San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-09-19
POOR OLD GALVESTON.

The Sand-Bar City has come to the
front with big scheme of her own.
The local deep water committee has
held a meeting and appointed a pow
erful lobby of twenty-one to capture
the Topeka convention. 1t is the
avowed INTENT of Galveston lobby
to secure for Galveston a concentration
of all the government appropriations
for the gulf. 1t is safe to say then,
that Galveston despairs of securing
the favorable report of the commission
of United States engineers, appointed
to examine the gulf coast and report
where deep water harbor can be Sc
cured in the shortest possible time
and at the least expense. The Sand
Bar City will therefore labor through
her lobby to reverse all the action of
the Denver convention and COM
pei the Topeka convention to
take new ground. 1t is exceed
ingly doubtful if Galveston will be
able to accomplish this. 1t should be
absolutely certain that she cannot.
The annual cost of the long haul to
the Atlantic seaboard exceeds $l2O,-
000, 900, imposed upon the commerce
of that section of the country repre-
sented in the Topeka convention, and
1t should not take that convention
very long to decide upon such action
as would soonest insure deep water
upon the gulf coast of Texas. 1t costs
the west nearly if not quite $4,000
600 month more to convey her sur
plus to the Atlantic seaboard than it
would to convey that surplus to the
gulf, and it does seem suicidal to de-
fer prompt and aggressive action. All
engineer reports concur in the opinion
that IL will take longer to create deep
where else on the coast. Why should
the commerce of Kansas City and
Topeka and Omaha and Denver and
all Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa,
Arkansas, Colorado, New Mexico and
the west wait upon the impracticable
sand-bar at Galveston? Why lose
$40, 000, 900 month for ten years to
come when a good harbor and twen-
ty-four feet of water over the bar can
be secured elsewhere on the Gulf
coast within two years? Does it not
look as though Galveston was decid-
eddy cheeky in asking the great
Northwest to defer the opening OF a
gulf port in this manner, at such
enormous expense? Would it not be
better for the country represented in
this convention to buy Galveston, set
1T on fire and get tout of the way rather
than pay SIC, 100000 a month to have
her block the wheels of deep water
progress. That 100000 900 a month
for six months would pay for all Gal
weston, and once her selfishness was
disposed of there would be no
trouble about deep water in the short
est time possible.
Seriously considered this hostile
attitude of Galveston should be re-
buked i'll the Topeka convention.
At the interstate deep water conven-
tion held at Denver last year a move
ment for deep water where it could be
soonest obtained was inauguraUed.
The least money" part of this busI-
ness dWindles into insignificance be.
side the Importance of the Quickest
time" What does a million or ten
million dollars amount to when the |
monthly loss alone is $1,000, 900, in |
Cured because there is no deep water
port on the gulf coast. Economy I'M
der these circumstances means econo- |
my of time, there is no economy in |
delay. A port is needed at once and
the great producing west is paying |
100000 900 month tax on her re- |
sources for want Of deep water port. |
Here steps in Galveston and declares |
hat she will secure the Endorsement |
Of the convention for the concentra-
lion of all work on the Galveston bar,
despite the concurrent opinions of ali |
engineers that it will be a work of
years to make deep water port at
hat point. Has Galveston interests
to all the other interests
represented in this convention? |
Must this whole Northwest be
1ut in pawn to secure the
Welfare of Galveston? Must the
rates of this great commerce.
which is taxed Sl2l 1888, 066 per an
lum because there is no deepwater
'ort on the gulf coast of Texas, must
hese gates be closed because a
Galveston caucus has decided that
hey must remain shut down unless
'pened through her sand-bar; a sand
,ar which all engineers concur in
declaring the most difficult to open
md maint tain a deep channel through,
# any bar on the Texas coast. This
3 the question before the Topeka
owen tion-DEEP WATER WHERE 1T
IAN BE SOONEST OBTAINED, CALVES
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