San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-02
approximately IS
Per Cent of Homes
Due TO Lumbermen
Surrey of the Last rs Years Shows
EUen Higher Figure Financed
by San Antonio Yards

The real home builders of San Antonio the um
bermen The home owners the building contractors, the
carpenters and bricklayers and painters and paper
hangers all dependent or less the umbermen
1t probably is conservative to that seventy per
cent of the home building of San Antonio would be i'm
possible without the assistance of the umbemen and there
day in San Antonio when approximately ninety per
of the homes built due entirely to the lumber
men,
survey of home building in San Antonio for the las
quarter century would show that the lumber dealers
If this city financed than eighty cent of the
homes that built in that period That takes in the
era greatest growth in San Antonio which shows that
the San Antonio Lumber interests the practical and
business builders of the homes here.
Amazed at Growth. ..
The majority of the people in San Antonio almost
totally unaware of the service performed by the lumber
dealers and of the work being done by the Association
which these dealers have organized here Riding about
the city motor they comment frequently upon the
sazing growth of the residential districts They see the
nes-fung far beyond the ctys former boundaries beau
tifu modern homes going up in all directions with fine
grounds shrubs and flowers paved streets and other I'M
provements. Old residents sometimes will be heard to
express grave doubts the future and to declare that
San Antonio is "being overbult'
rs Yet not one in thousand people is aware that the
men who financing these homes who providing not
only the materials but also the for the construction
and the modern installations ranging from plumbing
electrical appliances wdeawake, keen, active, bs-
NeSSmen, VINO nave gauge on VI
and finger the pulse of the city that an unerng
guide to the ability of the people to buy and to pay.
Real City Builders
These men are real empire buiders-rea city build
ers They are we'll that the money for all this
pansion is not Immediately available But their years of
experience here their certain knowledge of the business
of building their unbounded faith in the city, all combine
to warrant the large investments they making in San
Antonio's destiny
Few people realize that the lumber dealers of San
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San Antonio homes Few people are aware that the u-
bermen of San Antonio have endorsed millions of dollars
paper for the home builders here who otherwise could
not have acquired homes These home owners, on the
ether hand the workers of San Antonio and the bus
of San Antonio who in the course of five to eight
years. will pay out these homes and become thereby per-
residents of San Antonio united to the city by the
greatest bond of citizenship-home ownership.
Requires Large Capital
The lumber Dealers in order to carry on this great
campaign compelled TO finance these homes over a
period of years ranging most instances around eight
years. To do they have to obtain large sums of money
through San Antono banks and building and loan asso
Citations and they have to their loans to home
builders that the small builder be accommodated just
as readily the wealthy builder One and ALL they
come the lumber dealers when they to build home
and the loans handled by the umbermen here range from
tsose of day aborers to bank presidents.
Aside from the business end of this undertaking, the
work ITSELF is of the greatest items in the upbud
ing of this community undertaken yet ably las
been managed carefully has it been carried that
San Anonaps continue build homes at the rate OF
approximately 1000 each and scarcely realize that
behind this immense project is the careful planning and
able management of lumbermen who have spent etimes
in the industry and who bring to bear it, all the wide
knowledge they gained from such enterprises in the
past.
As business undertaking, the lumber dealer finds
the end of loan only nominal profit The element
of risk comparatively large and the demands capital
heavy that his service unsesh service to larger
extent perhaps than any other business in San Antonio
1t conservative to say that San Antonio would not