San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-10-15
A GOOD WAY TO BOOM.

The real estate men in this city are
making preparations for the rush il
business and suburban properties sc
certain to come within the mex
ninety days. There is no question
that lively times are confidently
looked for in the real estate market
and it is equally certain that these
expectations are very likely to meet
their fulfillment. The lull in real
estate transactions during the sum-
mer months, in which capitalists and
investors from the north do not come
south, is only temporary. A vigorous
correspondence has been maintained
during the summer with prospective
purchasers. Interest has been aroused
and the early winter, Immediately
after the holidays, will see this city
| filled with northern and eastern men
who have come south to look over
| the field and make investments.
If San Antonio real estate men would
catch these men of capital and induce
large investments this winter let
them spend the next two months
working up some first-class manufac-
turing enterprises, and they will be
making capital tor themselves most
Unexpectedly and most surely. Let
the business brains and capital that
visits this city within the next six
months be assured that valuable
manufacturing plants have been Sc
cured and purchases of real estate
will be as lively as the most san
guine can desire. There are gentle
men of means, and considerable
means, in this city today, and there
have been such persons here every
week for the past year, who are hold
ing aloof from investments here be-
cause our manufacturing interests
and spirit seem dead, or very dor
mant. These men know that where
there are large populations there must
be large manufacturing industries to
sustain trade and feed mouths and
give employment to labor, and find
ing no manufactures really worthy
the name in San Antonio, they grow
very skeptical concerning the wisdom
of investments. Let the men who
will visit San Antonio in January
next find that large cotton mill and
a heavy wooden mandatory and
good paper mill have been definitely
arranged for, and you real estate
men will reap perfect harvest in
the advance and rapid sale of your
properties. 1t was supposed six
months ago that the Times of this
city had got the drop on manufacture
ing and had found out the secret of
accomplishing in three weeks what
the LIGHT had vainly endeavored to
secure for three years, but the patent
did not work and the rush that went
up like a rocket, came down like
a stick. 1t was not the Times fault,
but its zeal was without knowledge
and not according to discretion.
There are vast suburbs opening up
to become homes of future thousands,
and the more rapidly these thousands
come the more rapidly will these
homes be built. Of this fact there is
no manner of question, and nothing
will draw population as manufacture
ing enterprises will. The city is
much improved during the past year
and presents very different and far
more attractive appearance than it
did one year ago. This with our
electric lines of railway, and all wish
BILE signs of progress, will aid the sale
of the suburban and interior proper
ties now upon the market. While
this is true, it is also true that the es-
tablishment of one or two large large
manufacturing plants would do more
to boom real estate in this city than
all other causes combined.
THE republican denunciations of
the Mckinley bill, emanating from