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President. Gonzales on the Guadalupe, on the same river, Vic-
toria. La bahia on the St. Antonio River &c. Matamoros is a large
Spanish Town 25 miles of the gulf on the Rio Grande, there [are]
all sorts of people here, and in a commercial point of view it is
the most important place in all Cohuila and Texas. Here there
are some heavy importations of goods for home consumption
This place is resorted to from many of the interior States-
Durango, Chihuahua, Zacatecas, Tamaulipas, Sonora, and Santa
Fee. I am told all trade to Matamoros. The population of this
place is said to be 2o,ooo. There are many other large Towns on
the Rio Grande.
The whole of Texas and Coahuila is a fine country and will
eventually be thickly settled. the part that pleases me best is the
Colorado country, next is the Nevadad. Then there is the Oyster
bayou, Cany, Peach Creek, Brazos, Barnard, Guadalupe, and
from information the red river country, all delightful countries
-all possessing equal advantages in regard to rearing stock of all
kinds, lands as good as they can be, and pretty plenty of water.
Thus far I have described the country in its best light--Its soil,
its productions, its water, its timber, its Towns, &c. I will now
make a few remarks on the other side of the question.
The most serious objection to that Country is the unsettled
state of Government, and there is no prospect of its being better
soon, but worse. there is at this time every prospect of war be-
tween citizens of Texas and the other states of that restless
republic.
Another objection is the injury done the citizens by the nu-
merous wandering tribes of Indians which infest every part of
the country their principal occupation is horse stealing, but
when they find a man unarmed with a good horse they generally
kill him and take his horse and clothing, and whatever he may
have that they take a fancy to. there we [re] 8 men killed and
robbed in the bounds of Austin's Colony during the 3 months
I remained in the country. there was nothing done by the people
in retaliation, but what could they do, for they might as well
undertake to retaliate on the numerous tribes of ravenous beast
railroad town of Edna. See Johnson and Barker, History of Texas and Texans, 675;
I. T. Taylor, The Cavalcade of Jackson County (San Antonio, 1938), 98.
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