San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-09-19
Editorial Correspondence.
SURF SIDE CVELASCOD
The Manhattan Beach ofTexas-The
Finest Bathing Beach and Surf
in the World-Three Miles
From Velasco by Elec-
trio Rail-A Seaside
Suburb to the
Seaport.
VELAsCo, Sept. II, 1891.


DAILY LIGHT-Work is being
pushed upon the railway north and
by November first all.rsil communi-
cation will be established, and for the
hundreds now flocking here there
will be thousands. While this is
being done, the Brazos River Channel
and Dock company are unfolding
their plans for making this not only
the commercial metropolis of the
great southwest, but Its health and
pleasure resort as we'll. Velasco is
only three miles from the guilt liz
a direct line, over beautiful
prairie capable of the highest
cultivation, and upon which the years
to come will see millions of dollars
expended in ornamentation andbuild-
ings. Across this chamsign the COM
pany will open this fall one of the
finest boulevards in the world, $50
feet wide, leading direct 10 Surf
Side" This is the name Of the bath
ing, health and pleasure resort which
will be opened up within the next six
months, and where q magnificent
hotel will be erected, plans for which
are now under consideration. Surf
Side is directly upon the open Gulf OF
Mexico; no low coast, no intervening
islands, no coast lines extending be-
yond. No finer bathing ground exists.
From the lefty line, a short distance
westward, to the eastward far as the
eye can reach the white crested waves
roll over a beach of smooth
sand, clean and hard as a pol
lshed floor. Surf Side will be
laid out in plats for cottages
and substantial dwellings of all
descriptions, and will in time be the
delightful home of thousands Of
families whose husbands, fathers and
sons are doing business, only three
miles away, at the greatest seaport on
the gulf. The advantages thus af-
| forded tor the most delightful com BIZ
nation of business and pleasure can
not be over estimated. The drive
from Velasco down the boulevard
| and along the beach will be one Of
the most magnificent ever enjoyed
and as the surf bathing is unequalled,
unaffected by the tides, and in plain
view of the great ships coming and
going, the blue above and the blue
beneath and the white winged sails
between, there will be nothing want
| ing to add variety to the scene, or
| pleasure to the hours of recreation.
No more healthy location could be
found than Surf Side, where the
breezes blow continually, cooling and
refreshingly during the summer heats,
soft and balmy during winters cold,
which never encroaches upon this
coast laved by the warm current of the
| Gulf Stream. These ever BLOWN g
winds from the open gulf are not shut
| off from Velasco by any hill range,
and in the hottest season delightful
breeze stirs the rustling leaves in the
old oak grove and fans the face of
business in the Dustling seaport. 10
does seem as though nature had ex-
| pressly Intended this region for the
greatest port on the continent. Just
far enough south to escape the breath
of blighting frosts; far enough north
to be- beyond the enerating heat of
the tropics; at the only open gulf port
on the gulf coast where vessels draw
ing IS feet of water come and GO at
all tides; only fifteen minutes by cleo
trio rail from the finest surf and most
delightful beach ride in the wOrlds
in the very midst of country of I'M
surpassed fertility, Velasco is destin-
ed to be the greatest trans-Mississp-
pi port of this continent, and Surf
Side the most convenient and delight.
full suburb that can be found within
reach OF any city on this hemisphere.