Velasco Daily Times (Velasco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, January 22, 1892 Page: 3 of 4
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THE DAILY TIMES.
W. H. STEADMAN.
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VELASCO'S ARTESIAN WELL.
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Depth 1,100 Feet.
Flow 1,000.000 Gallons Every Twen-
ty-four Hours.
LOCAL ITEMS.
Charlie's is the place to eat.
Get your meals at the Brunswick
Cafe.
Car load of Hour and meal just re-
ceived at P. F. Com ns & Co.
"Mexican Commerce" and "El Méri-
to" cigars at P. F. Coisfns A Co.
Gents' and boys' clothing sold atjre-
tuarkably low price at B. Calm's.
Quick sales, fair dealings and small
.profits is B. Cahu's motto.
1? pounds of granulated sugar for
$1.00 at Geisecke Bros.
Subscribe for The Daily Times,
only fifty cents par month.
Cranberries, jellies, apple butter,
inince-meat, lemons and candies at
Geisecke Bros.
Dr. W. B. Pigg has removed his of-
fice to the corner of Avenue B. and
,South 2nd St. -tf.
When you want fresh meats of all
•kinds, buy from Capel & Wilderholt
the boss butchers of Velasco.
Apple butter, preserves, mincemeat
ai^d jelly in 20 pound pails.
P. F. Combs & Co.
8. D. Anderson A Co. will rent you
a gun for 50 cents and sell loaded
shells at $2.60 per 100.
Ernest Janeke will learn something
ta his advantage by address' ig
P. F. Combs & Co.
A fresh supply of print and roll but-
ter just received. P. F. Combs & Co.
Charlie keeps a chop, house right.
Fish oysters and game.
The Velasco News and Fruit Co.
will furnish the Houston Daily Post
by carrier at twenty-five cents per
week, payable weekly. Also handle
the leading newspapers of the United
States.
1 mo—Jan. 16. J. N. SciiULTZ
The Brunswick Cafe has been im-
proved and is doing more busiuess
than any short order house in the city.
Regular meals or orders taken, («ive
us a trial and be convinced.
Mother* keep your children warm.
To do so got. 12. Calm's and get a
jersey blouse to. your little ones. La-'
dies and Misses jackets and cloaks
sold very cheap at H. Cahn'd—prices ;
to suit the times
MENTION THE TIMES.
Any person receiving copy of this
paper, will do the proprietors a favor
by mentioning Tin: Times in writing
t,o advertisers or the Brazos River
Channel and Dock company. The
Times is working hard for Velascoand
wants what credit it. deserves—The
Times will answer all letters prompt-
ly and furnish all ¡information it can
about the future metropolis of Texas.
Mention Tin: Times in vour correspon-
dence to Velasco property owners.
point, Chenaugo Junction, is only
tweuty miles from Velasco. The Ve-
lasco syndicate orgauized the Velasco
Terminal railroad, and have about
finished a railroad from Velasco to
Chenango Junction, it will tie in op-
eration by February 1, 1802, and will
give Velasco, via Houston, outlet and
inlet for all commerce by thirteen
roads. With the opening of this road
will begin our greatest growth. Thous-
ands of bales of cottou and tons of oil
cakejhave wanted to take advantage of
our low wharf rates, yet all vessels
have left the port empty because we
have had no railroad from Houston to
this place.
The Velasco Electric railway is now
under construction. This line is nine
miles long and extends from Crescent
beach to Velasco, through the city on
Gulf Boulevard to Riverside and
Austin Parks. This will connect
Surf Side and the most beautiful
beach and delightful surf bathing,
with Velasco. This road will be in
operation by April 1, proximo.
The wharves just completad have
already proved inadequate to the bus-
iness, aud the syndicates will add to
them 1000 feet, with warehouses of
three times the capacity of the
one just finished. It is a fact that
there is not one indication of forcing
or booming in this rushiug, active
place. Velasco is not making busi-
uess so much as business is making
Velasao. There is an urgent demand
for every enterprise or improvement.
The four storied Hotel Velasco, built
by the syndicate, is lighted by elec-
tricity, and now they are finishing an
arc light plant which will light the
wharves, the business part of the city
and many of the streets. One im-
mense light is being placed on the
dome of the Hotel Velasco, 105 feet
from the ground.
Surf Side is being laid out. It is
located on Crescent Beach. The form
ot the blocks are unique. Each lot in
every block fronts the beach. No
more beautiful location for a seaside
place could be imagined, much less
found. It is in easy view of the jetties,
and all commerce of the port will
pass and repass in plain sight of every
foot of village or beach. Crescent
Beach deserves its name. Every
house can be seen from every other
house, and all the bow shaped stretch
of beach is in sight from any point.
