The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1912-07-18
THE SAN ANTONIO SPIRIT.
Harmony, Pluck, Energy and Activity
of Citizens Accomplish Much.

of Citizens Accomplish Much
San Antonio, Texas, July 1S.-The
Chamber of Commerce of this city eel
ebrated today at a luncheon in the
Gunter Hotel the raising of a S25O,O'O
cash bonus for the building of the
San Antonio, Rockport & Mexican
railway. What may be accomplished
by energy and activity has been
shown ty members of the Chamber
of Commerce, who have raised this
year in subscriptions from the citi-
zens $1,000 cash bonus for the San
Antonio, Uvalde & Gulf Railroad,
merce and $250,000 bonus for the San
Antonio, Rockport 4 Mexican rail-
road.
The year 1912 will be remembered
in San Antonio as one of the greatest
in its history. First in Importance
was the amalgamation of all the CIV
c organizations into the Chamber of
Commerce, making it the largest in
the south ana almost the second lar
gest in the country. Hardly had this
been accomplished before the mem
bers were called on to raise the
bonus for the san Antonio, Uvalde K
Gulf railway, now being constructed
between San Antonio and point on
the gulf coast near Aransas Harbor,
the new deep water port for this city,
which, being 100 miles closer than
Galveston will effect a large saving
in freight rates.
Immediately afterward, in a cam
paign lasting four weeks, $l6O,OOO
was raised lor the support and main
tenance of the Chamber of Com
merce, resulting also in noticea ole
increase in civic pride and harmony
which already has attracted much ia
voyable notice for San Antonio.
About Two weeks ago the campaign
to raise the bonus OF S25O,OOO for the
San Antonio, Rockport & Mexican
railway was begun. Increasing in in
terest and intensity as it progressed,
the completion of it, celebrated az
the llnoheon today, caused rejoicing
throughout the city. The campaign
was begun among the banks, jobblnS
houses and larger property owners,
extending to the retail trade and fl
naly the popular demand to contrib
ute to the fund resulted in suDscrip-
tions from small property owners and
wage-earners. The people were de-
termined to have this railroad, be-
lieved necessary for San Antonio to
maintain her supremacy as the me
| tropols of Texas. Construction is to
be begun at once, material and equip
ment being now here. 1t will eX-
tend between San Antonio and Rock
port, adjacent to Aransas Harbor,
with which it is connected by its own
rails and where it is eercting wharves
and warehouses. This line will be
100 miles in length, At the same
time the railroad will be built due
south between San Antonio and the
lower Rio Grande Valley. opening to
the trade of San Antonio one OF the
richest districts in the world.
The work of the Chamber of Com
merce. the effectiveness of which has
been shown this year; the two new
railroads to the coast and to the port
that is nearest in the United States
to the Panama Canal, and the new
railroad into the lower Rio Grande
valley. assure to San Antonio trade
and manufacturing development that
will. it is believed, double within the
next decade the present population
of the city, now abot 10000, anc
give her the continued undtsputed
right to the title of metropolis OF
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