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regiments supplied, are occupied in distributing the stores to the
posts where they are required. The cost of hired transportation from
Indianola to San Antonio has averaged during the year $1.15 per
hundred pounds; by the public trains the cost ranges from $1.05 to
$1.1o. From San Antonio to Forts Terrett, McKavett, and Chad-
bourne, distant, severally, about 150, 17o and 230 miles, it is esti-
mated the cost of transportation in wagons driven by soldier team-
sters is 89, $1.07 and $1.43, respectively, per one hundred pounds.
The price paid for corn is 40 cents per bushel of 65 pounds, and
for hay (under a contract of last year), $11.44 per ton of 2,000
pounds. The hire of labour averages monthly $2,765, which is ex-
pended in the payment of clerks, acting forage masters, storekeeper,
mechanics, labourers, teamsters, (citizen and soldiers) herders, watch-
man and cook. The monthly purchases amount to about $5,9oo; the
quarterly disbursements, to $14,250. The commutation paid for offi-
cers quarters is $1o per room, and for fuel, the contract price of
$4.25 per cord.
Besides the establishment at the "Alamo," there is a large Corral
on the Salado, five miles from San Antonio, where the animals ren-
dered unserviceable by wounds, or from being overworked, are sent
to be recruited. Here having full liberty of action, with abundance
of excellent grazing, they soon regain their health and strength, and
many valuable horses and mules that would otherwise be condemned
and sold at a sacrifice, are thus saved to the public service.
SUBSISTENCE DEPARTMENT.
This department is under the charge of Capt. L. B. Wood,1o 8th
Infantry. The provisions are partly stored in rented buildings and
partly in the Alamo, though they will all soon be removed to the
latter, which is more convenient and secure. The rented buildings
are occupied under a lease which expires June 30, 1853. The rate
paid for them by the Quartermaster's Department is $20o per month.
The amount of property on hand is small, but a four months supply
is on the road and daily expected. The stores are generally good,
particularly those shipped from Baltimore, which are represented
to be superior in quality and better put up than those furnished
from New Orleans. Provisions usually keep well at this place. Capt.
Wood reports that pork has retained its sweetness perfectly for more
than two years; flour is never kept on hand more than seven or eight
months during which time it rarely deteriorates. The posts supplied
loLafayette Bowyer Wood graduated from the United States Military Academy
in 1843. He was breveted first lieutenant September 23, 1846, for gallantry at
Monterrey, and captain August 2o, 1847, for gallantry at Contreras and Churu-
busco. He died October 19, 1858. Heitman, Historical Register of the United
States Army, I, 1055.169
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