Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-03-25
CORSICANA.
ITS Central Position In q Rich County
of Wonderful Fertility.
Dormant Capacity Awaiting the Touch
OF Active Pluck.
What II Has Achieved and Its Hone
for the Future.

| before 10 auVance tile interests or Fort
Worth, it IL, with its great accessions
of brains, capital and enterprise, in
position to advance the interests of
every city and community in the state
The interests OF Fort Worth are no
longer local. The splendid exhibition
of pluck and enterprise made by its
leading men have widened and ex-
tended its influence and interests until
to-day they are Identical with those of
the state, and will at no distant date
be co-eXtensive with those of the
| Southwest
The GAZETTE has not only "kept up
with the procession but has led II.
steadily extending its sphere, until now
it is read and appreciated lin the cities
and towns and over the length and
breadth of TIE state. 1t probably has
the largest circulation OF any Amer
| lean paper in Mexico, and the end is
not yet.
In assisting to exercise its functions
az metropolitan journal, your CORES.
pendent recently had the pleasure of
of Corsicaua, and was surprised TO find
so many real advantages lying dor
mant, requiring but a little of the steam
and yitalizing energy of the Fort Worth
sort to cause many enterprises, which
would he of great value to the city, to
| spring in active being.
! Cursicana Is admirably located ge-
graphically aud otherwise, being sit
uated in one of the most fertile dis
tricts of the state, distant about sixty
miles from any important town. 1t Is
| the county seat of Navarro, one of the
best counties in the state, possessing u
varied soil, ranging from black waxy
to light sandy loan, the lstter well
adapted TO the culture offruit and veg
etables, and rural population equal
to the most thickl y-settled countries
| in the state. 1t is Il well watered cOun-
| try-streams, springs and easily-cou-
structed tanks, atiording an abundant
supply of excellent water.
For railroad communication the city
| has the Houston u Texas Central. az
| fording communication with Calves
! ton, New Orleans and most of the inn
| portant cities of the state in the South,
| and access North TO sherman, Deni-
son, Kansas City, st. Louis and the
| Eastern cities.
The Texas & st. Louis railway mar
row gauge crosses the II. ~ T. G.. rail
road here, giving direct connection
with Waco and other important points
| Southwest, and with Cairo, ST Louis,
Chicag, and Eastern points 10
the Northeast. The opening OF
this road was of great adNan
| tage TO Corsicana, as it lowered
freight rates materially and cheapen-
| ed the cost of lumber ana other arti-
cles.
The city is located upon an eXcep-
tionslly good site, aif0rdipg natural
drainage which might be made perfect
by system of sewerage and possesses
within its limits sandy lCam as TO
soil which makes good natural streets,
| free from mud and susceptible of be-
ing made very fine ones with light
cost.
1t is regularly and handsomely laid
out with good, broad, spacious streets,
ornnmented with many really hand
some and imposing mansions, while
the business quarter is well and sub
stantally built. Beaton street, the
| principal business street, is one
hundred feet wide, and the appearance
of lis well.bult blocks impresses
stranger most favorably. Large stocks
and strong, reliable firms are 10 be
found in nearly all lines of business.
| In fact the citV IL remo nblv strong
in banking aid mercantile business
generally, its representative bankers
and merchants being The peers of those
of any other city, and who could by
united efforts accomplish wonders in
the way Of advancing the intere SITS of
their city. Their high standard of
commercial honor is well known by
all holding business relations with
them, both city and county being
known Us one of The promptest debt
paving communities i'm the State.
In manufacturing interests the
showing is NOT so strono. owinr prob.
ably to lack of proper water sIIpplv.
This want il hannilv about 10 he sun-
piled through tile pluck and enterprise
of Col. BRYAN Ct. Barrv and few
other active citizens i'hev own n
watershed covering a Iarge area of
land, and capnbIe of storing over BOO
600, 900 gallons of water being one of
-.he best and most surprising natural
reservoirs ever seen. Machinery of the
latest design has been nurchased and
il is fully eynected that within n few
months Corsicana will be able 20
boasts of an uneXcelled water supply
and model water.works. This shonId
give great mpetus to the citv gen
orally, and especially in the line of
manilfaa,urinc
There il n snIendiJ ononin, haro for
Touring mil foun6rv ;ns fsntory
etc. They wonld he s;,ra w with GOOD
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