San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-06-20

! even visitors from Milwaukee, Chi
cago and st. Louis, the beer GEN.
tres of the United States; we have
two foundries producing architec-
tural iron of the finest description,
corniee works, brick, sewer pipe
and tile factories, cement factory,
cotton gins, manufacturing drug
gist, cotton seed oil and cake mills,
broom factory, cigar factories,
mattress factories, planning mills,
ice factories, mesquite and cement
sidewalk factories, fence factories,
manufacturing jewellers, manufac-
turers of saddles, harness and wa
CONS, flour mills, candy
factories, mineral water fac
tories, horn furniture factory,
brewers of Weiss beer, barrel and
tank factories, and many other
minor industries. There is also a
Union stock yard, and yet, it may
be added, there is room for the i'm
provement and enlargement of
these Industries, and for the estab-
fishing of many others of profita-
| BILE character.
There are numbers of business
houses here-wholesale and retail
that will supply all a citizen
wants, and at prices that compare
favorably with any place in the
| South.
In this city money gets good
| interest, on tangible security, eight
to twelve per cent being paid, and
even higher. Labor is paid fair
wage usually the national union
scale governs, especially as regards
skilled labor.
1 have said what we have. Now
l want to say what we need, and
these requirements should be well,
extensively, but judiciously adver-
tised. We need capital to use the
wool and cotton, that is right here,
and, by the aid of our magnificent
water power, manufacture it into
articles of every day use. We need
capital to use our cattle in the
packeries, can our goods, con-
vert our hogs into ham, bacon,
and lard. We need capital to es-
tablish a tannery that shall use
the hides, making them into
leather, a shoe factory to use that
leather, a glue factory and other
things to utilize the offal or waste.
We need a "cannery" that shall
utilize the cheap and surplus
fruits, fish, oyster etc., turning
them to money instead of their
going to waste. We need pottery
to utilize the kaolin and other pot
ter's matter, glass mandatory
for a similar purpose and other
factories that can be protitably run
here. In the wake of the natural
innovation which must come SOON
err or later we shall need many
| skilled laborers and more good
| citizens. San Antonio is naturally
a commercial centre as she is now.
She is more naturally a manufac-
turing centre as she will surely in
time become, as the LIGHT has oft
predicted. And when that time
comes she will be the queen city
Of the empire state and enjoy an
era of prosperity that, perhaps, few
now realize. Let us hasten the
day for it cannot come too quickly.
And the enterprising capitalist
who has the grit and skill to util-
| iZe the natural resources that lay
around us, as indicated in my pre-
viOus articles, will not only make
a princely fortune for himself, but
will be a benefactOr to the citizens.
What more need be said? With
a fine, healthy climate, an historic
and picturesque city, an oppor-
tunity for the most profitable in.
vestment Of capital and the en-
ployment of labor, good society,
law and order, unsurpassed educa-
tional facilities, churches and
fraternal societies of all kinds,
good beer, good water, fine
market for the disposal of goods
and asgood market to buy in, what
more can be desired? To this, last
and not least, may be added the
welcome Of genial citizens and
their hearty cooperation for mu-
tual welfare. If these facts and
attributes do not make San AntO-
MO the Mecca of immigrants, then
| know not will. All can say to
the stranger is come and see the
good things we have for you, then
if you are satisfied, stay with us
and dwell in brotherly love, if not
then go thy way in peace and God
speed you on the way. To the citi-
zens l would say understand and
appreciate your resources and then
work earnestly and heartily to at