Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-01-02
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ELEGANT STOCK OF JEWELL
CHARLES II. FRY'S
MAX ELsER's OLD STAND, HOUSTON STREE,
WATERFORD.
Not a Dead Town by any Means.
/ Her wealth and Population and some
statistical Information,
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specjaI,Csrrespondsnc OF tho Gazette
WEATifERFoRD, Dec. 81, 1882.
Your correspondent Is most az feea-
/ bly disappointed In the general APP
! pearance and business makeup OF
| this charming little village. He had
| heard that Weatherford was dead
town. and altogether most undesira-
! bic IA "a place TO live at, and unpromis-
/ ing rs place for business.
He finds the facts Just the reverse.
Weatherford is not dead, hut living,
thriving, prosperous, beautiful town
one of the prettiest and most inviting
/ in Texas, fairly built up and enjoying
trade that assures it's permanent
prosperity and gradual increase in
population and wealth. Nestled here
among the picturesque hills, 1t has
handsome residences, good water
corporate limits of Weatherford are
somewhat circumscribed, being a
square of 200 yards. The taxable
property within these limits is returned
this year at S750,000, while the sub
urban property, which is properly
counted in as city property, is esti-
| mated at about the same amount, thus
! making total valuation of 81 800, 900.
| The population, including the sub
/ uroan inhabitants. Is estimated by the
| city officers and others equally well
! informed, at minimum of 1900.
judging from a birds-eye view of the
city, taken from Oyster Heights, Ia
lofty peak, formed of ocean shells,
overlooking the city, the writer
( doubts not the estimate is rather be-
I low than above the mark.
There are about one hundred and
/ fifty business houses in the city-in-
! Guiding shops and ofilces-thrce flour
/ ing mills two grist mills, three cotton
/ gins, two national banks, four hotels,
I to-wlt The Carson & Lewis House,
/ one of the best III North Texas, and
very far superior in cleanliness, neat
ness, service and accommodations 10
anything in Fort Worth; the Sykes,
the Weatherford and the McFall.
There are nine churches, and the peo-
pie attend them, several private
| schools, a female academy and the
| Weatherford free graded school.
| The latter is conducted in the
( Masonic Institutes large, handsome
! brick structure that accommodates 800
/ pupils, which is about the number of
registered white children. A school
tax Of J per cent. is levied and ap-
| piled rs in other cities that have taken
! charge of their own educational affairs.
! The other public buildings consist OF a
| beautiful new court house and com
modious Jail, both built OF flint-lime
Grock OF variegated colors. The taxa
bic values of the county are given in
mt s3, l5i, Sp, which Is believed to be
I less than one-half the actual value.
I There is one newspaper here
the Times, conducted by Mr.. Smythe.
Your correspondent has met many
OF the lending citizens of Weatherford
and is pleased to refer TO them RS in
telligent, courteous and companion
able gentlemen. They have, without
exception, given your representative
a generous greeting, and spoken well
of the GAZETTE. The Hon. S. w. II.
ianham, congressman elect from the
| Eleventh District, resides here, and IL
| was source of infinite pleasure TO
your correspondent to find in him
native of his own heath, gentleman
OF tne highest social and hospitable
qualities, remarkable intelligence and
powers of intellect equal TO the exalted
station to which an appreeiative people
lits elevated him. He is gentleman
III every sense of that term gifted with
high manhood, and will make lis
mark in the councils of the nation.
selt-made,h albeit, he Is more in the
fnll stature of bright and glorious
manhood and his past is hut an earnest
Oh useful aud successful future.