Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-01

1nese wells are from ia 10 SOC
feet deep, aud many OF Them are flowing
wells. No othe city in Texas
has been able TO secure this water, Fort
WoIth, it seems, being located directly
over stIbterranean river, which flows
flom the hills miles away. These wells
have been flowing since 1879, aud have
never been exhausted So it viii be seen
that no city in the country has better
sdfer or more wholesome water supply
The aItesian water bath is pronounced by
phy sicians equal to that of many. hot
springs, and 1t is n common thing for
people to come thirty miles simply 10 en-
joy bath in this wafer.
MANUFACTURING INTERESTS.
IL has only been IN the last few years
that Fort Worth has devoted any atten-
ton to the establishment of manufacture
ip5 enterprises. Tie chief obstacle in the
way OF large enterprises OF this kind was
the uncertain supply OF coal and It's great
cast owing 10 the distance it had to be
hauled. With the securing OF her last
railroads Fort Worth has overcome this
difficulty and no longer relies on one road
CT one place for its supply. The Fort
Worth and Denver now brings in Trinidad
coal at low figures, while the extensive
mines seventy miles west of the city on
the Texas and Pacific are being
rapidly developed. a road will soon
be built and controlled by Fort Worth
people to the great coal fields from
Twenty-Five to fifty miles distant, when
ccal can be laid down III Fort Worth for
manufacturing purposes at 81 to So per
ton. With Gu unbounded water supply,
cheap fuel and the best distributing IA
cilities of any city in Texas as well as its
nearness to the raw material, Fort
Worth will certainly become a great
manufacturing city. Already the most
extensive iron and brass foundry and
machine works in the state are located
here. These works were started by four
young men six years ago with cash
capital of $500, and to-day the money
invested in land buildings and machinery
aggregate S62 ,000 This history can be
repeated in the near future in other
lines.
The only Spanish moss mandatory in
the United states has been established
here and has proved very successful
It's wares have been sold as far north as
New York City and Toledo, Ohio, and its
horse collars are i'll use in many of the
southern cities
A large tannery has been successfully
operated for more than year and
stock company to establish a second tan
merry has been formed.
Wool securing works and woGl pulling
works have recently been built on a
small scale and are in operation 1t |
it is found that the artesan water |
used in securing is equal to that at Wal |
pole, Mass, to which place the wool |
purchased in Philadelphia and Boston is |
sent to be secured before being ready for
the manufacturer. A large pelt tannery |
will be run in connection with the scour-
ing works. This city already purchases
one half the wool pelt product of
the state and her securing works /
being the only ones in the south
west will in time make her the great wool
market of Texas. There are dozen en-
.erprises which might be established in
connection with the wool industry that
you'd prove profitable.
A large baking powder factory is doing
/ heavy business, supplying large por-
ion of the state.
Fort Worth has two vinegar works, two
arge candy factories, four broom works,
hree mattress factories, three artificial
ce manufactures with capacity of
ixty tons per day, a paper box factory,
hree large book binderies, six printing
two boot and shoe facto-
les, at present in their infancy, the Iarg-
st stamp, die and seal works in the
tate, a cigar factory, cornice works,
Flaming mills, and numerous other facto-
les on small scale.
During the past year the Granite Roof
ne Works have been built and are now
The plant cost $50 600.
Fort Worth has the only beef refriger-
ting establishment III Texas, with ca
,acity of 500 beeves per day. These
works. have been idle for some time, but
viii probably soon be in operation, giving
Employment to a large number of men.
Fort Worth is most inviting field for
he investment of capital in factories.
he capitalist would do well to examine
nto this matter.
UNION sToCKYARDs.
In December, 1887, capital of $780,
90 was invested in Fort Worth Union
tockyards by four of the railroad com
anies and citizens of Fort Worth. Work
J being pushed on these yards, and they
7ill be in operation in the
ext few months. Fort Worth
the recognized live stock
enter of Texas, and several Chicago,
t. Louis and Kansas City live stock
callers have established agencies here.
FORT WORTH SCHOOLS.
The city maintains system of public
chools for ten months in the year.
ixty- three thousand dollars has been in
ested in school buildings and lands in
he past few years, and the school board
ill soon take steps to erect large cen
raj high school building. The average
ally attendance at these schools is over
700, instructed by excellent teachers,
Tho are paid from $50 to $1O0 per month.
n addition to the public school system
re the Wesleyan College, Warren InstI-
ute. Business College, Catholic parochial
chool, Catholic convent school, and a
lumber of private schools.
CHURCHES.
Nearly all the religious denominations
re represented in Fort Worth. And
sveral very fine church edifices are now
eing built. The congregations are now
uilding churches, which will cost $751;
90.
NEW BUILDINGS.