Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-01-06
VERNON.
Pease River Bridge Accepted by Com.
missionerS' COurt-Fine Structure.
A Wichita River Bridge Needed-Land Titles
That Should be Made Good by the
Twenty-First Legislature.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
VERNON, Ten. Jan. 1.-The commits
sioners court was in session Monday and
Tuesday of this week, in which time they
did a great deal of valuable work. The
court Monday afternoon, in company
with S. A. Oliver of the firm of S. A .
Oliver s. Bro. of Houston, Tex, state
agents for the King Iron Bridge Company
of Cleveland, Ohio, visited the bridge
across Pease river, just north of town
which had just been completed. The
bridge is an immense structure, 1892
is high truss wrought iron, and
the balance is trestling. The
commissioners, without exception, were
highly pleased, and after examining and
measuring it returned to the courthouse
and formally excepted it and ordered
payment for the same
The bridge cost $40 800, payable III
bridge bonds running twenty years at Z
per cent. interest, redeemable at the
pleasure of the county. 1t is a magnifi-
cent structure and is one of the most
valuable Improvements made in the
county and reflects credit upon the court
that contracted for its building and the
present court that provided for its pay
ment.
The court also accepted three small
bridges, which were very necessary to
travel, and directed the payment there
for. Wilbarger county, in all her public
improvements, has built well, wisely and
permanently.
The court also granted the franchise to
a home company to build a street car
railway on four of the prominent streets
of Vernon, which is to be completed in
one year.
The roller mills viii be ready for work
in Il few days then Vernon will be the
wheat market of the largest territory in
North Texas.
Our people are working in harmony
with the people of Seymour to erect a
bridge across the Wichita river If this
can be done we will secure the trade of
Baylor county and the enterprising town
of Seymour. This point is their nearest
and natural trading point, but the
Wichita river is in the way. With that
bridged, Vernon is fifteen miles nearer
Seymour than Wichita Falls, and offers
them Il better market for all that they
can produce; and if the Wichita were
bridged the northern part of Baylor
county would settle faster than any other
part of the county, thereby adding thou
sands of dollars to their taxable values
annually.
Vernon will make an effort to incOT-
pOTate in a few days, not only for school
purposes, but for all purposes. The peo-
pie are beginning to feel that the general
laws regulating school matters and the
sanitary affairs necessary to the welfare
of a growing town like Vernon are
wholly insufficient to meet the demands
of our progress.
improvements, especially dwelling
houses, are increasing daily. The town
is not outgrowing the country; men of
means are buying lands daily and are
erecting good and substantial houses
with barns, and are fencing and blowing
for spring crops. There has been no
freeze yet that has stopped the plowman.
Wheat never looked better, and every
thing points TO a bountiful harvest of all
crops this year. The terrible effects of
the severe drouth of two years ago are
almost forgotten, and if the Twenty
first legislature will do its duty
to the people, who were COM
PEELED 10 buy school lands, as the
state land board dictated and quit their
titles, then, indeed I'VE viii be a happy
people. But should the Twenty first
legislature be as blind to sense of jus
tice as was the Twentieth legislature,
then many poor people who have suffered
the priyations of q frontier life. who have