Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-22

, States, and il O contest should have been
made for the banner city OF the state no
question but the premium would have
oeen awarded to WeetheIford as being
the best City IL Texas, population con-
| sicered, ns we hsVe In this city more
manufacturing enterprises, the volume Ct
Dusiness is greater, the people mo;e
prosperous in every way tbsn anP other
TWO Giles OF the same population il
rsX3s LIS. yesr the products sEd OK
lioi.s Of this county took more premium
ST the state fair than any other county in
Texas. Among them WAS the prs MUM
! awarded to Csp.sin Henry Warren % this
county for the best shcrtaorusd hard,
sld ths!, toe, when Nav YJrs, Oato,
Illinois, Kentucky and Missouri
were in the contest. C5p.sin
Wsrrel's fine stock farm Is located zine
miles from this city, and besides his there
are numerous fine stock farms In the
county. Mr.. S. D. Thompson les, year
took the first premium for the hlest dis
plsy CT fruit trees as taken from his
nursery. DR.. John r. Macke!zis also
tookFeven premium on his angora gol.s.
The first premium Iior the best year old
horse Was awarded to this county. A
humber Of premiums were awarded to
products CT this county last year, and
nOW that the premiums has been awarded
to Parker county for tbs banner county
| Of the State no one CAN deny the fsct that
this is the best cCupty In TexP, So her
intresss and products are SO Oversize /
that sAe can compete with the extreme
southern, eastern and western counties
In any and al kinds CT products, manu-.
I curi1s, agricultural, mechanical,
stock rsistog, end in all
ether ways. To give the readers Of TIE
GAZETTE an idsa Of the immense fruit
aDd vegetable crops produced near this
City. dut!Eg: the five to Fix months Of the
s0EiGg, summer aud fslI, the dsily ship
menta CT there produces from this city
were s5ou. 1900 pounds, regular ship
merits bei9g msde to Denver and other
points in Colorado, sno into Nav Mexico,
ARENA and old Mexico, besides daily
lGrge shipments to Abilene, Colorado
City, Z! Peso and other western 10 WIS.
Taia demonstrates the superiority Ct the
fruits and vegetables raised in Parker
county. At this time large shipments OF
all kinds Of frssh3 vegetables, includ-
log green DeanE, garden pear, new
Irish potstoes, sweet potitoes,
okre asparagus, lettuce mustard, rad
dish, onions, turlip, squsshes, musk
melons, wstermelons, snd ali otaer gar
den vegetables known to any climate, are
now grown in immense quantities in and
nesr the city, besides different kinds OF
fruit, ana they are alI being shippad to
other markets. Wheat, osts, corn, cot |
ton, sugar cane, and all the mora staple |
or substantial farm products, besides
lite and castor beans, sre grown in grea. J
abundance in this county. Wes.herford |
can boast OF the only hydraulic castor Gil
mill aIJ where in the south. There are
two full roller PROCESS merchants
Touring mills in this city, witt capacity
Of 400 barrels OF fl II per day, and they
Are kept busy day and night the yeaY
round on wheat produced in this county.
They ship four into Nav and O.d Mexico,
Ariz)ra ard 81 ever Texss, and the
product Is pronounced superior TO any
iour msnufsc ured in the state. Besides
these two mills there ere two other large
i0Lrlag mills here which are kept run
nlHg ell the time. There will be shipped
shi1 season from this City between 10000
md $4,000 bales OF cotton. The grain
nero nants OF WeatheTiord ship large
quantities Ct corn, oats, hay, oren and
other farm products all over the western
reschiug Nav Mexico snd All
IONA with large shipments. This being
the banner county Ct Texas, and tois city,
the county sea. snd one Of the most
prosperous and furnishing cities il the
state, with . good flow Of immigration
and more cspitsl to tske hold Of and es-
tabll5h more manufacturing enterprises
this city viii SION rival any city In the
aorth