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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1885
Page
2
G., H. & 8. A. Railroad announces two daily trains to New Orleans with through express east departures at 8.05 a.m. and 7.15 p.m. The schedule shows arrivals from the east and from New Orleans, Houston and Galveston with a 7.00 a.m. service time for the morning departure.
Presidio county votes to move the county seat from Fort Davis to Marfa. Other items note General Grant’s fragile health, Aransas road grading hiring, a deadly cyclone with heavy losses, a pest worm threatening Kansas corn, debates on prohibition, and a proposed Aransas Pass and San Antonio railroad reaching Goliad by April 1866 with local owners urged to consider the project.
The article notes Emancipation Day celebrations in San Pedro Springs and Dallas with speeches and a parade of floats. It quotes a St Louis railroad president warning of looming industry collapse within 18 months, while Texas ports, deep water at Aransas Pass, and mining talks in the Chinate mountains are also discussed with calls for public scrutiny of appointments and transportation policy.
Forty men are regularly employed at the mines in the heart of the Chinaties region, with capacity to expand once land title disputes settle. Superintendent William Noyes leads operations, crediting profitable Texas mining. The site lies four miles from Milt Faver’s sheep ranch, near the Southern Pacific line. The narrative notes local commerce, clergy endorsements for Mishler’s Herb Bitters, and various notices including tax equalization and carriage making.
Stock remains available in the fourth series of the Merchants and Mechanics Building and Loan association. People seeking home ownership through monthly payments not exceeding current rent are urged to contact W. A. Bonynarx, Secretary, Room 8 Soledad Block, corner Houston and Soledad streets, for full information. May 18.
San Antonio landmark Art Gallery at 205 Commerce Street offers artist and draughtsmen materials both domestic and imported. The shop features oils paints, canvases, frames, fresco supplies, wax flowers, wall papers, and decorative items with direct factory shipments. Includes testimonial on Morley Bros Blackberry Balsam from 1883 and local retailer F Kalteyer & Son.
Bargain column advertises two farms for sale. A 1100 acre tract on Buffalo Bayou nine miles from Houston with water grass timber and some improvements, sale on easy terms through I B Johnson or J W Bradley. Also a 1400 acre Moore Hollow farm near the International railroad with 65 cultivated acres, a six room house, gallery and outbuildings, cash sale with optional cattle and horses at market value, contact L C care I B Johnson Licut office.
Advertises multiple Texas parcels: 640 acres on Leona river with 250 irrigable, mesquite timber, 8 miles below Uvalde. 900 acres on Rio Frio in Valde county, 12 miles from railroad, 300 acres fenced. a ranch on Salado near San Antonio with 40 acres under cultivation, tanks, house, cow pens, price 1680. 100 acres on Calaveras creek, 50 cultivated, 1 house, stable, well. Contact L. C. care this office.
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