Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-05
TEXAS IN TYPE.
Gleanings From Gazette State Exchanges OF all


Sorts.
Cisco wants grain elevator.
The wheat in Baylor is in fine eondi-
ton.
Cotton bales are still rolling into the
Bellville market
There is a demand in Quanah for more
dwelling houses
Wheat is still worth 80 cents per bushel
on the Denton market.
This viii be a bountiful crop year fol-
| Coleman county farmers.
Outside capitalists are putting up a
| $40 1000 Touring mill in Vernon.
Gainesville has reduced its mayor Is
salary from $1,000 to $1,000 year.
Coleman county boasts of producing
| the finest wool and the heaviest mutton
sheep of any county in the state.
The country around Cisco is a perfect
paradise to the lover of sport. All kinds
of game can be found.
Some of the leading Gainesville capt.
talists are advocating the building of a
turnpike from Gainesville to Burlington I.
One of the most urgent needs of Quanah
and Hardeman county is better north and
| south roads and a bridge over Pease
river
There are eighty-nine public schools in
Cooke county outside of Gainesville, all
| of which have been taken up, and are all
in prosperous condition.
The Abilene country is settling up
faster now than at any period of its his
tory. All the counties of the district
are getting their fair share of the set
tiers.
Snyder, in Scurry county, wants a
shoemaker. The Scurry County Citizen
says: Zone who will labor and wait 4,
making himself citizen can make
money!
square miles, equal to $40 900 acres
Nearly nine-tenths of the county lays
upon the staked plains, at an elevation of
about 5000 feet above the sea level.
Mr.. Kinch Collins of Austin county
killed five hogs last week, the smallest
weighing over 800 pounds. From the
lard and $50 pounds of sausage meat.
The bill creating the new county of
Willie out of parts of Bell, Milan and
Williamson, with Taylor as the county
seat, has been prepared, and big fight
ure in its favor.
There has been good immigration to
Rains county-and with plenty of hog
and hominy at home, says the Emory
Record, if our farmers exercise economy :,
one good crop viii put them in prosper
Gus condition and out of debt.
How about board of trade or chamber
of commerce? asks the Paris News. Any
thing that will unite the people in their
efforts for the upbuilding of the city
The name is of no consequence; the or
ganization is everything.
In boring a well at Grand Saline, four
teen miles south of Emory, they struck a
solid bed of salt and have now gone I25
feet into the salt and have not yet passed
through. The specific weight of this salt
is greater than any yet found, and the
supply is ineXhaustable.
A swallow tail coat worn at the ball of
the Young Men IS Social Club at Bren-
ham, December %, has history. 1t has
seen service in England, France, Ger
many and Portugal, was inherited by the
young man from his father and worn by
him at his marriage.
The business of raising pecans will one
day become leading industry in this
county, says the Victoria Advocate. In
deed is there money and lots of it too, in
the business. The nut is as saleable
as cotton, and the profit in it is
far larger. Don't cut down another pc
can tree, whatever you do.
Captain Clepper of Courtney, Grimes
county, is seyenty-six years old. This
year by his own labor and $40 worth of
hired help, he made $50 bushels of corn
three tons of millet, four Dales of cotton
200 bushels of sweet potatoes, eighty
gallons of syrup, 100 pounds sugar and
has the best fall garden in the county.
The Baird Star says: E'Captain w. J {.
Maltby of this county raised any number
of sweet potatoes this year that weighed
from fifteen TO twenty two pounds, and
actually gathered 1900 bushels of pota-
toes on one measured acre of land. This
is fact, and it can be substantiated by
some of the most reliable men in the
county. You fellows who have been
blowing about ten and ffteen-pound po-
tatoes, and yield of 500 and 600 bush
els per acre, viii please make note of
this, viii you? Callahan county is the
chief -
The work on the roller mill at Wichita
Falls progresses steadily, and Mr. Minis
is of the opinion that he viii have every
thing in readiness to begin operations
early next month. The new well being
sunk has already reached a depth of
seventy feet, and indications are very
favorable for an abundant supply of
water. When this difficulty is overcome,
says the Wichita Falls Light, and the
new machinery, which is expected every
day, is placed i'll position, the town will
have one of the best mills anywhere in
the country.