The next of the wartime governors, Benito Ruiz de Salazar y Vallecilla, arrived at his post in 1645 with a greater than average need of funds. Incapable of purchasing his office in the usual manner, he had taken on an obligation to the royal armada by contracting to build the Crown a 500-tun [Note: Ship cargoes were measured in tunnage, a "tun"being a wooden cask, or "tonelada,"capable of holding 262 gallons of wine.] galleon in the shipyards of Campeche, with his anticipated Florida revenues as collateral. Among Salazar's Florida business ventures were several farms. Near St. Augustine he bred cattle and mules. At San Miguel de Asile in the Timucuan district of Yustaga, just across the Aucilla River from Apalache, he started to raise wheat (Salazar y Vallecilla, (1650?). (Bushnell SS)