Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-19

sea, and its drinking wster supplied 6Y
shout 200 srtesisn wellg. VGtues are IL.
cretsipg rapidly; business lots thss sold
IN 1885 for from $40 TO $50 per loot are
aow In demand ST from $500 TO $500 per
foot. And from the manner il winch the
Panhandle is filing up by thrifty SO called
Yankee fsrmers," il is safe to predict,
from the fact that Fort Worth slore is the
eDtrapot Of that great countrg. that Fort
Worth will, in twenty five Jesrs, be the
largest city IN the Uaited States south
vest OF CDicsgo, exec ptirg st. Louis.
wEAT FORT WORTH has.
Sac h:s SIX na!iobal hanks, with s
working capital Il ever $4,000, 0t0; hiss
permanent wafer power On the Trinity
river, with ohe Of tie bes. Holly ws.eg-
works system for supplying toe city; has
one Of the best fire departments in the
state, is one Of the hsalthiest cities in
world, having only $50 deaths from Gil
cauees in the Arst six months Of this year
hiss 10000 acres OF coal within ninety
miles of the city. Has system Of gas
works and frss- class electric plant build
ing has the finest board of trade build
ing in the southwest; hes forty miles
water mairs; has eighteen miles sewer
ersge; has twenty miles street railroads
has seventeen churches; has forty miles OF
graded streets; has between s100. 900 and
$500, 1000 IL public school buildings; has
good system Of colleges and private
schools; Is hsnding nearly 10 GOO, 1000
pounds OF cotton annually; has large
grain elevators In course of COZ Instruction :;
has fl our mill capacity OF 1000 barrels per
day; has Tefrigerstor capacity Of 500
Aa1 hon Sr1oS Cd
one (Eaglish account capacity 200 head
per dsY ;hss social club With the finest
library rooms IN the state; has 81 200, 900
worth Of new buildings in course Of con
struction and under contract;
q s55. coo opers house; $4,000 clue
building; q public pavilion and picnic
grounds; telephone connection, direc.
and indirect, with 1872 cities and towns in
the state; the largest iron works in the
STATE, using only Texas iron, laid down At
Fort Worth chesper than ST. Louis or
Chicsgo can buY pig iron; the only wool
scouI ing works in the state; thirty-seven
wholesale establishments; the largee,
grocery house in the south vest; whole
sale trade resrly $40, 0C0, GOO year; the
best morning paper published in Texas;
q live afternoon psper and good monthly
trade jouruale; the most liberal and pro +.
gressive citizenship Of any city N the
state; the most attractive euburban addi-
tons Of sny city in Texas; the brightest
prospects aRd most prominent future OF
any city in the state.
That Fort Worth paid 8 libefel price
for the distributing facilities given IL by
the railroads centering in the city is con-
coded. and to other Texas cities tue
question has been and still is, how were
It's people able 10 do Ii? In cash sub
scriptions the railroads run ming Into Fort
Worth have received c!esr.cuE bonus CT
S292, 900, besides right CT way and depo.
grounds amounting to half Rs much more,
snd reservation of 800 acres donated to
the Texas aad Pacific Railway, inside the
corporate limits Of the citY, tna. is now
worth, through the rapid appreciation OF
values, ovaISs0o, 900. Nearly 81. 500. 0o0
have been given away h5 its people since
1875 for what Fort Worth row
hiss and is, snd to tbs glvers these dona-
tions have proved Investments that
brought large returns, md the taxable
values Of their property have doubled and
quadrupled again and sgsin since the
first locomotive whistle WAS heard in the