Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-01-27
MITCHELL COUNTY.
Destructive Prairie Fires Observation-Disclosures
Notes--Personai Mentisn.

I Destructive Prairie Fires Rsging--Dusiuos
1 Note.--Personai Menfisn.
| correspondence Of the oazette.
Colorado, January 25.-Praifie fre-
Z are PLAYING havoc northwest ot TINS
( point. Besides the considerable
4 amount of territory burnt over west OF
4 here. including "A large part Of Slaugh-
| ter's range, which ! reported you some
/ davg since, | have now TO record that n
very disastrous fire il in ptgress
north and northwest of here. Just
who will be the losers by this fire, ]
cannot tell yet, rs have been unable
( to get the exact locality. The atinos-
4 phere here is full Of smoke by day and
/ a pillar of fire Is observable by night
/ Num- Brothers, and parties in their
I neighboriood, will probably suffer
I The fire spoken of to you last week
/ was the result Of the dropping sparks
\ from an engine on the 7. 4 Il. II. r.,
! gentlemen having witnes led the be-
! ginning. The one raging now ] sup
| pose Is the result of carelessness by
! some camper.
Why does not the legislative body Of
/ Texas enact laws TO protect her graz
/ ing lands from accidents caused by
the flying sparks from the railroad en-
/ Gines? Other states have done so and
efiectually avoided such disasters.
Some solon who desires to merit ana
obtain the good wishes OF stockmen
throughout the state should draft a
bill compelling all railroads running
through her boundaries TO provide
their engines with spark cxtinguish-
ers, and make Ii Il line OF
thousand or so dollars for II nom
compliance with such requirements 1t
would thus he the means Of saving II
large amount of property to her citi-
Zens and il would be right. AS II is,
every man who happens to range his
cattle along the line of railroad has
his property at the mercy OF that road
without any remedy in case the road
burns the range. Other grazing coun-
trys compel such measures ut the
hand of roads working through them
and those states are not harrassed 10y
such accidents.
MIR. Roe, of the firm of Elliott &
J Roe, lumbermen, who make their
: headquarters at Fort Worth, has been
, sojourning here for II few days. Mr..
w. III. Snyder, "uncle Pete, who has
been attending to this firms matters
here, has concluded TO Withdraw and
devote his time TO supplying the wants
VI blIt IduNb6utily ~ llAlSiit0S Nv ~ ~
well fitted for. Uncle Pete and
, Messrs. Mckenzie Bros. are the boss
. ru.ters ia this line in all Colorado
r The general, though young in years
g issomewhat ancientin his knowledge oi
/ what the COW punchers need w. III
Il Snyder Il Company know the value o
y printers ink iudlciously applied, anC
| hence the Stock Journal Publishing
q Company will be called on for liberia
h space in the columns of its papers, L
e be filed with "nds" by them IA sool
: az the trowel and the square anC
1 compass has done their work on TN
Y new brick building now going up.
i Mr. NJ. NJ, Francis Of your city form
= erly, Is here opening up n stock 0
stoves, tinwarc, etc. He too, vii
reccollect you and yours with bushes
\ when he has finished receiving hi
d goods.
l. Later Since writing the above tier
l. IN regard to the fire raging here now,
V learn that it is much more destructiy
ar than at first supposed IT is ragln
II not more than five miles north of her
and extends, no one knows, how far /
that direction. Is has destroyed
great deal OF the range on the hea,
waters Of Bull Creek and has roacho
M 1hr anu destroyed tnc grass OUT I'm
of around Tnhoka Lake. II Is imposs
AT BILE 20 determine exactly how niue
he damage and who are the losers by Tia
IL misfortune. 1t is said that stock wi
v have to be moved somewhere, and Il
GO question, n serious one, too, is whe
,d Will they move TO.
ld Mr.rom Davis, a gentleman who is
he present engaged in experimenting IL
VI. erection of his large storehouse ~
le wool warehouse here, has just return,
e. from trip 10 Marlin and other poin
OF east of here. The public will he /
ed formed through the columns OF yo
NJ papers of the opening of this gent
of mans stock when his buildings 4
he finished.
IS Mr. j. s. Carter of Tulare Cit
he California, left here few da
ter ago for home and will il
| Il medlateiy start back with 1000
er- 5000 head Of sheep. Mr.. Carter W
he well pleased with Colorado and Wei
ity so much as to come back prepar
ale to stay. He reports Tulare count
IL California, rs extremely dry and We
Ich of grass.