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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
from San Antonio to San Angelo and Del Rio; its financial
backing is still unquestionable.
In this same year, 1898, A. C. Schreiner, the oldest son and
now deceased, became head of the newly incorporated Charles
Schreiner Company. Today the third generation of Schreiners,
Scott and A. C., Jr., still operate this business. After the
Peterson's Garage, a concern which owns and operates the
Kerrville Bus Company, the Charles Schteiner Company is
the largest single business in Kerrville. Over sixty employees,
some who have been with the company for fifty years or more,
work in the mercantile store alone. The building was at one
time one of the largest of its kind in Texas. It is located near
the site of the sixteen by eighteen cypress shack opened in
1869.
The present building has a front 130 feet in width and ex-
tends back for 160 feet. It has recently been modernized and
contains a hardware department, two grocery departments,
and a large dry goods department, in addition to several store
rooms and warehousing facilities. The Captain built his mer-
cantile business on such a solid foundation that it has con-
tinued to grow down through the years. Today, in spite of
the competition of the modern chain store, it does an astro-
nomical business for a local independent establishment of its
type. During 1943, despite rationing and other shortages due
to the war, the company grossed almost a million dollars."
In 1898 another son, G. F. (Gus), became head of the
Schreiner Cattle Company. Incidentally, he was one of the best
known and most capable cowmen in the Southwest at that time
and as a young man had gone up the trail to Oklahoma in great
cattle drives during '88 and '89. He did not go along with
the herd, however, but preceded it by several days in a buck-
board. His job was to turn the cattle over to the proper author-
ities in Oklahoma. The Gus Schreiner Ranch is today one of
the show-places of Texas and is famous for its plentiful supply
of deer and wild turkey, as well as game fish in the various
tanks and lakes about the estate.
In 1917 Captain Schreiner divided among his eight children
property at that time amounting to over six million dollars.
Much of the large ranch interest was turned over to G. F.
The oldest son, A. C., whose life from childhood had been
"9This estimate was made by Scott Schreiner to the writer, January
5, 1944.160
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 48, July 1944 - April, 1945, periodical, 1945; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth146055/m1/178/?rotate=90: accessed May 13, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.