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7Historical
Sketch (First entry, p. 37)
town, which he proposed to call Encina.38 His choice was a fortunate
one, for Thielepape was a talented artist.39 To him, perhaps, rather than
to Black, should be credited the intrinsic beauty of the town whose streets
and plazas the two cut out of the forest of. live oaks on the Leona.
Thielepape divided the tract into 464 lots, 4 plazas (one of, which was
designated courthouse square), and laid off 7 streets.40 On Nay 9,
Black paid himl $58 for his work.41
Elcina' s' first months were discouraging. Before the surveyor's
work was completed the garrison at Fort Inge was moved to Fort Clark,42
After the withdrawal of Federal troops, Lipan and Seminole Indians began
raiding and plundering the region. When Capt. James H. Callahan and his
Rangers failed to defeat the Indians in a fight that led them into Mexico
in October 1855, 43 many families gave up their frontier holdings and
moved back to San Antonio.44
Undaunted, Black began to push a plan for organizing local government.
h en the legislature convened in 1855, he had ready a petition
asking for the creation of a county embracing the territory now included
in Maverick, Kinney, and Uvalde Counties, to be called Uvalde, and with
its county seat at Encina. The settlers on the Leona favored the plan,
and it was also approved at Eagle Pass, Las Moras, and at the Patterson
settlement. The petition bore 80 signatures, representing all sections
of the territory to be organized except the upper Sabinal region.45
W. H. Cleveland, representative, introduced the bill on November 8, 1856,
and it received a favorable committee report on December 10. 46
IWhen passage seemed assured, Encina had its first real estate boom,
In the 2 weeks following the corrmitted's report, Black sold 12 lots.47
The final action of the legislature was, however, a disappointment to
Encina citizens. Kinney, Maverick, and Uvalde Counties were created
from the territory Black had hoped Uvalde would embrace, and the county
seat of Uvalde. was not designated, but could be located anywhere within
8 miles of the center of the colnty,48
UJvalde County organized its governmental units at a special election
on April 21, 1855. G, , Brown, of Fort Inge, was chosen chief justice;
38. Moore, Reading ., Black, pp. 18, 19,
39. Esse Forrester-O'Brien, Art and Artists of Texas, p. 35.
40. Moore, Reading I. Black, p. 19.
41, Ibid., entry on May 11, 1855, p. 75.
42. Bertha Dalton, "History of Fort Inge, on the Leona River," Frontier
Times, I (Oct. 1923), 10, 11, hereinafter cited as Dalton, "History
of Fort Inge,7 Frontier Timps..*
A43. Walter P. Webb., The Texas Ranges, p. 146.
44. Moore, Readin . Black, p. 19..
45, Memorials and Petitions, file 92, no. 2, Texas State Library.
46. -H. Jour., 6th Leg,, pp. 17, 209,
47. Deed Record, vol, A, p. 27; vol. C,. p. 31; see entry 42.
48. Gam. Laws, TV, 252,
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