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San Antonio’s vast future urged by booster claims
The speaker predicts San Antonio will reach 1,000,000 people by 1935 and 3,000,000 in its trade territory, with Rio Grande Valley irrigation, fruit orchards, and dairy and cotton booms. He lobbies for repealing the Robertson Insurance Law to attract long term capital and rail and highway development, touting Texas as a major potential agricultural and industrial hub near Mexico.
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