San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-04
s. A. HOLDS KEY
T0UPbU|LD|NG
TERRITORY
City's Virgin Soil Presents
Unlimited Opportuni-
ties, Says Ochse.
By WILLIAM OCHSE


To prophesy the future of San An
tonic would entail a vision hardly
believe anyone living in San Antonio
at present holds. Looking to the flu
ture and analysing the developments
that must come, we can safely predi-
cate our conclusions and opinions on
what has passed before and if the flu
ture growth of San Antonio can be
visualized. we must first reflect and
in our minds consider what has been
the development the past % years.
The future growth of San Antonio's
trade possibilities compared with tie
development of the past % years pre-
sents so many relatively favorable fac,
tors that it is obvious to the student
of economics that San Antonio is the
key to the development in the sur
rounding territory. San Antonio's
trade development depends upon the
growth Of the wide expanse of terri.
tory covering many square miles OF
practically virgin soil. in which diver
sification of activities present unlim-
tied opportunities.
MORE PRODUCTION.
No words, pictures, or signs can
form in the mind of anyone how
uuick railroads are going to influence
this development but we do know the
effect will be beneficial. We can rea-
sonably anticipate the change in con-
ditions in local territories but it is
certain that the changes that are to
come in the railroad development of
Southwest Texas are going to rebound
to the greatest benefit to San Antonio
with a like mutual benefit to those
certain localities where the railroad
Developments ere more pronounced as
railroads open greater fields of activ-
ity and develop continuously and pro-
gressively more agricultural produc-
ton.
What the port of Corpus Christi
means to San Antonio is equally as
pertinent as what the port at Corpus
Christi means to the entire Southwest,
reaching out its effects and interests
to the vast territory that is embraced
in West Texas. The probability of an
added port at Poin. Isabel serving
such a tremendous producing area as
the Rio Grande Valley is Of such i'm
port when allied to the development
that is going on in that immediate vi
emily that one cannot begin to sum
marize in detail what the development
will be within ten years.
BETTER ROADS AID.
The building OF good roads such as
has been done and will be done in the
future. making San Antonio the hub
in the growing area, has already been
demonstrated by the commanding po-
sition San Antonio and Bexar county
holds. 1t sets the example to the other
counties which are rapidly as possible
voting bonds TO create better roads,
which are of Unreasonable benefit to
the farmer in reaching the merke;
more quickly and with more assured
certainty.
San Antonio Through its able al
of both city and county
officials is being tremendously benz
fitted by the expenditure Of money Gre
ated BY the voting of bonds TO supply
the needs Of a very rapidly growing
city. the largest in the state of Texas
and at the rate it is growing it may
be expected TO be the largest in the
Southwest; strengthened by its strate-
gicsl location 70 that rapidly pro-
crossing republic Of the southwest
tMexico). which is reconstructing it.
self in strides that We hardly felt pos
sible. under the administration Of
President Gales. opens further visions
of the Importance of San Antonio's
future in supplying the needs Of the
people of the republic Of Mexico as
well as ezerting an influence TO all
in marketing the raw materials that
are produced in Mexico that the
United States is consistently and read
lily absorbing.