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SAN ANTONIO-HER TRADE,
most intimate relations between the seller and buyer—no matter how utter
strangers all parties may be, or how widely separated by distance—and no
other medium labors so assiduously to promote their respective interests
by conferring upon either party alike special advantages and otherwise
unattainable benefits. He is the mutual friend and adviser, or go-between,
that may be relied upon implicitly, and in no branch of business has his
services been sought to a greater extent, and with more gratifying results,
than in matters pertaining to real estate. The firm of Land & Thompson,
Dallas, Texas, are one of the many engaged in this occupation that can be
commended to the public at large as eminently qualified and thoroughly
reliable, having been closely connected with the business for the past 20
years. Their experience, comprehensive knowledge of the real estate and
land business in every detail, and extensive facilities for safely conducting
it in all its various branches, together with their wide acquaintance with
capitalists, large land operators, manufacturers and others interested in
land properties, gives them very decided advantages over the majority of
Texas land agents, and enables the firm to guarantee the most perfect
satisfaction in the transacting of all business entrusted to their charge.
They buy, sell, exchange, lease and rent farms, ranches, and improved or
unimproved lands of all descriptions. They pay taxes on property and
keep up improvements and insurance policies. They make a specialty of
looking after non-resident property owners interests, with the same watch-
ful care they exercise over their own property, and invite correspondence
from either holders of Texas property, at home or abroad, on the subject of
this department of their business. They are also prepared to locate scrip
on choice lands, perfect titles, value lands, make divisions of property,
make loans on choice farms or valuable lands of any description, and make
investments for capitalists. In their department devoted -to city business
they give the same careful and experienced attention to buying and selling
or exchange of real estate, renting and collection of rents, keeping prop-
erty in repair, insuring, paying of taxes, and the general care of estates
belonging to residents or non-residents. The firm make a leading specialty
of handling lands suitable for agriculture and stock purposes, and invite
the particular attention of stockmen and farmers to their extensive facili-
ties and superior inducements. They control one million acres of the finest
farming and grazing lands in the State, and which they are now placing
on the market to be sold at unusually low rates to actual settlers. Messrs.
Land & Thompson are capable, energetic business men of firm integrity,
sound judgment, and conservative in management; possessed of unques-
tionable executive ability and financial talents of high order; who are lib
erally endorsed by the best citizens of Texas and the South, as well as the
Western and Eastern cities. Enterprising, skillful operators, keeping fully
abreast with the progressive age, and possessing a complete knowledge of
the magnificent resources of Texas for agriculture, stock raising, mining,
manufacturers, commerce, and capital, and . moreover, laboring with a
keen interest in the development of that grand destiny which every pene-
trative mind recognizes as the future portion of the State, the firm of Land
& Thompson commends itself to the public as one from whom the most
liberal treatment may be expected.