San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-11-29
ghe Daily Eight.
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1890
Hogg and the Railroads.

BY our Special Correspondent
We had occasion few days ago tc
visit old Port Lavaca, once the bust
est port of Texas, but as Cleveland
would say of himself, now fallen into
"disuetude." Our nearest route was
via Cuero. So taking the Arkansas Pass
rail tS:45 q. NJ, we pass over the new.
ly developed country south to Kennedy
Junction, distant about go miles,
thence east 40 more a still richer
country that has been developed by
this road, so invaluable to southwest
Texas, to Cuero. While passing over
this rapidly developing country one
appreciates the value of railroad, as
one of the great factors in the modern
problem of civilization, and is apt
to feel that our attorney gener-
al and governor elect should
foster, rather than Cypress them.
But then we find that he train for
Victoria and Lavaca had left some
what over an hour before our arrival
there, and that we then had to remain
in Cuero until 1O:40 a. m. the next
day, we realized that there We're two
had not visited that wide awake little
city for more than eighteen years, and
were, of course, much surprised at its
growth and city airs. We had here
tofOre considered it our source of sup
plies for early potatoes and Thanks
giving turkeys and chickens; but We
found it quite a cotton market, as
well as a stock market. There were
stores there that would do credit to
any city in the state. We however
were most interested in the cotton
gins. There were two there; one
operated by Fl. Runge & Co.,
and another by the Buchel
Brothers and others, and was
the most complete of any 1 had ever
seen. and is the largest in the state.
1t gins seventy-five bales per day.
1t pumps the seed cotton from the
wagon and delivers it baled. There
is no better portion of the state than
that, and places near it, such as
Yorktown, Yoakum and Hallettsville.
AT 10 a. m. the next day we got off
for Victoria; reach there little after
IL o'clock and learn that the branch
road of that system, Southern Pacific,
would leave for Lavaca at p. IN.
By this time, though a republican
from away back, we felt glad that
Hogg was governor Of our state.
We had leisure to inspect the old
city Victoria, 1.-The city of roses"
and as we looked in on the bloom
ing gardens and yards, we were
fully persuaded that her claims were
correct. Such flowers would have
been conspicuous in the vale of Cash
mere. Victoria is quite a city, but its
decaying suburbs indicate that it is
complete. 1t has quite trade in
cotton and cattle.
Our train for Lavaca gets off on
time, at 8 p. m, and we reach it at
7:30 p. M, twenty-seven miles away,
where LaSalle, the great French
voyageur, and followers landed some
time in 1850, and seeing buffalo,
called it La Vaca, a cow, as the pass
was called-Caballo, a horse. La
vaca may yet be port, as it was in
time past. Like all towns on
the gulf, its need is deep
water. 1t has nine feet on the
bar and the same at its wharf.
safe from cyclones.
LaNdCa dU " Il. IL, " o
reached vi Gloria again at $50 for
breakfast, but again to feel thai Hogg
was nearer right than the Cook
papers that were paid to abuse him.
If we returned to Cuero it would be
to find that our train by the Arkansas
had gone just five minutes before our
arrival. So we spend six hours more
in Victoria and return via Beeville,
which we reach at 4 p. M, stay all
night and get otfat 10 a. m. the next
day for home fully converted to
Hogg. We do not know which road
Is to blame, whether one, or both;
but we know it is an outrage that one
can not go from San Antonio to La
vaca, distant l58 miles and back again
short of four days. One can leave
Victoria and reach New Orleans be-
fore he can, San Antonio.
We saw many evidences of thrift
and enterprise about BeeVille, acres
of gardens, green and inviting. We
saw also in Mr.. Dugat's yard in Bee
vile, small orange tree loaded with
ripe oranges, which Mr.. Crisp assured
us had not been screened or sheltered;
also several stalks of bananas, with
fruit. RIM. M.
ROUGH ON CORNS. Hard or soft,
corns. 15c. (4l9-ly