Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-12-20

*. VI. NanIandt, ESQ President Democrat
Publishing Company. Fort worth, TEX
DEAR Sm--t have been a reader of the
Daily GAZETTE for some time, and am
strongly impressed with It's makeup,
"git up and gip' style, as well as It's zeal
for the present and future OF Fort Worth.
For these reasons am constrained to adj
dress you, an entire stranger To me, on Il
subject which deem of vital Importance
Go your city
The civilization OF our day owes It's
greatness TO the trinity agriculture, com
merce and manufactures. Texas, although
an empire within itself, will be no eXcep-
ton to this rule Deprived Of these, the
beautiful cities which she Is now dcdicat-
ing TO generations stu slumhering in the
matrlx OF the future, will wther and die.
Fort Worth, In common with all the cities
Of the world does not enjoy all of
these trinitarian attributes in pro-
fusion. Situated AZ she Is In
one of the richest agricultural
sections Of the state, what ls her first
duty Manifestly, TO foster and establish
such manufactures AS will furnish her
own citizens with profitable employment,
and at the same time cooperate in de-
vCloping the agricultural resources OF the
country tributary to her.
This step will enable her to enjoy the
benefits of the two most important indus
tries Of the world, viz; Agriculture and
manufactures. The third, commerce, she
can never expect to enjoy to the fullest
extent. Her geographical position for
bids IL. You ask, what can we manulac.
ture? | reply, you have brand new oil
mill which has never done any work, we
will suppose, because 1t could get no seed
to work on. How shall we obtain the
seed without n loss2 Simply by building
and operating in connection with your oil
mill cotton gin Of sufficient capacity to
supply your mill with seed Then buy the
cotton in the seed, or gin for the
farmer as you may think best. A
cotton gin on the plan would
suggest was built here this season. 1t is
capable of ginning one hundred 50O-pound
bales in twenty-four hours. This gins
fifty tons of seed daily. To operate the
gin, run the engine and bale the cotton
requires the work of nine men. The
company which owns this Gin has decided
to build an oil mill TO work up the seed
another year Quantities of seed cotton
are shipped to this gin on the cars. The
rates made by the Gould lines on seed
cotton TO this gin are ~ cents per 100
pounds foe scycnty-ilye miles, AS 80 per
cent. Of the whole cotton crop is lint, II
follows that 1900 pounds before ginning
will make lS0-pound bale. This seed
cotton is mostly bought at local stations,
from which the rate TO New England or
Atlantic ports Is much greater than from
Fort Worth TO the same places. You say,
what II IL is3 Simply this: The freight
on $50 pounds from local stations to the
Fort at 7ac amounts TO Just SIC per bale,
while the rate from the Fort to where this
cotton Is spun, may be 81 less per bale
than il is from the local station to the
same place. Now, the seed must come
to you to be crushed by shipping 1t be-
fore ginning You get the lint hauled from
the local station TO the Fort for 81 cents
per bale less than nothing, in other words
the rate ON your seed for your oil mill is
reduced to the extent OF the difference be-
| tween the local and through rate on the
bale cotton.
These remarks are made simply 10y way
of illustration, and the name Eort Worth
is used instead of Dclnson. This has no
bearing on the facts. In my humble opln-
ion, this Is the only plan by which Fort
Worth can control any considerable share
OF the cotton crop, and mt the same time
successfully carry on manufacturing II
you coincide with this view, shall be
glad to hear from you at an early day.
Very respectfully, G. H.. MERRY,