THE AUSTIN' PAPERS. 419 Costa de la Mar y sobre los dos caminos por conciguiente mas c6modo para la emigrnci6n. Despues elegiclo el citie para el Puerto formare el est.ablecimiento cercano de el, entre tanto los que estan establecidos, ya lcventaran sus Cosechas con que poclran ayudar a estos que ballan en el Otoiio venidero. Me parece muy conveniente •que entre •estos nuevos pobladores tubiesen vno que hiciese las funciones de Juez de Paz; he nombrado (salvo la aprovaci6n de V.S.) a Don Jose Dell [Bell] Juez de Paz estrechandole que de todo lo que observare·de ellos y hiciese diese continuamente parte a Y.S. el expresado-Dell ha sido muchos afios mi vecino en la alta Luciana. y ha tenido siempre la fama de vn hombre de bien, su familia con- ciste en vna muger, y dos hijos, y tres negros Esclavos. Espero de .Ia bondad de V.S. que lo que he hecho meresca su Superior Aprova- cion; estoy de V.S. el mas ovediente y su respectuoso servidor. Este- van Austin. P. D. Pienzo estar en Enero en San Antonio, y pasar de alla. a la nueva Colonia para Colocar estos individuos que presumo entonces abran ya. llegado.
AusTix TO ANTONIO :MARTINEZ
Nackitosh October 13, 1821-
His Excellency Governor MARTINEZ, Sm I had the honor of addressing you a letter dated on yester- day, giving an account of my proceedings relative t-0 the new Colony. I now write·you on a. Subject of deep interest to the progress of the new Settlements in Texas- • On mv •arrival here I found near one hundred Letters from the neighbo;trhoocl of where I formerly lived in upper Louisiana (now called Missouri) and many from Kentucky and other places re- questing information relative to settling in the Province of Texas. and I am convinced that I could take on fifteen hundred families as easily as three hundred if permitted to do so- • The distance to St Antonio is so great and the journey is con- biderecl ·so hazardous and expensive that men in moderate circum- stances a.re deterred from going in person to apply for permission to settle-and there are many other obstacles in the way, I have therefore thought that the settlement of the Country wd- be greatly facilitated, an~ kind and character of those who emigrate would he much better, if the whole superintendence of the Emin-ration t:, from the U. S. was intrusted to one agent whose general knowled~e of the American character, and particularly of the people of the western country and n.lso of the situation and lands of the Province of Texas would enable him to conduct the formation of the sett.le-
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