Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-13
TEYAS PROGRESS.

There is prospect Of a new opera house
being built at Waco. II is 10 be the
property of a stock company and cost
500, 600. The house will he ready for
occupancy next season and will he used
for first-class attractions only.
There is some strong talk, says the
Pecos Valley News. of q company being
formed for the purpose of putting in q
GAO acre vineyard near this place. There
is money i'll the enterprise and hope TO
announce its successful execution.
A handsome depot of the celebrated
Pecos brown sandstone will be erected
soon at Pecos City, and an elegant hotel
TO be built of the same stone, has been
chartered and will go up at time rot
fer distant.
The merchants of Terrell did the
largest business Saturday, says the
Register, ever before i ne in the history
of the town. one dry goods firm took in
over $1,000, while others took i'll a like
wise sum. The town was crowded the
eutire day.
The Weatherford Constitution: As
soon as an estimate is had on the stone
work, which will be by next week, work
on the new depot i'll this city will COM
meuce. 1t Will be two stories high, with
II large cellar, and will be the finest de-
pot west OF Dallas. Work will also COM
mence on section house IN this city and
two between here and Mineral Wells
next week.
The iron for the two bridges 20 be built
across Indian creek in the suburb of
COmanche Is on the ground.
HaIletsvIlle is certainly coming out,
SAYS the Sinner Courier. The latest for
the capital city is steam laundry, a
fire company AMI Il street railway. The
latter will be put in by foreign 5yndi-
cate of capitalists.
The plan for the new hotel ut Floyd
City has been decided upon and the
building will be erected us quickly as
men, money and teams can get the ma
terials together.
a move is on foot ut Corsicana to bore
an artesian well. The civ council are
comforting with the contractors.
EustInnd has slowly but steadily been
improving for the past twelve months,
says the Chronicle. one stone building
75x90 has been erected on the public
square; one roller mill OF sixty barrels
capacity per dGy aud elevator OF 5000
bushels capacity; several new business
houses have opened up and about u
dozen or more new residences erected
and Il national bank with capital stock
OF $50 900 has been organized and a
broom factory put in operation, nil OF
which has been done during the past
year.
The ErGth national bank and opera
building at Stepbensville, now nearing
completion, will be one of the hand
soonest granite structures in Western
Texas.
Mr.. Crie of the Kansas City manufac-
turing company is authority for the
statement that without accidents the
dredse Josephine at Corpus Christi will
be in the gulf within the next thirty
days.
The Austin dam contract has been
signed aud Mr.. Corrigan expects 10 have
the dam completed inside of eighteen
months.
The Round Rock News says: The new
bank will come.
The new bridge across Soap Creek in
Gardner, Ellis county, has been COM
pieted.
Work on the new courthouse at Column
bus is progressing rapidly. When TN
ished It is to be opened by the T. \. l..
X. club of that city with II grand ball.
The San Antonio Light contains an in
terv!ew with Mr.. l.. J. Wortham in
which that gentleman says: All of the
bonds will be sold shortly. The manage
meut will take n large portion of them,
aud the balance will be readily disposed
of and as soon as President Schryver
returns work Oh the next far will begin
in earnest. | believe that within the
next thirty days work in the fair office
will be resumed with Its Old-time vigor
aud everything will proceed all smooth
and serene toward the materia l!zation of
one of the greatest fairs we have ever
had. The bonds Will bring i'll S65, 000,
which is entirely sufficient to cover the
lebrs Incurred through the three pre-
viouS fairs aud give the association II good
lund to work upon.
BARTLETT, Nov. lO.-Over $1,000
worth Of town lots were sold in Bartlett
during the month of October, and Bart
LETT is now enjoying u building boom uu-
p-pcedeuted in the town s history.
rhe Bartlett bank is doing an immense
business. The long list of signatures of
DEPOSIT shows that the farmers ure in
pr, sperous condition.
he wnterworhs company now have
men at work making excavations for an
ex In Sion of the mains on West Clark
street.
DUBLIN, Nov. S.-Boom spelled with a
big will be ice way 10 spell il for our
littlt city on dOndGy when the new cot
ton empress will commence operations.
The machinery is all in place and ruus
of very smoothly. The machinery was
all ready to try bale yesterday, but
owing to The general superstition about
Frida- il WAS decided to start in full
operation on Monday morning with 5000
bales II hand TO compress. The benefits
of this new enterprise to our city will
soon Ia felt in all circles. ''Hurrah for
the COP press.
EAs HAND, Oct. 6.-The Eastland
national bank has been organized and
capita. paid in. The directors are John
X. Hoyie, w. H. Parvin, F. w. James,
Will calhoun. j. d. Shelton, J. p.
Shnnnln, c. L. Conneilee, Martin Hill
and L. c. Downkin.
SEGJ y, Nov. 6.-At q meeting of the
city council last night it was determined
TO issue bonds TO build = Sl4 900 school
house aud make 5000 wortof improve
ments OF the streets. A eetine of citi-
EGGS was hsha9ss day Mencourage the
s3ta blIst ueM Of I uatNdal bank here.