Navasota Daily Examiner (Navasota, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 17, Ed. 1 Monday, March 3, 1930 Page: 3 of 6
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model, low mileage cars that must be
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Shortly afterward the mouth of th
river coming from the northwest,
which they recognized as the one that
De Leon had called the Ban Marcos.
It was obvlously the Lavaca. Ascend-
lag the east fork (the Navidad); which
on bis map Cardenas called Bio del
motrtu Santa, they rowed a few miles
but were stopped by a raft of drift
logs. The river was described as being
wtU timbered, which was not true of
the river of the French.
TOming. about they camped some
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road, and on the Gereitas river, there mutton ____.___. —____
the night Next day to wait for day light and the aasiotatwo General Clark's conclusions were re-’a stream which correponds
inquiry at Placedo made it dear to
me that the place which I was seek-
ing was on Keeran ranch, and that I
must see Mr. OlaudeKeeran, owner of
the ranch and a life long resident of
the place. I made bold, therefore, to
call him up by telephone, introduce
myself and toll him of my errand. He
was interested at once, and generously
volunteered to co-operate. At his sug-
gestion I rode out seven miles that
night in a wagon with Mr. Vickers,
who was boring a well on the Keeran
, " 4 eud returned by the west- the valley with Cardenas’ roup and de- 1,
ermbu uannef till diopped by n raft seription showed that he had dolineat- ,
cf drift M whene they turned back, ee correctly every important hend in -
-deseending by another channel, Con- the stream. and had even-plced on]
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opped at riacodo station, having be-
On the twelfth the party began the est point of the elif-like bank of, that
explorntion of the main bay, to the stream. The place is between Malden
east. Coursing along the north shore. Mott and lotto's Mott, but consider- 1
they passed the mnouth of Carancahus ably nearer the former than the 1st- i
bay and camped some distance east of ter. The spot is the vantage point of
E . Lavaca bay, where they camped op-
1928 Chevrolet Cabriolet — Well
folks if you want a quality car
that has thousand* of miles in it
here’s your chance. Red duco, mo-
tor Ok and generally checked
sold with the Ok that $350
wii’darcs river. At the same difficulties wheh Im
time that I secured the Oardenas map,
1 ter the first tone obtained a copy of
the official map of De Leon's expedi-
tion of 1090. This contains a small
outline map of Matagorda bay which
is quite as aocurate in general as the
Cardenas map, and shows the Garei-
tax and Iavca bay. On the Gareitas,
just where Oardenas puts. it, is shown
the "Pueblo de los Franceses." Mani-
festty this map contains data secured
by the Llanos expedition.
One of the tests of a scientific hypo-
thesis is whether it is contradicted by
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sw, but dismissed asinconelusive.'we find plenty of confirmation evi-
About seven years ago C. C. Small, denor. The Siguenza map of De Leon's
one of my students in tie University expedition of 1080, which has long been
of Texas, on the basis of Joutel's jour- known and has been published, give
nal and such Spanish documents as a somewhat crude delineation of Lava-
"were then available, reached a similar.ca bay in general, but shows with
' conclumon though he attempted no] reasonable correctness the western
l or ercheologicai confir-shore and its inleta, which DeLeon
subsequentiy both bis and visited, and places the French fort on
te an elevadhon on the wet bate l-------------
I 'the Gareitan about Hie mite above W m too of the
V ita mouth: where he tound the rematne dependently reached the concluslon to
of an ancient settlement. "i i * " hat hieee5 mma beih with
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to lodge his men and all the rest of report, took me to the spot, and in-
his train, in order thence to conduct formed me that, like most "old rites”
them to his settlement. It is Inferred. In the Southwest, it had long been an
therefore, that his vessels did not boy'object of attention to treasure seek-
beyond this point— here being insuf- ' era. It is exactly where Cardenas’ map
nicient water — whence he conducted shows La Salle’s settlement, on the
all that he had in launches and bank of the Gareitas river, about five
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some, dependable used car, bearing
the red tag “with an OK that counts.”
This signifies that the car has been
thoroughly reconditioned by expert
mechanics to top-notch appearance and
performance.
See our big selection of makes and
models carrying the famous red “OK
that counts” tag. Buy today and save!
yone who will take the trouble red, adobelike blocks, apparently of
mpare a modern map with that baked red clay. Subsequently, Mr.
by cardenas will be strek by Keeran has found it .to be two ate a
ceuracy of the lafter, and will be half feet thiek and to inclose an area
with admiration for the engi- ninety feet square. From the surface
i sxill His merit was recognised of the ground I gathered a handful
e officials in Mexico, and on his of small fragments of antique blue
r to Vera Crux he received the and white porcelain. The story of the
il thanks of the viceroy for his finding of the "vases", which made its
le work. . ,gd2 way into the daily pesto, is a pure
t bearing of the Cardenas report fiction of the reporter, for which I am
map upon the location of La in no way responsible. Mr. Keeran
gcolony is obvious. They simply tod me, with full cireumstantial de
the matter once for all and with- tails, of the unearthing on the spot,
dmmnment The settlement was on some thirty yeras ago. of half of an
arbas river and not on the La immense copper kettle, nearly a yard
as has been supposed. This I in dinmeter. It was exhausted at
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fifty miles away. The Ban Mancoe
referred to was obviously the Lavaca,
as shown on Cardenas’ man Start-
ing with the Lavaca as the site of the
French fort, Joulet’s report of • La
Suile’s last expedition to the eastward
raises difficulties regarding the
streams at every part of pis journey.
