Alamo Express [San Antonio, TX], October 22, 1860
What has become of the twenty-five gas posts the city purchased? Are they upright or horizontal? do they burn gas or do they generate gas in Aldermen? The facts are these, the posts belong to the city, and have been paid for at the rate of $25 per post, but there is scarcely enough of them to decorate the front door of every city father and dispense light throughout the entire city, and altho’ a petition signed by all the tax payers on Commerce street desiring that the posts should attain an upright posture and give light in that part o the city, for which they were intended, yet the jealous city dads stick to it that they are the exclusive right to do all the gasing for the city, even if no light results, and frown down any attempt on the part of the Regular Gas Co., to infringe on their sacred and inviolable rights.