San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-12-29

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THE HEALTH REGION.
In Bexar, Kendall and Kerr counties,
at an elevation of from goo to 1000 feet
above the gulf, the sanitary science OF
this day has found natures great SAM
tarium The native and original healing
ground for all the pulmonary weaknesses
that humanity is heir to. Concerning
the advantages of this region, the fol-
lowing extracts from the pen of DIR. H.
d. Barnitz are in point
"Boerne, so called after the noted
socialistic writer and poet, of Frankfort
on-the Main, now long deceased, is
beautiful little town, BEAUTIFULLY named
and situated in the fairest valley, among
the fairest hills of all the West Texas
wonderful region of health. The town
was founded about forty years ago by
German pioneers, and has retained the
peculiar characteristics of a distinctly
German settlement to this day. 1t is the
county seat of Kendall county, is thirty
miles north of San Antonio, on the Aran-
sas Pass railroad, is 1900 feet above the
sea level and goo feet above San Antonio.
The population is about 100. 1t has been
a resort for invalids suffering mainly
from lung disease, for the last twenty
years. The surrounding country is full
of quail, deer and wild turkey, and the
streams afford good fishing.
The mainly attractive feature, however,
of the locality consists of its wonderful
healthfulness. Being situated i'll the
no ed health region of the West Texas hill
country, which covers large extent of
territory, Boerne is peculiarly located to
receive the most favorable health con-
ditions and influences which are afforded
in all the country, having all attractive
site amidst the foothills, a few miles
from the source of the Cibolo creek and
almost at the conveyance of the Cibolo
valley, which extends in direction from
southeast to northwest, it receives i'll the
summer time all the cooling influences
of the Gulf breezes which make all this
section so delightful at that season,
while the force and chill of the ''north-
ers' in winter time is broken and mod
Grated by the hills and mountains to the
northwest, making climate that is soft
and mild, though bracing and exhilerat
ing in winter, and more continuously
cool in summer than any of the resorts of
the far north.
The little stream that runs with its
musical ripple through the town is pure
and clear as crystal, and beautiful as a
poets dream. The atmosphere is dry
the year round, most of the rainfall
occurring in heavy deluges which last a
day or two, saturating the ground Corn
pletely and flushing the streams; the
skies then clearing and the atmosphere
drying again almost at once. There is
no disease that belongs to the locality,
consumption has never originated here,
malaria is not known, epidemic diseases
take no hold on the residents of the
cline. The natives are stout and ruddy,
and hundreds of pale faced strangers
coming here to live have found the man
tie of health on cheeks that never knew
color before, save the flush of fever or
dread consumption hectic spot.
To sum up the advantages ofthis local
ity, and Boerne i'll particular: The alti-
tude, which is suitable and comfortable
fol- all diseases; the cool, summer breezes;
the mild, "blue skyed winters" and the
dry, healing atmosphere, make it the
grandest natural health resort that is
known today, and ere long the fact will
be extensively realized and evidenced
by the thousands who will seek and find
here what they could never find else
where"
FARMING LANDS.
These counties, through which the S. A.
?. road runs, are adapted to an infinite va
riety of tillage. The product ranges from
wheat and oats, on the higher lands of
Kerr and Kendall counties, to sugar cane
on the bottom lands of Colorado, Fay
cite, Fort Bend and the gulf counties.
Between these there is all the scope of
soil and condition requisite for an infinite
variety. Vegetable cultivation is des-
tined to be great industry in more than
one of these counties. The early seasons
and the warm nrick soil OF Nueces Bee