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Destiny Of San Antonio Rises With Rail And Industry
The document credits San Antonio with cutting travel time by ten hours through limited service to St Louis, enabling the city to become Texas’s winter tourist hub. It notes underwritten bonuses for the San Antonio Uvalde & Gulf and Fredericksburg Railroads, four new factories creating up to 7,500 jobs and raising payroll by $250,000 monthly, and securing the 1921 Texas Cattle Raisers Association convention with about 5,000 delegates.
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San Antonio, Uvalde & Gulf Railroad
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Texas Cattle Raisers’ Association