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90 SAN ANTONIO-HER TRADE,

an experience of eight years, a thorough, practical, business education
and skill, first-class ability, and an undoubted reputation for commercial
honor and integrity, in all the walks of life. This house was established
in 1883, with ample capital and resources. Pursuing their business with
enterprise and industry, they have built up an extensive trade, radiating
through this State and to the East and West. They are decidedly the
largest dealers in this section in vegetables, fruits, butter, cheese, etc.
They bring to their business that nervy vim, which has caused metropol-
itan centers to spring up like magic from prairie wastes in the-west, and
which will yet make Texas proportionately progressive and prosperous.
Their transactions will reach $150,000 annually, and they carry a full and
comprehensive stock of cheese and butter, which are their specialties, and
in which they are very decidedly the principal house, averaging $10,000 in
value. Their office and ware-rooms are admirably located on Houston
street, in the heart of trade ; the buildings are, one 40 by 60 feet in size,
and one 30 by 60 feet. Messrs. Kcerner & Co. employ six assistants, and
they represent some of the most prominent concerns in the country in
their specialties ; among them we may mention, Dalton Bros., San Fran-
cisco, for beans and vegetables ; Mo.& Kansas Fruit Packery ; Globe Pickle
Co.., St. Louis. Enterprising, reliable, liberal in their policy, and squarely
honorable, their success is well merited, and the establishment of their
house is a manifest benefit to San Antonio. This is one of three houses,
F. & H Stresau, Galveston ; F. & H. Stresau, Milwaukee and G. Kcerner
& Co., San Antonio.

BERG & BRO.—Wool, Proprietors Mission Scouring Mills, Grist Mills
and Cotton Gin Mills, Six Miles Smith of City; Contracting
Freight Agents for Morgan's Louisiana and Texas Railroad and
Steamship Company, Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Rail-
way system, Southern Pacific Railroad; Office, Kampmann Build-
ing, 285 Commerce Street.
Of the resources furnished man for supplying actual necessities, none
outrank wool in importance, outside of the food supply. The very obvious
tendency of the fibres of wool to interlace and hold together, upon being
firmly pressed, or drawn out and twisted between the fingers, must have
suggested, at an extremely early period, the practicability of forming gar-
ments of wool; at first, by a rude process of felting, afterward by the dis-
taff and loom. The rearing of sheep for obtaining their wool, dates from
the earliest times; the passages in the Bible, alluding to sheep, wool and
woolen garments, are well known. In Lev., xiii, mention is made of gar-
ments having "the warp, or wool of linen or woolen." Attic wool was
celebrated at an extremely early period. The value of the wool crop of