THE AUSTIN PAPERS. 11 have requested him to take.them out for me, and on my account, and to draw upon me for the amount. I have to request you, that you will pay as early attention as possible to having them laid, and to the best advantage, and to have them returned into the Office, and whatever e:xpence may attend it, I shall be ready to pay it. if there should be any more remaining vacant, I shall be obliged to you if you will inform me of it, and also of any land that there may be, to be disposed of in the neighbourhood of the mines, with the particulars, such as the situation, quality, and price, respecting it. I have only to add, That I have recd- the Article of agreement be- twixt you, yr brother, and me, and the deed for the Lead Mine tract, but those two, respecting the property at Lynchburgh, and Richmond, have not yet reacht me, which I must request you to attend to, and to send forward, which will oblige Yr humble Servt THO-- RUSTON . [Addressed:] Mr. Moses Austin at the Lead Mines Wythe County Virginia-
THOMAS Rus-roN TO ~IosEs AusTIN
Philadelphia Sept: 23d: 1794.
Srn The bearer Mr Jos: Burr is a gentleman, who has been in the practice of attending surveys of land, for the pru·pose of making observations on the soil, situation, climate, waters, rivers, timber, mines, and such other things as may tend to give a compleat and perfect knowledge of their nature and value. It is with this view I have sent him on to view the lands we are taking up in the neigh- bourhood of the mines, and have committed to his care Virginia Warrants for Two Hundred Thousand Acres of land in addition to the Ten Thousand Acre Warrants, which I forwarded before, and which you have recd· . In your letter of the 16 th • of August which I have recd· you men- tion two propositions with respect to the terms upon which you wish the land to be taken up, one with regard to the fir.st, the other respecting the second Two Hundred Thousand Acres. and you say that you had agreed to let the surveyor have 30,000 out of the first two Hundred Thousand Acres, he paying the expences. do you mean the surveyors fees, ·chain carriers, and other incidental expences. With regard to your two propositions, I do not see the propriety of your making any distinction betwixt them. the expense and trouble attending the one will be as great as that of attending the other; and
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