Later he went to New Orleans, sold the silver ore, and came back and bought and stocked an immense ranch, which still goes by the name of the Lutzer Ranch.
[1] “The company, being six months’ men, were discharged at Fort Merrill on the Nueces, on the 4th day of May, 1851, but reorganized as a new company for another six months the next day.”—Brown, John Henry, History of Texas, Vol. II, p. 356. See a report to the Secretary of War: Sen. Ex. Doc. 1, 32d Cong., 1st Session, Serial 611. [↑]
[2] See, for instance, “The Mission de Los Olmos, near Falfurrias,” by Marshall Monroe, reprinted from the Houston Chronicle, in Frontier Times, January, 1924, pp. 44–45. [↑]
[3] Sutherland, Mary A., The Story of Corpus Christi, Houston, 1916, pp. 2–3. [↑]
[4] A euphemism of the Texas Rangers. [↑]
TREASURE CHEST ON THE NUECES
By Mary A. Sutherland
Riverside Ranch is in Nueces County on the Nueces River. Fifty years ago while the owner was putting up a house near a [[50]]ford, said to have been used by Indians of the most remote times, a Mexican with three pack burros came into camp. He and his beasts were travel worn and he asked permission to camp and rest his stock. The permission was readily granted, and true to class the Mexican hobbled his burros and then lay up in the sun and took life easy for several days.