The surf rolls in perfectly straight and
does not pull the bathers to one side.
There is positively no undertow what-
ever, and at the distance of a half a
mile out from the shore the water is
only shoulder deep, so gradually does
it grow deeper. The bottom is smooth
sand, soft as a carpet, and bathing
has been enjoyed every month in the
year.
Gulf boulevard is being graded to
Surf Side, and before the hotel is fin-
ished a beautiful drive to Crescent
Beach will'be opened.
improvements in prospect.
The visit of Mr. I. L. McLenan, the
largest elevator builder in the coun-
try, did mean something. The morn-
ing before he left $148,000 was sub-
scribed for an elevator and compress.
The elevator is to have a capacity of
500,000 bushels, and both compress and
elevator to be ready for the coming
season. The fact that gram ships
which offer the cheapest rate of freight
draw too much water to get into Gal-
veston, and the further fact that grain
cannot be successfully lightered, will
give to Velasco all the grain business
which comes to Texas.
Galveston expects to get deep water
if the appropriations are ample and
regular, in six or seven years. During
that six or seven years Velasco will be
growing an export trade and estab-
lishing facilities for the same, which
will make it hers forever. Velasco
has live miles tow against twelve at
Galveston and 130 at New Orleans.
Velasco depends on the tangible ad-
vantages which she possesses to bring
to her the trade of the Southwest and
west.
The elaborate plans for betterment
of the river from from Velasco to the
mouth of the jetties will continue to
he carried out. Wing dams will be
built to protect the banks and (.'online
t he channel.
The «lummy line of road to the
beach will he used to bring sand and
shell for ballast for streets and the
railroad, and to carry material to Surf
Side. The Surf Side hotel will begin
February 1. It is to be one-half larger
than "The Velasco" and connected
with it by Gulf Boulevard and Surf
Wde Electric railway. This hotel
will tie opened in April. Every in-
ducement of luxury and cuisine will
be combined in the "Surf Side" to at-
tract guests and excursionists. Al-
ready railroads are preparing for
cheap and comfortable travel from
Houston aud all the oities and towns
in the state.
Beautifying Riverside aud Sam
i Houston Parks is one ot the improve-
ments in contemplation by the syndl-
! cate. Riverside is one of the most
beautifui parks in the state, situated
«in the high bank of the Brazo de
Dios. Nature adorned it with stately
live oaks, fest«>oiied with streamers of i
waving moss. Artesian wells will
provide fountalus, beautiful as those
iu the Lou? re of Paris, and the Ve-!
lascoite can enjoy them without see- í
ing iu every curve of the water, vis-j
' ions of park taxes.
i The most important improvements ,
under contemplation by the syndicate :
are drainage and roads. Velasco is
I not like Galveston, on an island, but
if it was the syndicate would build a i
bridge to the mainland. Tkey pro-!
'■ pose to build roads so that a farmer 1
i can get to Velasco with ltis produce,!
and so the citizens of Velasco can en- ¡
joy the fresh fruits of the farm, gar-1
deu and orchard. They recognize
that drainage will make this already
healthy country the most healthful in
all the south. It permits the land to
dry out and prevents the exudation of
carbonated steam after eacli fall of
rain. The vicinage of Velasco will
have good roads aud abundance of
sewerage. The syndicates own about
30,000 acres of land surrounding Ve-
lasco, and this will be sub-divided
and sold in small farms. In the de-
velopment of these lands every ques-
of economy and value has been con-
sidered. Sohools, churches, roads,
bridges, drainage aud msrkets.
The lands are as fertile as any ill the
world. Seed time aud harvest
come every month in the year. The
products include almost everything
which can be grown from Baffius bay
to Florida keys, and from Bangor,
Me., to San Diego, Cal. The syndica-
tes are now negotiating with promot-
ers of sugar refiner^, cotton seed oil
mill and *oap factory. No poiut in all
the laud can ofl'er to these enterprises
superior and few equal advantages.
The facilities for grain shipments at
Velasco have already attracted the at-
tention of the builders of whalebacks,
and it is entirely possible that the first
whalebacks in the Gulf of Mexico will
1 be a line from Velasco.
