Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, March 15, 1912 Page: 1 of 4
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THE W. C. POTTS LAND CO.
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Volume III
Aransas Pass Progress
Aransas Pass, Texas, Friday, March 15, 1912.
NELSON GETS TERMINAL CON-
TRACT-BE FINISHED JULY 1ST
Will do Pile Driving and Build Wharf. Terminal People to
Lay Track, Etc. All Ready for August Business.
When bids were opened in San Antonio Tuesday for the con-
struction of bridges and wharves for the Aransas Harbor Terminal
Railway, Contractor, J. P. Nelson, a well known and successful railroad
construction man, was awarded the contract. Time being the im-
portant factor in the developments at this place, Mr. Nelson strikes
the key note when he says that he will have the entire construction
work completed by July 1st, 1912, which is one month earlier than
contemplated. Mr. Nelson s former record as a railroad builder
bears testimony that he will deliver the goods with credit to himself
and to the Aransas Harbor Railway people. Years ago, when rail-
road building was in its infancy and improved machinery was un-
known, he made history and fame by building S. A, & A. P. through
the wilderness against many odds.
In detailing the construction plans Mr. Nelson says that a solid
roadbed will be used to within half mile of Steadman Island, and a
half-mile bridge will span the remaining distance. From Steadman
Island across Cummings Cut will be trestled with a draw bridge over
the channel perhaps large enough to pass any ship that can ply its
waters. The remaining distance from Steadman Island to the har-
bor line, where 900 foot wharf and warehouse is to be, will be built
on a solid roadbed across Harbor Island and directly parallel with
the ship channel.
Material of every kind is arriving daily and in such large quanti-
ties that it is hard to secure men to unload it fast" enough, and the
force for laying ties and steel is to be greatly increased. The steel
will be laid by the terminal people with day labor, while the ware-
house will probably be contracted, Mr. Nelson driving the piles. All
bridge and pile work is included in Mr. Nelson’s contract,
The early completion of the terminal and docking facilities means
much to Aransas Pass and all South Texas, inasmuch as it insures an
open port anil ocean traffic in time to handle this year’s crops.
Indeed, we owe much to the Aransas Harbor Terminal Railway and
Aransas Pass Channel & Dock Company.
ARANSAS PASS - ROCK-
PORT INTERURBAN.
Mr. Hoff States Work Will Be
Commenced in Four Months
From Aransas Pass End.
Charles F. Hoff, president and
manager of the Aransas Pass-
Rockport Interurhan Railroad,
was here from Rockport Wednes-
day, and says that plans are de-
veloping very satisfactorily for
that project. He stated that two
routes were under consideration
and that the one decided upon
would be determined by the in-
ducements offered along such
route.
All arrangements to finance
the road have been made, said
Mr. Hoff, and everything de-
pends on the bonuses and right
of way details as to when and
which way the line will he built,
but 'their franchise and charter
calls for construction to start
within four months.
The report that this line would
operate over the Sap tracks is
false, said Mr. Hoff, and we will
build our own tracks and oper-
ate independly.
Of course when this line is
completed residences will spring
up everywhere along the right
of way and our dream or Rock-
port becoming a suburb of the
Greater Aransas Pass will come
true.
Book Social,
Tuesday evening last the young
and old met at the residence of
Mr. and Mrs. ' Chas. Porter and
enjoyed a most delightful time,
under the direction of the Ep-
worth League, the occasion be-
ing a Book Social. About forty
people represented as many
books. Those taking part in the
social and the books they rep-
resented are as follows.
Eugene Young, Lavender and
Old Lace.
Lester Foster, Home of a Thou-
sand Candles.
Clifford McPheeters, Red Book
(Magazine.)
Winton Ridinger, Oliver Twist.
Ross McBride, Rollo in Paris.
Dr. Lawrence, Pleasures of
Life.
James Holmes, The Cadet.
Pope Hatchett, Pope’s Essay
on Man.
Miss Hatchett, Girl of the Gold
en West.
Miss Hubbard, Eight Cousins.
Miss Stafford, Hearts and
Masks.
Miss Showaker, Under the Red
Rose.
Willard Hubbard, Gypsy Dark.
lone Patterson, Under the Two
Flags.
Miss Della Spriegel, A World
of -Girls.
Miss Beatrice Spriegel, Red
Riding Hood.
Miss Gladys Bell, Five Little
Peppers.
Miss Cora Knowlton, Black
Beauty.
Grady Cole, Long Fellow’s
Poems.
Miss Ethel Cole, The Lure of
the Mask.
Miss Nerva Bell, Helen’s Ba-
bies,
Mrs. Pope Hatchett, The Prin-
cess.
Miss Maude Crocker, Beside
the Bonnie Briar Bush.
Miss Effie Olive Crocker, The
Hidden Hand.
Mrs. Bell, A Bow of Orange
Laying Rails by April 10.
San Antonio Express, Mar. 10.
