The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1905-06-01


of San Angelo aud yet almost
wholly unrealized by the citizens
of this city. Certainly there is
no similar example of a town 3
growth in all West Texas. Per-
haps there are none in the state.
No longer than three years ago
Miles Station was only flag
station. There was no railway
depot there, only n section house,
The business houses could be
counted on the fingers of one
hand and the residences within
five miles square did not APP
proach the twenty mark Its one
store with postoilice included in
the same building was the stop
ping place for the very few people
who ever went there.
Today, all this is different.
Miles now has handsome depot
with separate waiting rooms for
whites and negroes, score of
handsome single story stone and
brick business houses, several two
story ones, n handsome two-story
brick hotel and any number Of
frame buildings for business use.
Besides this there are 1900 people
living at the little Runnels coun-
ty city IN as pretty cottages and
as handsome residences as one
would care to see. There are two
gins, two large lumber yards,
four churches, good frame
school building with prospects Of
better one.
Miles is n city. Her people are
energetic, patriotic and well-to do.
There are questions of local inn
portance as all towns have but on
one thing the people of Miles are
unit and that is in being proud
of their town, their country, and
the splendid class of people who
have made Miles what 1t is today.
Miles has telephone exchange,
a newspaper, stock pens, Knights
of Pythias, Odd Fellows, Masonic
and Woodmen lodges, a good
opera house, two national banks
and many other enterprises.
Miles is one of the coming
cities of the West. The time is
near at hand when Ballinger will
have to look well to her laurels or
she will lose them in favor of the
enterprislng people of Miles. AL
ready there is a feeling of rivalry
between the two towns and the
prediction is freely made, by
those in position to know, that
the time is coming when Miles
will seek to secede from Runnels
county and become a part of Tom
Green. The people of Miles have
a most friendly feeling for the
people of San Angelo and some of
them say that San Angelo has al
ways done the square thing by her
little sister city except in the case
of the recent smallpox scare
when certain things were said
publicly in San Angelo which
hurt Miles and her business in
terests.
A PRESS MAN IN MILES.
The Editor of The Press had
occasion to pay the city of Miles
a business visit last Friday after
noon. 1t would be unfair to the
readers of The Press who know
nothing Of this little city if The
Press did not tell of n few of the
things which are of note in that
town.
Perhaps as important an insti-
tuition as exists in that city in
the way of assisting in the de.
velopment of the country is the
Miles Messenger. This little
newspaper is no larger than is
usually found in the smaller
towns but it has a wonderful in
tluence with the people of that
city and community. The Mes
senger is published by Messrs
Pickle & Perry and is a newspaper
of which the people of Miles are
Justly proud. 1t stands for the
interests Of the town and
community, Its editors are broad
guaged, talented and energetic.
It's policy is in keeping with these
characteristics. 1t enjoys a good
circulation and the merchants of
Miles are truly patriotic in their
patronage of it.
Another institution of impor-
tance to Miles is Hotel Concho.
This hostelry under the proprie-
torship of John Haley, is worthy
of note. Here one gets good
meal, a comfortable room, a clean
easy bed and in fact all of the
comforts and conveniences, and
even moreythan one should ex-
pect to find in a city smaller than
San Angelo.