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SAN ANTONIO-HER TRADE,
The richness of mineral products west of San Antonio induced an ex-
tension to those fields; and afterward a connection with the Huntington
interests, granting an uninterrupted route from New York to San Fran-
cisco, which vies in point of time and safety of delivery with the all-rail
routes of the North. From Vermillionville to Eagle Pass, a distance of
600 miles, the road is under one management and has been since its origin.
THE INTERNATIONAL & GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.
In 1881 a more direct connection with the northern markets became
necessary to the interests of such a fast-growing city. This being recog-
nized by the Gould systems, gave birth to this road, affording, with its
numerous taps, not only direct connection with St. Louis, but every city
of any prominence intermediate.
From San Antonio it was extended to Laredo, and thence into Mexico.
Its route is through the richest cotton and sugar lands known, and the
dozens of new towns mark strikingly the importance of the section of
country it traverses, each of which recognizes San Antonio as the home
market for all its neighboring productions.
By the following summary of towns it will be readily seen why and
how San Antonio must continue proportionately with the prosperity of
each, to increase her figures of commercial and manufacturing industries.
On the Sunset line within the radius of San Antonio's supply facilities
are the following cities and towns west : Alazan, Withers, Andrews,
Lacoste, Noonan, Baldwin, Hondo, D'hanis, Sabinal, Chatfield, Uvalde,
Nueces, Cline, Waldo, Anacacho, Spofford Junction, Kinney, Newell,
Buckner, Johnston, Del Rio, McKee, Devil's River, Musquez, Flanders,
Painted Cave, Shumla, Langtry, Lozier, Samuels, Dryden, Feodora, San-
derson, Emerson, Rosenfield, Maxon Springs, Taber, Raymond, Mara-
thon, Altuda, Murphysville, Toronto, Marfa, Aragon, Valentine, Wendell,
Haskell, Torbert, Grayton, Sierra Blanca, Etholen, Malone, Finlay, Mad-
den, Camp Rice, Rio Grande, Faben, San Elizario, Ysleta, and El Paso.
Beyond here the towns on the Southern Pacific more properly gain their
supplies from the far west.
Fast of San Antonio are the following : Converse, Marion, Seguin,
Kingsbury, Luling, Harwood, Sandy Fork, Waelder, Peach Creek, Fla-
tonia, Grassy Valley, Schulenberg, Weimar, Borden, Glidden, Columbus,
Smith's Junction, Alleyton, Ramsays, Eagle Lake, New Philadelphia,
East Bernard, Randon and Rosenberg Junction. Further east the trade
belongs to Houston. Besides this showing, there are innumerable inland
towns. which get their goods by these points, and the trade is being more
effectually controlled every day. The management of the Sunset road,
which as we said, has been one since its birth, with few even local changes,
is in the hands of Mr. T. W. Pierce, Boston, president ; H. B. Andrews,
San Antonio, vice president; E. G. Thompson, Houston, superintendent ;
C. C. Gibbs, San Antonio, general freight agent ; T. W. Pierce Jr., Hous-