Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-29

the beginning only. Plans are on foot
that will add 600 residences to Fort Worth
in the next year. One company ha:
made arrangements for seven per cent.
money with which to carry on extensive
building operations, and the building and
loan associations, seven in number, are
doing good work in this same line.
PROJECTS IN HAND.
Let the candid man read what Fort
Worth is working for and build
ing, and then compare the
record made here with that
of any other city and draw his own con-
illusions. Fort Worth is building:
a tsunery and shoe factory,
A large pork packery,
An iron rolling mill,
A wooden mill,
A sash, door and blind factory,
A large bottling works,
a cordage factory,
Granite roofing works,
Cement works,
Machine shops,
A huge refrigerator.
She is hard at work in efforto to Sc
cure:
A large cotton mill,
An immense brewery,
A large furniture factory,
A Sl00 ZOO military institute,
Two railroads,
A pillow factory,
Tbs finest hotel in Texas.
The Fort Worth and Denver machine
shops to cost $500, 900, and which will be
the largest and best in Texas, giving
employment TO 600 men, will soon be up-
der way, and where now the broad
prairie ia found bustliEg little settle
ment of 1000 souls will exist in few
months.
THE REFRIGERATOR.
A telegram has been sent by the
chamber of commerce to President StoG-
dard of the state dressed beef company
notifying him that Fort Worth accepted
the proposition made, and would build
the 500, goo beef refrigerator, work on
the stone and brick buildings to begin
just as soon as he desired. Up to last
night some SOS 900 of the SI00 900 had
been secured, and the Fort Worth loan
and construction company gave the local
company notice that 1t would furnish
whatever the balance required might be
and take mortgage bonds for same. An
effort will be made TO increase the
whether this Is done or not the entire
500, 600 is at command.
NEW STREET RAILWAYS.
Fort Worth to-day has the best street.
car service in the South, but it will soon
be much improved by addition of new
lines. 1t will only be few weeks until
the Arlington Heights electric railway
will be in operation and five miles of
track added to that already in use.
Work Is to begin on the two and half
miles of electric railway to Riverside
in a very short time, and inside of sixty
days Pullman palace vestibule cars will
be running to Svlvania. The Park street
railway company expects to begin opera
tions on its line in q short time. This
line will run to Park Place, to Ayondale,
Mistletoe Heights and Manchester.
ELEVATED STREET RAILWAY.
Fort Worth was the first city In Texas
to have electric street cars. and now she
is the first city to have an elevated
street railway. 1t Is proposed
by R. E. Maddox, e. M. Turner
James W. swayne and others of this
city aud capitalists in ST. Louis to con-
struct an elevated street railway leading
from the courthouse square to the dense
ly populated districts southeast of Fort
Worth. Tho route of the road as pres
ent mapped out, Is from the courthouse
out West Weatherford street to Throok-
morton, down Throckmorton past the
Ellis hotel to Fourth street, east on
Fourth street past the Pickwiek aud Man.
sion 70 Jones, Calhoun, or some paral-
lei street, thence TO the Union depot.
Lake park, Hyde park addition and be-
yopd. The road is to be built on one
line of supports, using the patent road
invented by Messrs. Turner, Taylor and
Maddox. Electric motors will be used.
No wires will be necessary.
r. E. Maddox yesterday let the con-
tract for the erection OF the finest stables
west of the Mississippi river. It will
contain 100 stalls for fine horses. The
main building will be 40xl60 feet, with
400 feet of wings. The building will be
IN the center of Maddoxia Park farm,
and will be superior TO the famous Belle
Mead stables. The cost will be about
$50 900.
The foundations of the Granitic Roof
ing oompany's buildings at Manchester
are in, and in sixty days the buildings
will be completed. They will be of
stone and brick, 5oxlS0 feet, two
stories.
W. W. Dunn will expend S145, 900 in
adding large building to the Mansion
hotel and in alterations.
Mrs. Josephine Ryan viii erect $780,
900 residence on Summit hill.
The stoneWork on the eight-stery
Hurley building will be completed by
night, and the building viii be
ready for occupancy by September /.
The two story stons. ana brick building
25xl00 feet being sArsetsd by the Hsim
brewing company IS going up rapidly.
It will be used as vault and bottling
works. A Gne stable, large enough for
twenty hcrses will be built near the
vault.
ssssrs. Turner Maddox and Taylor