Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-07-14

they reached the town OF Alvarado
Purchasing Of Messrs. Bledsoe, Sparks
and DIR. Archley, they proceeded al
once to lay off town aud began the
| sale of lots.
l.. ID. Mercer, who had been mer
J chan in AiyaradO for q number Of
years, was appointed land agent foi
| the company and he has acted in that
capacity ever since.
II would be impossible to tell just
what has been the result OF the build.
ing Of railroads through Alvsrado and
how much money 1t has caused to be
expended here that would have sought
otner channels.
When Alvarado was first laid off In
| So one-half acre lots sold for ten dol
lars each, and now business lot
27xl20 goes far into the hundreds. So
much has been said snd written con-
corning the advancement in real es-
tate consequent upon the building OF
railroads that we become indifferent
with regard TO II, but the comparison
Of the above figures will serve to i'm
press us anew with the advantages Of
these helps, ev-I. II we look at them
only from a standpoint OF dollars and
cents.
With the advantages Of a sandy To-
cation and other favorable surround
ings, that portion OF Alysrado about
the NJ, X. d I. depot has
been building up all the while un-
iii now there are about twenty busl.
ness houses, many OF them commodi-
Gus and well arranged brick structures
that would do credit even to the city
where THE GAZETTE olives and moves
and has it, being.n
The first OF these
suBsTA NTIAL NJ sIxEss HOUSES
was build by b. J.. Head. 2oYSO feet
Afterwards, Messra. Hodge d Son.
Moses Barnes and Others built houses
Of the same style on adjoining lots, all
Of which present IA substantial and
solid appearance, and impress the
travelling stranger ar well AS the resi-
dent citizen that there il even a
still brighter future ahead for Alyara-
do. The hillside adjoining this nor.
ton Of the town has 1een dotted over
witltl beautiful land well huilt,,resi-
dences, and now the Gross tlmbers-
that was once considered too poor for
cultivation and too sickly 10 live i'm IL
fast becoming changed into gardens.
vineyards and comfortable homes.
An
ELEGANT NEW SCHOOL
house buiI, n, rho r:o,hi. o,..h
Itsc,n,e nas iust 80 ~ ~ W a'' H.,
iii, ,,a,,i,,, 80, 'o'i'i''e'eu III
Aho,,, 10 D,,'i,. h.I .,,.,
and this hn No. pop,,' i nav vesu enfolleu'
,noda,. 81. "a '., u w aooo' lI
,vbo no. .,;5 "iu su,tJuiu'ng Pup'ls
H.. ~ '..s''',..,, ~ t't NY oVuo'i'
church n,,rno.es NV anw aan"nin In ~,
dasirj,,,t ~, i,'.D,,t9 ans "'n"i'iiha'i"n
" " " ,m1n pn 80
Whom ,,,,' NJ, mnon w,
denot waa Inca1od 40 sar - ,ea ,,'s
business ,or,,n,,o S H. M 'o', .ne
began ,n hniid nn ' ~ w." anu .liey
,y,re not in,.ros,a,, 80 muo
that ,i,o,, nnniJ LII, 'a ~ ueiis,oh
tnwns n,., H. I'LL oa nm,n .ne TWO
ha,nn aho,, Wy u, ,t',,' ueVwecn tneil
Ij,,is. a., vi hii'e-
ut,ered H., - s 20 s' ~ eua. Mhht Mas
and na,. ~ vac W o.u"lie reality
,Ja,os 80 ,s s"v sap pe,Meei, .he TWO
vii Hnd h.,. 'e0.uIus unu lhe future
IRON, nna 'na ' sioup VI nouses
mar oh, $50, w 49,, ~, u,nr', anu tne
rnad can,., lii ~ .',s .nrlNing raii-
where b n n,n, Ii.a w. nnu u nome
ings NJ M. ", " ' onJvs .he pless-
49, Viz IN y. w invest ms money
viii hava ~ 49, nnh llcn returns,
chnnua .,,a T., '.o'h wh'un 10
stra..t,,ar H., '"m Nv .,.ne' point.
deno,s 10 ,," oonneu'ihB ,he Two
wand ms, "o'ua. Heeu, ana
from the r9 ,,,nion n al ,, investment
more nna n,nra r.,,S "nu mnu'u become
.'1ie "nu more reiluneralive as Alva'
This ri, b,'i, ~ ",u Popuiution
Worth division OF the Misaon,, paai,i''
railroad, their round .honse il locatad
here and about tiftv men are reo',Is.
boarders. beside the vast nn,,,,ar 81
transient train m,n tradera ,r,,,alia,..
and tourists who arr, oontinnalIv con-,
In, and ',ni,, ~. vn.'uua''S coni-
have something Pa do ali ,h. ,,,t,I,'
The entire line for the conn,a,a . no
commodation of both towns nesI n.,.
he more than three. fonr,hs of n"'
which would Inc n cons ,Iarai,i, =, my,
the builders sInce ,ha s,,a 10y nY,, 10
length of line would IA. H. $3.50 80 , .h'.
IL would be- over one ,wlc as a ' "raa, 'p"'
Alyarado I'm, one ,,raat ."6 S, go.
need. and one that NJ w;Ihin ~, s.',,.,
of her people If they are onlY in'
pressed with lis Importance thor
0ugh system of free schools whare
each child within the limits or ,ha
town and those upon the surround,ns
farms can get a practical educa,,nn
and while each child can attend tba,
house that is most accessible tha en ,In
system might be under one sn r narIn
tendent, and the cost nj II rrea'I, ~, :, ,ua
sened. e' -"
pRor. II. I.uAt,u.N
maae n ,r,n m r.,,,, 49,
the iays y, , rai,,ossu 'n,s place he tore
adyertIsemens e ~ ,Na ,, anu seeing the