THE AUSTIN PAPERS 665 difficulty, for if another surveyor is sent to do the work over again, it will be at your expense Lose no time in attending to this matter and come up as quick ns possible and make a final close of all your work and complete nil your returns. If you delay I shall be compelled to send another surveyor there at your expense a thing which you are aware would be very injurious to you and unpleasant to me. Please remember me particularly to Mrs. Weightman and the rest of your family S. F. A usTIN [Rubric] Mr. E. R. Weightman J. M. GUERRA TO AUSTIN Matamoros, June 11, 1831. See Calendar. ELL\S R. WIGHTMAN TO AUSTIN Matagorda 12 th June 1831 DEAR Sm I feel to Congratulate you on Your return, and have much to say and inquire when your business which (now necessarily presses on your first arrival) shall give you leisure. But Relative to my Surveys and returns It must be remembered that Coast Surveys require four times the work in Surveying as well as plotting to what just square Leagues do, and great time is Spent in hunting land, to suit people such was the fact on, and about, Spring Creek, Mr Hubert Said he believed he could explore and find land that would be taken and If I would let him Survey it he would take the trouble to explore, While I was there; had I known; where, was any land I could soon survey, ec. but no one !mew of any; but it seems he has found some and surveyed-which would other- wise been unknown, I have myself been exploring a good deal over this section and I run back and forwards to Spring Creek for notes which I am now blamed for I could do. little else and my services would be lost to the office. You know I am industrious: But I shall obey every order, and be there, for whatever I may be wanted; and I am expense to myself of paying for the surveying of the land I did not know was found. Some mistakes, I am sorry for; that any should occur, But believa me ever the same
E. R. Wightman [Rubric]
Col. S. F. Austin
Hubert is not much of a Surveyor I did think as he bad been out with me and carried the Compass some that he could run Cor- 88870---28--43
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