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

labor. Near Arkansas Pass, on Arkansas
Bay, near Fulton also, and upon the
Nueces, extensive preparations have beer
made for carrying OH this work, and
large quantities of canned goods, as we'll
as hundreds of carloads Of early vegeta-
bles, will be shipped from these localities
over the lines of the Arkansas Pass road
this coming spring. From February on
until late summer these shipments can
be kept up uninterruptedly and good
profits realized upon the capital and
labor invested. The possibilities of melon
culture throughout this whole region are
immense. Melons weighing seventy
pounds and of exquisite flavor are seen
in the markets of Southwest Texas six
months out of every year, and their ship
ment as far north as st. Louis and pos
sibly Chicago is only question of time.
The grapes native to this region are not
surpassed in richness of flavor, or
abundance of fruitage, by any vineyards
i'll America. The California fruit is both
woody and watery when compared to it.
and the richest wines of the American
continent are yet to be grown in the
vineyards of Southwest Texas, on the
lands bordering the streams and bays of
this whole gulf region. The time has
come when America must look to her
own vineyards for her own wine supply
and that supply will be both generous
and rich from this Southwest Texas
region. So truthful an observer and
general traveller as Andrew White, of
Cornell University, says. GAS matter
of fact, of my own knowledge, gathered
i'll extensive journeys through France, it
has become almost impossible even i'll
that country to secure at any hotel all
imprisoned wine." This is true not only
of the wines of France, but of Southern
Europe, and if these wines cannot be
be bought in Europe they certainly are
not imported to America. The wine
industry of this continent is now princi-
pally confined to the extreme east and
the extreme west of this continent.
Between these extremes, on the warn,
slopes of these sheltered bays and i'll the
valleys of this whole southwest region
the wine supplies of the future will be
grown. Lands peculiarly fitted for grape
culture and which, when converted into
vineyards will be worth a thousand
dollars per acre, can be bought today, i'll
close proximity to the lines of the Aran-
sas Pass railway, for less than $40 per
acre and OH favorable terms of payment.
Small fruit culture and the growth of all
kinds of berries, if intelligently under
taken, can be made a most profitable
| industry. AS for the standard crops,
cotton, corn, oats, hay, etc, no country
Yields surer or more bountiful crops.
Millions of acres i'll all this southwest are
awaiting the ms with the pillow and the
man with the hoe, and when the man is
found he will be welcomed to a free
home, among free people, where he will
be absolutely free i'll his business, politics
and religion, aud invited to stay and help
make a garden where nature evidently
intended there should be one. Every
inducement that a superb climate, soil
of inexhaustible fertility, a country i'll
which opinion is free and educational
facilities ample, is here afforded the
settler. Very small capital is required
to make a beginning Lands are cheap
and sold on easy terms of payment. a
good market is always open to the pro-
ducts of the farm, vineyard, garden,
poultry yard and orchard, and no pro-
longed winters eat up the substance
accumulated during a seasons growth.
1t is to such a home, where the inland
transportation problem is already solved,
and the question of deep water trans
portation is in fair way of solution, that
the agriculturist, the hOrticulturist, the
wine grower and the market gardener
are invited, with the assurance that the
half has not been told nor ever will be
concerning the vast possibilities that lie
before this garden spot of America, to be
realized within the next few years.
MINES AND QUARRIES.
To the inexhaustible riches of soil and
the incompatible climate, must be added
wealth of building material i'll clay,