Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-09-23
SOME MORE FLnTRES

SOME MORE FIG URES.
! AS it has suited the purpose of certain
Dallas gentlemen to publish and
scatter to the world a statement tc
the effect that the number OF
business firms in Fort Worth showed
decrease, rather than an in
crease, THE GAZETTE presents some fig
ures this morning that testify to the truth
of the matthr.
In 1884 the total number of business
firms, or traders, in Dallas was 548; in
1889, the total number is GAG, an in
crease in five years of 398, or a little
over 72 per cent.
For the report from Fort Worth THE
GAZETTE is indebted to Mr.. Z. S.
Gard of Dun g commercial agency, and
it is printed by years IN order to more
thoroughly expose the very clever lie by
which certain Dallas people hoped to de-
lude the public. The figures of each
year are taken from the September re-
port:
BUSINESS FIRMS IN FORT WORTH.
49, 49, s &c., 5 49, lSS sss lS $751;
Yhis report shows an increase e6ery ye ar,
and this, despite the fact that in 1884 the
livestock business upon which, up to that
time, Fort Worth was largely dependent
went to the wall and has never recov-
cred, and despite the further fact that
Of ho Inns
was Immediately followed by two years
OF drouth, suffering and loss of popula-
ton in the west, with which section Fort
Worth has ever been closely identified in
business and sympathy.
From 1884 to 1885 Fort Worth made q
gain of seventeen firms; from 1856 to
1886, gain of seventeen firms; from
1886 to 1887, gain of eighty-three
firms; from 1887 to 1888, gain of 1872
firms; from 1883 to 1888, a gain of fifty
four
The increase at Dallas, with uni
formly fair or good crops in its terri
tory, from 1884 to 1889, was 1913 or
- per cent; and the increase at
Fort Worth, with three years of
drouFh and depression, was, for the same
period, 303, or So per cent.
A glance at the table of increase above
will show the hard pull Fort Worth had
in I884-66; a little closer examination
will show that in the three years from
1856 to 1889 Fort Worth added 269 firms,
an increase in three years of very nearly
y per cent; or, as great percentage of
increase as Dallas shows for FIVE years.
Again, in these years of drouth and
depression and Dallas boom, Fort Worth
added five railroad outlets to its dis
tributing facilities
Dallas may send out its lying circulars,
but Fort Worth views the future with
complacency. Pre-eminentIy the rail
road centre of the state, with the
West and Northwest rapidly filling
up under the influence of the Denver
road IS completion through to Colorado,
with big Union stock yards completed and
in operation, with determined people at
work for manufacturing enterprises, with
eight national banks, with an influx of
capital and with population DO disaster
has ever daunted and no falsehood has
ever discouraged, Fort Worth enters
upon the contest of the next five years
with renewed courage and prospects
brighter than ever before.
Holmes said it was not so important to
know where man stood as the direction
in which he was going. So with towns.
1t matters not where Texas towns stand
now so much as the rate Of progress
they are making, and all the testimony
goes to show that Fort Worth is growing
steadily and rapidly, with no boom or
sembIance of boom or desire for boom.
In the classic dIction of the CD. News,
''On with the bust!''