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COMMERCE AND MANUFACTURES.
Messrs. Ramsay & Ford excel, having an established reputation through
Texas, New Mexico and in Mexico, for beauty, fine workmanship and
finish, for lightness and durability, and the use of the very best materials
and the employment of skilled workmen; exercising personally over all
that intelligent supervision, attained by their many years of practical
acquaintance with every detail of the trade. They manufacture all varie-
ties of fine and ordinary saddles, single and double harness for all pur-
poses, bridles; in short, all articles of horse furniture. Nine skilled hands
are constantly employed. Their business premises are commodious and
convenient, being two stories in height ; their factory department is
equipped with the best modern machinery and mechanical appliances, for
doing first-class work rapidly and thoroughly. They carry a full and com-
plete stock. The members of the firm have resided in Texas for nineteen
years. They have gained an enviable reputation wherever known, for re-
liability and promptitude in executing orders, and giving perfect satisfaction
to all who have availed themselves of their services.

PITT & MEEK— Wholesale Dealers in Staple and Fancy Groceries. Cot-
ton and Wool Factors and Produce Commission Merchants ; Nos.
4, 6 and 8 Military Plaza, and 9 and 11 Trevenio Avenue.
Through a wise provision of nature, the different sections of this vast
country, have each some commercial factors or elements which exert a
controlling influence on trade. This condition is brought about by divers
causes ; geographical position and natural, mineral deposits are the most
important, while in some localities, facilities for transportation and the
fucundity of the soil for producing cereals, are the bases on which ulti-
mate wealth and commercial prosperity have their foundation. The west
has her great grain product and unequaled facilities for transportation ;
the middle tier of states have their invaluable coal and iron resources ;
this part of the South, has, to a certain extent, a unification of all these
elements of progress, furnished by nature, with a prolific hand, only await-
ing development by enterprise. Her cotton, the king of vegetable products ;
her sheep, this state is also rapidly becoming a great wool growing region;
her cattle, this being the great cattle raising state of the union, with its
splendid ranges for pasturage, and last, and of unequalled importance,
splendid facilities for transportation. By rail, San Antonio is in quick
connection with every section of the continent. As is but natural and
fortunate, the development of these resources has attracted the attention
of the most enterprising and able business men of the city, some of whom,
appreciating the wisdom of nature in unifying, as it were, these elements,
have imitated her, to the extent that they have made their business com-
prehensive, including in their operations the handling of several of these
factors, a mercantile dovetailing, so-to-speak, productive of the happiest
results, as they, in the natural order, are dependent, one on the other. One
of the most prominent houses in San Antonio to which these remarks ap-