The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-20
A NUCLEUS IS FORMED.
State Purchases 77.45 Acres Of the San
Jscinto Battlefield Tract.
THE PRICE PAID WAS SIS PER ACRE
Corn niissioncrs Apprnisc Another
Tract of One Hundred and Thirty
three Acres at $50 per Acre.

battlefield tract. the purchase OF which
and its transformation into park was
made possible by an act passed by the
Twenty NTH legislature. Ten of these
| 77.4o acres have been in the hands OF the
State for some time and the monument
erected in honor of the memory of the
Texans who died at the bloody battle
marks the center OF the tract. The other
67.45 acres were purchased from Mr.. John
| w. Campbell yesterday evening, the price
pad being s25 per acre. or an aggregate
sum OF sf6S6.25. The tract fronts on the
public ro@s which runs in the vicinity Of
the battlefield, and the bayou at the near
est point Is 1863 feet distant.
| From this Ut Will be seen that the out
look for the purchase of the entire $50
acres and the laying out OF a park Is now
very bright indeed. although at one time
everything tended to indicate that the
deal would never be consummated The
matter is made to appear in light which
Is all the more favorable by a report fled
In the county court by MeSsrs. Garrett
Hardcast,e. john II. Lang and John Farmer.
inc commissioners appointed by Judge
l3o acres In the battlefieDI tract. In the
report in question the commissioners ap-
praise the property as being worth 500 per
acres, whioh Is So per acre less than the
allowance made by the State. The text of
the report follows:
The State of Texas
VS..
Hiram II. Rogers ct al.
To the Hon. E, II. Vasmer County Judge
OF Harris County Texas.
we. the special comm ssianers apponted
10 assess the damage accruing TO the real
estate hereinafter described by reason of
the state of Texas taking the same in con-
domination proceedings for public purposes
as public park under an act entitled AN
act Tor the establishment of a public park
on the site of the battlefield of San la
c'nto and providing for the purchase and
conde mnation OF sufficient amount of
land hLon which to establish said mark
ana making an appropriation therefor
passed by the Twenty fifth legislature Of
me me state or Texas and approved May 6,
1897, have the honor to report:
That after taking the evidence. and all
PARTIES being cited according to law, we
Ind and assess the damage to said de-
scrShed tract OF hand at the sum of $40
per acre, or s270s.4o In the aggregate, we,
therefore. report and find that The de-
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tor w Rnyers vi, 49, ~ ~ roSeis' VIC
brofe Hine. |. n. Willard, w. X. Andrews
n X. Bell. j. H. Hayhoe, e. NJ Klock and
f,nr, ,na c,ato =, I,s.. nlNe am receiver
sp3oS 40 ana hat ,ha s,n, 'ne ,S sala sum o,
Raw and a,,,,a .nI 1 ",a.e W IeAas shoulu
poises as "a public park. which is described
as follows: Situated lin Harris county
Texas, being out Of the A. Mccormick
| southwest corner OF 1OO-acre survey ado
for Habemehl, thence along the east line
o.Eo s' ao wv a 1.i norm % degrees east
edge of n small lake ON The bavnu Of
Santa Anna thence along the edge of tim
s ger sorth Eo9a degrees east zSi feet; south
eost S5s go. ,hene o so'. ~ uesieee
"a deyroa, af sacaods 80 ice ~, Sva'n
noin', =, aar ,i,,he,. tl.ns LOU t,oo ~
anders ~ inc asee ~ tha , a.s ,ut a 5.
Negreas u,as, les faa,. sn,".h c,S 49,. - ~
u7est oqa 80, ~ A., h,ni, - go
bayou. tbience With tho mea,dsrS ~ w.
bayon south 10M deprees wesf S5s soat.
,caIth Al dorrees cast i6o feet to Inc mn ,ey
an Tho dt,,idinc linz betwoon ar s,r,Ioata
land and me 9oo.acre tract heloneis,s e" to
John neasley. thence ALONG said divldinp
limo south 27b degrees west 665 feet 10 n
shsLe. tbarca nor,h "a dngr.as ,,ost otee
feet to rte southeast corner of a 50-acre
tract known as the Mccormick Homestead
tract: thence alcne said tract north ~ de- |
grees west 100 feet 10 the place of begin |
ming containing 1882 acres. And we
further ssiudge the oost of this nrocendinc |
against said defendants.
Garrett Hardcastle.
John II. Lang.
John Farmer
Special commissioners appointed by the
County Judge
~
Th,. nurohosa =, +ha ro,,r,,o,, ,,,oren.,.
~, p'up.''s
was haue ny i1ohs' W. L. huims ana D. D.
Hendrlck, two OF the commissioners ap-
pointed by the State TO arrange the ac-
o,isit,or =, tho on,,r, ,r,o, NJ r,u,
'ne o'her commissioner was not present