Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-07
" OUR NEIGHBOR."
Hurry and Boom" 1t Is That Makes
Fort Worth Wonder TO
Some People.
Oar Stock Yards as They are Viewed by
Promising Rival-The Pinching
Of tbs Shoe.
Dallas TImes-Herald.

Fort Worth has raised $500, 900 for the
stock yards. That is, the railroads have
raised and the people have promised
money sufficient to make up this amount.
The manner in which this was done-the
plans of victory when it was done will
excite the disabilities of some, while TO
others il becomes g subj ect OF interest.
There is no doubt that Fort Worth is
plucky. That virtue so necessary for
towns may have it's origin in hope or in
desperation, or in both. In this instance
1t perhaps springs from both. The town
stands on the frontier of the black land.
It rests under the wing of Dallas which
has the finest agricultural country on
earth to back her, bas the most enter
prising people in the state and has the
advantage of money. Fort Worth draw
ing her very life blood from the veins of
the west has seen those veins dried into
sluggishness by several bad seasons. Yet
her ION tor WAS always heard. She had
reached the stage where to stop was de-
struction and to &c on was probably
ruin. Not being able to pay what she
already owed she had to 60 further into
the speculation in the future. So any
thing could be started in Fort Worth be-
cause Fort Worth, il il could get terms,
was willing to go into anything. This is
the pluck born of desperation. The pluck
OF hope is just as wild in its make up IS
the speculative genius Of the place.
There are persons at Fort Worth
who believe that in the course
OF time the American spirit OF
conquest or aggrandiZ sment, will result
in the annexation of Canada on the north
and OF Mexico and Central America On
the south. When telling you of this they
give you time TO catch your breath and
prepare for the next shock. They will
then show by unans wera5le argument
that there will be demand for the re.
moval OF the capital of this immense ns-
ton to point convenient to the whole
people. Then with stick in the SAND
they will draw you 9 map of the natioI
that is to be, and locate the point most
The Times-Herald does not say that any
lots in that place in anticipa.
ton OF the immediate conquest
CT Canada and Mexico, but the hope thai
springs eternal in the Fort Worth breas'
is SO large that many of them expect
their Oldest children to live to participate
in the laying of the cornerstone of the
capitol It is this pluck, this despers
ton, these hopes that make the people o.
Fort Worth wonders to the rest Of thi
state. Their reasonirgs are incompre-
hensible and, therefore, they are not IN
derstood. 1t is frenzy that they are in
II a man walking down the street says
"Let's build road to Topolobambo'' The
shout goes up, "Oa to Topolobsmbon
If man says, "Let's build stock-Ysrds'
the shout is "Let's build stock yards
Not q moment of study, not {
mknent casting up results; hurry,
hurry and boom is the cry. Now, wha
/ good will the stock Yards do? The Fort
Worth and Denver is the great stock road
/ 1t has fed the Fort. It is now into New
Mexico and will have connection with
Denver. VIII it run it's cattle down tc
the Fort to give them to some other rosd
viii the Santa Fe, running direct north
stop over and pen its cattle? VIII the
Texas and Pacific do so? Will the Mis-
souri, Pacific, putting its nose into the cat
tie country, run its cows to the Fort anC
then back again to the north? Let any
one look st the map. Let him find where
the cattle country is. Let him then fnc
where the markets are, and then let hin
give reason for any road bringing cattle
to Fort Worth