The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-10-20
LETTER FROM SAN ANTONIO.
MAGNIFICENT WAFER OwER-FAC-
TORrEs-CROPs.
War spirit ON the FrOnticr-The Border
Mexican Population In sympathy
with the Thieves.

b'pD5lti tDEGtEpDuhtHtS N. W. DbHDGEHh1
SAN ANTONIO, Texas Oct. 10, 1877.
The agricultural fair ut this place will open
on the 23d inst attended, that Of last year
and 1t WAS great failure and really think
the association manifests decided pluck In
making another effort. They appear to have
taken seriously to heart the exhortation Of Mrs
Chick, and a very meritorious effort have they
made, and IL sustained by the community at
oil In proportion to their desert, the present
fair will be o decided success. Western Texas
Is becoming, year by year, more Of q farming
country; and an improved method may be
observed in all farm operations Still 1t ID
decidedly In Its infancy, and vast strides are
necessary to catch up with the spirit of older
communities For this reason the fair does
not make SO considerable show us ! would
like to see; but this year will be- great inn
provement on the last, and with each Sue
ceeding year 1t must receive important ac-
cessions, In improved stock, agricultural i'm
plements, etc.
IMPROVEMENT OF THE CITY.
San Antonio Is to have the waterworks
after oil. The contract has been signed for
some time and ground has been broken.
They are vital necessity to the health OF the
city, which, however remarkable, has yet
polluted with surface DRAWINGS.
The city railroad still hangs fire. cannot
learn that the company is taking any steps
towards building IT, The city Is, however,
growing so rapidly; SO many fine residences
and business houses have been finished and
are in process of construction, that water
works, street railroads. q theatre, and all
modern improvements must soon be added.
The unrivalled water power which San An
tonic possesses renders speedy introduction
Of cotton and woolen factories certainty
growth an enlarged prosperity. The extern
sive building operations now going on are
not the work Of new corners, but wholly that
of the old population. In fact, our solid men
are beginning to unlock their strong boxes,
and have embarked literally In building; but
are slow to perceive the importance OF extend
ing aid to manufacturing enterprises. The
spirit must awaken In the near future 1t is
impossible for 1t to remain long latent, with
the obvious openings for the profitable invest
nent of capital,
This region is suffering frorn protracted
urOttn. Iflefe EfflS Deen llbtle Fa1HIhll 4inCe
June, and, except where there is irrigation,
vegetation is truly in tie "seFs and yellow
leaf !" Fair ernpa have been harvested: in
some places abundant ones; but the yield In
this neighborhood has not egualled what was
anticipated. Still corn is selling ut thirty
cents lower than / have ever known 1t.
THE WAR SPIRIT.
Western Texas is greatly excited by the
audacious raids Of the Mexican border
thieves. II the United States does not take
some more efficient steps to put o speedy stop
TO them, think the endurance of our people
will not hold out much longer. It
needs but q leader for them to take the
matter very determinedly in their own hands.
The government must no longer daily with
this question. 1t is one vital to the interests
OF Western Texas, and her people are being
murdered and robbed daily, while several
thousand United States troops are kept upon
the seaboard, that should be guarding this
exposed frontier. It has become patent to
the densest understanding that Diaz, grant
ing his desire to suppress these raids, is ut
terty powerless to effect the smallest approx
nation to such result The whole frontier
people on the west side Of the Rio Grande
arein full and active sympathy with the rob
bers. Nothing but sound thrashing will
quiet these turbulent, cut-throats. L. +. d.