Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-10-30
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FORT SMITH.
a City with Bright Future-Hcr Rapid
Growth and Advancement.

a City with Bright Futurs-Hcr Rapid
Growth and Advancement.
Correspondence of the Gazette.
FoRr SMITH, ARK, Oct. 2S.-Thc fact
that this city is destined TO be placed IN
direct connection with Texas at no dis
tant day tends to make brief dcScrip
ton of the place of interest TO the numer-
Gus readers of THE GAZETTE in the Lone
Star state. Situated as it is right ON the
border of the Indian territory, IL would
naturally lead a stranger TO believe that
II is what is usually termed ga
hard place. whor the facts are
that It is one of the most
quiet and orderly cities of It's size in the
United States.
In 1850 its population was not quite
$500, while it Is now estimated on fair
basis to he a city OF 10000 population,
and ITS growth in the past four years has
been miraculous. During that period the
nam business street, which Is 10 feet
wide, has been lined on both sides with
magnificent two aud three-story brick
buildings, and new residences can be
counted by the hundreds. The town has
as nnc watcr-works As can be found in
any city, good street railway, gas works,
electric light, ice factory, the lars-
est cotton seed oil mill in the
state with gin aud compress attached,
and is the terminus of TWO ralrOads--
the ST. Louis & san Francisco and the
Little Rock & Fort Smith. Steamboats,
also do q good business between here and
Fort Gibson, /. Il. The first mentioned
railroad company is building 4 bridge
over the Arkansas river at Van Buren,,
four miles from here, aud when IT Is
finished, the road will, in all probability,
be Immediately extended through the
Indian Territory, direct TO Paris, Tex,
thus giving Fort Smith direct connection
4 with all important cities IN that state.
| The road passes directly through the inn
mcnse coal fields adjacent TO Fort
( Smith and also though some tihs pinercs
and N good farming country. The Frisco
company has thirty acres of ground right
In the suburbs Of the city on which ma
chimes shops are 10 be erected.
/ The public school facilities OF the place
are unsurpassed in the Union. Two mag
/ niacent brick school buildings are just
4 being finished up, in addition TO tive
others previously erected, and the schoo
( board has upwards OF 100000 now OF
hand, BESIDES about 800 town lots TO sell
/ This magnificent school fund IL the gift o
l a generous government winch AZ inc las
session OF congress donated TO the city
for the benefit OF her free schools The
abandoned military reservation adjoining
the city. One Of the new school build
ings is for colorcd children exclusively
while the other three are for whites, an'
the place can furnish enough children o
school age 10 FIJI them all comfortably.
This is also an important cotton mar
trtI asI =,
80, 900 bales the present season.
: The United States court
another big Institution for Tn
town, and is continually IN session
being the largest criminal court 10 tn
United States. II costs Uncle Sam a vas
: amount Of money 70 run II, which is dit
: tributed among thousands OF people VIII
Z attend court US witnesses, jurors, etc.
The books Of the assessor show tha
the wealth OF the place has more tina
doubled In the past three years, and, con