Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-16
ABOUT FORT WORTH.
What the PIuekiest city IN Texas "a Doing
and frying TO Oo-Notes
Of Progress.
SENT TO THE PRESIDENT.

ZETrE Office yesterday a giant sweet po-
tato, weighing 2l34 pounds and measur-
ing 80 inches in circumference one way
and 80 inches another. 1t was raised by
r. Clayter at Colorado City, Mitchell
county. In accordance with the request
of Mr.. Clavter, the huge potato was ex-
pressed to President Harrison.
THE COTTON MILL.
Work on the buildings of the cotton
mills will be under way much earlier
than is generally supposed by the people
of Fort Worth.
A strong company has been organized
with George Taylor, lately OF Man
chester, England, who IS thoroughly
experienced cotton goods manufacturer
AS president. TO build and operate the
Fort Worth mill. They hive the plans
for the mill nearly ready for bids. They
promise TO submit same in few days
for our contractors TO bid on. Mr.. Tay-
lor il building mill now and says the
machinery for same has been ordered
and hat he will ct once send duplicate
order for machinery for this mill.
The Texas and Pacific will put sldings
in right away and ample facilities for
doing business there. By March Is the
ma ohinerY will be in the building ready
for operation. Let il be remembered
that this COMPANY give an acceptable
bond to operate this mill and have con-
tracted for twenty i've wellmgs for rent
for two years, and will require twice as
many more. This industry will add
greatly TO the wealth and prosperity of
Fort Worth. The cotton mill in opera
ton will add several hundred people TO
our citizenship and will aid the retail
trade greatly. The year 1891 will
dawn brightly on the city of Fort Worth.
Messrs. Moses and Sugerman. two en-
terprisiug merchants of Trinidad, COL
orado, desiring larger constituency to
draw trade from, closed lease contract
yesterday with Mrs. w. A. Huffman and
j. B. Simpson for the building now &C.
cupied by the Martini Brown company.
They will occupy the whole building,
which is so by 100 feet, four stories high,
and will open up one Of the largest retail
dry goods establishments in the sou;h-a
veritable emporium, in fact. Several
thousand dollars will be expended by the
owners of the building fitting IL for their
purpose. One of the firm informed O
GAZETTE reporter last night that they
were here during the holding of the
Spring Palace and we're then so i'm
gress of This city and as q field for BUSH
ness that they resolved to move here.
II was matter of business with them,
he said, and they thought Fort Worth
the best town they could have struck if
they had scraped .he earth and skinned
the sea.
'We have contracted for lease on
the building for Eve years. said he,
&. int ho
every sense of the word. We will bring
with us about twenty CLERKS and employ
about forty persons in all. We thought
that the town was ripe for just the sort
of an establishment We propose to put
in. ~
THE STOVE FOUNDRY.
The stove foundry is in excellent con-
iition, II is now known as the Moore
$50 900. For forty days past twenty
men have been at work but this
number will be increased at |
once to fifty men. The directors of the |
new company met yesterday and elected !
D. f. White, president; J. F. Moore,
rice president and general manager; W.
Q. Manchester. secretary, and Thomas
A. Tidal, treasurer. These GENTLE
men, with C.. E. Lee and NJ.
Dillon, constitute the directory.
Two cars Of heavy machinery, the heav-
est In Texas, came in yesterday and
will be placed in position at once. The
Moore iron works will make
toyes, architectural iron work, boiler
work, well-drilling machinery, horse
powers aud casting generally. There Is
liso brass foundry in connection with
ha ,ron u,rks presieiene whife savs the |