San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-09-23
Come.to the Rescue.
Daily LIGHT:


All who are interested in the future
of San Antonio, come forward and
write your names to the stock for q
cotton factory, for guarantee divi-
! dend of 25 per cent on their invest
ment, made by the experience of two
reliable gentlemen of ten and twenty
years experience. Why not manu-
facture our own product, saving the
freight andall expense of handling and
sell the fabrics on the market of the
eastern factories at a profit on the
same grade of goods. They take our
cotton and wool, if you please, and re-
turn us the fabrics, adding freight
and other expenses, also profit. Our
merchants buy the goods and sell
them to you with the addition of an
other profit.
The same may be said of our hides
being returned to us in shoes.
Ifspace could be allowed there could
be named many southern mills that
are paying Is to even 30 per cent.
Besides getting your dividends you
are giving employment to hundreds of
our people, thereby making them tax
payers and good citizens, and adding
a volume of trade to the city.
To invite capital you must invest
capital of your own, showing to the
outside world your faith by your
works. The capital that you are waiting
Tor will come in no other way. Ana
in 10 to 20 years you can count pop
ulation of IS to 100000. But if you are
content to wear out your life in de-
pressing the money borrowed at Il
per cent and commissions then your
city cannot long boast OF being the
largest in the state in the matter of
population
You have had capitalists to visit
you, you have entertained them with
out stint, but you could only show
them the Alamo. Government hill, |
san Pedro springs, the opera house,
the head of the river and water works |
that supply the city with water and |
the large business houses on your main |
street. They left, ere long your
papers gave an account of their say
irgs, or what they said, and they
could not but be lavish in their
praises of your city, but mentally, if
in wet weather what mud-hole. If
you expect visitors to your house,
strangers, YOU are careful to
have everything to impress a
well regulated house hold. On
the same principle you should
take an interest in your streets and
sidewalks, improving their condition
by eXacting your public servants the
full discharge of their duty and pro-
vide the money to DO it.
You would condemn a valuable
store house for the improvement of
your plaZas. Why not condemn prop
erty on your Main street, that has
been an eyeSOre for years, that you
can have wider sidewalks for your
visitors and your own people. The
sewerage system seems 10 have died
a natural death, the need Of which j.
becoming more imperative every year.
Why so much Malarial and other few
ers. Typhoid, intermittent; 1t is the
result; of want of competent sewerage.
There are more doctors here than in
any other city gifts size and popula-
ton than any other in the state, and
all seem to prosper.
You cannot boast of your city as a
h ealth resort unless you take a more
lively interest to sustain its reputa-
ton.
An absence for a number of years
has led to the above remarks. They
cannot be set aside lightly.
Show your faith by your works.
Cotton and WOODEN factories will en-
nance the value of your property.
That lot YOU paid 81 900 for will sell
for s., 900.
Provide competent sewerage and it
will add to the value Of your prop
erty.
1t will save DOCTORS bills.
1t will build up the city reputa-
ton for health resort.
West End will do and so will Key
stone park but the malaria of the city
will reach them if sewerage is not
provided.
Appoint or elect a city improve
ment committee on streets and plazas.
THEOBALD.
ALL the governors Of the West
states and Territories will
be at the Topeka convention. So will
the ntatives of every railway