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THE A. USTIN PAPERS.
AUSTIN TO AHUMADA
[Austin's blotter, as cited.] Ahumada sobre Indios
He recibido noticia q. los Indios Tahuacanos y huecos han vuelto a sus pueblos p" cosechar su mais p 0 p• no quednran in sus pueblos mns tarde qe 15 6 20 de agosto qu[an]do saldran p• arriba entre los Comanches y Tahuases EFA DyL SF de A 31 de Julio /26 PETITION FOR EsT.ABLlsII1,rnNT OF A TowN To the Honorable Stephen F. Austin Empresario, Military and Poli- tical chief of Colony No 1- • The Petition of the undersigned Citizens of said Colony most res- pectfully beg leave to set forth and show That Whereas: We the said Petitioners, having viewed the Mata- gorda Bay as the most important and safe Harbor on the Coast of the Department of Texas, and in fact the only one which can, and will be recognized by men of Enterprise both of adopted Mexicans, natives, and those of foreign nations as the general grand, mart and emporium of commerce to which all business must, and will center and a point to which, all the produce of the Country must find its way to the market of the contry, as well [as] that o-f foreign markets by means of the ready admission of vessels of every descriptions which no other port on the coast is susceptable of- And further taking into consideration the ease and facility of a ready communica- tion between that point and the en.stern-by means of an inland navigation-almost furnished by nature from said bay of Matagorda to that of Galveston-These with many other reasons, have directed our attention to said Bay and well knowing the far superior country admiting the most dense settlements and most extensive bodies of productive lands, and the partiality of Emigrants to settle on the Brazos, Bernard, Bay Prairie, and Colorado and the vanity of any calculation-that the western colonies could ever rival or come in competition with this most superior fertile and rich section of the country-Induced us to hope that there might be a possibility of finding a site for the establishment of a town at or near the mouth of the Rio Colorado though every one informing us of its imprac- ticability for want of sufficient depth of water over the Bar etc.- But if this should be the case (which we hope can be overcome by assiduity and perseverence) still we have to suggest to your Honor,
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