Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-11-06

eral large and substantial brick building,
! have boon greeted, Among the builder,
are Col. J. q. James, president Ian Han
die National bank; Green q Stadnlc
/ dealers IN hardware aud agricultural i'm
| plcmcnts, Nnd contract has beer
let for The building, az once
of three large brick store
rooms on ohio avenue. the temporary
frames gradually disappearing and brick
blocks taking their place. cur new saS,.
600 courthouse ~ nearly completed and
VIII compare favOrnbly with any In thu
state for She money Invested.
Work on the dam on the Wichita river h
! progressing rapidly, Mai, Frnrman,
president OF the Water Power company,
expects 60 have the works completed IN 4
few weeks and the major Is now Ia cor.
lrespondcncc with mill mon, who
I propose erecting "A Zinc mill
On The banks OF the Wichita. our
county Is fast hlllng up With the "Graug.
ers," the large pastures are being sold
out and cut up into small farms and sold
Co farmers at reasonable prices aud ON
! easy terms Many who iarmcd here last
/ year ON shares made enough To purchase
land ol their own aud win farm ON their
own account IN the future. Those same
people would no doubt be claSsed as
"panpcrs" by some people this time last
year. as their means wom very lin.
ited Wichita county has room
for great many such Upauporsn aud
bids them welcome, Speaking OF IN,
settlement " this county Inv farmers, moro
farmers wagons can bu seen ON our streets
this fan In one day than would be- aeen IN
TWO weeks last fall, We now have three
hardware and agricultural Implement
stores aud each one carry good stocks,
which Is good evidence that the plough
and the hoe are here 10 stay. Two years
ago this county was classcd hy the ma
lority as "strlctly grazing land Now il
Is haM 10 ina man hut
what viii ten you "Wirhlm coun.
iW is farming county" hot
many VIII say the counties west aud north
Of hero are 'no good Tor farming, /" ute.
The wrlter firmly believes In what flhs
GA2Ertt has been telling It's readers Tor
some time back. That Is "rhat thor Is
lust as good land yet unocGupicd IN Tex.
rs as any OF that that Us, and he aleo be.
llcyes that thu laud should be- free Tor the
actual settler (at "a fixed prlcc), and not
tied up 10y lease, which virtually takes IL
off the market, Tor who iS he That cares
TO take his family and settle
on land, or even apply for land, that
Other parties have control VI, As long
as the lease syStcm is Ia force there ccr-
tninly VIII be no danger OF our people
being crowded into The sea. II Our state
officials had tried for years to form law
or land policy that would keep out the
actual settler aud keep hnck The settle.
mcnt of the state, they could not have
found anything that would accomplish
their purpose better or morn cffcctual
than the lease law. This D. not
only the opinion pt the writer, hut
of the majority ~ chs ponple
OF West and Northwest Texas, aud thc
noble hight 1llE GAlElu hns made for
the people on this question has msdc the
paper the ilyoute over Tho territory 10
reaches
Nc. H. CmddocE Of Dallas shows his
faith To- the future or our town hy pur-
chasing % brick torc-room ON seventh
street The purchase Wns made To-day.
Mir I lalonlok the seller
Mr.. Julouirk and family have lust
returned from Now York, where thvy
spcut tho summer While thore
Mr. , purchased hcoyy stocks Of goods,
Which he win lNyo on salo here by the
l6th Inst. lie win occupy two OF his
brick stores ON seventh street, Iiirstock
consists of hardware, qucynsWaro, crock
cry etc. More good evidence that tho
country is beiug citlod &C. thal The doug.
horns' are "gong West
We have room hero for good iuruituic
house we hayu bul one and should have
competition
There was an effort made here to got
mp % corner un brick Ccunin
parties bought up an the brick
Ia the yatds and then put 40 the
price, thinking they had smc.ruoueh
bonanza, but our people WON'T stand any
"corurw' They arranged 10 get an the
brick wanted &C Henrietta, 100 fair prices,
aud will haul 10 here hy rail, hence our
would.hc "comcr" gentlemen win myr
their brick and little experience. which
may be NJ value 10 them III the future.
A great many Amoricanilod Germans
are moving To this county They mnbu
good citizens aud are The best of farmers.
OCCASIONAL,
Advice to Mothers,