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PAPERS OF MIRABEAU BuoNAPARTE LAMAR
[Endorsed] Petition for relief of lVIrs Mann June 1839
No. 1294
1839 May 23, E. WALLER TO M. B. LAMAR, [HOUSTON] 88 City of Austin, lVIay 23d. 1839 His Excellency l\I. B. Lamar Dear Sir I received your favour per 1\1r. Pilie. Your instructionns shall be attended to. I do not .at all fear a scarcity of hands. The timber for your house is getting out; please inform me what position it would best please you to have it placed in; a central one or one more retired. Timber suitable for building purposes is scarce upon the town tract, but I am quite sanguine in the hope of being able to procure a sufficiency for onr purposes. I think it would be desirable to procure printed Title Bonds and notes and have them in -readiness for the sales, such a measure being likely to afford a saving of time and expense at a time when there will be a press of business. The Senatorial candidates from this district are ?IIessrs Lester & Billingsley. The former will I think be elected. The people throughout this section seem to be right. I was highly pleased today with a remark made by Mr Barton one of our oldest citizens and for a long time the frontier man. 'I1hese were his words-- "D-m the people of Houston and Galveston, although they are the Presidents enemies the people of the Colorado, the bone and sinew of the country are his friends. I have lost but two days since I arrived at this place which were employed in pursuing a party of Mexicans who were encroaching upon us and who were overtaken and beaten by Capt. Andrews' Company. This trip afforded me an opportunity of seeing some of the country beyond the mountains which although a fine country is not equal to that on this si.de which is truly beautiful country- one where the admirer of the beauties of nature can find that which will highly please him in the scenery he meets with; and where the cultivation of the soil will find that more substantial quality which pleases hini, a soil rich as he could desire. As we approached this section that which a few hours before we called beautiful we found to be surpassed by that before us, and so on each successive day until we arrived at our destination. An agreeable admixture of hilly and prairie land in just the proper proportion to please the eye and answer the purposes of the farmer together with a rich soil render the country a most desirable one. Numerous clear running streams intersect the country at short distances affording an abundant supply of pure water. This location is a most elig~ble one in many respects. The "L. S. (by proxy).
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