Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-04-23

sor Park"
oFFICRs AT
NEW YORK. CHICAGO. FIT. WORTH,
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The bait is such s tempting one it is
hard to realize that the firm which printed
the above card could not collect pay for
ink, paper and press work. One would
suppose that company, with . capital
stock of 81 900, 900 (tull paid), would psy
8 triiing charge for printing, but "rhe
Western Union Mortgage and Construc-
ton Company" did not settle, and the
printers were obliged TO get out an at
tschment. When confronted with con-
stable, the manager Of the Chicago office
gave chattei mortgage on his furniture,
which Is worth perhaps $3.50.
BY happy chain of circum stances the
Herald Is to-day able to throw some light
on peculiar scheme The story is SO inter-
estlng, that a recital in detail is warrant
ed. The great state of Texas has an I'M
migration Bureau. Il is powerful Or
ganizstion composed Of solid men repre-
sentIng every one Of the thirty-one
Senatorial districts of the Lone Star
State. The business of the state bureau
is transacted by q committee Of thirty
one. This committee mas selected an
Executive Board, composed IS follows:
D. @. GiddiIgs, chairman, BRENNAN, Text.
Denison, Tex; Bryan T. Barry, Corsicana,
| Tex j. Ii. Brownson, Victoria, Tex; z. G.
| Dickinson, Rusk, Tex; Henry Sayles, Abilene,
Tex.
At a meeting of the Executive Board
recently held Colonel A. r. Collins of
Denison was deputed to come to Chicago
and attend to the publication OF new
map of Texas. This the State Board pro-
poses 10 have published in the form of
railroad folder, accompanying 1t by
certain data and statistical Information
regarding the wonderful resources Of the
Panhandle state. Colonel Collins reached
this city last week, and accidentally
picked up printed announcement stat
ing that for 81 week, without interest,
anyone could "buy fruit farm in
T,Xss." In the same connection he read
he subjoined:
An EXTRAO RDINARY OFFER-The West
N ern Union Mortgage and Construction
Company will sell limited number of five and
tens ere fruit farms for SlO0 and $500 each, pay
aDle 81 and 81 week until paid, without inter-
| est or taXss.
it-Hhefsrms were described as being ga
few alternate five and ten-acre sections,
extensions on leading streets IN the new
towns of Archer ana Windsor Park, "
which towns in the circular are alleged
10 be linear the line Of the Fort Worth
and Denver City Railroad, and on the
direct surveyed line OF the Chicago AMI
Rock Island and the Fort Worth and
Western Railroad. The land is rich,
easily cultivated, grows every variety of
cereals, and fruit equal to the renowned
fruit lands of California"
4 fncha glowing prospectus was nstur-
ally calculated to arrest the attention OF
Colonel Collins. He ascertained that
1.-THE Western Union Mortgage and Con-
struction Company" had an Executive
born street. To the "executive office"
ceived by ,tA8mansger. "Do you think
Of investing In Texas lander"
Colonel Collins said that WAS the object
Of kaS visit.
k&The manager wsxed eloquent. "Texas
is the best state for you, and our farms
are in the garden spot of the continent.
The climate is delightful. The elevation
above the sea is about eighteen hundred
feet. The never failing Gulf bree zs in
reaching this elevation over hundreds of
miles of undul.ting farms and pasture
lands, mingllng with the cool, rarlhed air
from the Rocky Mountains, loses its hum
! idity, and the result Is q cool, dry, de-
lightful atmosphere, full Of the ozone Of
rudy health and active vitslity.'
Colonel Collins intimated that active
vitality and ozone were what he needed
and would pay good money for. The
manager then gave his visitor pamph-
f1et of thirty-two pages, entitled, "Facts
About Texas" This pamphlet purports
to be Gan Advance Proof Copy" 1t
contains much that is truthful regarding
the state of Texas and more that is fairy.
like regarding "The Western Union
Mortgage and Construction Company"
and its "capital stock, $1,000, 900 Qull
4 paid) i" Fort Worth, Texas, is set down
4 as the principal office for the land colo
niz,tion department" of the alleged COM
psny, snd the Colonel marveled greatly
that he had never heard anything about
it. In the pamphlet he noticed among
the "exlraordinary Inducements" that
the company wanted wooden factory
established in the state. The Offer which
followed is in these words:
We specially invite the earnest consideration
by capitalists of the fact that we are prepared
to offer liberal subsidy and per centage Of the
cash capital to any organization which may
furnish management. experience and ad-
di;ional capital for the success Of this enter
prise.
The pamphlet proceeds:
Second-The manufacture of all kinds of ag-
ricultural implements on large scale is es
pecialIy required in Fort Worth. We are pre-
pared TO furnish manufacturing plant and
y every facility for successfully conducting such
an industry.
The company also wanted a cotton
mill, paper mill and other industries,
and promised to "afford capital superior
advantages" The claims regarding the
town site of "Windsor Park" are thus
alluded to:
While these lands were paetured the farmer
was kept out, ana not until the arrangements
made by the Western Union Mortgage and Con-
struction Company has any portion been Of
fered for sale. Now the movement for coloni-
cation will be pushed rapidly. The town will
be extend led to $40 acres, which will be laid out
by extention of streets and avenues The
depot grounds for the railway now building
o that point viii be reserved, together with
grounds for manufacturing, etc Beyond the
town or city limits the land will be surveyed