Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-11
ALL FOR TEXAS.
How a New Hampshire Man who Vii
tied Southwest Texas Writes.
An Exhibit from Texas for the Milwaukee 3
pOsition-Prime Factors Requisite to
the Life of a Growing City. :
ooIEhRooK, n. H., July 4, 4

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CoLEBRooK, N. H., July 4, 1859.
| 7. A. Wilkinson, ESQ, Fort Worth. Tex.
DEAR STR arrived home from Ta1a:
and the Spring Palace all right. Found
crops looking quite well here, although
way behind the season in Texas, sinai
grain only about one foot high, potatoe:
just in bloom. find people very much
surprised at my samples of produce
raised in Texas. 1 have talked myself
hoarse on Texas, and many are becoming
| interested. My brother Ira sold out
to-day, and 1 shall sell as soon as can
A good party will come with me in the
fall. 1 am feeling quite well, but am
actually homesick to get back 20 Texas
7 ours truly, JOHN MOVES.
MILWAUKEE, INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION Asso-
CITATION, MILWAUKEE, Wis. July 3, 1889.
t. A. Wilkinson, Esq. Commissioner Immigrant
Department, Rio Grande Route, Fort Worth:
DEAR SIR-In reply to yours of the
29th inst. will say that there will be no
charge for space. All the expense con-
nected with your exhibit would be the
money spent in making your exhibit at
tractive. I have already allotted space
to all exhibitors and should you decide to
come here I would ask you to wire me at
my expense, as we are crowded for
room. 1 would like to have your exhibit,
as it would be very attractive and L be-
lieve you could interest great many
people. Hoping that satisfactory ar
engagements can be made and that we
will have you with us this year, 1 am
yours very truly, E. j BECKER,
General Manager and Secretary4
To the Gazette. A
The above letters will explain them
selves. In this connection it may be
proper to make some suggestions. sAItgis
the ambition of Fort Worth to becolhe 81
great and prosperous city. No oneysKe
presume, will deny that the proper ele@l
ments and affinities are here, and if
rightly combined success will follow.
There are three prime factors requisite
to the life of every normal, growing city.
First, and most important of all. is a
good surrounding country of sufficiently
wide expanse to insure, when devel-
oped, large volume of wholesale trade
in every branch of commerce. Next
comes railroad facilities so distributed as
to effect the thorough settlement and de-
velopment of the country. And, third,
the planting of manufacturing establish
ply wants at profit to the maker of ar
ticles needed, yet still so low in cost as
to successfully compete with the same
varieties when shipped in from abroad.
That we have good country no intel
hgent person will deny.
As a competitor for the trade of the
entire Western portion Of the state Fort
Worth is the true and only legitimate
gateway.
We have the railways, but can stand
more of them. We have some COM
mendable manufacturing establishments
and their very prosperous growth from
small beginnings proves that ours is a
legitimate field for such enterprises,
and it suggests they should be more
varied and numerous, thus augmenting
our capital invested and our popula-
ton. 4
Not long since we heard it boosted on
the streets of a rival city that what
helped TO keep up the life of their retail
trade@was the fact that every quarter
session in their county, or nearly so,
Yas more or less under cultivation, with
q family residing thereon.
Whether this be true or not, all will
agree that the more people we settle in
our immediate vicinity or in any portion
of the territory tributary to us will add
to the legitimate growth of the city.
The writer had ten years experience
in aiding the growth of now prosperous
city in Kansas, and looks back
with pride and satisfaction to the fact
that he was always loyal to her people at
home or abroad, and lived to see her get
away with most formidable rival Fort
a much larger place-re-
sembles her in the cohesive tendency of
her people. They stand firm and stick
together.
We have seen the folly of illegitimate
booms in the complete collapse of Los
Angeles, Cal. /, and the bursting of the
great bubble-W Wichita, Kan, city of
perhaps IS 900 Inhabitants, with corpo-
ration limits expanded by spurious meth
DDS until they had room enough for $780,
BOO. Whenever the business men of any
city act on the theory of getting men
Of capital ''stuck AS they call it in
their booming schemes, legitimate or il
egitimate-so as to compel them to put
IN still more in order to float the enter
prise until they can get out without loss,
they lay the ground work for collapse and
disgrace to all concerned and ruin, per-
maps, to some.
The writer has observed the growth of
Fort Worth for six years. In that time
ler banking capital has swelled from
hundreds of thousands to millions of dol
ars, with never a failure. The mere
mention of which fact will suffice to in6i-
cate legitimate and satisfactory growth |
IND save enumerating thousands of other
evidences of life, which all sagacious per-
sons will readily see must flow from such |
/ fountain. The liberal spirit of Fort |
Worth in erecting the Spring Palace |
shows that her methods are wise as well |
IS magnanimous, and will inspire WIDE
pread confidence in the future She |
vas satisfied to know that in its system
tic entirety 1t was hers, while in all the /
separate departments the cumulative spirit |
# the different localities exhibiting OBJ |
aimed such full scope in such pleasant |
manner that all were satisfied The |
ruits of this noble enterprise are yet to |
re harvested. The Fort Worth and Rio |
irande railroad company acted promptly |
nd succeeded in bringing many of the
COUNTIES of Southwest Texas prom
nently before the public through the ex-
client exhibits of their products
The Fort Worth and Rio Grande now