Velasco at present is the only place
iu the State of Texas which p«issesses
all the advantages for the location of a
successful beef packery. Dress beef
for export can not be lightered. Here
the pa Jtery (fan be located at the edge
of twenty-five feet of water, aud steam-
ships loaded with beef till they draw
eighteen feet of water can steam from
the packery eaves through the jetties,
over the bar, and out to sea. We have
the exact location which embodies
every element of success, and it is re-
served for the establishment. The
cattle of all the State are in easy reach,
and miles nearer than they are to Kan-
sas City or Chicago. The gjfal can be
freighted to New York from here for
$2 per ton or lees. The earliest grass
beef for canning, the earliest prime
beef for export, is nearer Velasco thau
any other port.
We will have cotton oil mills, for
here oil can be discharged from the
mills by pipe into tanks aboard ships.
Brazos cotton seed bringB $1 a ton
more than any other. Thousands of
cattle will be fed at this point. The
largest beef packery and stock yards
in the Southwest will be at Velasco.
The just published statement of the
profitable success of the Fort worth
, packery indicates vividly what may
j be expected of a plant at tills place.
, The location lor stock yards has been
' decided upon.
t Let the reader of this brief mention
of the growth, business and pospscts
of Velasco compare it with the growth
of other places, and himself form a i
; judgment of the benefits of deep water. \
O. W. Crawford, Secretary.
Commercial club, Velasco, Texas,.
January 15, 1802.
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Buck Heard From.
Our old friend , Joe It. Buck, arriv-
ed in this city Tuesday night in re-
sponse to a telegram stating that his
mother was very low. Joe is an old
Butler boy and at one time "devil"
in this office but now editor and pub-
lisher of the Quintana Times, one of
the cleanest and newsiest papers pub-
lished in Brazoria county, Texas. Joe-
was up to see the Record boys on
Wednesday and we are glad to see
him. He is the same Joe as of yore,
except the trials ami tribulations in-j
cident to a country newspa|>er career
are beginning to make their appear-'
anee on his grim visage.— Bates j
County (Mo.) Record.
Another Morning Paper.
The Topics man ran onto the irre
preskible aud noted Charley Edwards,
the whilom "I-eoon-clast" as one of
the boys called him, as he was stow-
lug away a Galveston dinner under
bis belt, He is as handy with table
utensils as with the old oedar pencil,
aud works with the same snap aud
vigor. Oysters were following each
other with solemn regularity, aud
Charley exploded a word between ¡
breaths, and as usual, it was all about
newspaper business.
"Most assuredly I did intend to
start a morning paper in Austin. No
mistake ; and I ran all over the state
working the thing up, and in my
travels I hit onto a fatter take. What
is it? Well, now this Is a question
with whiskers on It. But a newspa-
per man is to be more pitted than
blamed. He is inquisitive and can't
help it. He studdies so hard and
noses around so much that he is
crooked like an interrogation point lie-
before he is forty.
"But it will come out, its got to
come out. The fi>t take is Galveston.!
i am going to st rt the morning pa-
per, and it will be right here in the
haunts of Jean Lafitte, and it will
not be long before it is humming.
Galveston needs a pushing, wide
awake newspaper, thoroughly Derao-
cratic, and in touch with the-growing
city and people."
Between the monotonous thud of the
juicy bivalves he shouted at the re-
tiring Topics man, "I mean business.—
Galveston Tribune.
i-'ersonal mkntion.
P. H. Gerhard, of Austin, is in the
city.
A. Arnold, of Pennsylvania, Is au-
tographed at the Hotel Velasco.
F. B. Boud, of St. Louis, was among
the large number of visitors to arrive
last night.
Judge J. L. Fisher left yesterday
morning for Albany, Texas, to remain
tor a short time.
Mr. C. A. Beasley, of Richmond,
Texas, is in the city and has been ap-
pointed general agent for the Waters
Pierce Oil company for Velasco and
Quintana. For the past five years
Mr. Beasley has been the trusted
agent of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa
Fe railway company at Richmond
where he bears the best kind of a
reputation as a thorough and compe-
tent business man and clever social
gentleman. He has a paying drug
business in the capital of Fort Bend,
but being an earnest advocate of deep
water at'Velasco he has cast his lot
with us and we wish him much suc-
cess.
For some weeks past, a stranger
here, John E. Smith suffered from
pneumonia contracted iu ceutral Tex-
as, and yesterday he died despite the
continued and careful care bestowed
upon him by Captain aud Mrs. Sol
Larsen. His funeral will take place
this moruing at nine o'clock, the place
of burial being Old yelasco. As Mr.
Smith was a Mason, all members of
the fraternity in Velasco are request-
ed to be at the wharf at half past eight.
D. B. Walker, late of San Antonio,
has secured the agency for the Lone
Star and Aoliusler Bush brewing as-
sociation and will at once open a
branch office here. Large beer vaults
and lee houses will be erected along
the railway reservation. Mr. Walker
will also handle bottled goods by the
wholesale.