Rail laying on the San Anton-
io, Uvalde & Gulf will begin not
later than April 10. This was
the information wired President
J. E. Franklin yesterday by Vice
President A. R. Ponder in re-
sponse to an inquiry as to when
rails would actually be needed.
By that time the grade will be
fully completed from a connec-
tion with the International &
Great Northern south of the city
to the .Medina river, and within
ten or fifteen days Mr. Ponder
then hopes to have a line of
railroad to that point. .
Contractors engaged in making
the grade reported to Mr. Pon-
der yesterday that they have 220
teams either at work or on the
S7,000.00 BONDS FOR A
FIRST-CLASS HOTEL
Shareholders of the Bayview Hotel Decide to Offer Three
Lots valued at $7,000.00 to any party Building Hotel.
The shareholders of the Bayyiew Hotel property met in the din-
ing room of the hotel Wednesday afternoon, with Mayor J. J. Todd
acting as chairman, and E. L. Price as secretary. The first business
to come before the meeting was the report of the committee appoint-
ed to devise ways and means for wrecking the old building and erect-
ing on the same site a modern up-to-date hotel. The report of the
committee in substance is as follows: We, your committee, after can-
vassing the entire situation in regard to handling the hotel properry
to the best advantage, in accordance with the original proposition,
whereby we could keep faith with the trustees and contract holders
and get the best results for both shareholders and property owners,
by encouraging the building of a first-class hotel on the present site,
beg to make the following report: “We recommend that you offer
way to begin work and the grade1 as a bonus, lots 17, 18 and 19, clear and unincumbered, to any
NOTES ON CITY BUILDING
Natural advantages have kill-
ed more towns than they have
built up.
is now practically finished from
the Medina river to the west of
the Terrell Wells property. From
that point the roacj swings
around in a northwesterly direc-
tion to a connection with the In-
ternational & Great North-
ern, just within the city limits.
Arrangements have been practi-
cally completed for all of this
right of way. ,
The concrete mixing machinery
for the 'bridges over the Medina,
Atascosa, Frio and Nueces rivers
has arrived and as soon as the
line is constructed to the Medi-
na river it will be installed there
and work on the bridges com-
menced. A temporary bridge
will be constructed on piling and
this will be used until the con-
crete bridge is finished.
person, persons or incorporation, who will build a first-class hotel
on said property.”
The above recommendation carried by a unamimous vote.
Another recommendation by the committee which wa§ unanim-
ously adopted was: “That you authorize your coimmittee to wreck,
sell or handle the old building in any way that in their judgement
they may realize the most, and will be to the best advantage to the
shareholders.” H. Brooke,
O. C. McLeod
Committee.
The three lots offered as a bonus are centrally located on Com-
mercial street; just across ths street from the First State Bank, and are
conservatively estimated to be worth at the present time seven
thousand dollars.
Altogether the meeting was a very harmonious one, and all pres-
ent went away perfectly satisfied with the result of same
TEXAS INDUSTRIAL NOTES
A charter has been granted the
South Texas Commercial Nation-
al Bank of Houston; capital
stock $100,000.
BUSINESS
Ribbon,
Mrs. Foster, Barabbas,
Miss Katy Bell Hatchett by
odds characterized the book she
represented the best of any, her
costume being complete.
Miss lone Patterson was cred-
ited with doing some of the most
accurate guessing, having pre-
sented the best list of books
characterized.
Instrumental music was ren-
dered by Miss Hubbard and Mr.
Holmes.
Vocal music by Miss Patter-
son and Mr. Holmes.
Chorus by the Baraca Glee
Club.
Eleven *o ’clock came only too
soon, at which time refreshments
were served and the happy
guests, after shaking hands with
the hosts and expressing pleas-
ure for the good time enjoyed, de*
parted.
Wanted
Second hand household goods.
Bought, sold . and exchanged
Sewing machines to hire, at Da-
vis building, corner Pacific and
Nelson streets. A. M. Davis.
Too much prosperity affects
some towns as it does the hog-
jt clogs their energy.
MEN’S CLUB
ORGANIZED.
The knocker is a cross be-
tween a pessimist and a grouch.
The best way to handle him is to
take his hammer.
\
High brows do not pay bills,
nor put through their deals. It
takes brains, braivn and money.
The little man who will work is
worth ten big men who won’t.
The women are a potent fac-
tor in town building thru their
labors for civic attractiveness.
An ugly town does not impress
one as being a good place to live
in.
Town building in the majority
of instances should begin' in the
country. Without the support
of a strong agricultural com-
munity no town can grow with
any degree of permanency.
Pound Net Material Here.
The Aransas' Pass Fish Com-
pany received two cars of 65-
foot piles Wednesday, to be used
in their huge pound nets for
deep sea fishing. Work will be
commenced on the pound nets
shortly.
Each wave of adversity and dis
content washes at the base of
commercial organization—its fi-
nances. The secrets of a good
financial plan is its permanent
hold on the people.
Custom Inspector.
The local customs inspector,
Capt. Max Luther, camped in
the turning basin last night,
aboard the custom boat Alma.
