Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-27
A Field Ripe for Fort Worth to Dabble
In-Territory of Untold Wealth.
New Birmingham, Beaumont and Sabine Pass
All Offer Advantages Which Fort
Worth Merchants Should Grasp
BEAUMONT. Tex. July q. 1859.


1t is somewhat surprising to man up
tree that the well known, in fact world
wide, enterprisiDg business men of the
Quickest city in Texas, have never en-
tered the field as competitors for business
in East Texas. Here lies q territory as
large in area as two of the middle states,
producing nearly five hundred thousand
bales of cotton, her sawmills producing
yearly 5000, 900, 900 feet of merchant
able lumber. In fact the wealth
of East Texas has just begun
to be appreciated. Look at the iron in
dustry just springing into life at that
wonderful city, New Birmingham. One
can safely venture this prediction, that
in ten years from now a person standing
on the streets of Beaumont will see the
northern horizon blackened with the
smoke arising from the innumerable
blast furnaces, rolling mills, machine
shops and other industries that viii give
employment to thousands now Idle,
and make the Eastern manufacturer
knash his teeth with envy at the glorious
prosperity that will then be throughout
old East Texas. In fact the tabled
wealth of 'GOlconda'' will pale into in
significance along side of the wealth that
will annually be produced il long
neglected East Texas. And now [, who
have kindly feeling for Fort Worth be-
cause she is enterprising, because her
people believe in progress, because she
got up with her own money the
best advertisement Texas ever had in the
Spring Palace, ask why, has not Fort
Worth seen, and seeing made an effort
to grasp some of the wealth of this
section and make it tributary to her by
throwing railroads into East Texas
Dallas had her representative at the
deep water convention, and he promised
great things for Dallas, but, of course,
you have to take what Dallas says
"cum grano sails. - But let Fort
Worth's board of trade make up
its mind that Dallas shall not
lick up all the chiken pie. ''The field is
ripe and now is the accepted time. -
Come on, little giant of the northwest,
and you will find open arms to receive
you, and what is more, deep water at
Sabine Pass
Mr.. Editor, let me give You a ground
work for a sermon. Preach it to the
people of your town, drum in their ears,
and you Will add one more feather to
your cap and sustain your reputation as
being the Invest and best daily newspaper
published south OF the Missouri river
and west of the Mississippi. Take your
map of Texas, draw a line little west of
south to New Birmingham, then little
east of south through Nacogdoches to
Jasper, then due south to Beaumont on
the dividing ridge between the Sabine and
Neches rivers. From NacOgdOches to
within ten miles above Beaumont the
road will run through virgin forest of the
finest long-leaf pineon earth. Enough
viii be found on the right of
way to bridge and tie it.
Then 60 from Beaumont to Sabine Pass,
where now at low tide thirteen feet of
water can be found. A soft mud bar is
there; no sand for vessels to thump
themselves TO pieces on. On the con-
trary, il a vessel should go aground she
will rest there as easy as babe in its
cradle. Stir up your people. From the
names of those who compose your board
of trade you have enterprise, and if they
can be brought TO realize what an i'm
mense field here lies open to them it will
not be long before the cry of ''All
aboard for Fort WOrth!'' will be heard
at Sabine Pass ana New Birmingham.