The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 22, July 1918 - April, 1919 Page: 218
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The Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Domingo Guerra testified"9 that he was seventy-six years of
age, and one of the soldiers who originally settled the village of
Reynosa, which was founded twenty-eight years before. At the
time of such settlement the land in question, with the other lands
of the colony, were unappropriated, uncultivated, and vacant, and
inhabited by numerous nations of heathen Indians, who, at the
time of the hearing, still inhabited it. The central portions of
the lands in question, as well as all of its borders, were overgrown
with thick woods, and had many brakes, very thorny, and some
small plains called Derramaderos, which are inundated during
rainy seasons from the copious overflows of the Rio Grande. The
witness was of the opinion that it would be a good thing for
the community to have the lands allotted to I-inojosa and Balli,
as they would try to settle the same and restrain the Indian
enemies.
Matias Tijerina, fifty years of age, and also one 'of the first
settlers of Reynosa, corroborated the preceding witness as to the
time of the founding of Reynosa, and as to the land being inhab-
ited by many tribes of barbarous Indians. The lands were thickly
:grown with woods, like all the margins of the Rio Grande, which
woods hide the animals that injure the live stock growing on these
lands. There were also some plains, very small, which were in-
undated by overflows of the river. The witness was of the opin-
ion that awarding the land to the applicants would not make the
Indians who inhabited these lands indisposed and restless, since
they were timorous, but would tend to restrain their thefts and
outrages. Perhaps good treatment by the settlers might lead the
Indians to live in peace, and some of them might adopt Chris-
tianity.
Jose Francisco, Cavazos testified that he was forty years of age,
and one of the first settlers of Reynosa; that on account of the
lands in question having been very much contended for by the
Indians, he had been much over them. The lands were unculti-
vated, vacant, and inhabited only by many nations, of heathen In-
dians. Like other borders of the Rio Grande the lands were full
of thickets, with some glades, worn from the forest, which over-
flow whenever the Rio Grande rises. In the center of the lands
"STestimnonio proceedings in favor of Juan Jos6 Hinojosa and Rosa Hino-
josa Balli. A very corrupt copy is to be found in the deed records of
Cameron County.218
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