The Velasco Times (Velasco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 16, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 2, 1892 Page: 2 of 8
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■■APORT;
¡Went of the MIhnínMpjiI River Into which a ve
|M1 drawing Mixteen feet of water can enter und
'the Only neaport on the One ThouHand One
«Hundred and Seventy Mile* oi Const between
'Mid river and Vera Cruz, From our dock an
;ocean «hip ean today go to aea with a full cargo!
¿of cttou.
' Within the lOHt three month* more than a dozen
;«nip have entered thin port with an average
cargo of KMX) torn* each
A.S ■ A - 8KAlJOKT - OUTLET
[through the Gulf inHtead of the Atlantic Velawoi
'la nearer than New York to Han KrancUco hvj
MOinilen, to Denver 700 ml Ion, to Lincoln. Neb.'T L* #-v
¡400 mllen. to Topeka 600 mile*. to Omaha 400 1 i 1"
!mile«, to Mt. Louia 2A0 ml leu, to I.l t tie ltork 700'
miles.
Exporta - Through - ttio - F ort
of Velnico 1h estimated for the coming year a
'50,000 000 ONE AND A HAI,K MILLION DOL
< LAUMulready expended on permanent work on
(hejettiea by private enterprises.
i wo an un mp
Represents 300,000
Biggest of all Booms Coming
VELABCO WILL BE TIÍEQÜLK TEHMIXÜ8
of all the great railway systems entering Tttxjw-
Artesian Water Supply
| Deepest well 1300feet, through clay foundation
STEEL RAILWAYS. Nine mile* of electric
line* now building.
' VEI.A8CO TKHMINA^. 11 It. now built 21
mile* to Chenango fur connection with I, ft G. N-
R. H.
The new elegant HOTEL VELA8CO and the
:mo*t «tvlixli frame hotel In Texan, has «(romo
to Velasco, Tex:
l'or Kull Particular* hh to condition and intentions of the Company. Fricen of Property, Etn, Address
ERNEST W. EMMONS, mi,
PoitfHoe Box No. BO,
VELASCO, TEXAS.
VELASCO is the BANK ACCOUNT of the
farmer of the West: 200.000,000 btmhelH of wheat
will be exported tliln year. If it were exported
via the port of Velasco it menus 821)0.000,000 more
money ror the farmer than via any other outlet
Velasco, the only outlet to the (itilf of Mexico,
will receive a volume of business amounting to;
$400,000,000 annually from the great West and
foreign countries.
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Real Estate Agents,^^
VELASCO, TEXAS.
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If you have Velasco property for sale, put it in our hands.
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To Brazoria County Land Owners:
. If your 1
of same, and where pi
ands are in large surveys, and capable of sub-division, we will survey, and cut it up in small tracts for you, make you accurate and neat maps
here placed in our hands for sale, will have maps published and advertise it without cost to you. We buy and sell on commission strictly,
All Kinds of Conveyancing Carefully Done.
-REFER BY PERMISSION TO
Geo. D. Barnard and Co., St. Louis, Mo. ; C. H. Silliman, banker, Fort Worth Texas ; O. W. Steffens, cashier ist National Bank, Abiline Texas
L. L. Jester, cashier Houston National Bank, Houston, Texas; T. C. Connor, District Judge, Eastland, 'lexas.
THE VELASCO TIMES.
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY.
GOODMAN I M'FSRLRND BROS.
Appllaotlon has bian m«d« to «nH th Timas
■t th« Posteftia* In Valanao, Taxaa, a
aaaond alaaa mall matlar.
AO 1 TISIN3 JUTES.
One Inch Oue ItiHue $1.00
One Inch One Month 2.00
Two Inches One Month -1.00
Four Inches One Month 7.00
Six Inches One Month 10.00
RATES OF SUBSCIPTION.
One Year $2.00
Six Months 1.00
Three Months 75
.Single Copy 5
THE OEM OF THE COAST.
Fort Worth Gazette October 28th: Tub Velas
i'O Tim eh In the gem of the const, Klght pages,
all homo print, full of news ntid ns bright and
refreshing as the gulf waterN. The Times has a
tine plant, is edited by Goodman A McFarland
os,.and (louts on its mast-head "Deep wate r
fact—not a promise. Success to The Times.
Pin your faith to Velasco and
plant your money in corner lots.
The Times circulation is sim-
ply immense, everybody wants it.
The lottery wedge has split
tUe la wh and democracy.
Cleveland for president and
Mills for senator—The Times
ticket.
Thk safest- and best paying in-
vestment on earth to-day is in Ve-
lasco real estate.
COME AND SEE.
People who want to see big
steamships that have come five
and a-half miles up a Texas river
without being lightered, should
take this opportunity of visiting
Velasco where they ean step from
the wharves to the decks of the
Brixham and Czarina. Not long
ago large crowds went to a much
advertised port not a hundred
miles from the mouth of the
Brazos to take a look at the fa-
mous White Squadron but could
not get within five miles of the
Dolphin or Yorktown; vessels
that could at almost any time
during the past live or six months,
steam right up to where the Brix-
ham and Czarina are now moored.
