San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-02-21
THE SAN ANTONIO UNION STOCK
YARDS.
The Enterprise of Public Spirited
Citizen.

W gro" where only one grew before, he Is
deemed public benefactor When a
citizen who has accumulated wealth by
years Of unremitting energy and toll in
vests portion of his means in building
up and establishing public enterprise
which will benefit the whole community.
he deserves great praise and general en-
dOrSement; for II is too much the rule
that men who succeed in accommodating
fortune become cautious and miSerly, or
content to sit down an enjoy their wealth
DR.. Amos Graves, who has won by his
energy and talent as practitioner, and
keen business sense, a fortune, has dem
Onstrated his public spirit by establishing
the most perfect and complete stock
yards to be found in the south. Five
years ago, the doctor began to purchase
tract of land south of the Sunset road
and west of the San Pedro. for a union
stock yard; he paid at first about $3.50 pei
acre; his last purchase was at the
rate OF $3.50 per acre. The entire tract
embraces 50 acres extending east of the
San Pedro, GOO feet to let in on the Aran-
sas Pass road and westward beyond the
International track. The ground is beau
TRULY located, and no site could be finer
for the purpose, being elevated and per-
fectly drained.
The Stock yards are now open for bust
ness: The immense shed covers, twenty
comfortably filled up pens 7Ox30 feet, with
swinging gates, which with outside pens
Will accommodate 1900 head of stock
Each stall or pen is supplied with tank
fed by city hydrant water, and the sides
OF each enclosure are so built as to.
protect animals from injury from pro-
jecting timber. A railroad switch runs
along the receiving and shipping platform
and every new device for the safe and eco
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utilized. The pens and stalls az all paved
with flint gravel so that mud will not be
known.
THE STOCK EXCHANGE BUILDING
is three story frame, containing "A
rooms, intended for offices, bar room, res
tauraHt, &c. Every modern convenience
has been studied and applied. Galleries 3D..
run entirely around the building making
it model of comfort in this climate
From these galleries a splendid view Of
the entire city and beautiful valley Is pre-
sented TO the visitor.
READY FOR BUSINESS.
The establishment represents in build
ings and plant alone $4,000 expenditure,
and is now open for business. Mr.. +. r
Rodgers, eX- alderman, is in charge of the
office, and Jno. Whitaker is general man
ager of the stock yards. Both gentlemen
are eminently fitted for their places: Mr..
Rodgers Is first-class business man.
thoroughly acquainted with the railroad
traffic, and Mr.. Whitaker has had five
years experience handling stock.
DIR. GRAVES LIBERALITy.
To secure the concentration of ALL thu
stock business at this point, now scatter
ed over the city and invading even the
mercantile center, DIR. Graves offers office,
rent free for one year, to established deal
erS. All other privileges of the building.
are given free for the same time.
THE GREAT ADVANTAGE
or having the stock business concentra-
ted at one place, is beyond question: in
fact, 1t is so we'll recognized that no city
that pretends to be stock market does
business in any other way. 1t enables
it stimulates business and gives
the seller the desired advantage
of encountering every customer who
wants to buy stock. In fact, it places the
business upon its most favorable footing.
1t may take a little time to break UP
present business stands, but the adyan-
tages offered are too great to be contended
against.
ADDITIONAL ENTERPRISES coSTEM-
PLATED.
DR.. Graves has in contemplation the
building OF an abattOir, or modern
slaughter house, for the use and accom-
mediation of our local butchers. This i'm
itself is a great and modern estab-
lishment. 1t would do away with
multitude of little slaughter
pens about our city, enable our butchers
to secure the best beef on the most eco
nomic plan, the beef to supply city mar
kets could be transported by electric cars
into the city at stated hour, greatly re-
niGpnmf nd Lob
pended. 1t would enable the city to
thoroughly, inspect all cattle before
slaughtered and insure the public against
the use of diseased or unfit meat.
In addition to the convenience to butch
ers and the protection of the public.
every substance OF slaughtered animals
would be saved and utilized OF course
this enterprise runs counter to established
usages and old customs, and would be
opposed even by those benefited, but the
public good as well as individual gain will
make IL successful.
The drive to the stock yards is one full
OF interest, and the observant visitor will
note the growing possibilities OF this sec
ton OF our city. The cotton compress is
an enterprise that has won its place as an
established industry; then there is Mac
keys pottery factory looming up near the
Arkansas Pass depot and numerous other
smaller factories.
ana Wnlle looking from the airy YER
anda of the Exchange, over the acres Of
growing gardens, the scene is enlivened
by the passing trains on the three great
roads that constitute the arteries through
which our commerce flows from the
Atlantic to the Pacific and down beyond
the peaks of the Seire Madre.
fyOu should select spot to put your
finger on the pulse of business, the San
Antonio union stock yards would be the
one most favorable.
When a passenger depot is built, it will
be down in that direction.
When reciprocity is a fact, the union
stock yards will boom with life.