Velasco Daily Times (Velasco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, January 22, 1892 Page: 1 of 4
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Deep Water a. Fact—-Not a Promise,
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VOLUNE 1.
VELASCO, TEXAS, FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 22, 1892.
NUMBER 40
ABBOT & MARMION,
-THE FIRST-
m EM IE II THE FIELD,
THE UFE OF VEUSCO,
IT READS MORE LIKE A
ROMANCE.
REAL
A Brief Review of the Younf; Giant of
the Coast—An Interesting ¿'tory to
-refkr by permission to
BRAZOS RIVER CHANNEL & DOCK CO.,
VELASCO NATIONAL BANK.
Correspondence Solicited.
I
BLAKE & STEWART,
Ml EM BROKER.
«-Buy and Sell Real Estate of all Fjiids.^.
the
Outside World—Facts
and Statistics.
HAVE FOR SALE
Smne choiceImproved Farms anil Cotton Plantations; also Inside ami Addition Property in
and near Velasen, at prices and terms to suit all.
Call on us, oí write to BOX 60, VELASCO, TEXAS,
■THE-
BEACH HOTEL
QUINTANA, TEXAS,
XJLTZS- IE3. '33-
THE BEACH is now opeu fpjr the season ami is the neatest and most
comfortable place in Quintana or Velasoo. THE BEACl^ is situated near
the surf, and han recently t>een THOBOU^hly Fi#i iwp, and is, neatly
tarnished. Mrs. Jenkins thM^n^h^kncierBtands the hótál business, hav-
ing recently moved from Eagle Lake where she rau the popular Drummers'
Home, and never failed to please the traveling public.
When visiting Quintana, don't fail to stop at THE BEACH, which will
be a delightful place to spend the"Spring and Summer.
s. d. anderson & co.,
-DEALERS IN
hard W ARK,
Stoves and Tinware, Crockery and
Glassware,
Wood and Willow-ware.
Sporting Goods a Specialty. Guns for Rent..
Ave. b bet. S. 3d and 4'rii sts.
Houston Post.
Writing a review of the tlrst six
I months of the life of Velasco is inter-
esting to the reviewer, and the history
i ol'a success is always interesting to the
American reader. The infancy of Vo-
lasco is a morning of promise. The
I sun came up full and clear. Small
J cloudz appeared, but they settled
¡ down below the horizon, and now w«
have entered the lmsiness of the day,
full of courage and determination,
with a brilliant sun and a clear sky.
The motto of Velasco is, "If you want
a thing well done, do it yourself."
The mouth of the Brazos river is
open for business and invites the peo-
ple of Texas and all the frails-Missis-
sippi to hand out through
this port their surplus products to all
the world, and take back whatever
they need which the people of the
world have to sell.
The shore of the Gulf of Mexico
has been a Chinese wall over or
through which the commerce of the
world could not pass. At Velasco a
roadway has been dug through it.
Already tlie ships from distant seas
have heard of the newly made
pass.
July 1, 1801, the port opened for bus*
iness, and up to Jauuiyry ' 1, 1802, 475
vessels have unloaded cargo at the
wharves of Velasco. The following
saÜing; vessels and steamships of the
tonnage and draught given show that
we have got deep water, as compared
with' any other port on the Texas
obasi. These vessels could not have
bieen brought to Velasco wharves
across the prairie. The Henry P. Ma-
son has been in this port three times,
and has broken the record tor deep
draught each time.
Name- Tonnage.
Brig. Atalanta i:$0 tons
SM. Sch. Henry P, Mason. 820 "
3 M. Sell. Manuel R. Cuza .400 "
3 M. 8ch. Juliana Swan 87." "
Barkentine Videttc 800 "
Barkenüne Emita 830
3 M. 8ch, Elsie E Bay leu. .300 "
.1M. Sch. Rich. 8. BpoJFojrd 600 "
X. Bch. Comet . 320,
W. C. WACLEY,
Real Estate and Investors'Agts.
Office : Hotel Velasco,'
velasco, texas.
FRANK HELMAN,
boot and shoe emporium,
South Second Street Bet. Avenues A and B.
Satisfaction Guaranteed as to (¿uaHty, Style and Price.
