Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-01
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G Fort Worth is founded not only in con
ditions which are causes of growth, but
in the effects of those causes operating
under the most adverse circumstances
The lst day OF January, 1884, saw Fort
| Worth bounding forward at repid rate
| OF progress that promised to place r.
soon, at the very head Of all Texas cities
in population and Commercial and manu-
featuring importance. The financial de-
preston Of May, 1884 carried dismay ano
ruin to the great cattle interests OF the
west, OF which this city WAS the
chosen mart and financial center. Loca
disasters followed fast and followed
faster. Gripping those very men OF the
city whose money and whose brains hat
made the city what it was and promised
to make it the greatest of ali Texas cities
There Is no need to recapitulate these dis
ssterss for they are known to the cost o.
our people. The live stock business waf
Frustrated, and has remained SO, almos
without promise of recuperations until
the present time, when the outlook il
bright and favorable.
Following this prostration Of the great
cattle industry in 1884 came the drouth OF
two years duration, which depleted the
west of population and taxed the re.
sources of its people who remained in the
country. And while this exhaustion OF
Fort Worth was proceeding, competitors
on all sides, favored by the contrast in
conditions, spraDg forward with renewed
hope and courage born Of this city
misfortunes.
Never did any young city face prospect
more fair than opened up TO the vision of
Fort Worth in January, 1885,, and never
befell any young city more blight and
Encouragement than came with May of
that unhappy year. The great west,
whose intrepot Fort Worth is and must
ever be, was desolated and oil its indus
tries parslJ zed, seemingly beyond the
hope OF recovery.
But what has Fort Worth done, thus
unfortunately circumstanced and ham-
pered as it has been for nearly four
years? Its wholesale merchants have in
vaded the east and made good their loss
of trade in the west, and each year Of all
these unfavorable years has shown for
the wholesale trade of the city STEADY
increase. These wholesalers have been
the bulwark of Fort Worth in these years,
and with faith and pluck and
business acumep, have held the trade
of the city and extended 1t into
the very heart Of the enemy'y country.
Behind these men stood people whom
no disaster could daunt, and whose hope
and energy never faltered. Their accom-
plishments in the face of apparent ruin
tell the story Of 8 spirit that will get
achieve the promise OF 1884.
Five railroad outlets have been added
to the city's distributing facilities since
the blow fell that would have appalled,
any other people; founderies, tanneries,
ing enterprises have been put in
operation; magnificent hotel has been
built and opened; hundreds and thou
sands cf dollars have been expended in
business structures; union stock yards
with 100000 capital stock have been
secured; new banks have been opened;
twenty miles of public streets have been
improved; splendid college has been
built and now draws students from dis
tant points; miles Of street railway have
been laid; and property has advanced
from 100 to 800 per cent. And the
record OF the city's achievements
for the past three years should never
be told without consideration of the I'M
toward conditions under which the record
was made.
And If Fort Worth tas accomplished
so much in the past unoer such unf&vor-
able circumstanc es, Whist may 1t not hope
to achieve under favorable conditioner
Beginning with the new year eleven rail
road outlets will contribute to this city'-
growth where only six lent assistancs
in 1884; all the manufacturing establish
ments put in operation since 1885
are now at work drawing sub
stance from abroad to our store;
not in ten years has there been brighter
prospect for grain crops, and the earth i,
soaked with water from the Trinity to
the Pecos; there will be added to the
ciiy's industries before this crop is mar
keted another elevator to cost $50, 600,
and Touring mill, in connection, OF 500
barrel capacity; the stock yards will at
tract here the Immense traffic in the
great industry whose product these
yards are provided to sccommo
d.te, and not since the fret
blow at it's prosperity in 1884 has there
been such outlook for revival as st the
present time; and ali the peo-
pie and all the railroads OF the
state have now united in an effort to
induce the immigration which has
stunned Texas since 1888
The cheap lands lie west of Fort Worth,
Fort Worth Is the entrepot OF the west,
and the west is recovering from the dis
asters of the past.
What Fort Worth has done for three
years it has done with q people oppressed
and under hard conditions. What Fort
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