San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-06-13


/ much more profitable and credit
able would it have been for local
men or other garden track growers
of the state, if they only patronized
one another?
Pecans, peanuts, walnuts and
|. other edibles of that kind are we'll
| represented.
Fine specimens of the sugar cane
are shown here, and this is becom-
ling quite an important aud profit
able industry, an acre of cane
yielding about 1859. About mil
lion and quarter was raised in
sugar last year, and to this must
be added a quarter of a million for
syrup. This result has been at
Gained with crude machinery, but
later on you can bet this branch OF
industrial Texas will be most i'm
portant one.
In lumber Texas is rich, and
has all the woods necessary for
buildings of all kinds, and for
cabinet work and indeed for fur
niture factory and this is readily
shown by the exhibits. There are,
it is said, 35,537,697 acres of good
lumber lands consisting mainly of
Pecan, Walnut, Ash, Oak, Hickory,
Ebony Lignum, Vital, Brazil,
Mesquite, Pine, Cherry, Redwood
and other things. Some of these
are fine for furniture, as sh own b
the prisoners work made in Huntsy
vile for the Southwestern Asy--
lum. These woods can be used
cheaply in any way and the edible !
nuts on those trees are an addition
al source Of profit.
In the building trade there is
fine marble granite, good stone of
various kinds, slate, mari, gypsum
cement material, asphaltum, and
material for brick, most of which
can be secured for a trifle and prof
itably utilized.
Good honey is found Wild and
can be we'll used to the advantage |
of those who work the trade.
The silk worm naturally thrives
here, for mulberries, it's natural
food, are large and plentiful. Their
cultivation affords light employ
ment, and though little has been
done here in this line | am salts
fed that the silk trade will be an
important industry of Texas ere
many years have passed.
Many valuable drugs are known
to exist here in paying quantities,
and some are exhibited. There are
also peppers, spices, bay, manioe,
tapico, arrow root, phOsphates,
cochineal, fuller's earth, mica, am
Der, meerscham and thousand
and one articles in daily use than
can be most profitably used.
Kaolin and potters clay is shown
that could be we'll used in a pot
terry. Indeed, these have been used
in crude way. There is material,
too, for the manufacture of the fin
est glass.
photographic stone is also ex-
hibited, and there are various
kinds of paper making mate
rial. The paper trade of Texas
| alone is sufficient to keep several |
mills going and would gain much
| trade in other southern states and |
in Mexico.
There is fine coal at Eagle Pass
and in various other places. There |
are such traces of coal oil and nat.
| ural gas as leaves little doubt that |
it exists in paying quantities.
These all could be used for fuel
but independent of this we have
the finest water power in the
world that only awaits to be util-
lied in the right way.
Samples of iron are shown that
makes the finest Bessemer steel,
far richer than any Of Alabama,
and where you find iron, coal is
not far distant. We have gold,
silver, tin, copper and nearly
every kind of metal. Precious
stones are found here too in abun-
dance.
| > Cattle, sheep and hogs practical
ly RIM wild here. The cattle are es-
timated at $S4,0O0,OO0; sheep at
| $l700O,0O0; hogs at $l2,000,0O0.
With proper care of the animals,
and utilizing these resources, and
the establishing of a paCkery, a
canning establishment, glue fac
tory and other incidentals, what
fortunes could be made. Yet we
ship our animals, and buy back
canned meats, lard, ham and ba-
con to our detriment.
l. 1t is calculated that our horses
are worth S42,0O0,0OO. Let these be
bred properly, and carefully tended,
and there is millions in the trade.
| Here are fine samples of wool
| which II ic acfir,ofoI