TAILORING.
s. j: i^xraooD, dr. g. s. smith
AKCBITECT i ASS : SDPEUHTSKSEST,
VELASCO. TEXAS.
t. Bcfi. Louís V, Place .1000
8,
8 M. Sch. Ed. Allen True. .1000
SM. Sch. Henry P. Mason.IOOO
3 M. Sch. Jnu. H. Butterick.HlOO
Steamship Brixham 612
Stéajftiship CíaTÍna. 1100
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Draught.
13.' feet.
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16ft.fi in.
15ÍÍ feet.
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laid
was
Ofkick: Corner Ave. A & S 2d
W. M. Hoi.i.ami.
W.-T Li.vv
LEWIS R. BRYAN,
atto1^J, LAw" | Holland & Levy,
Velmoo, Texan.
Will practice in the courts of Brazoria, Matagor
da and adjoluiiiu counties. VELASCO,
LAW V EKS,
TEXAS.
3M- Sc^i.' He'iííy P. Mason 1000
July 1 the city of Velasco
out. July 11 the first lot was sold. At
that time there was ouly one house on
the town site. To-day there are 80(3
houses, 16"/ of which are residences
and 136 business houses. There are
several hotels, one of which, "The Ve-
lasco," is a splendid hostelry with all
modern conveniences.
The lollowing taken from the whart
master's book shows tiie principal
items and figurera of merchandise
which has been unloaded at the Velas-
co wharves since July 1, 1801:
Lumber. 8,754,334 feet.
Shingles, (]•"><),000,
Coal, 3000 tons.
liailroad steel, 2634 tons.
Bail road ties, 89,280.
Bridge timber, 130.000.
Bailroad material, .'¡1!) tons.
Merchandise, 20,000,000 pounds-
Ill fact, everything in Velasco to-
day was brought here by water, and
for the use of Velasco alone. We have
no railroad out of here up to this time.
IMPROVEMENTS
For more than twenty years the
i government has been spending money
at the different river mouths on the
Texas coast with the purpose of mak-
ing a ilitsH and roadway for the pass-
age of ocean commerce. In twenty
years $5,120,700 have been spent, and
| the following is the government re-
¡ port of the depth of the water at the
PERRY & NORTHRUP,
-THE—
oldest real estate men
AT THE MOUTH OF THE BRAZOS RIVER.
Hag* Ten choice 10 acre tracts one-half mile from Velasco, for
fruits and vegetables. Soil rich, mellow, sandy loam, at $50 per acre
one-third cash, balance one and two years.
FROM
B. A. BUCK & CO.,
Wholesale anil Retail Dealers In
Hay, Corn, Oats, Bran and Cot-
ton Seed Meal.
COR, A VIC. C and SOUTH 4th STS.
time work was commenced, and the I
depth of the water at the present time:
All the greats growing surplus pro-
ducing West, the only, territory in tin*
world which has never failed to pro-
duce a surplus to see alternately de-
manded and begged of congress the |
opening of á harbor on the Texas I
coast. Deep water has been the eco-
nomic question of the West—more im- j
portant than all others. Leaders of
all professions, of all religions, ail poli-1
tics, all business, have fegeed 011 this j
necessity without one dissenting voice. |
All government work 011 Texas bar-j
bors, as the above figures convincing-;
ly show, has been a drivfling, dis-j
gusting, discouraging failure. And
1800 found the great West as badly off
for a seaport as she was in 1870. The
following Is taken from the govern1
ment charts.of the several harbors.
Harlior. Depth 1H70 Depth 1KW).
Sabine Pass 6 ft 6 ill. 10 ft.
Qalvegtou 12 ft. 12 ft. H in.
Brazos 5ft 6 in 4ft. 6 in
Aramias Pass R ft. 8ft.
Brazos Santiago 7 ft 7ft
January, 1888, a commission of gov-
ernment engineers examined the
mouth of the Brazos river and report-
ed that deep water could not be ob-
tained at this point. March 28, 1880,
the Brazos liiver Channel and Dock
company, a private corporation com-
posed of such men as Senator C. 11.
