Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-09-08

pers of Sherman and the club from
Richardson, Dallas county. As the
contestants both have the reputation
of being fine players, large crowd
went out to see the game.
At no time within the past
three years has water for
family use been so scarce
as il Is now. The pure flowing springs
and wells in the valley near Branch
street furnish enough, however, TO
furnish town of 10000 inhabitants,
and water-wagons are busy distrib-
uting il among the citizens at reasona-
BILE rates. There is no danger of a
water famine.
y. M. Drye, Esq, came up from
Pilot Grove, twenty miles southeast,
and reports the cotton prospect very
gloomy indeed This section of coun-
try has become famous for both cotton
and wheat in past years, but while
the wheat crop was fine, the
hest estimate now made will not reach
over oue-fOurth to one-tifth of bale to
the acre. From the south the estimate
is little II any better, and to the west
of us the same discouraging news is
furnished. In the opinion of the best
farmers, a good rain within the next
few days and late frosts in the fall
would yet enable US to gather pretty
fair crop, but without these the pros
pect is that the farmers will be left
poor at the harvest, and all branches
of trade will suffer in consequence.
Just as we closed the
above sentence the office was
enliveEed by the presence of four of
the best fed and best looking gentle.
men in the city. Landlord l.. b. John
son, weight 90 pounds, Mai. A. Ful-
ton, 30 pounds, w. w. Walker, the
corpulent dude, 265 pounds, and John
Norton, 3l5 pounds, all doomed up on
the stage, and their coming rival,
Writ Brown, said in excited accents /:
Judge, Just look ee there; did you ever
see four of the kind before?p The
smallest man invited the others to
take walk, but we have no idea
where they went.
Thos. Forbes Jr., q prominent citi-
zen and cotton buyer of Sherman, re-
turned from the East last Thursday
While away he made arrangements
with insurance companies which are
not now represented i'm Texas to take
his business for the current season,
and il is said he secured rates about
one.half in amount what the compa-
MES now in the state consider them
selves able To take the risks for. This
will prove very important matter in
proportion TO the amount OF cotton
shipped from any given point. Some
thing like $4,000 bales were shipped
from Sherman last season; about 49,
600 the season before, and as much
Will he this season. Last night Mr..
Forbes started on second trip to the
Fast rs the representative of the other
cotton buyers here, the intent being to
secure for all here the cheaper insm
ance rates. In what are known as
standard cotton warehouses cotton
insurance rates are as low as one and
"A half per cent. In other places. com
presses, etc, the rates range from four
and half to six per cent. There are
but NO of the standard warehouses in
the state, one at Galveston and the
other being finished at Houston. The
increase in rates on cotton in Texas
was brought about by the enormous
losses occurring last year These ag-
gregated millions of dollars
and one insurance authority
/ told me that the aggregated
premiums ON all the cotton in the state
for ten years to come would not equal
the losses by fire last year, even il
those ten years We're exempt from all
/ loss. so the companies feel them
selves unable TO assume the risk with.
out increase in rates; and the cotton
buyers consider themselves charged
too much, hence they fly to any prom
lsed relief, Now companies operating
IN Texas through agents are compelled
70 pay state, county and city taxes.
The insurance agents say to their GUS
toners that TO seek insurance from
companies not regularly doing BUSH
ness here is for the assured TO take an
undue risk in collecting ii loss occurs.
as such insurance can be sued for ONLY
at the home of the company.
In Canada or anywhere the
company may be domiciled, and thi.
gives not few pause in placing their
risks.
Doubtless the absence of water.
works at any given point operates in
determining the rates at that point.
II this does not bear upon cotton, IL
certainly does on other property.
Here at Sherman, for instance, there
Is no system of water-works. They
have an excellent steamer i'm the lire
department aud good and numerous
wells. But let one of Sherman's large
business blocks or public buildings be-