San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-10-17

Texas has evidently caught on to
deep water. During this week the
new seaport has been alive with
capitalists, shippers,
elevator men, lumbermen, prospec-
tors and investors of all sorts. Some
of these were from south Texas,
many from north Texas and others
from far outside of state lines. Kan
has been here to see and has gone
away satisfied that here is the place
that her surplus wheat will be ship
ped to foreign market. The PAN
handle" has been here calculating
how much her wheat can be made to
yield at home on the basis of Liver
pool quotations, rail and ocean
freights being fixed quantities of that
equation. Iowa aud Illinois and
Nebraska have all had their
representatives here and all
are convinced from personal
observat ion that deep water
ON the Gulf coast of Texas, which Is
only q promise in other places, is at
Velasco q fact. One not familiar with
the situation cannot realize how the
face of business changes from day to
day; how new business houses spring
into existence almost in q day, ont
grow themselves in a week and as
sumo all the proportions of settled
and established trade. 1t is SO hard
for outsiders, those who are not on
the ground and breathing the atmos
phere of its increase and spon taneous
expansion, to realize that city is
already springing up here, and that
its foundations are even now solidly
and broadly laid-it is 30 hard to real
ize this that q plain statement of facts
must seem distorted The press of
Texas outside of Galveston seem so
generally appreciative Of the work
going on at the Mouth of the Brazos,
and have SO widely heralded those
facts made known at first in this COR
respondence, that the purpose of these
letters is fairly accomplished. The
work has now PISSED beyond the
hands of the Brazos River Channel
and Dock Company. With al ener-
gy, public spirit, and faith unpre-
cedented, this syndicate sunk its
hundreds of thousands in the jetties
here until the supreme object of their
work, deep water, was accomplished.
The business men of Texas and
the trans-Mississippi valley have
caught on, and recognizing the value
and the vast importance to commerce
of the work 80 surely and grandly &C.
complished, are today building the
city which nature centuries ago de-
creed should rise wherever deep
water port on the coast of Texas was
established. The hundreds of shrewd,
active, live business men who have
established themselves at Velasco,
become part and parcel of its work
ing force, give direction to all move
ments for the creation Of the city, and
become partners with the Channel
and Dock company syndicate III the
stablishmeuJ those agencies nee
essary to fully equip the new seaport
for successful business and comforts
BILE, sale and luxurious dwelling. The
building of miles OF dock, of terminal
railway lines, of wingdams for river
Improvement, tor lines of rapid transit
across the plain to Surf-side and the
creation o. a seaside resort there
these will be exclusively the work OF
the syndicate, but in the development
OF the city, the building of the great
port to be, the lighting and paving
and cleaning and watering Of the
city-in all these the Channel and
Dock syndicate will be but part of
the great whole working toward the
desired end. Already meetings are
called and movements for fire pro-
lection, electric lighting, incor-
are under way. These all
indicate the beginning of the new Or
der. Elevator men from Kansas are
here, inspecting the ground and To-
eating elevators to be built for the
handling OF tae surplus grain crop of
q region supplying q surplus 100, O0O,-
600 bushels on which 13 cents per
bushel will be saved on the shorter
haul to Velasco against the longer
haul to the Atlantic seaboard. The
lumbermen of the great southeast
Texas and Louisiana pineries are here
locating lumber yards, certain of find
ing the best market at this port. Con-
tractors and builders are here arrang-
lag for planning mills; brick makers
are turning out brick; cold storage
plants are going in and every CON-
ceivable form and class of industries
has it's representatives These men
are here for business not speculation.
Their Investments are for the conduct
of business and not as q means OF gain
by selling at advanced figures. In
all this work they are but the active
partners and associates of the syndi-
cate whose far-seeing wisdom, great
energy and immutsble faith have