San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-04-17
A FREE SUGGESTION.

san Antonio IS as ready 10 embrace
a good thing as any city in Texas.
There is no question of this, but she
is not as much accustomed to eXamin-
ing into the probable outcome of pro-
posed schemes as she might be, or at
least having been accustomed to take
things easily in times past sees no
necessity for rushing matters now.
San Antonio has given quite freely
for railway extensions, her donations
during the past four years aggregat-
ing nearly half million dollars
The end however has not yet come,
and she must put her shoulder to the
wheel once more, if she would not
have her northwest railway en-
terprise stick fast in the rut.
This much may be accepted as
gospel, Austin has shaken herself
like a rolling broncho and means bust
ness. She has given $1,000 cash to
advertise herself; she has given $780,
600 to push the Burnet extension in
to Llano, there being thirty-fige
miles of road to construct; and she
Will vote bonded debt of 81, 100000
to dam the Colorado. Austin has
fully made up her mind to dispute
with San Antonio the possession of
the LlanO district. Austin does this
because she knows the value of that
region as San Antonio does not.
Austin can reach the Burnet OuarrieS
and marbles over the narrow gauge
route and is so near the LlanO mineral
district that she has knowledge of its
worth. With the power that she will Sc
cure through the successful damming
of the Colorado she expects to drive
large machinery and great cOnstruc-
ton works and looks to the raw ma
terial of the LlanO mines as factor
in her development. Austin knows
that the most valuable iron deposit
on this continent, not excepting the
Gogeoic range, is in LlanO and ada
cent coun ties, and that the future roll
ing mills of the south will find their
supplies in this region. San Antonio
does not realize this. If she did there
would be no hesitancy in securing
for herself such advantages as will
surely follow the opening up of these
~ tnh Ito HI mo Of
mills in this city. Under these circum-
stances would it not be wise for San
Antonio to take steps to convince
herself of the truth of what the LIGHT
here sets forth. Let the board of
trade appoint its own committee and
send them into LlanO to investigate
and report to a meeting of citizens
what they find there; what move
mems are already under way for the
development of its mineral wealth,
and what San Antonio can secure for
herself by a prompt forward move
ment. Let the committee tamillariZe
themselves with the whole ground,
visit Austin and see how that drOn-
ing city is waking out of the sleep of
ages. and then come back and tell
san All lOuIO tAdCllN ~" SIlC 10
placed. This city should not sit
down and let this matter 60 by de.
fault. She should at least inform
herself of the situation, and then if
she chooses to let Austin get away
with her she will at least do 50 intel
ligently.
TIE Houston Post expresses what
a great many people in san Antonio
feel when it says:
san Antonio will have no fair this
fall her citizens have failed to raise
the So 900 bonus asked. During the
last fair held in that city the bank
clearances Increased million dollars
and the amount Of money expended
in hat city va, probably twice that
sum. 1t was u good investment, inn
mediate returns considered, to say
nothing Of the advertising it gave the
town, and the present diffidence of
the San Antonio people is mystery"
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