 At the urging of John Coffee Hays, who realized the settlers would not have time to build homes and plant crops further inland before winter, and as the German settlers were traveling inland along the Guadalupe River, they stopped near the Comal Springs.Prince Carl bought two leagues of land from Rafael Garza and Maria Antonio Veramendi Garza for $1,111.00.The land was located northeast of San Antonio on El Camino Real de los Tejas and had the strong freshwater Comal Springs, known as "Las Fontanas", when the Germans arrived.