Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-20
1.-THE ZION IS HOT. !,

TIE LtON ID HUI.
Fort Worth appreciates its identity of
| interest with the grand empire lying
west and northwest of it, but perhaps it
does not realize how much that unde
veloped section depends upon this city to
take the initiative in movements for the
common benefit Fort Worth and the
country west of it are one, but efforts
are not wanting on the part of others to eff
feet divorce, and this city should arouse
itself TO the imperative need of prompt
action to counteract those efforts. Fort
Worth must strive if it would thrive, and
those who easily grow weary in well do
ing are not proper leaders: there is work
to be done, and Fort Worth must bestir
itself. Restless rivalry renders eternal
vigilance the price of this city's growth.
and if at any time West and Northwest
Texas have deemed Fort Worth apethetic
those sections should consider the situa-
ton of the city which has inherited moth
for all it has attained. If Northwest
Texas looks to Fort Worth, Northwest
Texas must encourage Fort Worth, and
as in this suggestion of an effort to pro-
mote immigration there is common bene-
| fit, SO should there be common enthusi-
! asm, energy and perseverance
Already there is response from the
northwest, but time flies ard there are
but few days in which to work if we
would reap in the coming fall. Mr.. L.
T. Miller of Wichita Falls thus writes
under date of July II:
''I have just read with great interest your edi-
torial in to-day GAZETTE, 1.-The Iron is Hot,
on the prom lotion of immigration to Northwest
Texas. think it would be well to suggest that
each county hold meetings and send representa-
tives to a convention TO be held at time, to be
suggested by The GAZETTE, at Fort Worth say
in two or three weeks from this time. wish you
were here to-day to see the wheat that is being
marketed-wagon after wagon, wagon after wag-
on-and still the hauling goes on. Twenty-Five
bushels to the acre is actually the average, and
no exaggeration. Some fields yielded high as
thirty five bushels and not one-fourth the coun-
ty is in cultivation
From the secretary of the late state
board of education, gentleman who has
tested the practicability of united state
action and knows it to be impossible at
this time, comes the following:
AUSTIN, TEX, July 10. 1889.
To the Gazette.
Resident and visiting gentlemen at the capital
city have thronged my Office in numbers to-day
to find out what the Fort Worth GAZETTE means,
and if the Northwest immigration bureau win be
formed. My reply has been: Northwest Texas
is alive and growing; Fort Worth is its capital;
the seed has been sown; over one hundred thou
sand dollars has been spent throughout the state
in advertising; Texas heads the procession among
all the states in the matter of work done and re-
suits promised, and it is not strange that Fort
Worth has determined to rake in the chestnuts.
I will guarantee, if Fort Worth and Northwest
Texas start, that there will be no failure, but
that success viii be so startling both for itself
and territory as to cause all Texas to wheel into
line and work in earnest God speed THE GA
zETTE and the people of Fort Worth in their
efforts and may other sections also organize and
go to work. +. B. Chiffon.
wish every citizen of Texas could have read
GAZETTE of 18th inst.
Fort Worth is moving to organization
Let it ponder the suggestions in these
letters. While organizing, there should
be comprehensive grasp of the situation.
The past is an inspiration; the present is
yet in the hands of this city, and the flu
ture will be what our people make it.
Fort Worth has hard work to do, but it
has an opportunity. To seize it is to
control ito lose it is retrogression.