San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-11-25
THE OUTLOOK
For San Antonio-Some Suggestions OF
What Should be Done and Who
Should Help.

| apatny OF her citizens, when anything
| affecting the future prosperity OF the
city Is on the taps. Now, 1t Ia essen
| italy unjust to cast the entire buruen OF
raising funds 10 help schemes designed
! Ia add 10 the business OF san Antonio,
! upon the mercantile class and bankers.
! Every real estate owner Is Interested in
any scheme that will augment the popu-
Iation and capital OF San Antonio, mas
much rs such increase Won d more than
! uuadruple the value OF his reul estate.
| Yet, strange TO Say, this class seems dis
! inclined TO make liberal subscriptions 10
| build railroads, and 10 secure the lOCa Ion
| Of the smelling works. Ii IL clear this
class l. acting with remarkable short
sigbtedness If not with actual blind
| ness-in taking so little interest in the
forts made TO Increase the business,
population and capital OF San Antonio.
| Nv idea is, that n fair Il OF secondary
| importance to several olber projects.
since the only effect of fair upon our
| CITY, we're IL crowned with the utmost
quo, ess would be the drawlngu Of cro"d
| Of visitors here once year. l shall
not uDderrate that advaniage-thr
spending OF quite round sum OF money
| In The city BY visitors To The fairs, but h
might Iu n out like the VOlksf-s'-dlffi I'll
cult To max" receipts pay expenses Ii
Is plain that u laIr would Oriy draw
| crowd 10 the city one u year. and the
| e,t Of the Iear would not benefit the
city a so itary nickel.
but II rrIrigtruIIng factory union
STOCK yards and The smelling works
would benefit the trade and business 81
! tn, UlIy every UHy in the Year. This is
exactly what our city needs. and must
have. II she expects 10 grow and pros
per in the future, q 'nsequenily, my lueh
| is to concentrate our money ana enc
| lies on those most important enterprises
and 70 postpone The far To- "imOie con-
| .enirnt season" But do not wish to
| e understood as at all uutrIendIy 10 the
fair. merely because | regard II rs u
| secondary Importance.
Now every cattle raiser In west
Texas 10 directly interested in the
opening Of al establishment for retrIg-
.rsting beef at San Antonio. Why so?
Firstly, San Antonio mas already -everai
ice factories In operation that could sup
Div the ice that would be required.
secondly, its railway facilities exceed
hose of any city in West Texas. Third
| ly, such a mode of dIspOsing "t the beef
| raised in West Texas would relieve cat
llemen from the vexstiOn of driving i'm
mense herds to Kansas City, etc.,
through Il hostile country.
The last reason assigned, were II
rightly considered, would lead every
stock-raiser TO subscribe TO fund for
opening refrigeratlng factory 10 san
Antonio. II would prove q paying In
vestment-that Is, pay good DIVIDENDS
on the stock subscribed. There Is no
room for doubt on this point, but indie
peI.dently Of this consideration II
In hn T.
cts OF cattlemen. They codld snip
dressed beef TO St. Louis, Chicago.
| New York. Boston, New Orleans and TO
England cheaper than they could ship
| live animals.
But in order to insure the success OF
the refrigeraTing factory-that is, 10
keep it in operation the year round, cat
tlemen would have TO sell beeyes at rea-
sunable mgures TO the factory. As l I'M
derstand it. this inability TO buy beeves
at reasonable prices, ruined the refrig-
Grating establishment that was started
few years ago At Victoria, Texas, and
has also hampered tue success OF the one
located at Fort Worth, and we should
endeaVOr to steer clear of the rock upon
which they were stove to pieces. The
success and usefulness OF such reirig-
Grating establishment would largely de-
pend upon the hearty, cooperation of the
| caTtlemen, and measures should he
taken al the outset TO secure this coop
GRAFTON.
If cattlemen became stockholders In
il, that would go q great
| WAYS towards securing such co-opera-
ton. But even that would not pre-
vent them from demanding too
high a price for their bee,es. and by so
doing. Gripping the establishment. Ii
would be advisable for each caitiemaO
| that might subscribe stock TO the cor
uOraIiOn, to bind himsef to sell spec-
| lied number Of beeves per year TO it, Al
| the market price. and, in case of a dis
agreement Ms to what WAS the market
| price. to refer the matter TO arbitration.
| The success of such An establishment
would depend upon its being able 10 OBJ
:ain bprNes ut reasonable prices, which
| it could not possibly do without the co
operation Of cattle owners Ii might
Ne a good plan for he company 10 handle
| bpeyrs tor their owners NJ So much per
| head ard let owners lake all the risks Of
he shIImSn INT OF the dressed beef 10 mar-
ket.
The starting OF a rpfriVeraring estah-
hm' TT in San Antonio would necessi
"a e, ami hr SOON tUll"Hed 10y. IHTRr
IN Niu 40 uhlINlt Tue uIu~N VI Nilt hIlI-
u al that would be slaughtered. In
net il would pr"haniv give rice I" half
dozen usef Il md profitable Industries
sucn IL tue general rue
A COMMIT tee should be appointed TO
CNrfer with the caIIlemen AID So
licit subscripUons Of stock from
them, while another committee was go
| Letting stock in San Antonio from our
business men and capitalists. II IL could
| be acc lmplIshed The II, frlgeraGing Cum-
prny might also own and operate an es-
| tablishment Tor fattening beef cattle.
Ii is u suicidal policy TO defer action
| in this matter and wait for some north
ern or English syndicate TO start a re-
IrIgeratIng establishment In San An
| tonic. We cannot afford TO play the
part of wilkins MirAwber "wait for
something to turn up" we mu put our
| own shoulders to the wheel and push the
| enterprise forward to completion. There
is no lack OF capital for such an enter
| prise In western TeXSs-there are sew
sral hundred cattlemen able 10 subscribe
$4,000 apiece, and they would do so
most cheerfullv, In case the enterprise
be PROPERLY explained to them-at least,
such is my belief. San Antonio ought to
be able TO raise $50 600 towards the cap
ltal stock OF such u oompany-not as a
grStuity, or bonus, but as an invest
ment in a paying concern.
The question is, shall we cast of our
apathy and close. fstedness, and bend
all our resources and energies to the
building up OF the trade and prosperity
Of San AntOnio. Each individual citi-
zen should ponder this question and
weigh IL in the balance of reason and
common sense. A.P. +.