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SAN ANTONIO-HER TRADE,
tion in the front rank from the beginning of its career. With regard to
so well known a house, but little can be said that is not already known of
its importance as a mercantile industry, beyond giving the plain facts of
this, the largest drug house in western Texas. The extent of Mr. Orynski's
trade, which radiates through Texas and largely into the neighboring re-
public of Mexico, attests fully the success he has achieved, and the high
standard of business ability, scientific attainments, integrity and energy
with which he has conducted his business. The premises occupied at Nos.
302 and 304 Military Plaza, corner of South Flores street, are commodious,
convenient and attractive. The building is constructed of stone, two
stories in height, with a frontage of 43 feet by 75 in depth; the whole build-
ing. including a finished cellar, being occupied in the transaction of busi-
ness, giving 9,675 square feet of floor surface utilized. Everything evinces
consumate and cultivated taste, in all the appointments of this establish-
ment. Mr. Orynski carries a complete and comprehensive line of drugs,
chemicals, medicines and pharmaceutical preparations, and appliances,
and surgical instruments and appliances, and a large assortment of
such sundries as pertains exclusively to the business. Mr. Orynski is
a thoroughly skilled, scientific and practical druggist and pharmacist
of twenty-four years' experience. In the prescription department
of his business, he enjoys a high reputation ; the most careful atten-
tion is given to compounding physician's prescriptions in an accurate man-
ner, only the purest ingredients being used—Merck's German alkaloids,
Squibb's fluid extracts and Powers & Weightman's chemicals. He is
manufacturer's agent for the celebrated "Alcoolature of Arnica" of the
R. Monks, of La Trappe of the Monastery of N. D. Des Nieges, France; the
most wonderful medicine of the age for the cure of all diseases—internal
and external. His transactions are commensurate in magnitude to the
stock carried, reaching $250,000 annually. He employs ten assistants,
some of whom are regular graduates of prominent colleges of pharmacy.
Mr. Orynski is fully identified with the progress and prosperity of the city,
and his establishment is equally an honor to himself and to San Antonio.

GUENTHER & ZADICH—General Commission Merchants, Wholesale
Dealers in Produce, Beans, Flour, Grain, Etc.
No department of the commercial life of the United States exerts a
more powerful influence, in promoting the development of our various re-
sources than the system of doing business on commission. Manufacturers,
jobbers and other producers of material wealth, have in it a comprehensive
and elaborate system of commercial machinery, by which they rapidly,
economically and advantageously market their products. The commis-
sion merchant, in the business centers, receives the products of the miller,
the packer, or whatever it may be, to sell on commission; that is, he acts
as agent, receiving for his services a certain per tentage, called a commis-
sion; and it is his business to know exactly where and to whom to dispose