War with Chili seems inevita-
ble.
Velasco has plenty of deep
water in her stocking, in fact,
enough to supply the great North-
west.
"Send me Thk Times," or "I
want Tim Times," are both very
familiar sentences in our ofllce
these days.
The Velasco Times lisis
merged into a daily. Ilurah for
Velasco and The Times. Karnes
City Reporter.
Axptiiek large steamship lias
crossed the bar at the mouth of
the Brazos and is now discharg-
ing her cargo at Velasco's wharfs.
A Special Offer.
If you desire to advertise Ve-
lasco and do it well and at a mod-
erate cost The Times will make
you this proposition. We yet
have about 20,000 copies of the
great special edition oí The Ve-
lasco Daily Times and will
sell them to any one who desires
to send them out at the remarka-
ble low price of
$15.00 PER THOUSAND.
It is neatly printed on the very
best quality of paper and is re-
plete with information about the
infant young city of Velasco.
All prominent real estate firms in
the city should take at least one
thousand copies and send them
out broadcast over the country.
They are the best advertisement
that Velasco can get.
Ranks may burst, cashiers run
away, Garza revolutionize Mex-
ico, but The Times will continue
forever.
Galveston's Chamber of Com-
merce letter said that they had
1 "some sixteen feet of water" and
"that water nti the bar wms deeper
; to-day than it ever was." We
'don't doubt it, Galveston bar lias
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been deepening for the past
twenty years at a cost to the
United States government of over
$100,000 per inch ori\l,X00,000 per
foot, while $1,000,000 put IS feet
of water on the Brazos bar in less
than 12 months.
The water on the bar is deep-
ening at a rapid rate. There will
be twenty feet of water in less
han twelve months.
To the Limestone New-Era:
The Times lias never received
but one issue of the Era. What's
the matter?
a big stock of furniture
V
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The Times has the largest pay
roll, the Brazos lliver Channel &
Dock Co. excepted, of any insti-
tution in the city.
I will keep constantly on hand a well aHssortod stock to be sold at Rock Bot«
torn Prices. See my goods and prices before purchasing elsewhere.
G. B. JOHNSON.
Galveston can not even get
deep artesian water, to say noth-
ing of water on her bar. Poor old
Galveston.
Velasco's great artesian
spouter continues to furnish pure
water Ht the rate of over one
million gallons daily.
Wonder what enterprising, ad-
vertising, money making scheme
the Houston Post will spring upon
the public next. The Post is "full
uv' 'em.
The Courier Journal and the
St, Louis Republic both censure
Mr. Crisp in strong terms for his
treatment of Mr. Mills and say
that he is stronger with the people
to-day than he ever was.
THE LIVE OAK SALOON
JOHN WINCHES, Proprietor. ,
THE FINEST AND BEST SALOON IN THE CITY,
Just opened two doors south of the Times. Nothing but the best grades of fine wine* am)
liquors kept in stock. Ice eold beer on Up. Finest brands of cigars.
LUMBER YARDS!
I have in stock at my yards a complete stock of Rough and Dressed Long
eaf Yellow Pine Lumber, Sash, Eoors, Blinds, and Builders Hardware. By
urchasing my stock in large quantities I am prepared to fill orders completo
n short notice and at low prices. Have connected with my lumber budnea*
Tin Shop and can can do all kinds of work on short notice, Yards at
Velasco, Qiiintria And Alvin, Texas.
T. ED. HOWELL.
tí. U. IiAVALLK.
K. Ij. I. LAV ALLS
Now that the Christmas hoi-
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lidays are over work on jetties, the
electric railroad, the big hotel atj
Surf Side, the Velasco Terminal
railroad and the wharfs, will be
pushed to completion.
The Times appreciates all fa-
vor* remembers them and will re-
pay them when you least expect
it. It will not always be "a bant-'
tUng'' daily, but will ere many
more months rolls round be the
leading paper of the south-west.
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The Velasco Daily Times is j
a hummer and the latest venture ¡
in daily journalism that com-:
mands general attention all over
South Texas, and a good portion
of the United States besides.—
Richmond South Texan.
LA VALLE & LA VALLE,
REAL ESTATE, PIRE ANO MARINE INSURANCE AGENTS,
Office In Weems Building, VELASCO, TEXAS.
Crystal Palace Saloon
Avenue A, South East of Hotel Velasco.
MOW OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
with n choice selcvtloii i>f Flue Whiskies. Wines, Cipnrs. Kt<\ The proprietor. Col. A. 11. Grady,
will oo hnppv to meet lii- friends mid nei|tinintiiiHvs. ns tilso will Mr. Henry W. «¡.111 way, his man-
iiirer. formerly of Houston, will ho more thiin piense ! to meet lii« friends.
HENRY W. GALLWAY,
Manager.
COL. A. B. GRADY,
Proprieor.
C. H. REMINGTON,
^ARCHITECT AND BUILDER.t
Quintana Sz Velascc, Texas.
Solicit* n shnrv of public patronage. References: Silas Bngcett, Sr.. banker II. C. Denny
banker: mid B. A. I.ndlow. banker, nil of Helton. Texas.
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