e The spot White 4 had already come, both with
was doubtless the same to ttet which’regard to La alle’s death place and
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the used car you buy has veen
given best of attention by for-
mer owner. This oar driven
very carefully and in best of
condition with new top and
and new paint. Come in and
look this real bargain over ita
going with the Ok that counts
for
$225.00
Sra as esigt ihe eastern mouth of the riv- colony is no enow for surprise. A
53 or «; Un ur fifteen wiles to a point careful comparison of the toposrahy '
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TA tinnnz rhstward up Matagorda bay his map west of the river and below
1 ... fo ra short distance on the seventeenth the French fort the small lagoon now
2ib then i rued back coasting Mata- known as Red Fish lake.
X; gorda peninenla. looklug for an outlet The archeological remains of the
to the auit, and crossed to the west settiement, so far as we ascertained,
are ,,f the has. where they rcamped aire not extensive, but they are palp-
y I r Point Connor. able and of certain charaeter. Before
with this cmp as a base, severe I we went to the rite Mr. Keeran stat-
86 Mays were spent in exploring and ed that years ago there were distinct
5 sophdine the channel. While here a remains of an ancient wall. but feared
soldier died and his body was thrown they had entirely disappeared. But
.Into the bay. Finally, on the twenty- he wns mistaken in this, for we easily
ninth, they crossed the bar. Into the found the wall, then jost visible above
8 gulf, and set sail for Vera Cu, which the surface of the ground, and without
s 9 they reached on the ninth of December, any digging were able (p tract it for
2fter an absence, of fiftynine days. many feet. The wall is made of large.
It unden the shelter of a red cliff and all the country round. To the south,
a gunshot from a spring of fresh wa- west, and northwest, stretch indefi- 1
ter. This plate, which was apparently nitely the great level prairies. now
near Well Point, can perhaps be’identi- sprinkled with a recent growth of mes- ;
fled by residents of the locality. Next quite, but in la Salle’s day an open
day they coutinmd eastward to Fresn prnirie dotted with buffalo herds. in ,
punees hay. returned, rounded Half- trout lies a beautiful little valley thru .
moon Point and proceeded east. which winds the Gareitas river, a good
omfhe fifteenth they entered a sized stream, from a hundred to a
sul inlet, mid then continned east hundred and fifty feet in width, and
ta a lagoon at the mouth of a large stil navingable with a lauhch for a
river which formed a delta. This uumber of, miles, above its mouth. On ■
stream wns clearly the Colorado. Car- the other side the valley is hemmed in ,
e ne mHrd I ike Triljdlad. no doubt liy a range of low hills which. off to,
thinttes it was the str herin the uorthwest, (fade away into the:
th • • which De Leon hud crossed greut plain lying east of Victoria. The
P< is. ixt th rhe. sixteuuth they choice by La alle of the spot for his
* night by a party ot treaanre
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the Keeran ranch, had elicited the
fact that on a bank overlooking the
Garcitas river were ruins known in
the neighborhood tradition as “The
Old Mission", but otherwise unex-
plained. Mr. Keeran confirmed this
lug early expeditions lu Texas tham
Hun Marco river described by D»
Leon aa from three to rix leaguen eum
of The River et the Frencn-, bas
been taken by students to be the Colo-
radu, a stream which in fact to a good
or harmonizes with individual pheno- But with a correct start his itinerary
mena. As might be expected, the sub- i« easy to follow. Starting too tar ena
stitution of truth for error on this students .have come out too far sate
fundamental point of the location of | *■
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B. Stanton, one te my
* two miles above the junction on an ranch, spending the night in the camp
elevation described as a red bluff, ad-as Mr. Vickers’ guest Next morning
mtrably adapted to fortification and aq we were eating breakfast, Mr. Kee-
settlement.' This spot was dearly the ran, accompanied by his foreman, Mr
place where the village of Red Bluff Charlee Webb, came in his automobile,
inow stands, together we spent the forenoon going
Next day, the ninth, they descended over Oardenas’ ground, with coples of
the river, and explored the small bay his map and the accompanying report
or lagoon above the delta. On the in hand.
tenth they explored Cox’s bay, nd on I Conservation at Placedo with Mr
&5 the eleventh Keller’s bay. From here,J. 8. Webb, who for years had ridden
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Navasota Daily Examiner (Navasota, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 17, Ed. 1 Monday, March 3, 1930, newspaper, March 3, 1930; Navasota, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1402234/m1/3/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Navasota Public Library.