Arizona republican., 1896-02-04
THE ONLY DEEP HARBOR On the Gulf Coast of
 Texas. AranSas Pass the Commercial
 Metropolis.
Great Advantages for Manufactur- ing-The Shipping Point for the
 Stock Growing Regions.

MT. Brewster Cameron, who for a number of years actively engaged in the range cattle business in Arizona, and who still retains large interests in cattle and mines in this territory and in the republic of Mexico, has been in the city for several days, domiciled at the Hotel Ford.
 MT Cameron is now general manager of the Aransas Pass Harbor company, at Aransas Pass, new deep water port on the gulf coast of Texas, with which enterprise some prominent citi- zens of Arizona are prominently iden- tified. MT Cameron gave the follow ing description of the country, its eli mate, the harbor, it's prospects, etc., to :, representative of The Republican:
 "At Aransas Pass it is less than mile from deep water in the gulf to deep water in the harbor. At Calves ton it is more than five times as far. This great natural advantage to Aran- sas Pass enables that port to easily maintain from eight to ten feet greater depth of water than it will ever be pos sible to secure at Galveston. Com merce gravitates to the deepest avail able port as naturally as water flows down hill. The supreme advantages which nature alone has furnished to Aransas Pass has singled it out as the commercial metropolis of the gulf coast, but man is now doing quite as much for Aransas Pass as nature has done.
 "A gigantic system of hanbor and railroad improvements are now in progress there under the direction of Prof Lewis M. H. Haupt, of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania; Major H. c. Ripley of Galveston and MT. Dunbar Jenkins of Baltimore, fIree of the most distinguished maritime engineers in the United States.
 ''In addition to the great ibreakwater which is being constructed by the Aransas Pass Harbor company, an al- lied company is building the Terminal railroad across the bay at an enor- nous expense, to connect the city of Aransas Pass with the MSharves and docks on Harbor island, and another company has undertaken the work of building north and south airline rail- road. This will make two competing trunk lines, intersecting of connecting with all roads from the north. There is already the San Antonio & Aransas Pass railroad to the west, controlling g the Pacific coast trade, and the Mexi can National railroad goes direct from this splendid port into the heart of Mexico, and absolutely controls the immensely valuable trade of that won derful republic, rich in minerals, rich in tropical products that we consume, and richer still in an inexhaustible supply of the most precious cabinet woods, such as rosewood and mahog- any, the abundance of which is testi- fled by the fact that they are now be ing used for railroad ties. In view of this astonishing fact, what a field the city of Aransas Pass opens up to par i ties who are seeking a location for the manufacture of hard cabinet woods in to furniture or works of art.
 ''It would require column to briefly recite the advantages that this new port opens to trade and manufactur- CTS, such as lumber mills, foundries, electric lights. ice plants, cold storage, cotton mills, cotton seed oil mills, cot ton compressors, etc. 1t is in the heart of the cattle producing region of Texas, and great stockyards, packeries and tanneries are already in process of organization. This will be the feed l ing ground of the future Here at least one million head of Ebeeves will be concentrated annually, for export on foot, or slaughter and shipment as dressed beef, or in cans. These stock 1 yards and ahbatoirs, with collateral in dustries, such as glue factories, fer tilizing establishments, etc, will en- ploy at least eleven thousand men, equivalent to a city of 5O.O00 inhabi- tantS.
 1.-The prosperity of Aransas Pass, however, does not rest wholly upon it's manufactures, or even upon it's com merce Its climate alone will make it
 great health and pleasure resort There is absolutly no malaria there There are no swamps, no land breezes filled with mosquitoes or miasmatic odors. The breeze from the gulf which is almost constant, is soft and invigorating the year around, and it's extreme healthfulness is shown by the fact that no native of the locality is afflicted with pulmonary troubles or catarrh, and all who have gone there with the latter disease, even for a short stay, have been benefited, and many among those who have stayed there through one summer have been entire ly cured
 There are about a half dozen cold
 raw days in January, and as many
 more, perhaps, in February; just