Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-10-08
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Nearly every town in Texas enjoys, or
affects to enjoy, its periodical boom"
\ little stimulus IN business, little
more than the ordinary amount OF build
ing, thcerectionof some publicediHce the
improvement of one ormore streets, or the
location of factory, however dlminutiye,
is seized upon by the local press, or the
correspondent OF some metropolitan
journal and hcmldcd abroad as an I'M
procedcutcd "boom." Fort Worth has
never had, or affected to possess, a boom.
\ boom is something sudden or phcuom-
enal-somethmg startling or unexpected.
Nothing OF this sort has ever transpircd
in Fort Worth since its earliest DAYS:
nothing OF mushroom nature has
characterized the business or progress
of Fort Worth. To the stranger unac.
quaintcd with the enterprise and
progress of the city, it's growth may
appear phenomenal and unusual but 1t
does not impress our people that way.
They regard it as but the legitimate re-
suit of the efforts put forth to accom-
plish certain results. 1t is true Fort
Worth has made more rapid progress in
substantial growth and business than
any city in the state, but the develop
mcnt has been steady, certain and con-
slant. 1t has never been ftiul or fever
ish. Buildings have never been erected
that tenants were not waiting to occupy
them as soon n completed There has
never been any line of business that
was overdone or crowded, but in
every line there has been healthy de.
mand for an addition in that particular
branch of trade before il was supplied
The result is shown in the healthy con-
dition of the business of the city and the
entire absence of business failures.
In less than half decade Fort
Worth has trebed in population
and taxable values; has con
structed the most solid and substantial
system of street improvements; the most
comprehensive system of sewerage the
most complete system of water works,
covering a greater area, and affording
moro perfect protection against fire than
any city In the state enjoys. 1t has the
most complete system of street railways,
and two of the largest telephone ex
changes in the South IL has incontesti-
Bile proof of Il large local business, in the
mileage of railway sidngS, In the state.
Nothing more clearly demonstrates the
business OF place than the railway iacil-
tiles required for its transaction, and IN
this particular Fort Worth stands pre-.
emincnty at the head of the procession.
And all this has never caused the Fort
WORTHLESS TO eNclaim 'boom.r AZ this
writing work is progressing on the Fort
Worth & New Orleans railway, line
which is to give the city adj.
dltoual connection with the rail
way system of the state, ana
TO open another field for the business
mon of Fort Worth 20 possess. The work
is being done by Fort Worth men and
with Fort Worth money, and has failed
70 create ripple OF excitement upon the
placid current of events. To almost any
other city, this would have been a
"boom." Fort Worth has responded 10
every demand made upon it, and has
never disappointed It's most sanguine
friend In any expectation The opening
of the new year will doubtless iind
another railway under construction 10
The Southwest, and whiie Il will acceler.
ate and stimulate business to some cx-
tent, there win be no "boom.n Only the
steady onward march at the head of the
procession, "marklng tlmer to which
other aud more prctcniouS cities win
strive in vain TO "kcep step" 1t Is the
solid nature and substantial character of
the city aud lis enterprises that has given
Fort Worth the reputation which il en-.
Joys, and attracted 10 Il the men of
energy, public spirit and enterprise, who