San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-10-03

of Texas, Etc.
Daily LIGHT:
The new hotel at Veasco is open and
those who come down to the seaport to do
business are no longer compelled to huddle
in tents or to make trips to and from
Quintana in order to secure bed and
board, with great uncertainty of either.
The "Velasco" is one of the finest hotels
in the south. A magnificent four-story
building. fronting the Gulf of Mexico on
three sides, most substantially construct
ed, and provided with all the modern
electric appliances, baths, elevators. etc.
No hotel in the country is under better
management. and as it is run not merely
for profit, but for the genuine accomoda-
ton of those who come to Velasco to do
business, it can be depended upon to pro-
vide every possible comfort for its guests.
The opening OF this hotel marks an era in
the history of the seaport, and it is not out
of place to consider just what has been
done here to date, in the way of making a
deep water port. And, first, nothing has
While it is true that opportunities for
making money in the legitimate advan ce'
of real estate are greater at VelaSco to-
day than in any other city in the United
States, it is equally true that the syndi-
cate controlling her lands has not as yet
put its property fairly upon the market,
and no attempt has been made to sell.
This fact is OF immense importance to
those who desire to operate in real estate
here and equally so to those who desire
to enter legitimate trade and do their
share of the vast business so soon TO be
transacted at this seaport.
WHAT HAS BEEN ACTUALLY DONE,
The syndicate known, as the Brazos
River Channel and Dock Company, was
| organized TO secure deep water at the
mouth of the BraZoS river. This object
| they have kept steadily in view, and it mas
| not only dominated all others, but has
| been for two years their sole endeavor.
| THIS WORK THEY HAVE ACCOMPLISHED.
| The charter. obtained from the con-
| gresS of the United States, under which
| this work has been prosecuted, called for
( eighteen feet of water, and steamers
| drawing eighteen feet of water can now
| come and go over the bar at all stages OF
water The jetties are complete for all
practical purposes. The stone and con-
/
works from injury during heavy storms
| is not all in place and will not be for sew
erel weeks to come, as this work cannot
be advanced in stormy weather, but a
large force is at work and will be until
| the last stone is in place. The Jetties
then are practically completed and give
now eighteen feet on the bar, which will
| be increased to twenty as soon as the i'TSt
rise comes down the river. The SUN ot
one million eight hundred thousand dol
lars (Sl, 100000 was expended here before
a lot was laid out on the site OF the pres
ent port.
1t is barely three months since the sur
veyor'S levels were run for the plating OF
VelaSco. 1t was then beautiful live oak
grove on the east bank of the BraZOs, four
miles from its mouth. 1t is now a place
of fifteen hundred population, with
magnificent four story hotel, containing
t.? rooms: There are two brick yards
turning out brick, and three others prepar-
ing to do so: There are three lumber yards
doing heavy business, and two others
locating: There are twenty seven two
story frame buildings, and sixty three one
story, besides an equal number OF tents
and ombinatiOn board and canvas
structures: There is besides these the
roomy two story Office Of the syndicate,
building in which fifty clerks can find
comfortable quarters: railroad Is IN
progress of construction to Chenango,
which will be running cars into NelaSco
within 30 days, and giving quick connect.
| ion with all the great railway system OF
the state: WharveS and docks are under
construction: the first. 6OOXlOO TO be COM
pleted when the BraZOS and Northern
railroad reaches town Nov !: Parks,
streets. boulevardS, have been laid OUT
and work has been pushed upon them as
| fast as is possible: A sea side resort on
| the open beach of the gnlf, three, miles
distant, is located, 10 be connected with
VelaScO by electric railway, and
plans for q magnificent surf side hotel
to be built this winter are in preparation.
This is the work to date. 1t is but the
beginning of an immense work to be, eX-
tending over years to come. through
which VelaScO will grow to maturity and
draw to itself the commerce of as mighty
an empire as ever made the wealth of a
sea port Scarcely ninety 900 days since
the aXe-men and the linkmen and sur
yeyOrS stepped ashore at NelaSCO to run
the lines for this new town, and already
the new port is hive of industry, where
trade fOuriSheS, new business takes root
every day, new creative industries are eS-
tabliShed and new factors of increase are
added. Two years since work was begun
on bar abandoned by the government as
hopeless, and on which but four and
half feet of water was found at mean
tide, and today solid jettieS running sea-
ward mile, constructed at a cost OF
Sl,sC0,OOO, give eighteen feet of water on
the bar, and promise an additional two
feet as soon as the first rise of any magni-
tude comes down to ScOur the channel.
This work accomplished gives assurance
of such growth in population, commerce,
industry of all kinds. and such rapid rise
in real estate as has never been witnessed
in Texas.
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