Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-24
WE MUST HUMP.
A Few Views as to Fort Worth and
Her Future.
What We Want is FsopIe-HOw Shall We Get
Them and How Shall We Employ Them
When they Come?
Fort WORM, TEX. Oct. %, 1890

FORT WORTH, Text Oct. %, 1870.
To the Gazette.
Permit me TO express my views on the
future of Fort Worth, l have been
citizen of this city at different periods for
twelve years, but spending the principal
part OF my time on the range, or, in the
familiar phrase, "punching cows l
finally settled down in Fort Worth three
years ago. At that time everything was
duh, and, owing to i'll health, 1 moved
TO Color ado, going into the mining camp
TO make my torture digging gold, finally
landing in Denver, where l spent some
four months, landing back in Gods
country one year ago the 22d Of last Sep
TENDER. AS is usually the case, 1 came
straight back to my first love, Fort
Worth, wiser if not better man. l
say wiser man because l had gained con-
siderable knowledge IN what built
town, and that in all the country l had
been in | found none as good as Texas.
I was raised in the North and have tTav-
eled ara speculated over number of
the Northern states, and have made
trips North every two or three years, al
ways singing the praises of the grand
Lone Star.
Now Mr.. Editor am not a millionaire
going to start n bank with million dol
lar stock paid in, or build factory (on
paper to work 200 hands. No, my
personal finances are limited, but will
tell you what have got, full stock of
energy. And 1 have come TO Fort
Worth to stay and Fort Worth is per-
fectly welcome to my full stock of en-
a., nfA lfuI, Co.,
the present is smalO, that l can spare.
l might say 1 have already, through
my personal influence, brought
some Ave or six good citizens,
and am at present in direct correspon-
deuce with party of farmers in Mis-
souri who want to settle in Texas, and
will have some ten or fifteen here in
few weeks that represent large colony.
II the investigation of these parties are
satisfactory there will be some fifty fam
lilies come down ut once. l have made
arrangements with q certain railroad to
take these people and show them just
what they are coming to look for, cheap
homes, of rich soil and a climate equal
10 California. Climate comes gratis of
course, and [ will say right here, when
we meet on street corners or ut the
board OF commerce ana discuss the
question there as well as through the
columns of THE GAZETTE, chow to ad-
vertise,' did you ever ask the question,
do we advertise so as TO reach the far
rrer direct? Now it is all very we'll to
advertise for capitalists TO come and in
vest IN different enterprises. but let me
sag 10 you If we will bring the farming
classes here, settle and put into cultiva-
"a,
ing land, capital will come.
Suppose the Texas and Pacific and Fort
Worth and Denver roads each had 200
carloads more OF farm Products to haul
every season which were raised and mar
keted along their lines, DON'T you think
this would help to build Fort Worth?
Give Fort Worth the resources to draw
from and with the energy and enterprise
of her citizens what may we look for?
a rgreat city, l think Gen. Cameron
drove the pail home when he said people
Is what we want. They are not only what
we want, but what we must have to
build city and populate our great state,
and we must remember we cannot settle
them all In Fort Worth. II takes two
distinct and separate parties TO run this
old world of ours, the producer and the
consumer. We might build the popula-
ton of every city in Texas to 1000 900
each; vet if we had no one producing for
us how long would we exist? First pro-
duce the article then manufacture and
consume II, and If we will only devise
some means of getting cut pamphlet of
statistics, reporting everything just as
the farmer will find 1t when he comes
here and send il directly 10 him-for IN
stance, get from the different tax collec-
tors of the counties the name of all the
tax paying farmers in his county and
mail them direct to the farmer himself
he will then read it. He wants informa-
ton of this kind, and this kind of
information he can rely upon. The
farmer is not such a ''hayseed" as we
som times take him TO be. He comes
along and finds lot of posters hanging
on a post. He passes them by, suppos-
ing they are some blowout" or circus
bills, and By giving him what he wants
he appreciates ami reads it. Then we