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AMF.RICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
Mrs Bear unless I can get the 100 Do• for Browne-- If my Father should come to Little Rock you may tell him that I wish to go to the Mouth of White River to live if I can take any thing there to begin with and if that cannot be done I shall go down the Mississippi and seek employ STEPHEN F AUSTIN The Postons had no intentions to injure you by what they have done but to befriend you and keep others from attaching who would not have been as :friendly as they will- [Addressed:] Mr. James Bryan Little Rock.
w ILLlil{ w ILLIAllS TO MosES AUSTIN
Geneva 12 June 1820
MosEs AUSTIN Esqr Sm
This is an introduction quite out of all rule yet I hope you will have the kindness to admit it- The subject I would address you upon is the Manufacturing of window Glass in your state. From a Geographical view of that country I look upon it as pos- sessing advantages in the manufacturing of window glass far super- ior to any other part of the United States-Amongst which its vicinity to the lend mines is not the least-The proper sand and clay (two articles of the first importa0;ce) I understand also may be had very convenient- . Altho lead on account of the expense is not commonly used in the making of window Glass yet where it can be ·procured so easily as at your place it may be rendered very useful-:The Glass will be heaYier and of finer texture and will of consequence sell more readily in a market where there may be a competition- . . A Glass Factory may at present (labours being with us so much lower than usual) be erected and put in full operation with a capital of about $4000 cash and a store of goods of 6000-making together Ten Thousand Dollars- The cost of making Glass at. these Works for a year past has been at an average of abo.ut three dollars uncl sixty cents per box (fifty feet) it is now made for $3.19 per box-Notwithstanding that a rent of $2000 per annum is paid for the works-A friend of mine who tr:n·e]ed through your country about eighteen months ago told me the article sold at your place then at seven dollars and fifty cents a
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