384 people of Red River were having apprehensions of their safety and are making preparations to move. Very respectfully your obdt servant JOHN J. Goon No. 269 LETTER FROM J. T. HALE TO GOVERNOR H. R. RUNNELS Uvalde Oct the 29th 1859- To His Excellency H R Runnells Governor of the State of Texas, Sir, I have the Honor To report to your excellency the first scout made by my company On the 17th inst I received word from Medina County that Indians had passed down the Country on the 18th I was prepared with a good Scout to Start in that direction when I learned by Mexicans that Indians passed up the Country between this place and the Rio Grande on the Eagle Pass Road (that the Indians had crossed the Eagle Pass Road west of the Chicon on the 17th) I therefore proceeded with a Se- lect Company of men and took the Eagle Pass Road to the Chicon On the night of the 19th it Rained upon me and my men So we could not Sleep on the night of the 20th 21st and 22 we were soaked in Rain. On the 20th we found a trail west of the Chicon going up the Country above the Chicon but it rained so that it was impossible for me to follow the trail that evening that night it rained all night and entirely obliterated all Signs made before on the night of the 22nd and indeed all day it Rained so I could not travil or hunt for trals After Making All the Search I could for the Trail I proceeded up the Country hoping agin after the Rain to find the trail going up the County travilling up the Chicon above the El Passo Road we struck across to the head waters of the west fork of the Nueces Camping on it Two nights and Scouring all its Branches east. Nothing but old indian Sign was found but let me there re- mark that that was in abundance) We Struck across for the mid- dle or main prong of this Nueces and in a day and a half reached it finding no real fresh indian sign but several camps that they had but recently left On the Evening of the 27th we got to the old Spanish Mission on the main Nueces. This is a beautiful Coun- try or Valley Calculated for the Industrial thousands to find a
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