“My plan is to develop this area so that we might be able to create a township,” Vernon Brooks revealed as he gestured towards the seemingly endless plains visible from his ranch at the foot of an immense bluff located about forty-five miles southwest of San Antonio. “If the three of you fellows were to occupy those properties surrounding my own, I am certain that our ranches would be able to nurture each other in developing profitable enterprises. Moreover, there is a new group of Irish immigrants west of here that is working hard to develop their own properties. I believe that if we can all come together as a community, a township would not be a far-fetched idea in the slightest.”
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