San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-12-24

UNDER THE LIVE OAKS.
midst, and they are always ready and
willing to loan money for building
purposes at nominal rates.
BUSINESS HOUSES.
Block after block of business
houses greets the visitors eyes.
Handsome stone and brick business
houses give evidence that our mer-
chants are prospecting. Metropoli-
tan stocks are carried by our bust
ness men, and it is UNNECESSARY to
send away from home to obtain
your goods. San Antonio is the
shopping mecca " of this section
OF Texas.
CLIMATE.
Climate has everything to do
with making a city or section de-
sirable or not. By reason of the
elevation above sea level, and the
proximity Of the ocean, the preva-
lence of the trade wind during the
heated term, San Antonio is famous
for its healthy, invigolating eli.
mate. The winters are bracing,
with but few days when the Their
mometor falls below the freezing
point; sometimes light fall of snow
reminds the northerner of Thanks
giving times. Spring opens in Feb
ruary; summer begins with June
and lasts into September. The
summer weather is the most health
full season of the year-hot and dry
but the prevailing sea breeze
from the Gulf of Mexico gives re.
lief, so that it is not an enervating
climate. The delicate and sick get
well in the summer-nature rests,
insect life disappears.
No spot in the world holds out
greater hope of relief to the invalid.
The climate is unsurpassed, as
proven bv thousands of restored
. consumptives, and by 'tnousahd
of Our citizens who are the children
> of consumptives that sought Texa
: for relief, but who today enjoy tina
S splendid health that prevails will
e the people in all our section.
0 HEALING WATERS.
The development of hot minera
waters by artesian wells, has added
another claim to San Antonio as ;
health resort, and destines it to b.
t the greatest sought after spot Oh
S the continent, as soon as the aff1ict
ed find 1t out. One we'll, that sup
plies the sanitarium erected, dis
charges per "a hours, I,25o, 900 gal
Ions of hot sulphur water, at TEN
perature of 1912. These baths ar
now extensively patronized, anc
hundreds of people who have gon,
there on crutches have come away
cured and without them. Beside;
this great hot sulphur well, there
are two others of equal tempera
ture not yet utilized as resorts.
OUR GYSERS.
There are some twenty odd arte
sian wells that flow within the cit,
limits. These wells are veritabl'
gysers, sending up volumes o
, water above the surface with grea
e pressure. Two of these wells afforc
Y over three million gallons of pur,
r soft water to the water works
which works are also supplied by /;
system which uses the crystalline
fountains of the river that rises al
most within the city limits. NJ
. city on the continent has such 4;
magnificent supply of water.
COAL.
Within nine miles of the city O
San Antonio Ignite coal field ha.
been developed that covers thou
sands of acres, aud insures an mex
haustable supply of fuel. Thi.
coal is produced on the dump a
40 cents per ton.
OUR STREETS
Are paved and well kept. NJ
city in Texas can boast of finer o.
!. more durable streets.
: SUBURBAN rRAcTs OF LANDS FoF
LEAP HOMES.
: No city ~ It's size in Texas car