Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-04-08
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Fort Worth, Tex, April a.-Tbe
land explorer enters Texas nv wey al
TexarKana. His trains slons with
halt lis length each side of a smine;ng
sign, ON which appears IN LARGE letter,
state Lane. a whole day of steady
.ourneying westward Il in order hs. |
lore he begins 10 get glimnses of the.
20 MN, promised land. For two or |
Ihree hours the scenery Il limited Ia
Vistas III the piney woods, with fire.
luent saw-mills. Then comes farm
ing country, beating all the evidences
u Old settlement. 81 two routes The
Texas d Pacific conveys the traveller
TO Fort Worth. The main line makes
rs detour 10 the south Immediately
after leaving Texarkana and turns
iue west from the very respectable
ana slaid Town OF Marshall, set upon
MI, approached by red clay roads,
which are appalling IN condition Just
alter heavy rain. Beyond Marshall
ana as Tar As Longview. there Is con-
Siderable broken country, some of il
cleared, but puch Of it in the primi.
1--we post.oak state Rolling prairie
farms furnish the landscape after
l.ongvew is passed. Mineola and
Terrell are large towns, and Big Sandy.
Wills Point, Lawrence and Mesquite
are thriity-luoking stopping places In
the midst Of weli-tenced .ielGs. Few
cattle me. 10 be seen. The land is too
valuable for grazing.
THE OLD 1N TEXAS.
Two hours after supper, through
more farming country, With the build.
lngs OF more recent construction and
The fences newer than those east Of
Dallas-evidence Of later settlement
bring the explorer TO Fortworth Just
past nighi-fall by the other Texss "
Pacific route, the Transcontinentai
which Is due west from TeNarkana 10
Whitesbor0 and then south to Fort
Worth, the same time is made. BY
This route the traveller sees North Tex.
as. From breakfast time until dark
he rides through Al country, the coudi.
tons of which are calculated To give
the impression that there is little room
left for new corners. The soil il for
the most part the famous "back
which even the exhausting
cotton crop can hardly affect. Save
the broken friDges along the streams,
every acre Is under fence, aud the pro-
portion Ofthe untitled land is insig.
niiicant. The stops for ilourishiug
towns and cities are frequent. Street
cars stand waiting at tile depots. I'm.
posing public buildings and school
houses attest the wealiHand revenues
of the country. Paris, Bonham and
Sherman present the evidences of
lf.rnfe,s nf.,a.,,,,, p.-n;
RE, Honey Grove, Clafk.ville and half
q dozen other towns have hegun to
put on city airs. 1t is no country for
the immigrant. These farms are held
all the way from SIS to $50 an acre.
THE FORT.
The hour of S y. III. is fitting one
to arrive AT Fort Worth, for this is ,he
Texas city which never sleeps. The
census OF 1850 gave ii the population
of good sized village. About that
time the Texas and Pacific, pushing
westward reached 'Arhe Fort" as il Is
still known in c.mnlon- parlance, and
n growth set in which has been ga
rapid that the legitimate uses OF the
night have been forgotten. Probably
this wakefulness Is just IA well, fol
transient arrivals increase faster than
the hotels do, and every evening
the harrassed clerks wrestie with ia,
problem OF finding beds enough TO 20
round. Single rooms are impossibl,
luxuries. OF all Texas cities this takes
the palm for livellness and peculiar
combination Of metropolitan and from
tier character. The street cars lun un
Ill midnight, stop two hours and In Ell
a,t, lNt,.,. -
chants are abed the two long business
streets, which run parallel from the
railroad u mile and half to the bluff
overlooking the Trinity ,areabla2e witt
lights from the still open shops. Or
the main thoroughfare one OF the mos
conspicuous structures Is 1.-THE White
Elephant" The sum of $27, 900 ha'
been laid out in mirrors and interior
decorations to make the cowboy fee
NJ home, as he takes high-priced drink.
over the massive counter. Behind til,
saloon there is abilliard hail as large n:
any in st. Louis. Adjoining Is res
g lance Down tie broad, richly ear
Sstad stair.case streams n Hood of lipht
}rn,,, the eecond floor
'iN'' NJ macy GAMnoLIER.
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NO closed ooors iiulie Wy eiiIA "
chips ana me monotone VI Tue 'o'''e''e
roller as ne sings'
Round ana fouh p .he .i,,le Dali goes
Low, even, ths plack wins,
All paii, ana mere we rnri hgaini
a dime, quarter, nan, uoiiar'
Everything goes IN Texas.
me dusty boot " 'ne oomouS T rlnf.
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