Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-10

johnson, furniture dealers; R. N.
Wright, jeweler and matchmaker; Jen-
kins s. Jenkins, lumber dealers; VIII
liams & Hewitt, makers and dealers in
bugges and carriages; T. C. Houston,
and G. Hoting, blacksmiths; Frank
Ponce, confectionery and newsdealer.
The Changers and the Farmers Alliance
each have fiOurishing stores here. e.
Droesher, gun and looksmith; e. o.
Jannette, confectioner; j. W. Gray and
Thomas B. Stone each are doing q fine
drug business; William Reeves & Co.,
private bankers, are doing an excellent
banking and exchange business.
An elegant new courthouse, a cut of
which is seen above has just been COM
pleted, at a cost of about $50, 900. The
Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians.
Christians and EpIscopalans all have
church organizations. The four first
named have good church. houses and the
Methodists are now building a new house
and the Baptists are adding to their pres
ent building, each when completed will
compare we'll with the best churches in
the interior towns of the state, or the
South. We have also Masonic and Odd
Fellows lodges, Knights of Homer,
Knights and Ladi1s OF Honor and Legion
of Honor. A fourishing public free
school which is in operation ten months
in year. Two weekly newspapers, the
Caldwell News, which has just received
an elegant Chicago stop-cylinder press
and complete outfit, and the Caldwell
Chronicle, which has a good outfit. Two
good livery stables, one run
by Bell & Broad dus, the other
by R. H. Morgan & Bro. Six ply
sicians, eight lawyers and three hotels.
While all the above named merchants
and business men are doing well, yet
there is ample room for many more with
ample capital. for, as said above, the
capital now invested in the mercantile
business in the place is totally made
quate to the demands of the territory
which is legitimately tributary to the
place, and it is believed that twice the
capital which is now here would be the
means of increasing the mercantile BUSH
ness of the town four fold. While the
above is strictly true, and from which it
will be seen that Caldwell Is now an in
vitIng field for parties of means desiring
to engage in business, yet when we look
at the future of the surrounding country
it will be seen that Caldwell
and Burleson county are very in
viting fields for parties who want
to invest in real estate, either in the
country or in the town. Burleson eoun-
ty has an area of G51 square miles, and a
population of about u 600. 1t will be
seen by an examination of the annual
report of the agricultural bureau Of the
state that Burleson is one Of the very
best farming counties in the state
Lands in Burleson are now selling for
much less than similar lands in any other
agricultural county in the state, postoak
lands selling at from So to So per acre,
and prairie lands from S. to $40. Thus
it will be seen that persons desiring good,
cheap homes cannot fail to do well to
come here, where lands are cheap, and
will be sold on long time to actual
settlers, at q low rate OF
interest. There is now a good flow Of
immigration to the county and lands
it is good country in
capital with the assurance that it will in
crease 100 fold in very few years. One
of the pressing needs of Caldwell and
Burleson county is increased banking
facilities. A national bank with good
capital would be profitable to those in
vesting in it and of great convenience
and advantage TO the town and county.
Ten thousand bales of cotton were
shipped from Caldwell during the last
season, considerable increase over the
shipment of any previous year. The
total production of cotton in the county
last year was about 25 600 bales And
ia addition to the cottqa shipment there
were q considerable cattle and other
shipments OF stock from the county.