San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-26
TEXAS is IN 1T.

ty than Texas has ever known. From
every quarter of the state come mos
encouraging reports, aud an assur.
ance that the abundant rain fall has
made b ountiful crops 8 certainty. A
larger area of soil has been turned
over than ever before, and more
wheat, oats, corn and root crops will
be grown than in any previous year.
While this Is true cotton area has n OF
diminished. Already the movement
for higher prices has commenced, in
all save cotton, and the cattle growers
and sheep men of the state are facing
better times than for q decade past.
All these things assist in the natural
turning of public atten ton to Texas
as the least developed and most
promising of all the United States.
Texas has been largely advertised
and her advantages kept freely before
the people ~of other states
for the past five years. The
capital aud " immigration thu
directed toward Texas, has, until
within comparatively recent period.
conferred itself in the northern and
eastern sections of the state. All
this is changing. The gulf coast is
attracting its share of atten ton, and
southwest Texas is today more prom.
inently in the eye and face of pros
pective immigration than any other
section. More lands are being sold in
southwest Texas for farming purposes;
for small fruits, grains, vegetables,
vines and melons, than in any other
section of the entire country. Large |
ranches and extensive ranges are |
being cut up into small tracts and the
man with a hoe has been given a
most cordial welcome. Mems minds
elsewhere are being dsabused of the
old and erroneous ideas concerning
insecurity of life and property, and
freedom of opinion aud the broad
liberty conceded TO all is becom-
ing understood. President Harri.
sons reception in this state,
and the large accessions of north
ern capital have had wholesome
affect i'll correcting false impressions,
and in one way or another the whole
situation is undergoing change. 1t is
seen that Southwest Texas enjoys a
more uninterrupted prosperity than
any other section, and that the re-
turns of labor are more certain here
than elsewhere Her vast stores of
mineral wealth and building materi-
ais as we'll as her fertile soil and in
comparable climate are being consid-
cred, and as result large immigra-
ton has come into this whole region
of which San Antonio is the CONNER
cisl center, Within the past two years.
This influx is but as the advance
guard of the great army of occupation
soon to settle between the Colorado
and the Gulf, an army which will
make of all Southwest Texas the great
market and fruit garden of the trans
Mississippi section. In view of these
things it is Of the first i'm oortance
that San Antonio take advantage of
every circumstance and profit by every
opportunity presented her for keeping
her advantages, position, prestige
and commercial Importance before
the state and the nation. Most GER
tain it is then that she would be
guilty of great inattention and neg
lect did she permit this fall to pass
without holding fair, and such a
fair as she is entitled to by the inn
portance and advantage of her posi-
ton. The city is showing more signs
OF healthy. normal growth than any
city in the state, and the presence of
10000 strangers in the streets this
fall would be an immense advertise
ment for her. Her lines Of electric
street railway now cover all the
great suburbs being opened tor i'm
provement aud she is In every way
better fitted to demonstrate her i'm
portance and progress than ever
before. Not to hold that fair and
thus advertise herself would be q
fat al niataka