Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-14
OUR NEIGHR r !"
So Harry and Boom" Il Is That Makes
Fort Worth Wender so
Some People
Our Stock Yards ss They are Viewed by
Il Promising Rsva.-The PinchipS
of this Sooc.
Dallas Times Herald.

Fort Worth has raised $500, 030 for TIE
stock yards. That Is, the railroads have
raised and the people have promised
money sufficient TO mahe ~ this amount.
Tee manner in which this WAS done-,he
plans Of victory whenit was done Fil eX-
cite the rist5les OF some, while 10 otl57s =
becomes a subject OF Interest. Tlere 5
no doub: that Fort Worth is p!rcky. Thsc
virtue 90 Necessary for towns msy have
it's origin IN hope or IN desperation, or
in both. Ia this instsnce il perhaps
springs fcom both. The town stands IN
the frontier Of the blsck land. l. rests
under the wing Of Dallas which has tue
tiaest agricultural country on earth
10 back her, mas the most enlerprisiDg
people in the state end has the
drawing her very lie blood from the
dried into sluggislress By several bat
seasons. Yet her "on to" was always
heard. She had reached the stage WHERE
TO stop was destruction end to 60 on wss
probable ruin. Not being able 10 pay
what she already owed she had TO 9
further into the speculation OF the future.
So anything could be started in Fort
Worth because Fort Worth, if 1t could
get tenn, was willing 10 go into any
thing Thisis the pluck born of degpers-
ton. The pluck Of hope is just as wild
In its make up as the speculative genius
OF the place. There are persons g. Fort
Worth who believe tha: IN the course OF
time tbs American spirit OF conquest or
aggrand;z 9ment, will result in the
annexation Of Carada on the north
and Of Mexico and Central AmeriCa on
The south. When telling you of this theR
give You time 70 catch your breatbAnd
pre- pare for the next shock. They will
then show by uIaIswerable argument
that there will be demand for the res
moval Of the capital Of this immense rs
ton 20 g point COuvepient to the whole
people. Then with g stick in the sand
they will draw you q map Of the nation
that is TO be, and loCate the point most
convenient. Thst point is Fort Worth.
The Times Herald does not ssy that any
one has bought lots or holds lots in that
place in anticipation of the immediate
conquest OF Canada and Mexico, but tt e
hope that springs eternal in the Fort
Worth breast is so large that many Of
them expect their oldest children to live
to participate in the laying Of the c0rneI-
stone OF the capitol. 1t is this plucF
this desperation, these hopes thst
make the people Of Fort Worth
wonders to the rest OF the state
Their reasonings are lncompre-
hensible and, therefore, they are not IN
0erstood. 1t is 3 frenzy that they are in
II msn walking down the street says,
Let's build road to Topolobambo" the
shout goes up, "On 10 Topolobsmbo, :"
II msn says, al cts build stock YARDS
the shout is "Let's build stock yards p"
Not moment Of study, not moment
casting up results; hurry, hurry ard
boom is the cry. Nov what good will
the stock yards d.? The Fort Worth
and Denver is the great stock road. 1,
has fed the Fort. II is now into New
Mexico and will hsye connection with
Denver. Will it run its cattle down to
the Fort to give them TO some other
road? =, . @.Cta Fee, running direct
north, stop over and pen its cattle? Will
the Texas and Pacific do SOP Will the
Missouri Pacific, putting it's nose into the
cattle country, run Its cows to the Fort
and then back again to the north? Let
any one look ct the map. Let him find
where the cattle country is. Let hin
then find where the markets are, and
then let him give reason for any road
bringing cattle to Fort Worth.