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LAND VAL18 W :S
SAN ANTONIO, TBI
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Thriving Oity Shows a Most Re
markable Increase in Taxable
Property During the Past Year
and Is Constantly Growing.
EVIDENCES OF PROSPERITY
VISIBLE ON EVERY HAND
Adjacent Territory Also Shares in
the Growth Which Is Apparent
to Every Observing Visitor and
Shows No Cessation.
BY HERBERT VANDERHOOF.
As in other parts of Texas, land values ll
in San Antonio and the immediate neigh
borhood are advancing at a surprising
rate. These values, while still low in
comparison with those obtaining in older
and better known cities in the .East, are
indicative of the wave of prosperity, which
is everywhere noticeable in the Lone Star
state. San Antonio city, with a popula
tion of approximately 80,000, shows an in
crease of nearly $2,000,000 in taxable prop
erty in one year. No stronger or more
convincing evidence of healthy growth^
Could be given, There are many good
reasons for this advancement. Prominent
among them is the fact that San Antonio
has virtually no competitor as a commer
cial center In this part of the state. Texas,
it must be remembered, is a land of vast
distances. While there are numerous
other thriving cities here, none of them is
close enough to San Antonio to interfere
with the trade which naturally belongs to.
the town. The surrounding country is
rich, productive, and fairly w^ell settled,
and is improving all the time, with the
result of increasing both the population
and wealth of San AntoniS.
City a Handsome One..
San Antonio residents are progressive.
The stranger who expects to find a fron
tier town will be disappointed. Signs of
well to do civilization are met with on all
sides. There are, for instance, nearly 500
miles of streets, of which about-100 miles
are well paved with asphalt, macadam, or
brick, while the remainder, thanks to the
nature of the soil, are easily kept in prime
condition. There is an extensive water
works system with 130 miles of mains, gas
works, seven or eight good hotels, ex
tensive banking facilities, and four great
railway lines by which all parts of the
country may be readily reached.
In one respect at least San Antonio is
uniqueit is a city of parks. Within its
municipal limits, or closely adjacent, there
are twenty-two veritable beauty pots of
this kind, the largest being Breckenridge
park, a tract of some 200 acres. Another
interesting sight is the government post
of Fort Sam Houston, where Uncle Sam
maintains a large garrison of soldiers, and
is expending $2,000,000 in enlarging the
quarters and improving the grounds. Here
are located the remnants of the historic
Alamo and Davy Crockett's home, both
being objects of great interest to the
thousands of people who visit the city
yearly in search of health and pleasure.
In fact, the whole city is rich In historic
interest, as it lies in the very heart of the
country where the great batfles which led
to Texan independence were fought.
One Seqret of Prosperity.
Four trunk railway lines have exerted a
wonderful influence on the growth of San
Antonio and the development of the sur
rounding country. Mammoth crops of
everything that can be grown from
Mother Earth are produced in the terri
tory- 'traversed by these roads, and the
larger-part of the products finds a market
here, a portion for home consumption, but
the major part for trans-shipment to less
favored localities. Train load after tram
load of cotton, grain, fruit, hay, tobacco,
vegetables, and live stock roll into the
city dally.
The railways have not been backward
in making known the wonderful fertility
of the soil, and immigration has assumed
colossal proportions. This has been of an
unusually desirable class, most of the
newcomers being, prosperous farmers
from the central and Eastern states,
drawn here by the bonanza of cheap lands
and the ease with which farming opera
tions may be conducted.
All this, of course, has tended to in
crease the importance of San Antonio as
a trade center, and to aid in making it
one of the most prosperous cities in the
Southwest. It is one of the wonder points
of the state, a state rich beyond descrip
tion in all that serves to make people
happy and contented.
Increase In Land Values.
It would be impossible to give an ade
quate idea as to the ratio of increase in
land values, either in the city of San An
tonio itself or the adjacent territory. The
most I can attempt is to show the causes
for the advance, and this, I would like to
impress upon my readers, does no rest
upon a boom foundation. Nothing of this
kind has ever been attempted here. The
tactics of the professional boomer are un
known, and the "gent" himself is not
wanted. Texas people will tolerate IMV
artificial propagation in this respectthe
natural laws are in themselves sufficient.
Walking along the Alamo plaza the other
day, I got into conversation with an in
telligent resident, about 60 years of age.
"I'm a Massachusetts man," he said,
after I had admitted Chicago is my home.
"Pity people don't know more about San
Antone (that's what they call it down
here). I came here in 1885. For a long
time there wasn't much doing, but I was
charmed with the climate, put a little
money into realty, and made the handling
of grains and fruit a businesssort of
commission man. The country around us
settled up fast, and a few years ago San
Antone felt the impetus of the new popu
lation, and began to.grow like a weed.
"You can fairly see it jump now. My
holdings have increased in value so a
small^ investment has made me rich, and
I'm taking life easy. There's Just as
good chances here now as when I ar
rived, twenty-one years agoin fact,
-much better. In those days San Antone
was a straggling frontier town today it
Js, as you can see, a handsome city. Its
character is well defined and a man
knows exactly what he is buying. In my
pioneer efforts it was all a guess."
People Are All Prosperous.
All the people I have met, both city and
country folk, have expressed themselves
tn similar manner. A large proportion of
these people came from the East, .but they
are all loyal Texans. They don't hesitate
to give a good reason for the faitfi that
is in them, and in nearly every instance
this faith is founded on the prosperity
which has attended their efforts.
The stranger who walks through the
business section of San Antonio will find
the merchants, both wholesale and retail,
doing a rushing business the mills and
factories are running at full blast, and
Jthere is work at fair wages for all who
seek it. In this may be found one of the
principal reasons for the increase in land
valuesthe residents of the city are sat
isfied they are living in a delightful
place, and are making money. Conse
quently they are buying lots and building
permanent homis.
The'samete true "m the farming dis
tricts. As the land is brought uncfer
cultivation pernia'ffent Improvements aifct
made, and the owners settle down, to a
life of comfort and, plenty and to dream
occasionally of the scanty rewards "whicti
attended their efforts in their old homes.
I wish it were within my power to set
forth in figures just what has been done
within the past five years in the way of
increase in land values In this'section, but
it would be too difficult a task. A gain
of $2,000,000 in the assessed valuation of
taxable property in one year in the city
iof San Antonio alone is a most Impressive
object lesson in Itself. And what is. true
of this thriving city holds good for ft
large area of tbe surroundihg counter*
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