Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-01-13
SOME LOCAL REMARKS.


Sam Jackson, with j. H. Brown & Co..
awe shipped ten carloads Of goods to-
day, and it wasn't a very good day for
business eithern
Mr. Woolfe, Of A. b. Weslow & Co. 81
think cotton is going to be higher, but
that is merely an opinion. The price is
fixed across the Atlantic and we can only
guess at 1t on this side"
Officer Rushing: al don't think that
half the number Of desperate murders
chat have occurred IN Austin would have
happened here before the police would
have nabbed the perpetrators
teacher; "The education Of the future
lies in the direction Of technical training.
Head and hand must be cultivated pari
passu, and l would be glad to see some
sort OF technical school established in
Fort Worth"
Mr.. J. S. Andrews: "Cattle in this
part of the country have suffered of
course, from the blizzard, but the death
rate won't amount to anything. The cold
wave, however, has caused temporary
lull in Transactions
A street-car driver: ave have to scrut
inize the coin paid for fares very closely
now to keep from being taken in on mutt
lated or punctured pieces. A late order,
however, authorizes us to accept nckels
with holes in them"
A lady: 81 like the description of that
new church that THE GAZETTE of Sunday
Icontained The reading-room and the
music hall are arst-rate ideas, and will
afford to many of eur young people, aud
not few older ones, a pleasant way
of passing many an hour that would
otherwise 20 by stupldly aud without
profit"
Mr.. John Howard of the Bee Line
lt'Kansas and Nebraska are getting hosts
of immigrants that ought to come t.
Texas Ticket agents in the Northern
and Eastern cities no longer get commits
sions for selling to parties coming thi'
way. Hence they keep Texas immigration
literature in the background, and do al
they can to turn the tide of travel in tn,
direction that will put money in theii
own purses.'
Mr.. w. f. Patterson, Sr; "Do YOU
know that Fort Worth Is getting to be
-four market of no mean Importance, anC
that last year, for the first time, our milf
furnished almost the entire local supply
With the introduction Of the patent role
machinery, we can make -four of the verl
finest quality, and as the failure in th'
wheat crop is almost an unheard of thins
in this region, what need do we have o
importing from the North2 Tarran
: stands in the front ranks of the wheat
growing countless
An Iowa man at the Plckwick: 81 an
told that improved land, equally as fer
; tile and productive as that in my own
state can be had at no great distance from
Fort Worth for Sl5 an acre. In Iowa l
is worth $50. Your farmers here can &c
, 80 cents a bushel for their corn, and the.
raise as much, or more, to the acre as We
do. We are glad to get % cents bushel
am told also that as high as 100 bushels
Of oats can be made to the acre, and tina
fifty and sixty bushels are common yield
am told this is the case all the wa.
from Austin to Fort Worth, and | hav
come to the conclusion that the peopl
have all learned 70 lie exactly alike o
> else your country is indeed gloriou
, grain region. Anyway, it leaves Iowa i
the shade so far that am going to NOV
. down here and live in Texas the rest @
; my life.n