The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 33, July 1929 - April, 1930 Page: 175

                                
The San Saba Colonization Company

ices, printing, and advertisements. Finally the accounts indicate
the purchase of 2 horses and 1 mule for $220.00, the hire of a horse
for Dr. Dorey, catching 1 horse and 1 mule, and hauling a sick man
from camp to Houston.'1
At this point the San Saba Company passes out of the picture
as an exploring and surveying company. When Fisher gave direc-
tions for making the trial balance and said that all items were to
be posted in the ledger, that all accounts were to be closed, if pos-
sible, and that an average loss should be computed, he very likely
had orders as treasurer to wind up the affairs of the company.
What bears out this conclusion is that the newspapers of Houston
did not make any further mention of the San Saba Company until
the spring of 1843. If the venture had been successful, and had
been continued, it is to be assumed that Francis Moore, as one of
the stockholders and editor of both of the Houston newspapers,
would have printed some news or account of the company. The
manuscript material of the period does not make any mention of
the San Saba Company, either.
My interest in the company here changes to its transformation
into a colonization company. After a lapse of almost four years
Henry Francis Fisher, who had been treasurer of the company,
revived it and its objects, at least in part.  He associated himself
with Burchard Miller and Joseph Baker and secured a colonization
grant from President Houston on June 7, 1842. Not being able
to fulfill the terms of this contract, Fisher and Miller got a re-
newal of it on September 1, 1843. They proposed to introduce
1000 families of German, Dutch, Swiss, Norwegian, Swedish and
Danish immigrants. The original contract, and also the renewal
contract, granted to Fisher and Miller a large tract of land lying
between the Colorado and Llano rivers and reaching far into west-
ern Texas.14 It will be seen that this grant included the entire
San Saba country, a significant fact in this connection.
Before Fisher and Miller asked for the renewal of their grant
1sAccounts in Henry Francis Fisher Papers.
14A copy of the original contract is to be found in the Colonization
Papers of the Republic of Texas, 1829-1842, while the renewal contract may
be seen in the Colonization Papers, 1843-1845, Texas State Library. The
boundaries of this grant were as fellows: Beginning at the mouth of the
Llano, thence running to the source of the southern branch of the Llano,
thence due south fifty miles, thence due northwest (North 45 West) to
the Colorado, and with the meanders of this river to the place of beginning.

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