Dr. J. C. Mayfleld a well know phy-
sician of Quintana is preparing to
open a drug store in the Smith build-
ing, which will be in charge of his
popularyoung son Herndon. The doc-
tor says lie will carry a large stock of
drugs and patent medicines of all
kinds and will be fully prepared to
meet the demands of the people.
The first quartely conference of the
M. E. Church South, will convene in
this city at 1:30 p. in., next Saturday,
Rev. Sears, presiding. He will also
preach at night an<l fill the pulpit j
Sunday also.
M. M. Miller and J. A. Hatha! of
Silver City and Dcming, New Mexico,
will arrive in Velasco in a few days,
and will bring with them a span of
line trotting stock.
Among the marine arrivals yester-
day was the schooner Liberty heavily
loaded with lumber.
Ninety new postoffico boxes arrived
aud were put iu yesterday. The 1'.
O. business I- on the incrcuse.
The schooner Lake Austin, well
known all along the Gulf coast,arrived
yesterday with a full cargo of lumber.
R. E. MURRELL,
-A-ttome3r-at-Xja"w
and
General Land Agent,
VELASCO, TEXAS.
CAPITOL S^LOOfy
TOM COLLINS,
—PROPRIETOR—
FINE WINES, WHISKIES,
CIGARS, TOBACCOS.
VELASCO, TEXAS.
J. C. BUTTS,
HEALER IN
Oranges, Bananas, Grapes, Candles,
Nuts, TolmiW and ClK'irx a Specialty.
Front St., Near Bank Exchange
W.m. Mahtkns,
k. ii, nh.vkn.
MARTENS i 8ILVEN,
ARCHITECTS AND SUPERINTENDENTS,
VKl.ASCO, TEXAS,
EVERYBODY t'Al.LS ON
G. H. VICK
for the finest kinds ok
Beef, Mutton, Pork and Sausage
On s 2d bkt Avksi'h A asii 11.
irWc dell ver orders to till Kestuu runts. Chop
Houses, etc. Would ik* pleased to .have you
Klvc me a call.
Dr. J. V. Braham
DENTIST.
Bridge and Crown -Work a Specialty
Office Hours: From 0 to 12 a. m.
and from 1 p. m., to 5 p. m.
Office at HOTEL VELASCO.
Giesecke Bros, carry the best line of
dry goods and groceries iu the city.
K. C. Baking 25 ounces for 25 cents
P.'F. Com s & Co.
The Brunswick Cafe is the place to
secure your meals on short notice.
AH orders promptly filled.
To buy or not to buj Is the question,
but you will if you go to B. Calm's
and see the bargain^ he offers you.
8. D. Anderson have Just received
a flue line of cook stoves go and see
them before buying elsewhere.
A fine line of gent's one-half hose,
ties, scarfs, etc., are to lie fouud cheap
at the oue price cash store of B. Cahn;
Car load of flour and meal just re-
ceived at P. P. Combs & Co.
Gents' and ladies' gloves at B.
Cfthn's.
Ladies', misses' and children's
cloaks and jerseys at B. Calm's at
astouishingly low prices.
Dr. W. B. Pigg has removed* his of-
fice to the «sorner of Avenue B. and
South 2nd st. . tf
A fine lot of gent's fhrnishlng
goods can be seen by going to B.
Cahu's. A flue line of overshirts sold
very cheap.
Wonders never cease, so you will
say when you go to B. Cahu's aud
price his goods. Quilts and blaukets
are sold at his mammoth dry goods
store at very low prices. Go there
and be convinced.
One ounce of preventative is worth
more than a pound of cure. Keep
your feet warm and save a doctor's
bill. To do so go to B. Calm's and
gel you a pair of rubber shoes—he has
a fine lot of them, also rubber boots
Do you Use Envelopes.
Tub Times job office has just re-
ceived a fine assortment of
IOO.OOO Envelopes
of the very best quality, and will sell
them at a very low rate. Call and
examine them.
Slaughter and murder at the corner
of avenue B. and south Second street
in the store of II. ('aim's, of his im-
mense stock of dry goods, consisting
of dry ffooiis, notions, clothing, hoots,
shoes, matting, carpets, rugs and
other /roods too numerous to mention
For Sale.
A nice residence two stories hi^h
several large and convenient rooms,
bath houses, cisterns,out houses, plas-
tered rooms, high ceilings and every
thing complete. Price $4,000, includ-
ing two lots. For further particulars
apply at The Times ofllce.
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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/m1/3/: accessed May 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .