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COMMERCE AND MANUFACTURES.
inent, business thoroughfares ; consistirig of a handsome brick building,
fronting 91 feet on Alamo street, running the full depth of the block
on Commerce, 127 feet to Losoya, where the front measures 69 feet. It
is four stories, including cellar, in height, giving him an abundance
of room for the prosecution of his extensive business. His trade
is located in Western Texas. Thirty-four hands are employed in the
business. The stock is thorough and complete, averaging $75,000 in
value, his annual transactions reaching $800,000. The business is con-
ducted upon the highest basis of mercantile integrity, and characterized
by energy, ability and liberality.

BLUM & KOENIGSBERGER—Dealers in Fancy and Staple Dry Goods,
Cloaks, Ladies' Costumes, Ladies Undergarments, Dress-Making
Department, Laces, Hosiery and Notions, Agents for Butterick's
Patterns; 202 Commerce Street.
One of the best evidences of the dawning of an era of progress, and
material advancement in the enterprise of the Southern States, is the es-
tablishment, in commercial centers, of houses of the go-ahead, determined
business ability of experienced merchants, and the push of their invincible
management. The stimulus of their ex
ample exercises a most wholesome influ-
ence, and those cities, in which they have
established themselves during the last
fifteen years, already exhibit indisputable
evidences of modern enterprise and mer-
cantile ability. This was the electric
spark necessary to kindle the slow burning
fire of Southern ambition and manhood,
and teach them to forget past glories
and subsequent disasters, in heroic efforts
to develop their natural resources and
build up a country commercially great.
This has been nowhere better verified than
in Texas; her cities have attracted more
attention than those of sister states, by
the determination and effective energy
they are evincing since the civil war to make themselves prosperous and
metropolitan. San Antonio, with perhaps less froth and bluster, has kept
pace with the foremost, and a bright future is in store for her. In San
Antonio, Messrs. Blum & Koenigsberger are the best exemplars of this
class. Having the irrepressible vim and mercantile spirit, characteristic of
American business men of German descent, they have, in a limited period,
despite strenuous -competition. built up a business without a peer in their
line in this city, and, in accomplishing this, their example has been of in-
calculable benefit to the city and section. Teach a people the possibilities