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Volume 1 - Number 11
cover200.jpg (38724 bytes)The Huff Journals & The Lost San Saba Mines
by Ira Kennedy
"In the fall of 2000 I received a phone call from David Ewing Stewart asking me to help him find a buyer for two old dairies inherited from his great grandfather William P. Huff, one of the original 300 families to settle in Texas.  I agreed and set up a time and place so I could  view the documents first-hand.  Arriving at the Schulenburg Auction Barn I discovered the parking lot full as there was a cattle auction in progress.  I had no difficulty in locating Mr. Stewart and before long I was in the coffee room of the auction barn where I could review the diaries and photograph their contents at my leisure."
FanninMonument200.jpg (33623 bytes)The Runaway Scrape
by Steve Goodson
"William Travis’s pleas for reinforcements from the Alamo did not go unheeded. Texican volunteers answered the call and began to converge on Gonzales. Lieutenant Colonel James C. Neill who had commanded the garrison at San Antonio, left the Alamo on February 11, 1836, to visit his family and help from the Texican government at Washington-on-the-Brazos. After visiting his family he went to the council received $600 dollars from the governor, Henry Smith. He then began his journey back to San Antonio." (Photo: The Fannin Memorial)

quotedump.jpg (33847 bytes)Old News
Here are a few articles reprinted from the Mason and San Saba newspapers between 1886 and 1902.  The first three mention Indian or Spanish mines. Tales of silver and gold mines were so commonplace back then they seldom received top billing.  Evidence of that can be found in the item "Turkey Eating Frogs on Wallace".  The frogs received top billing although the first half of the piece is about Indians molding ore into bullets (presumably silver). 

puckup200.jpg (20818 bytes)Later Billy Goes to Town
by Ira Kennedy
"Later Billy didn’t mind driving to town but the time wasn’t right. The reasons for going didn’t quite stack up to what was happening right then, which wasn’t much, if anything. Besides, Later Billy was no fool. It was about ready to flood, and there was at least a mile of muddy road before the dry creek bed crossing up near the paved road. Flash Flood Creek, that’s what Later Billy called the big dip in the road with the flood marker."