San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-04-23

ing stock, the impOssiblity of successful
fruit culture-all these, combined with
other reasons, have induced many OF
these settlers to look around for more
desirable locations. These are opening
every day in the vast Southwest, as the
lines of our railways are extended and
the possibilities OF successful farming
are more generally understood. The
past year has witnessed quite move
ment from the inhOspitable regions OF
the far Northwest to infinitely more at
tractive regions of the Southwest, and
this State needs only TO be well sdVer-
tised and its advantages known to make
this movement general. These settlers
are already upon our soil, have become
to some extent AmeriCanized, and would
be the very best class Of people that
could be invited to make their homes in
this great State and assist in its deyel-
opment.
The age of steam don't take kindly
to boss car transit, and ii is voted slow
coach.
BISHOP Cone, of New York, is preach
ing crusade against cremation. Well,
it is hardly to be expected that the good
Bishop would take kindly to the innoya-
ton, and, changing the old ritual, read,
I'VE commit his body to the flames
1t is too suggestive.
The Democracy seem Payned about
that Ohio SenatOrship, but they suffer in
silence.
IT WOULD appear, from the Waco EX-
aminer, that Sui Ross is to make bis
race for Governor on his record as Our
noble and much. beloved Confederate
General" This is rather an ancient
issue on which to conduct a canvass for
Governor Of our mobile and much
beloved State" in this year OF grace,
grass, railroads, strikes and big crops.
Twenty years ago it would have been II
trump card; to-day it won't take Il trick.
Growers post-oilice appointments
bring the tenants of the oard-houses Of
the Democracy about his ears with a
hum that verties Nasby's aphOrisms con-
corning "post-otiis."
ONE by one the Arkansas Pass road is
covering the milestones along the high
way of her progress towards the Gull.
She will soon get there and find, not a
sand bank and bar, but rocky shore,
hard ground and the best natural land
ing on the Gulf. The permanent deep
water way, so sure to follow the eXpen-
diture of the estimated amount for inn
provements, will put this road with the
best foot foremost as competitor for all
freight and passenger business that
seeks the ocean through the Gulf There
Is less blow and more business about
this road more work and less gas in
Lott and Kennedy than in any two rail-
way men who ever struck Texas.
When the road reaches the Pass you will
see gravel fly between here and Denver
in way to astOnish the interior and
set the talking towns agape with won
der. This highway from the Gulf to the
mountains, laying tribute upon half a
million square miles of territory, and
gathering in its train the riches OF an
empire will pour more or less of its
wealth into this ancient city. More, as
we devise more for its interests, plan
more for its connections, pay more for
its construction, create more for its car
rying. Less as we do less, devise less,
create less. The trade diverted from
san Antonio by opening lines of railway
farther t. the North, and bringing the
vast section once tributary to this mar
ket in connection with other markets,
will be restored to us in great measure
by this Northwestern extension. That
former trade will be multiplied 100 fold,
under the new conditions of commerce
and agriculture to be created by the
Arkansas Pass road, and the Old Alamo
City will take on commercial import
ance of which she did not dream score
of wears ago.