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

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COMMERCIAL ADVANTAGES OF. SAN
ANTONIO.
The facilities and conveniences of
business i'm San Antonio are fully
equal to the largest metropolis on
on this continent. For CONNER
cial purposes it occupies superior
and commanding position. 1t is
the great depot of nearly all the
scope of country which yields a
wealth OF agricultural products. 1t
has large trade in cotton with
foreign and domestic centers. 1t is
the entreport of all kinds of sup
plies and merchandise for all the
vast territory of which she is queen.
| The banking institutions afford all
reasonable accommodation to the
wants of the trade of the city. The
city's wealth and prosperity is en-
braced in innumerable branches of
commerce and industries, vet in
their infancy, but operated profita-
bly,. Its merchants and business
men are live, gO-ahead people, and
with energy, industry and skill are
last transforming the city into a
large and popular metropolis. The
merchants and business men of
san Antonio are fortunate, but
doubtless their escape of the finan-
clal woes experienced by others is
due to care and prudence. Through
out the financial conclusions
which have engulfed many into ir-
retrievable ruin, the merchants and
business men have preserved, their
commercial honor and mercantile
respect intact, and have brought
their city to a dignified prominence
in the world of trade and chal-
lenged the respect, the attention
and admiration which such condi-
lions legitimately entitle her.
THE RETAIL TRADE.
The retail trade, in a great meas
ure, gives life and animation to a
town. In San Antonio every
branch of the trade is well repre-
scented. Indeed, many leaders have
in their stores fabrics of the finest
textures, imported from the fash
ionable centers of Europe and the
Great manufactures of the United |
States. Every article which can
add to the beauty and attractive
ness of the lovely sex; everything |
that can charm and delight the |
senses, the useful and the Orna-
mental, the costly and the mOder-
ate in price, will be found displayed |
with exquisite taste in stores whose |
palatial eXteriorS command admi-
ration. The citizens engaged in
the retail trade are among the most
and progressive, and
whether it be hardware, groceries,
boots, shoes or hats, drugs or pat
mt medicines, garden seeds or a
yard of tape, the retail merchants,
as a rule, are always courteous and
lignitied. What would become of
any town without the retail trade?
The people would scarcely live and
Dc comfortable. Indeed, the retail
rade is the life of any town, and
very effort should be directed to
is stimulation to increasing activ-
ty.
THE WHOLESALE TRADE. +,
The jobbing trade of San Antonio
las kept pace with the increasing
of the commercial city ,
nd has outstripped the industrial !
interests. The various departments !
f the jObbing trade, such as gro l
cries, provisions, dry goods, cloth t
ng, boots, shoes, hats, hardware, {
implements, drugs, Y
OuSchOld goods and all goods nee t
Ssary to the SuStenance, comfort
nd enjoyment of man, are fully
p to the standard and will COM
are favOrably with those of any t
ther city in the country. The job v
ing or wholesale trade of San An e
)nio is one of the leading interests i
hose extent would surprise many t
no go or send east to supply their II
ants. The wholesale or jObbing O
'ade neceSsitateS the employment t
a vast capital, aggregating many a
lilliOnS Of dollars. 1t may be said II
riefly that the advantages of San q
ntoniO as a wholesale and job S
ing center have long since attract b
l the attention of the most intel t
gent dealers of the country and il
lie closest buyers, after having il
led rival markets, have returned
this city, where competition is o
ways lively and honorable, and fl
lie opportunity for close prices as 7
Ire the most favorable induce V
ents to every buyer. AS to quail y
y and variety of goods, San An d
MIC is fully equal to any of her F
'etentious competitors. j
IN CONCLUSION