Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-07-24

The following extract (Which we
think is cut from the San Antonio
Express and letter were sent to 1.-THE
Secretary OF the Board of Trade" of
Fort Worth, and have been handed to
The GAZETTE:
DEAR SIR-The inclosed clip from
q Texas paper. II these are facts,
Texas is my objective point. I'm
looking for place with "a BOOM" /
want to assist in "booming" it, and
"bOomh with it. How ID Fort Worth
as q business center--as manufacture
ing and jobbipg point2 II you have
any immigration literature, facts and
figures dealing with your city's past,
please mail to my address. Respect.
fully, Gro. H. Cross.
THE COMING BooM--GET READY.
Within the next two years Texas will be in
the midst of the greatest boom ever enjoyed
ny any state in the federal union. Every In
dicauon points unerringly to this fact Tex, :
this year has raised an abundance of bread.
| stuiis for her own consumption, and to
| spare. Ia cotton, cattle, wool and other
| products she Will sell TO outsiders over one
| hundred million dollars worth OF products,
for leash on The nall" This will make in
the Deighborhoud Cf nifty dollars, "cash
money TO every man, woman and child
sums of foreign money are being
brought into the STATE aud expended In rail-
roads and other public enterprises. Manu-
tacturers are turning this way, bringing
| their money to the Lone Star state. Dallas,
| Fort Worth and Waco ali eady have large
estaDli' hmenls, which win make thems Ives
| iavorably felt In the prosperity OF those
| places, Money Ia coming for large inves I.
| ments IL real property for specu alive pur-
poses. There is more inquiry coming, more
| attention now turned toward Texas than
| there has been b fore in years, II ever and
| the pouring OF this mighty stream of money
| through the communities of the state must
! make mighty boom of prosperity.
| Cities and sections OF the state will contend
| for the greater share OF the benefits OF this
era OF prosperity, and the most enterprise g,
| the me- 81 progressive, the hardest working,
| viii Take the lions part. Capital for invest
ment viii not seek the dead, the decaying or
ne batting city or town. II viii not bury
| Itself where there IL no prospect for exhuma-
tion. The community that SHOWS spirit OF
| enterprise and progression will attract IL and
make II part OF itse't. Natural advantages
| Will count for naught. II those already in
| possession ignore the teachings of the com.
monest business sense and the experience OF
every community that has prospered since
the world began.
AS business man, Mr.. Cross will
admit the ineillciency OF "immigra.
ton literature" to truly paint the ad-
vantages Of any town or country. We
can only extend him cordial invita-
ton TO 'come and see" AS he would
do, anyhow, before locating. Here he
win find city of nearly %, 900 popula-
ton grown up in very few years, the
best jobbing point in Texas, the
crossing OF the two main trunk
lines OF railroad In the state.
the termini of two other trunk
lines, and the terminus OF an.
other trunk line just begun to New
Orleans. Here also he will find
wholesale houses whose annual bust.
ness ruus up into the millions, the
finest public-school system In Texas,
water, sewerage, miles of street. car
track, the most progressive and plucky
people ever gathered together into a
city-and all the elements of present
prosperity and future growth.
Here also he will find wei.
come; this is the home OF boom.
era and the pivotal point OF booms.
II Mr.. Cross Will "come and see" he
will stay II he wants home with q
boom to 1t, and II lie is boomer he will
be thrice welcome to the booming city
OF Fort Worth,