San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-07-03
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THE CORRESPONDENT Is DRY
AND THE COUNTRY IS DRY.
He Arrives In Laredo, Is Well
Treated, And Is Well Pleased,
And Writes a Boomer.
LAREDO, Texas, July 3, 1891

LAREDO, Texas, July 3, 1891
To the San Antonio LIGHT.
After a ride over a literally dried W
country which begins after leaving Cor
pus Christi, the corn crops are short, grass
pastures scorched and dry and cattle and
horses showing the effects of a Ions
drought. What cotton can be seen ada
cent to the road looks well and will make
a good crop yet.
Laredo has done wonders in the way OF
building. Your correspondent has not been
here for some six years, and could hardly
trust his eyes at beholding all the fine
residences and gardens when twenty
years and less past there was a barren
waste. The city proper shows up with
fine public buildings, and intersperSed
with fine building blocks.
An electric street car rail-
way connects the two rail road
depots of both Laredos with cheap
and easy connection across an iron bridge
over the Rio Bravo with plenty OF room
for wagon and dray traffic and a double
~paSsageway for foot passengers. While
still another bridge makes railway con
nection and transfer easy over the river,
and though the dull season is now, yet
plenty of merchandise is daily arriving
for transportation across the border.
While much has been said about the
sudden boom of this city, for years past,
its sudden rise and downfall, yet a healthy
temporary boom of the specializing land
grabberis being reSurrected into a healthy
growth.
In conversation with County Judge Jos.
Ma. Rodriguez it is found that the tinan-
cial status of Webb county are in as
healthy a condition as those of any coun-
ty in the state, though having been under
many fold expenses for court house, Jail
and other first class improvements, while
the city itself boasts of a fine city hall
and a ~commodious market hOG e COM
bined.
Through the courtesy of the affable in
cumbent of the U. s. post Office, Mr..
Frank Pierce, your scribe was shown
some fine grapes grown by Mr.. f. w.
Meyers, of this city, some of the punches
weighing from pa TO 3 pounds, and only
of three years growth. Mr.. Meyers has
converted the block on which he also re-
sides into a perfect paradise of grape
vines. fig trees, pOmme's %grandeS, lemon
and orange trees, thus proving that by
irrigation there is nothing impossible to
be produced in the vegetable kingdom.
even in this much abused part OF Gods
footstool.
n great GltTdCSlOH VI Suuud! evenings
are the concerts of the Military brass
band from Fort Mcintosh. consisting OF
t~wenty-four pieces, on the Main plaza and
after the religiOuSly inclined population
of this city, have performed their duty by
singing the praise of the most high In the
congregation of his saints in the church,
they repair to with'all their sisters, cousins
and auntS to listen to the renditionS Of
Uncle Sans boys in full force under the
mellow shade OF the incandeScent electric
flashes over the plaza.
AS the traffic and passage to and fro
across the bridge Is open all night, these
open air concerts bring a large number OF
the dark eyed %senOritas, with their es-
cortS, from the other side, to listen to the
music, and they only depart after the last
strains have died way. 1t is natGraI
that this is looked upon with a feeling OF
jealousy by the old fOgieS of NuevO La
redo, as this element hates America and
Americans Ii. e., the United States be
cause they are progressive, and all innO-
V%ationS, as they are introduced by citizens
of the United States, are looked upon
with that kind Of feeling.
Mr.. ChaS. MOSer, of a Laredo firm. has
just returned from Monterey, Mexico
where he also paid a visit TO the celebrated
Topo Chico springs. He reports Monterey
as being flush, but by MeXicanS only con
Sidered as a frontier city.
The Commercial hotel, under the man
agement of |. ChriSten, is still in the lead
and is being renovated in firSt-ciasS style,
1t stands tirst-class as a hotel here.
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