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SAN ANTONIO-HER TRADE,
grounds cover an area of forty acres, on which are erected the necessary
buildings; the brewery is four stories in height, reaching an altitude of
ninety feet, and, from the tops, or cooling floor, a magnificent view of the
city and surroundings can be had. It is thoroughly equipped in machinery,
mechanical appliances and facilities, including one refrigerating machine.
The company own their own refrigerating cars, twenty-five in number, in
which they ship, safely and expeditiously, beer to any point desired. They
manufacture 25,000 pounds of ice daily, solely for shipping purposes. The
company will, in a short time, bottle their beer. Motive power is supplied
by engines, aggregating 150-horse power. This establishment will, in the
future, do more to extend the reputation mid commercial fame of San An-
tonio than any other interest in her limits, for, notwithstanding the carp-
ings of fanatical prohibitionists, beer is the greatest foe of intemperance
and its attendant evils; and cities which possess breweries, famed for
making a pure beer of exceptional flavor, body and life, acquire through
them an extended reputation, as witness: Milwaukee, Wis. ; Rochester, N.
Y. ; St. Louis, etc.
TIPS & RIEDEL.—Dealers in Hardware, Iron, Steel, Nails, Stoves and
Tinware, Table and Pocket Cutlery, and Agricultural Implements.
John Deere Hand and Sulky Plows, Cultivators, Etc.; 20 Commerce

Hardware is a generic term employed to signify such manufactures as
are produced from the commoner or more useful metals, that is, iron and
steel, brass and copper, zinc and tin, and the corelative combination of
baser metals of which auxiliary articles are manufactured. The hardware
dealers occupy with respect to business, taken as a whole, the most import-
ant position, as, without any notable exception, every other branch, wheth-
er of trade, the mechanic arts or professions, is dependent in some degree
for the perfection of designs or successful accomplishment of undertakings
on the goods they handle. The editors of a work of this character have
in the collection and elaboration of business statistics of the commercial
interests of a city, noting their comparative progress and prosperity, unu-
sual facilities for estimating the importance of the different branches of
trade, as to-their bearing on the general thrift, and the development of the
advantages and facilities which these cities hold out as inducements to
capitalists in quest of investments. Among these we would unquestiona-
bly give precedence to the various enterprises connected with iron it its
manifold commercial and manufacturing industries. Of these the hard-
ware business ranks first. Among the houses devoted to this business in
San Antonio, that of Tips & Riedel may be considered among the most en-
terprising. This house was founded in 1852 by A. Sartor, who was suc-
ceeded in 1882 by the present firm, Tips & Riedel, composed of J. C. Tips and
H. Riedel. Experience in any pursuit in life is justly regarded as equal to cap-
ital, when the ability to profit by it exists; and when this is found in connec-
tion with sound business principles, the possessors are entitled to recogni-