Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-03-09
FROM AUSTIN.
The Gazette's Weekly Compilation
from the State Capital.
Special to the Gazette.

Special 70 the Gazette.
AUSTIN, TEX, March 2.-Colonel F. B.
Chiffon, secretary Of the state bureau Of
immigration, was interviewed in his office
in the Driskill hotel this morning. eyes,"
ne said, W think that all differences, If
there were any of consequence in the
ranks Of the association, were buried st
Fort Worth. do not believe that these
differences abou: which so much talk mas
been made ever amounted to more than
merely such varisnces Of opinion as will
naturally exist among gentlemen repre-
senting several sections OF state, and each
in degree ignorant Of the needs and
wants Of the other. Every member Of the
general committee, as well as the execu-
tive committee, wants to see this move
ment q success, and will contribute by
every effort and influence to its advance
ment"
care you prepared to begin your cam
psign YETI" asked the reporter.
. 81 have already begun 1t. You may
say We are now engaged in making up q
new map Of the state, which will present
the very latest features. We shall pub
lish snd distribute throughout the country
100000 copies Of this work. Complete
statistics Of the states resources and sd-
vlnteges will also be published and dis
sributed SIS fast as possible, and no effort
will be spared to present in thorough
manner the advantages Of the state"
The executive committee Of the Texas
Live Stock Association, which WAS to
have met here yesterday, has determined
to meet at Gainesville on the 18Th to con-
slider propositions from Fort Worth and
Galveston,
The departments were Gil closed to-
day in honor OF the day, but the following
charters were sent into and fled in the
Office Of the Secretary of State:
Hughes Bros Real Estate and Loan
Association of Dallas; capital stock,
500, 900; incorporators Z. Z. Hughes,
G " Hughes, T. E. Atkins, Lee Aikens,
F. v. Hughes. and John V. Hughes.
The Cuero Reading and LIBRARY Club Of
Cnero, capital stock $500; incorporstors,
Ed Meissner, Charles LsnrZ, John STRAIT
ton, J. B. MARCEL and 2. Lehman.
The Alliance Exchange Of Denton coun-
ty, capital stock, $50 900; incorpoIAtors,
C A. McMeGns, B. f. Witt and L. S.
Helm, Jr.
The Southern Manufacturing Company
of San Antonio, capital stock $50, goo; in
corporstor5, A. B Frank, W. II. Weiss
and George B. Eppstsin.
The scheme OF irrigating the valley Of
the Colorado from Austin as far as Web
berVille, eighteen niles below, now under
consideration by Austin capitalists, is OF
special interest to West Texas Under
the auspices of Mr. A p Woodbridge and
other citizens, 9 complete survey Of the
route by competent hydraulic engineers,
among them one from Colorado who has
had long experience in works OF this kind,
has just been completed. T e plan pro-
posed Is the canal, not the regular water
pipe in use In some irrigation works In
C8liiornis. The Austin scheme is as fol-
lows: To dam Bull creek, which enters
the Colorado twelve miles above Austin,
and bring the water through canal or
squeduct into Shoal creek (dry during
summer which runs through the west
ern part Of the city and also falls into the
Colorado in the city limits. Il is proposed
to utilize the water as It flows through
Shoal creek By building manu-
factories 10 run by the
power thus Afforded. In the city
it Is to be used for irrigatiDg and house
hold purposes. On its exit from the city,
towards the south. 1t is TO be used for
irrigating about 10000 acres OF IS rich
bottom lands as there are in Central
Texas, thus insurlDg, in addition to the
rest Of the country tributary to the
city, not less than 10000 bales OF
cotton annually. The whole length OF
the canal, from Bull creek 70 Weber,
vile, Is thirty mil. 8 The engineers say
this will cost S6SO,000, with an lrrigatiug
capacity of 80, 600 acres. But from Bull
creek into and through Shosl creek, and
to point one mile and half below the
city, it will be 100000 1t is under
stood the Austin originators Of the scheme
are now in correspondence with eastern
capitalists with q view of entering on the
work at an early date. This would make
Austin independent Of drouth.