Cable Ranch (San Antonio, Texas)

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Approximate 1908 plat of the ranch's boundaries as researched by wCat on its hundredth anniversary: www.city-data.com/forum/san-antonio/189101-tom-b-slick-essar-ranch-4.html
www.city-data.com/forum/san-antonio/42842-interesting-tidbits-trivia-about-san-antonio-4.html
Depending upon whom you trust, either miner and Rock Island & Peoria Railway president Philander L. Cable or his nephew Ransom R. Cable, president of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific as well as the Minneapolis & Saint Louis (with an vice-presidential interest in Philander's to boot), had his summer home here from at least 1883, demolished by one hundred years thereafter. Look it/'em up. The winter home at 25 East Erie, Chicago, survives, hemmed in by River North condo skyscrapers.
In 1941, a tract amounting to 1600 of its acres became fellow miner Tom Slick's recursive ESSAR Ranch, soon home of the (independent, nonprofit, applied, and at present largest such besides Battelle and SRI International) Southwest Research centers - a complex that has or may have yet to fulfill its original potential, yet whose work continues as we speak.
www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/sms02