Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-18
REALTY AND BUILDING.
The Fort Worth Packing Company
Adopts Plans and Will Build
at Once.
The Sylvania Car I Inc to Be- Fuilt Immediately
Increase In the Number Of Business
HOuses-NOtes of Progress

The week opened active in real estate
with the recorded transfers aggregating
| about 500, 900, making the sales for
March over 81, 200 900. Besides the
sales recorded there were four deals
known of amounting to over SIS, 900.
The county clerk $ record yesterday
showed that citizens OF Illinois, Ohio and
Missouri had invested in Fort Worth.
NEW BUSINESS HOUSES.
Mr.. Gard, the Fort Worth agent for
R. G. Dun s. Co., kindly furnishes The
GAZETTE with information regarding the
increase in business houses in this city.
On January l the reference book showed
$50 names of business concerns The re-
port to March l showed 6S3 names, an
increase of twenty four, and since March
| l thirty new names have been added
Al increase of ffty-four business con-
Germs in seventy-five days is certainly a
| splendid showing. There is but one
vacant store in Fort Worth, that twenty
FIVE feet by ninety feet on Main street, in
| building just COMPLETED.
| THE sYLvANIA DEAL.
Zeno c. Ross, attorney for John C..
Avery of New York and his associates,
says the syndicate has finally been able
TO find charter, paving $50, 900 for it.
The company known as the Fort Worth
| Land company is now incorporated under
! this charter, with a capital of 81 ,000,-.
600. The steel rails and the
ties for the street railway company
have been bought, the bridge
for.the Trinity and the cars ordered. Mr..
Ross says work on the car line and on
extensive improvements will begin imme-
diately and a good pert of the work will
be completed before the Spring Palace
opens. A number of applications for
lots in Sylvania have already been made
and inside of twelve months Sylvania will
contain large population.
FORT WORTH PACKING COMPANY.
One of the enterprises that is destined
to do much for Fort Worth's prosperity
is the immense packery to be erected
near the Union stockyards by the Fort
Worth packing company. j. c. Mo
Carthy Of this company said yesterday
that the plans of J. Thomas of Kansas
City had been accepted and specifications
were being prepared land bids to construct
the packery will be asked for this week.
The first outlay will amount to over
5000 900. 1t will be but few months I
until the largest packery south Of Kansas
City will be in full operation in Fort
Worth.
NOTES OF PROGRESS.
James Ryan has built thirteen resi-
dences in the last sixty days md finds the
demand so great that he continues to
build.
G. n. Rintleman is building three |
dwellings on Elm street, near Seven
teenth, and will in few days begin the |
construction of two-story brick busi- |
moss house on the corner of Seventeenth /
and Elm.
Hyde Jennings is having plans pre-
pared for a magnificent residence to cost
S25 900. 1t will be one of the most
elegantly appointed and finished houses
in Fort Worth.
One firm of architects are preparing
plans for six residences to cost from
$4,000 to $50 900.
J. II. Mccarthy of Little Rock, presi-
dent of the Exchange national bank and
a member of one of the largest railroad
building firms in the United States, has
been IN the city for three days, and the
object of his visit will be made apparent |
III few days.
E. S. Perryman of Mobile, Ala. who
has already built ten cottage residences
In Fort Worth, is negotiating for property
on which to build four more houses.
Brick work on the four J N. Robbins
aok no
A fine tesselated pavement is being put
down around the Grand Natatorium
building.
The walls of the beautiful new stone
church for the congregation of the First
Presbyterian church are now about ten
feet above the ground.
The foundations of st. Paul's Metho-
dist church are about done. This church
will cost $50, 900.
The massive walls of st. Patrick's
Catholic church, to cost S110 900, are
now fourteen feet high.
Work on the Casey & Swasey bottling
works will soon be under way.
Max Elser of the Fort Worth bagging
and cordage works says they will use all
the okra fiber they can obtain. The
looms Will begin to turn out juts bagging
next month.
FAVOR PARK.
A GAZETTE reporter yesterday put the
question to several gentlemen: "What
do you think of park?'' and they an
swered as follows:
Thomas Roche-We should have one
by all means, and now while property is
cheap is the time to buy. It should be
the eity's duty, pleasure and pride to
improve park in every possible way.
The tax payers would not object to any
expenditure for purpose OF this kind. ,
Jesse J Melton-I am sixty-two years
Did to-day and the love of my present
young days is Fort Worth, and know !
Of nothing that would so conduce to the
of my home city as would !
, park covering 100 acres or more.
Now is the time TO buy it.
say buy now, because 1 do not believe
as some do that now is the time to sell. ;
believe that in six months property wiz
have advanced at least Is per cent. Let
is have park by all means.
Zeno G. Ross-I think il inexeussb1e