San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-12-03

that have been in the city OF the Tax
Ing District"
Is view of the estimates and suggcs-
lions made concerning waterwOrks pur-
chase in this city one naturally enquiries
how much property In this city is sold at
assessment valuations? Won not the
calculations for purchase based upon
such valuation be very misleading?
Would not strangers desiring invest
ments here be very much in error II
they were to 60 TO the assessment rolls
and base their idea of values of property
upon said rolls? Could they reasonably
expect that the prOtler OF the ASSESS
ment valuation would secure for them
the property so valued in any consider
able number of instances? Are such
rolls generally considered standard au-
thOrity for the valuation Of the proper
ties described lfnOt, would not cal
culatiOn for the purchase of the water
works on such basis be very likely to
mslead?
The three leading questions that ex-
ercsc the minds Of those who speculate
concerning the future of Texas legisIa-
lively are-What is the legislature 90
ing to do? what will it try to do /?
What ought it to do? The answers to
the first two questions are beyond US,
hn Il
varied as the varied stand points from
which the legislative needs of this state
are examined. The wise liberality OF our
great state, which pays the generous
sum of $500 for the Onerous services of
state legislator, has certainly made it
worth while for the best and ripest in
telligence of this commonwealth to offer
itself as the law making body. From
the deliberations of such wisdom and
ability, as $500 a year can evoke from
its retirement and business, there should
be no lack of the best legislative results.
What the legislature ought to do will be
instinctiyely perceived by such men.
The Morgan steamship line has pur-
chased the property known rs the Rock
port Wharf, belonging to the Coleman,
Fulton Pasture company, and propose
to utilize it in making cattle shipments
from that port. So says our ROckpOrt
correspondent. This information con-
flicts some what with that given to the
public some time since, to the effect that
the Huntington combination had pur-
chased the property and intended to run
road from Victoria to RockpOrt. The
LIGHT correspondent appears TO know
pretty cOnclusively what he is writing
about and says positively that the sale
has been made to the Morgan line. In
either case il demonstrates one fact.
That ROckpOrt is considered desirable
plum by large carrying corporations,
and that the completion Of the Arkansas
Pass road TO the gulf will stimulate the
coast trade to an unprecedented extent.
Rockport will certertainly make strong
Did to secure the trade that comes
NulOuSu liC ass Jul IL 10 HdlulN pIOba-
bic that the heavy shipments from the
southwest section will be made at her
wharves. The Harbor Island wharves
will receive and discharge all heavy
freights along this coast after few
more months. This Is inevitable des-
tiny. The southwest has been waiting
and hoping for the building of road to
Corpus Christi, and the opening Of the
Pass to vessels drawing from eighteen
10 twenty-five feet Of water. The good
time long looked for is undoubtedly at
hand. The expenditure OF the govern
ment appropriations already made will
give from twelve to fourteen feet water,
and the railroads centering at the Pass
can be depended upon to look after the
rest.