The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 43, July 1939 - April, 1940 Page: 489
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Joseph Eve, Charge d'Affaires to Texas
at an average profit of about a hundred per cent, Thomas Mc-
Kinney62 came here about 15 years ago from Lyncoln Kentucky
he is now worth a fine fortune, during the war he advanced to
the government a hundred thousand dollars that he considers
lost his friends say that he has given away several fortunes
yet he is now considered worth a fine fortune, all of which he
has made merchantdizing Every lawyer who has tallents and
prudence has made a good fortune, Doct Jones a brother of our
mad Leonard Jones moved here from Kentucky since the Revo-
lution he thinks and so do his friends that he has made from four
or five hundred thousand dollars, I have given a few examples,
and could give hundreds of others were it necessary, the whole
country is impregnated with salt you may throw bushels to
your stock and they will not touch it. they have a saltlake
below here where it is said you may load a hundred waggons a
day and by next day the vacuum is full of salt again which is
so hard you have to dig it up and is constantly forming by
evaporation, vegetation of almost every kind is in full perfec-
tion Blackberrys ripe ealy pea potatoes the vines dead [sic]
puled up, and the ground replanted in some thing else, corn
beginning to tassal Texas contains about one seventh part of
the population of Kentucky, and this spring exports about 35
thousand Bales of cotton of 400 lbs per Bale this a[t] eight
cents per pound will produce one million one hundred and twenty
thousand dollars, I have endeavoured to ascertain what quan-
tity of beef hides fur and peltery the quantity of cattle mules
&c exported but have not been able to get any correct infor-
mation. The quantity of cotton next spring it is thought will
be nearly double this. You might suppose from what I have
said of this country that I am so much in love with it as to
make it my future home, Not so I have two much regard for
my country and my friends and have been two long buffetted
with pecuniary and political strains, to embark again upon a
boisterous sea of trouble in a foreign government, unstable and
ansetled constantly annoyed by canibal indian savages, and sly
mean hipcrital mexicans, was the government annexed to the
United States or was I a young man with the prospects of a
famaly, even as the government is I should not hesitate to yield
every other consideration and make this my home; But at my
age never having coveted fortune it would be great folley in me
s6Thomas F. McKinney (1801-1873), who was born in Kentucky, moved
to Missouri in 1818 and to Texas in 1829. He was a merchant and trader,
and, with Samuel M. Williams, established the firm of McKinney and
Williams, which helped finance the Texas Revolution. After annexation
he served in the House and Senate of the Texas legislature. Rev.
Homer S. Thrall, A Pictorial History of Texas from thle Earliest Visits
of European Adventurers to A. D. 1879. St. Louis, Mo. (N. D. Thompson
& Co.), 1879. P. 520.489
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