Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-23
PANHANDLE CITY.
It's Favorable Situation for Becoming
The Point OF Intersection OF
TIVE GresI Trunk Lines.
1t Ia Bound to e. an Imp nrtsnt Distribut-
ing Point for Large Territory
without Railways.

PASHASDIE CITY, TEN. Jan. p. ISIS,
To the Z iitor of the Gazette
When railroad construction began in
the Panhandle, Tex, public opinion WAS
lot long in deciding that q point of dis
tribution must necessarily be TO-
cated some where nesr the CEN
ter .ef this immense territory.
Numerous towns have been located and
doomed, each one being declared the
coming city Of the Panhandle, but as
railroad construction continued the fate
OF Ill these would be capitai cities has
been sealed.
Notwithstanding the failure to maintain
the booms heretofore, public sentiment
has never doubted the fact that the Juno
ton OF great trunk lines here in the near
future would determine that point 1t
seems now beyond doubt that this
magic city Of the Staked Plains is des-
tined 10 fulfill the most extravagant
prophecies. Panhandle City occupies
THE MOST FAVORABLE POINT,
geographically speaking, of any other on
the great plain. CHANGING over the map
Of our county it will be seen that Parhan-
die City occupies q relative position to
Kansas City, Fort Worth, FL Peso and
Denver, calculated to favor It's
becoming al important distributing
point for vast territory. Then
again, it's relative position to these
live and growing cities ust necessarily
make it favorable point of intersection
Of the great traps-continentsl trunk
lines that must, in the near future, con-
meet these two cities. These are not only
probabilities or possibilities, but sre al
ready living realities to sufficient ex-
tent to almost insure the future of this
robust
INFANT OF THE PLAINS.
It has already made magnificent start
in that it is the terminus of the Southern
Kansas, an extension Of the great Santa
Fe system.
The Fort Worth snd Denver City Rail
wav will be completed TO this point inside
OF sixty days. The St. Louis and San
francisco will be extended to this point
early in the fall, thus already forming 3
junction Of three OF the greatest trunk
lines in the country. The Southern Kan
sas Railway Company are erecting an tx
tensiye depot building forty feet
wide and 140 long, with platform 500
feet long. They are also putting IN
seven miles Of sidetrack, and will begin
work on we'll at once, thirty feet in di-
ameter, and to be pushed down until
ABUNDANCE or WATER
is found, regardless Of cost. There il
abundance of spripg water in the can
vons within six miles of the city
that can be conducted across
the level plains in any desirable quantity
with but little expense. The question Of
fuel cuts 10 figure, as coal can be laid
down here cheaper than it can ia Fort
Worth. To say that Panhandle City is
located almost in the center OF Cas- on
county, on the plains, is So fficient desCrip-
ton OF the country, ss everyone knows it
is g
VAST ExPANsE OF PRAIRIE
with gentle fluctuations that constitute Il
one Of the grandest natural landscape
pictures mortal eye ever gszed upon. II
and easy drainage. The climate, aside
from an occasional norther,
is sll that one could de-
sire. The winters seldom extend over
two months, the balance OF the year the
climate resembles very much that Of Col
orado summers The altitude OF these
plains is about $500 feet above sea level
With the opening of spring there will be
s wonderful influx OF people to this
Queen City OF the Plains. There are
about 800 people here at present and we
think 1t will not be putting it too strong
to say there will be 1000 on the grounds
inside of ninety days. Men OF capital are
COMING IN DAILY
and investing. More than 100000 worth
OF lots have been sold and they continue
to 90 st good figures. Prices range all
the way from $50 up TO $500, on easy
terms. We consider it the safest
place in the Panhandle to invest in real
estate. Money placed in lots here DOW
will pay % to 500 per cent. in three
months.
The Chicsgo Lumber Company, William
Gamer ron, the lumber king of Texas, and
May field & Co., are opening extensive
lumber yards here. There are already
fifteen lines of business represented here
The best equipped printing Office north
west of Fort w nth is
ALREADY ON THE GROUND,
IN which is printed the Panhandle City
Herald, Captain Il II. Brooks, editor and
proprietor. Captain Brooks is the
pio1eer newspaper msn Of the Staked
Plsins, having located here eight months
ago. in a tent, when there
were but nine people living
in the county. Miss Cora BROOKS, the
captains pride and very beautiful aud
accomplished youpg lady, has located a
section CT rich land sdj1ining the city.
TIE present boom mus be attributed TO
the energy and push CT Captain o. II
n 7l5op, the local manager Of the Pan
hapdIe City Company. The captain is q
very pleasant gentleman with whom to