Farwell. Hon. Abner Taylor, (who
built the magnificent State capítol
building of Texas) Mr. W. M. D. T¿ee,
O. W. Angle and. J. M. Ferguson,
commenced work on the jetties upon
plans and specifications proposed by
Mr. E. L. Corthell, C. E., who was
chief to Captain Eads in the work at
the mouth of the Mississippi river,
which is the only successOil harbor
work done In the United Stales. The
water on the bar was then four and
one-half feet deep. The success of
this work is evidenced by list of ves-
sels which have, during the last six
months, passed safely over the bar,
which is given in detail above. Then,
the first and pre-eminent improvement
of which Velasco can boast in deep wa-
ter, obtained at a cost of $1,500,000, not
one cent of it Cuele Sam's money.
A hotel with electric lights, steam
heat and all modem convenienc.es, is
luxuriously accommodating to-day
hundreds of visitors.
Six hundred feet of wharves 100 feet j
wide have been built. Already ves- j
sels have taken up all this wharfage,
t and the (¡00 feet of river bank, and
formed a marine picture never before
Í seen in a port only six months old.
The syndicates, recognizing the nee- j
j easily for pure water, so vividly shown
I by our sister city, Galveston, which
: has to bring into that city by train j
water for even the locomotives in their |
railroad yards, commenced the work
of get ting, if possible, artesian water.
Galveston's 875,000 failure was before
them They started an eight-inch
well, and at 1005 feet strut k water
which flowes out at the top of a thirty-
five foot pipe with a roaring which
can be heard two blocks away. The
flow is 1,000,000 gallons n day, and in,
¡ next to deep water, the greatest im-
provement possible to any city. The
water is soft, puro and clear.
Streets and boulevards have been
graded, sidewalks laid, and seventeen
brick stores are now being erected.
Two plaining mills are in operation,
and four brick yards are unable to fill
the ordeas for brick. Six lumber
yards work every hour of the day, and
ever.t other man you meet is complain-
ing that he can't get lumber fast
enough.
An ice and cold stor ige plant has
just been chartered and the site for
their plant lias been purchased.
The first lot was sold in Velasco
July 11, 1801, and the company's sales
to December 31 aggregate $1|150,QPQ.
On these sales an average of more than
one-third has been paid in cash.
Original purchasers have sold through
agents property to the amount
of $365,000 which has netted a profit.
Total Of real estate sales in Velasco
in six months, $1,515,000 Let the
reader compare this with the sales in
his own home and he will have some
idea of the value of deep water. This
has been done at a timé of disheart-
ening financial depression, and when
real estate investments are more
unpopular than any othér. The feel-
ings of all people on the subject were
aptly described by a gentleman of
great wealth from Kansas City, who
attended the Velasco auotion sale.
The depression there shockingly re-
duced his i'ortiine and Income. He
said, "Corner lots I don't want, for
cprner lots are what ails me." He
bought largely of Velasco ipts, bow-
ever, beepusé salu he, "Velasco has
máde deep water, and the great West
will notf make velasco." Thirteen,
millions of people Will help make Ve-
lasco property valuable.
There is one National bank in oper-
ation and an other chartered. The
Velasco National bank, capital stock
$50,000 is ono of the institutions of
which wo are proud. It opened for
business when hotels wero tents, and
groceries sold undfer trees, and Its bus-
iness lias grown with the place.
VELASCO I'OHTOEKICE.
The Velasco postofftce is not yet
six nioritn old. For the last three
months or quarter ending December
31, 1801, the postmaster. Mr. J. 11.
Shea, reports amount of stamps, pos-
a 1 cards, stamped envelopes, etc.,
sold, $1,050; nlimber of boxes rented,
144; number of people who call for
mail daily, H40; add to tills the boxes
and we find that 084 people call for
mail at the postoffice. It is fair to
estimate that not one-third of the
population call daily for mail. This
indicates that Velasco' population Is
3,000 at least.
IMPROVEMENTS UNDER CONSTRUC-
TION.
If the reader will examine any
good railroad map he will see that
Houston has thirteen railroads, ten of
which are trunk lines, including every
important system in the southwest.
Velasco Ih located Just fifty-five
miles southwest of Houston. The
International road owns tlio Columbia
Tap railroad, which at its nearest
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Steadman, W. H. Velasco Daily Times (Velasco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, January 22, 1892, newspaper, January 22, 1892; Velasco, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth185185/m1/1/: accessed May 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .