. San Antonio de Bexar; a guide and history. - joinsthe Alazan creek some little distance before that creek joins the San Pedro was finished and opened June .Hh, IST). It cost the city with the Xalley ditch,a branch of the Alamo Madre ditch, mentioned before, and constructed at the samedate $o3,00n. The Alazan was a bold and practical conception, but the workseems to have been inadequately done. The control of the ditches has long since left private hands. The first Amer-ican manager of ditches was Capt. J. H. Beck in In 1S.)S the citj- tookthem in hand and on January 1st of t
. San Antonio de Bexar; a guide and history. - joinsthe Alazan creek some little distance before that creek joins the San Pedro was finished and opened June .Hh, IST). It cost the city with the Xalley ditch,a branch of the Alamo Madre ditch, mentioned before, and constructed at the samedate $o3,00n. The Alazan was a bold and practical conception, but the workseems to have been inadequately done. The control of the ditches has long since left private hands. The first Amer-ican manager of ditches was Capt. J. H. Beck in In 1S.)S the citj- tookthem in hand and on January 1st of that year John Fries was appointed first DitchCommissioner by A. A. Lockwood, mayor. That office is at present held byMr. Prank Huntress. The San Antonio But then I love its lazj- daysPerpetual blaze of bluest blue,Aud love to bask as oft I doDown where the river winds its ways,Where giant trees the Summer throughSeem halls that echo wizard all day long those lays are heardFrom throbbing throat of mocking liirdAbove the chorus crickets raise,Where most I miss the purple hueAnd scents of heaths and where I love to sing the praiseOf Texas Summer weather. —The B. B. in Texas. The story of the river as applied tothe public interests of our city is a stor)to make angels weep and to cause thealligators, if our river had an}, not onlyto shed crocodile tears, but to actual!}feel sad, and this is all the more touchingwhen it is considered that sadness mustbe a feeling strange to animals of suchproverbially good digestions. Of coarsethe alligators are hypothetical, theywere never pets of our Saint Anthony. The gootl saint in the first place madehis river too crooked for their comfort and in the second they concluded that
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