Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-17
TEXTS IN TYPE.

Abilene 5 new school house VIII be q
| credit to West Texas.
Lipscomb county has an income of SI3.
! per head for al her school children ! ~
Ten thousand fruit and forest trees
were delivered to purchasers in Hansford
county.
The first three cars of lumber for new
hotel Mt Amarillo have just arrived AID
work will begin on the building at once.
More money has been expended in
Johnson county this year for improve
ments than any year since its orgauiza-
ton.
Enough stock has been subscribed at
Wichita for a district fair and exrosi-
ton to justify the selection of grounds by
the stockholders.
The brick work on the Potter county
courthouse and jail is about complete and
ready for the mansard roof. 1t will be
beauty and cost S35 900.
Luling is now down on the books of the
Southern Pacific Company as the banner
cotton town along its line, the shipments
from this station so far outstrippng all
competitors.
Within one week from the time when it
was definitely settled that Tyler was 60
ing to have the car shops there was more
inquiry after real estate than for six
weeks previous.
Farmers from every part of Clay
county report the wheat prospect very
tlatteriug, and they are preparing for an
increased acreage of other small grain,
corn and cotton.
Two months ago Quanah s trade from
Greer county was comparatively small,
but to-day, says the Eagle, her mer-
chants are kept busy loading wagons
from the Disputed Land.
Quite an interesting marriage took
place near GAINESVILLE last week Mr..
Homer, aged seventy-eight, and Mrs.
Satterwhite, aged fifty three, were
united in the holy bonds of wedlock.
The Castroville (Tex. y Anvil says: One
of the most remarkable freaks of nature
known to the scientific world can now be
seen ut Castroville. Mr.. John Volmer is
the owner of q mare mule that now has
mule colt.
Rockwell is neither metropolis nor
railroad center, says the Rockwell
Success, but it is Il live, wide-awake
town of 1900 people, surrounded by the
finest agricultural lands ON the face Of
the globe.
Mrs. II. II. King, the widow of Cap
tain Richard King, is carrying on an I'M
mense ranch enterprise and has over
100 200 head of cattle, besides horses,
mules and sheep. Her Cameron county
pasture is forty miles square, having a
frontage on Lagua Madre of that dis
lance.
No town in the state of the same size
has as brilliant future prospects as At
lanta, says the Herald of that thriving
little East Texas city. No man ever came
here and pursued legitimate occupation
with reasonable industry, who has not
improved his condition and acquired
property and means.
A correspondent OF the Tyler Democrat
says: There is enough frst-class iron
ore on the earth s surface within radius
of seven miles around Tyler to keep a fur
mace running many years. These ores
are now of no value whatever to the
owners. Should a furnace be erected at
Tyler these rocks could be gathered up
and delivered at the furnace by the own
ers of the land at a price paying to the
country people and at the same time leay-
ing the iron company fine margin of
profit. In the manufacture of coal also,
the surrounding forests for many miles
would become available, and the .~e,per-
abundant growth of timber would % re-
moved from the lands, thus aiding the
farmers to convert their Improbable for
est lands into orchards or pastures for
fine cattle OF horses.