TEXAS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION
A. B. CONNER. DIRECTOR Agricultural and Mechanical college of Texas
STATE APICULTURAL RESEARCH LABORATORY
SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS ROUTE 1 BOX 368
July 10, 1933.
lie. Harral Ayres,
Gunter Hotel,
San Antonio, Texas.
Dear Ayres:
DIVISION OF APICULTURE H. B. PARKS. CHIEF,
A. H. ALEX. QUEEN BREI
I was sorry I missed you yesterday but I had the chance to find so many things that are of benefit to our project that I hope that it will make up for my absence. Saturday Afternoon Mr. Garrett "the husband of Uildred" called here and invited me over to spend the day Sunday. I went over and after going over the old Hission again Mrs. Garrett, Mrs. Burrows, and Judge Stevenson all took turns in locating places for me. Cur outlay of the raid corresponds with theirs.
I have some little points which their information has cleared up. The most important information however which I received was relative to os^Cruas'3. It seems that a number of years ago that Mrs. r>uillin,
Col. Crimmins, and a Mrs. Mayfield of Karnes City, and Mrs. Garrett made a search for this place which they located at the mouth of Cibolo at the San Antonio River. Mrs. Garrett is of the opinion that no one can work with Mrs. Mayfield and is farther of the opinion that while Rincon may be at the junction of the Cibolo and the San Antonio the so-called fort was the original town site of Panna Marie. Mrs. Garrett is very anxious to have us go with her just as soon as the weather cools somewhat and see if we can locate the real site of the corral. She is of the opinion that it is about five miles up the river from the junction of the San Antonio.^ Prom my talk with Judge Stevenson backed up by the information given oh the maps which you left here which shows the Lodi read just as I had narked it out on the first map and from Mrs. Garrett's translation of the Bexar archives I think there is no doubt that Chaco Quinones which she translates"bitter springs" is the road crossing at Utzeville schoolhouse and the creek bottom marks the sight of tlie camps where Solis waited for the norther to abate April 8. Judge Stevenson says that there was a heavy farm population in that vicinity and probably no definite town and that are still older graveyards than the one which we visited.
A farther examination tf the so-called Goat Mission leads me to believe that it was built very early and that it was abandoned after a few years because of the lack of good water and probably pasture lands I came to this conclusion because of the lack of kitchen refuse around the r;ins. A very careful search on my part at the time I was there before, of the boys in the interval, and of the party yesterday reveals not more than fifty pieces of pottery and bottles. The fragments contain a few pieces of ware of the Spanish manufacture, the rest being Indian.
This throws the time of the occupation of this building back probably into the 1600’s. I am ’.writing the American Ceremic Society today for the address