July 5£s 20SS
Judge	&	SOQtt,
Jonrdanton, Texas.
; y dour Judge:
hot ho:.' your letter boors fruit or not, I euro enjoyed it. "fou have u vivid stylo of expression...... y co: rpliraents to you on it.
'.Then the wenthor is half kind :c shall run d<wsi that way, but u power of time and money co. ... bo coa.it 3a suoh "running around.n Tot e try to get v. olcaror lead out of you*
Tn digging nook into ouch d’stant y are -to get "information" and think wo have arrived no: csvhoyo. then sc eononti&l things do not fit Sji and wo know . co athi"" is wrong-	'or n long while X hove believed (uornuso of W :0.t I have
been told) that at divide, on the an iguel i^reek them was u 'rather doop, well-filled pool wsitor vrith stone botto •, 400 paces long, 12 paces wide" and there was p. (or the) junction place of trails. But ’iindoc just door, not "fit in."
On the other hcuid Franklin, on the San ' iguol* does "fit in." is it possible that pool is at ivranhlia? The quoted language vac, written in 1773-
The onoloaod mop shows how those cyaa.-i - .p-nish o. p:lro**1'uildoro traveled in Texas* The junction point below you there I want. to clear up.
"nothor possibility is fspo. ansa Jreek where u;ore was "a pool of good else water all the year," but not very good water. "Iso written 1773. Conditions may bo different at those places today.
7t timer, perhaps for a long while, conveys from . oedoo would meet tho convoy fro. i Texas at that point.
The laredo Trail (not tho Proaidio del I.io Trail) was tho grant link in tho '■rent trail by will eh tho great Texas operations maintained connections a;a co: imunications with Saltillo tiad . oxioo ,ity, and by whi ,h tho padres maintained connections and ooiasunicationB with their colleges at tueretaro oud Saoatecac. X have tho topograph* ioal mops of bouth Texas, To arc pulling out the story frw old records, diaries, and writings, a.-*! tiio landmarks that still ere on the mops....the old rivor fordo, sootioriB of old trails that still oivi bo identified, a na .o still or. tho map tho poniards fastened there centuries ago.
Conquiotadoroo and padres were doing big things in Texas. Dispatoh riders, couriers, oonvoyo, high offieialo, caravans, great padres, and others traveled bao': and forth, and fill oomalaoationo aould only move that way.
Kindest regards.