branch, wrote you some time ngo on the subject of getting land for herself and son Her intention is to accompany my family in case I locate in the colony and her object is to secure some ultimate provision for her son. She has a few thousand dollars which would enable her to make the needful improvements. She is full of the project of reuniting the members of our dispersed and reduced family and forming a society of our own, it is not probable her letter has reachd you. Cannot some arrangement be made to connect the U. S. with the Mexican mail? Correspondence with the Colony is now very uncertain. The Galveston Bay land company in New York are running wild in their operations. Selling land by hundreds of thousands of acres a 5 cents pr_acre, etc. Sending out steam machinery for mills boats etc. I fear they will do much harm by calling the attention of Govt too much to that quarter. I have not recd a line from the colony since I left and know not how matters are going on. Mr Pollet of Nncogdoches told me the other day that the emigrants going in by land had great difficulty there for want of passports. _Some for De- wits colony had been turned back. He had pass" some through des- tined to your colony by engaging to procure passports for them from the Consul here, which the authority snid was indispensable This will cause much disappointment and injury if persisted in. The great numbers of people going into the colony will soon fill up your contracts I beg you will let me know when your power to grunt lunds will probably cease, because if I do go in I may want to provide for some I may take with me. I should be glad also to know, (if you cn.u ascertain witlioitt cal,ling tli.e attention of Govt to tlie supject)whcn the privelege of taking goods into the colony duty free will cease. 1 see the law of April speaks only of provisions and lumber, nnd ex- pect thnt in case I go in I shnll be cnught with the whole length of
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