San Saba County news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1874-19??, 1893-02-17
ST. LOUIS ENrsRPRisH'
Wires to Go UundsF oreund-notsi
RuudIng-Trads of Iadlan Territory

Wires to Go Uunder Greund-notei
RuIIdinE-rrads OF Iadlan Territory
Library Features, EtH
ST. LOUIS, Feb. TT seems now as
II million dollars or 50 win be spent
by the electric companies IN laying
conduits in St Louis this year. Tbs
Bell Telephone Company and one Of
the largest electric lighting companies
have already applied to the city for
permission 10 put down conduits, and
another telephone company, which in
tends to compete with the Bell and
lower rates is asking the Assembly to
give it a franchise for the same pur-
pose The new telephone company has
bought a conduit already laid in tho
streets, and the systems planned by
the Bell and the lighting company will
cost each over half million dollars,
sven though the first conduits are in
tended to occupy only the business
streets
Most of the trade OF the Indian Ter
ritory is directly tributary to St
Louis, and the city is consequently
taking the lead in movements that
have for their object, the opening OF
these lands for settlement The mer-
chants here, however, go further than
any proposition for the opening OF the
Territory that has vet been advanced
They want the whols Territory
opened. the Indians who own the
lands to be given their pay at once by
the United States, and convention of
Western business men is now proposed
to take steps to carry out the IN.
The convention will be held here, and
probably about the time the new Con.
gress ASSEMBLIES
The public library Of this city, which
Is one of the largest in the country, is
at last to be made free library. II
now belongs to the school board. and
that body will be glad to get rid of ii
if the city will undertake the cost OF
its maintenance, which is considerable.
1t is not intended to put it into the
hands Of the municipal officers, but to
endow it by subscription. and at
meeting of the most wealthy and pub.
lic-spirited men of the city the other
day, it was decided that this should be
done this year. The library has just
moved into a new seven story build.
ing which cost nearly half million
dollars, and is most modernly apr ointed.
With the first thawing touch OF
spring on the frozen streets, hundreds
of pickaxes will lie sunk into the
ground for the track-laying on three
new cross-town lines of street rail-
ways. The city has now enough
roads running along its breadth, from
the river 10 the western suburbs. It
only needs more lines to cut these at
right angles, particularly over the
rapidly growing western part of the
town.
1t is really becoming difficult to
count the new hotels which are in
tended to be finished in St Louis by
next fall. II the builders carry out
all their contracts, and from the num-
Der of men working at foundations
down town, there seems to be reason
10 tAlnk lhey WILL the CITY VIII DC
abe to provide half million people
with rooms by next October, when the
crowds begin 10 rush in to see the fall
festivities. So far, all the hotels pro-
jected have been located near the CEN
ters of business down town, but this
week the contracts were let for an
other one, an eight-story building di-
rectly opposite the new Union depot
This hotel will be intended principally
foI those who want to stay here only
between trains, and its rates will
probably be very cheap, while the
other hotels going up are for the
travellers who want the best of every
thing and are willing to pay for it