Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-01-07
COLORADO CITY.


Wonderful Growth Of q New -Mstri-
sosisf--strange Action Of n siookinsn.
COLORADO, CRY, Jan. 4, 1883.
New energy and enterprise is giving
our city quite cheerful appearance,
and the new year has already wit
messed the construction Of score or
more houses OF various dimensions and
for various purposes. In fact. they ac-
tually build houses here faster than
they can ship paint 70 paint them
with. A gentleman called my atten-
tion TO three or four buildings to-day
/ standing on ground that four or Ave
days ago presented TO the gaze only u
bleak hillside. Now the noise of young
America resounds inside their walls.
| There IL positively no indications Of
any cessation In the rush after homes
and property here, and no place in the
west Is experiencing such boom.
Every train unloads numbers OF
strangers seeking to know the why's
and whercfores of this prosperity. IT
is easy OF solution. This is emphati-
eally stock country and destined to
be ever and nothing more. 1t is
large country out here, amazingly
vast, containing plenty of room for
thousands Of head of stock
provided men will expend only
a pittance to obtain water
by digging for It, Cattle men, or some
of them, will take the chances Of a
drouth and refuse TO spend little
money in sinking wells who will 90 to
town and spend double that amount
in dissipation. More economy and the
use of artificial means to supply Tho
wants unprovided for by nature is
what the successful stockmEn of the
future has got to learn.
Mr.. John Mckenzie, one Of Colorado's
young and live business men, has been
on visit t. southeast Texas for some
weeks, where, learn, he resigned his
bachelorhood and will be subject for
the congratulations Of bis friends upon
his return. ''Sich IL lifeu even in the
far Western town. Every few days
some OF the boys drop out of sight for
season and suddenly turn up pre-
pared to give hded to the scriptural in
Junction TO multiply and replenish
etc" The GAZETTE and the whole
'out-iit will join me in good wishes to
the happy pair.
A little boy of Mr. Kessler's came |
near being drowned to-day while play
Ing in the river.
Something of II sensation was created !
here yesterday among stock men. The |
facts are about rs follows, the names /
of the parties | am pledged not to |
divulRe: A gentleman who had been |
shipping sheep TO this market during |
last year, landed here not many DAYS |
since with n new importation, and |
after putting them with flock he was
ranging not fur from town, found he |
was possessed of 400 head of good |
Spanish merino ewes, with some fine
bucks. He seemed Ia have become
tender-iooted, in fact, taken
with the acknowledgements in its
most malignant shape and that all at
once, for two days after landing, he !
came to town aud after deploring the
condition OF the grass, and pcturing
such a stock famine as has never ex-
listed, or never will, he offered the EN-
tire flock to me for $1,000. AS / had
just invested all my loose change i'm
mining interest we didn't trade. |
demonstrated with him. told him there
was no necessity why he should make
such sacrifice; but my remonstrance
went UNDECIDED and buyer was not
long wanting who snapped up the
made small payment
with the agreement to pay the balance
to-day and take possession to-day. The
seller pleads that he was ao,,-conpos-
mcntiS and proposes to vitiate the
contract. Thus IL stands. Litigation
may he the means of determining the