. San Antonio de Bexar; a guide and history. - has to be gathered. Itis wisest to make the best of the crop as it .stands. It is not within the scope of this .sketch to discuss the financial aspect of thequestion. But it occurs that the Water Works enjoys a large income (which hashitherto been spent in developing), therefore the purchase could not actually be aburden on the City., although theorists would try so to prove. Not to mentionthe value of Real Estate which the offer includes. Many of the Citys influentialmen favor the project. The question is to be decided by a vote of the tax-paj^-e
. San Antonio de Bexar; a guide and history. - has to be gathered. Itis wisest to make the best of the crop as it .stands. It is not within the scope of this .sketch to discuss the financial aspect of thequestion. But it occurs that the Water Works enjoys a large income (which hashitherto been spent in developing), therefore the purchase could not actually be aburden on the City., although theorists would try so to prove. Not to mentionthe value of Real Estate which the offer includes. Many of the Citys influentialmen favor the project. The question is to be decided by a vote of the tax-paj^-ers, on September 30th, 1890. Mr. Brackenridge in a recent interview, decidedly as follows : Now, the stockholders, after sowing for thirteen years, with the hope ofultimately harvesting, think it a little hard that their large expenditure ofpatience and money should be met by public clamor, as though they had perpe-. THIv SAN ANTONIO RIVER. 57 trated some great wrong upon the coniiiuiiiity, instead of having addud a valuableand necessarj property to the City. Yet they believe strongly in the justiceof mankind and feel confident that the stockholders of the Water Works will bepermitted to reap the benefits which they feel are due them. Should it bj con-sidered necessary for the public good to deprive them of their property, andrights under their franchise, they think they will be honestly and fairly dealtwith. The Water Works were constructed in , at a time when the City wasunwilling or unable to do anything, and the citizens would have nothing to dowith the scheme, giving it neither countenance nor credit, believing that it wouldbe a very great advantage to the city, and of little benefit to the were, I believe, the views entertained bj very nearly all the citizens,including myself. At present the Company is completing what the stockholdershoped would be the last large addi
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