San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-08-14
SECRETARY oREooRy's REPORT.

m!gration Matters--What Bexar
County Has Done. and
Southwest Texas Has
Not Done.
Secretary Gregory, of the South
western Immigration association, has
just issued his report, for the informa-
ton of the county auxiliaries, and the
subscribers to the funds of the associa-
ton. From the record thus presented,
| the total disbursements for the first
six months of the existence of the as
ISOLATION have been only $2,672.4l.
Total collections $685., of which
Bexar county has contributed all ex-
cept SS75. This is certainly a good
showing for this county, as compared
to the showing made by the other
counties in this immigration district,
but how small an amount does it all
aggregate when compared with the
work of properly advertising the pro-
ducts and resources of this vast south
west. OF total amount of $50
levied upon the counties, prorated
upon taxable values, less than $4 900
has been paid, and of this amount
BeXar county has paid over $1,000.
The pro rata of BeXar county was
placed at S1,932.5S, but she has al
ready paid So, 10, and has good sub
scriptiOns still uncollected amounting
to 81 ,635, making the total subscrip- |
tons from this city S4,745. To raise
this amount only thirty-tive subscrip-
tons were received, and there yet re-
mains the hundreds of other citizens /
whose names might easily be secured |
for additional contributions TO make |
out a fund available for advertising |
purposes.
Leaving BeXar county out of the |
account, of the S., 800 levied upon the
other counties only $500 has been |
paid, less than ten per cent OF the |
small amount rated upon them. OF
these 81 counties, only twelve have
responded at all, and Bee county is
the only one which has paid her
assessment in full.
While the secretary's report shows
that there are funds sufficient to keep
the Office of the association open for a
year, it also shows that there are no
available funds for advertising
purposes. This was virtually the end
for which the association was created,
to advertise southwest Texas. The
funds must be forthcoming for this
work if it is to be done, and done it
must be now, if at all. The LIGHT
has called attent ton TO this report to
nj Of
the association have been managed;
to show little money will accomplish
something; and especially to urge
upon the counties represented in the
convention of last February the
necessity of making good their as
sesments at once. At the same time
Bexar county should give at least as
much more as she has already given
which would raise her contributions
to the very respectable sum of nearly
$4,000.
The time is most opportune for en-
tering upon this work, and it should
be pushed. The deep water conven-
ton recently held at Fort Worth and
the visit of the Denver delegation to
this section of the state have done
much to make us better known in the
great northwest. The convention so
soon to be held at Denver will still
farther advertise us and our resources,
as the immigration asSO-
citation will put itself on record with
the products of southwestern Texas,
at that convention. More funds to adj
vertise southwest Texas is what the
needs. More ADVERTISE
ment means increased knowledge of
our resources, and this means in
creased immigration of American cap
ital, brains and labor into this great
state to develop its wealth and make
of it in fact, in riches and in trade as
we'll as in broad acres, the Empire
state of this Union.