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An account sheet drawn up by A. H. Abney to show the amounts of salt and money spent on food supplies for hands working at Jordan's Saline. The figures suggest that Abney had only about 8000 pounds of around 33,000 pounds of salt remaining on hand.

This ledger sheet for 1864 shows that Abney received a total $44,945.88 from the State Military Board to manufacture salt at Jordan's Saline; he spent all of it but about $63 on the hire of hands and teams. Named persons receiving payment in cash…

The Military Board writes to Luckett concerning some reports the latter has made about the activities of two men named Wheat and Fletcher, formerly of the Brazos Manufacturing Company.

The former state agent for the Texas Military Board, A. H. Abney, explains to the new provisional governor Andrew Jackson Hamilton how he has managed the salt works under his charge, and where the money he was given for the business has gone. In…

Abney writes from Jordan's Saline to excuse his limited success in making salt for profit.

Murrah writes to clarify with Luckett the names of those agents authorized by the Brazos Manufacturing Company to sell cotton along the Mexican border.

The Governor, writing as president of the Military Board, instructs Abney not to take orders from any Confederate officer or county official other than the state military board, and urges him to report more often.

In this letter, the Board lays out its reasons for wanting to encourage salt production, stressing that it believes this will be a profitable business.

This copied note from January 4, 1865, requests salt from the state works at Jordan's Saline to support soldiers' families in Kaufman County. The author appears to be the county commissioner. Also mentions a Mr. Yarbra (probably Yarbough). Other…

In this copy of a letter, an agent of Titus County [W. F. Wacason?] writes to A. H. Abney, General Agent of the Texas Military Board, at Jordan's Saline requesting an order of salt to support war widows in his county.