Alamo Express [San Antonio, TX], October 15, 1860
The meat market has been moved to the South side of the Main Plaza. We advise the butchers to turn their stalls round to the North and prepare for winter—it’s a very good stand; and we advise the authorities, who in their wisdom selected the sight for new market house, [and what a sight] to fence in its numerous doors and rent it out as a horse or cattle pen or bull ring, (as we learn they have licensed a bull fighter,) and let it remain a beautiful monument to Folly.