Capt. Luther stated that the
officer aboard the revenue cut-
ter Windom, rounded him up
very much for his lienency on
the power crafts and he is here
this time to see more particular-
ly to the equipment aboard all
the power boats.
Mr. Gandy Nebraska Candidate
Jesse Gandy, who is spending
the winter here, is a candidate
for congress in the Sixth Dis-
trict of Nebraska on a very pro-
gressive platform. He favors
the initiative, referendum and
recall. He opposes President
Taft’s reciprocity treaty with
Canada, and also opposes the
licensing of liquor in prohibition
territory.
Will Work for a Greater Aran-
sas Pass. Social Feature to
be Included.
At a call meeting in the rooms
of the First State Bank, Wed-
nesday evening, the Business
Men’s Club of Aransas Pass was
permanently organized, the fol-
lowing officers beimr elected for
its government: C. W. Holmes,
president; J. J. Todd, a ice pres-
ident; C. A. Knowlton, secreta-
ry; Geo. FI. Beyett, treasurer.
As we go to press over twenty-
six members have signed up and
the membership committee, con-
sisting of Messrs. A. D. Oliver,
C. L. Grubbs and W.' E. Tedford
are adding to the membership.
Two large rooms and a hall
have been secured over the First
State Bank for the Club’s home,
in which will be installed suita-
ble furniture, books, etc., and as
the Club directs, various amuse
ment features will be added. Dai-
ly and weekly papers, magazines
and other reading matter will be
supplied for Club members, mak-
ing the rooms an attractive place
to entertain visitors and Club-
men.
The Club will look out after
the development of our city and
intends to handle business prop-
ositions in a business way.
Plans are being perfected for
the erection of a sixteen / story
building at San Antonio.
Notice.
We are strictly in the trans-
fer business and will be pleased
to have your work. We will do
any kind of hauling and we will
treat you right. See Arnold &
| Lindsay.
The Tafts Are Here
Chas. P. Taft, brother of Pres
ident W. H. Taft, with his fam-
ily, are now at their ranch home,
“La Quinta,” near this place,
and will spend some time look-
ing after the business of the
famous Taft ranch, comprising
millions of acres, several live
lowns and various manufactur-
ing enterprises.
On Saturday the entire force
of employees of the ranch will
be banqueted at the Hotel Green
at Gregory, and be received by
Mr. and Mrs. Taft.
•It is reported that $100,000
will be spent for civic improve-
ments at Brownsville in the near
future.
plating the erection
depot at Beaumont.
a new
The Sherman Real Estate
Exchange has appropriated $500
to be used for the purpose of ad-
vertising Sherman and Grayson
county.
Kingsville will have a “City
Plan.” The commissioners have
engaged civil engineers to es-
tablish grades and levels, pro-
vide for street extensions and
park areas and make estimates
for paving and sewerage.
The Texas & Pacific and Int-
ernational & Great Northern
will run an agricultural exhibit
car over their lines this spring.
A Shippers Association has
been organized, at Kirbyville.
The commissioners court of
San Angelo is contemplating the
issuance of $70,000 in bonds
for the erection of a viaduct
across the Concho river.
A Civic Welfare Commission
has been organized at Beau-
mont.
The Bronson Commercial Club
has appointed a permanent good
roads committee.
Plans are being made by the
Young Men’s League of Pales-
tine to erect a peanut factory at
that place.
Two hundred acres of
near Clinton recently sold
$72,000.
land,
for
Arrangements are being made
by the Galveston Commercial
Association for a celebration in
May upon the completion of the
causeway connecting Galveston
with the mainland.
The Houston &, Texas Central
has received 20 new locomotives
at Houston and 25 more are ex-
pected to be en route to that
e:ty.
It is reported that approxi-
mately 400 acres will be planted
in grapes near Fort Stockton,
this Spring. ;
A Business Men’s League has
been organized at Lockhart, y
It' is reported that the- Cot-
ton Belt Railroad will extend
its line from Hillsboro to Whit-
ney. ... .,?•*<
Arrangements are being made
to build a new railroad from San
Antonio to Fredericksburg.
The Guadalupe Water
Company of Austin has
chartered with a capital
o $300,009.
Construction work on the road
at Brady has now begun. The
general supervisor of road con-
struction from Boston, Mass.,
is there under orders from the.,
government to assist in the work.
He expressed himself as well
pleased with the system and the
Power method employed there,
been
stock
Alice is to
stone factory.
have a concrete
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The Fort Worth Chamber of
Commerce has offered a hand-
some loving cup, valued at $250,
for the best car load of Texas
fed cattle. This is to encourage
the raising of good beef cattle.
A Fruit and Truck Growers As-
sociation has been organized at
Green Brier, Smith county.
The Kansas City Southern and! Buy your flour from Hough--
tfie Frisco railways are contem- ton. It is guaranteed.
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Price, E. L. Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, March 15, 1912, newspaper, March 15, 1912; Aransas Pass, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth975370/m1/1/: accessed July 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Ed & Hazel Richmond Public Library.