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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1913
Page
30
Rich men from the North and East seek Southwest Texas as a vast investment frontier. Agents foresee a shift toward land ownership, irrigation, and large scale farming by ultimate capital owners, while railroads and industry face rising regulation and weaker profits.
New Texas crop figures show Bexar County last year produced 27,215 bales valued around 1.67 billion dollars at average market prices. Officials project a bumper crop for 1913 with estimates up to 35,000 bales amid rising cotton acreage and farm consolidation.
Fort Worth Texas May 24 The Texas Commercial Secretaries and Business Men s Association has engaged Judge S A Lindsey Tyler chairman of the Texas farm life commission and a member of the American commission en route to Europe to study rural credits to write a series on farm life and rural conditions in the countries visited He will examine Italy France Belgium Holland Denmark Russia Germany England Ireland and Switzerland and welcomes questions from interested parties addressed to the Texas farm life commission Fort Worth Texas for investigation and answer
The F. A. Johnston Company, capital ten thousand dollars, incorporates and plans San Antonio headquarters to pursue concrete building work. President F. A. Johnston, of Fort Worth, joins with W. T. Montgomery in roads projects. Walter W. Taylor serves as secretary treasurer. The firm aims at general concrete construction including paving, sewer and water systems in new townsites.
Freeport Texas business men move to develop the city as a seasonal resort with tarpon fishing as the first feature. Plans include a tarpon skiff boathouse at Tarpon Inn, new boats and tackle, and an auto-beach highway from Freeport to Alveston. A gasoline ferry at San Luis Pass is sought to boost Gulf beach travel this summer.
A collection of maxims on farming discipline. It urges patience, industry, and faith with the land, stressing the value of good roads and self‑education. It links soil productivity to community prosperity and urges personal effort and perseverance to overcome hardship.
Armour and Company official John B. O’Hern warns Texas is losing opportunity by not increasing hog numbers. He notes many hogs arrive young and are marketed before maturity, urging better balance between hog production and feed across the state to aid the industry.
Ten contracts totaling near one million dollars for road construction in Tarrant County are signed. First work starts at Granite Hill near Handley with eight roads planned now. Orange Growers say rice acreage in Orange County will be larger this year as planting nears completion despite heavy rains in late April and early May aiding growth.
Pecos cantaloupe growers in this city have contracted a large portion of this season's crop to supplying merchants in Kansas City and other markets.
Cuero Texas hosts the Midcoast Industrial Congress with entertainment plans by the Cuero Commercial Club and Cuero Civic League. An automobile tour for ladies starts at Mull Hotel Tuesday at 4 pm, followed by a Tuesday night ball. Wednesday features a free barbecue on the Guadalupe river banks and an open air finale with music and speeches led by Mrs. Oli Hertzberg of San Antonio. Visitors may tour Guadalupe Valley Cotton Mills Dietze Tully irrigation farms and A F Dietze model dairy during sessions.
Texas farmers will attend short term courses at the Agricultural and Mechanical College this summer to learn methods to raise profits. Nearly three thousand are expected for the farmers short term course July 21 27 the Farmers Congress July 28 80 and the Farmers Institute July 21 and August 1. Cuero delegates to the Midcoast Congress meet May 27 28. Rio Vista farm near Big Wells purchased by northern capitalists for a large alfalfa operation.
The West Texas Gin ners Association held a two day session in San Angelo with cotton ginners from Kimble Menard McCulloch Coleman Comanche Concho Hills Mason Leon Runnels Brown Coke Tom Green counties in attendance.
The Farmers' Union in Texas invites urban leaders to join in tying producer and consumer interests. A central Houston selling agency would store cotton, finance loans up to 75 percent of market value at 6 percent, and allow producers to sell at their option. The plan aims to ease tenant pressure, curb predatory agents, and build new markets while rejecting price fixing. The article promises further discussion on scientific farming.
Peter Radford argues Texas farmers must lead in marketing cotton with business backing. He credits the Farmers Union for plans to expand inland warehouses—350+ units with 200000 bale capacity—and to bond warehouse storage, enabling farmers to hold and finance cotton until fair prices are found.
A private coal firm considers Galveston as a bunker coal base to serve ships of all nations once the Panama Canal is completed. The plan envisions Galveston harbor as a refueling hub for international seafaring commerce.
definite information indicates locks and dams Nos 8 and 6 along the Brazos river near Marlin have been secured as a prerequisite step for immediate construction and rapid completion of the projects.
The Cotton Belt announced it will run a train over its lines this summer to demonstrate methods of canning fruits and vegetables.
Fowlerton, May 24. A new $10,000 gin plant nears completion and a deep artesian well may be drilled to 2500 feet west of town. Brown Brown of San Antonio is contracted to build a $12,500 public school, two stories with six classrooms and an auditorium. A mass meeting funded a natatorium to be merged with the waterworks, with a 25 by 100 foot pool costing about $2500. Water mains and fifteen fire hydrants begin installing, and local teachers and staff for next term are announced amid rapid land clearing and cultivation efforts totaling over 6000 acres with more acres to come.
North Pleasanton in Atascosa County enjoys rapid growth with San Antonio Uvalde Gulf railroad offices and bank in new structures. The Nueces Valley Townsite company lays out the town two miles from Pleasanton and plans water works electric light and artesian water supply. Railroad shops nearing completion will drive business, with 15 dwellings and several stores contracted. The artesian water is praised for steam use, and the two railroad branches connect to San Antonio.
A road precinct petition in Shelby County seeks the commissioners to call an election on a $287,000 good roads bond issue. The measure is receiving liberal endorsements from supporters.
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