Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-06
TEYAs PROGRESS.

The First national bank at Graham has
just completed u two-story buil1ing at
cost OF $40 900.
San Angelo has just acquired the dig
nifty and convenience of electric lights,
and has let contracts for waterworks. the
water supply to be piped several miles
from The Middle Concho river.
Greenville has contracted for Sl4 900
electric light plant, and will have it set
up aud in operation inside of sixty days.
The work on the Masonic hall at Corn
Hill, Williamson county, is moving OIL.
The building will soon be ready for oc-
cupancy.
The material for the artesian well has
at last been received, says the Cleburne
Tribune. The contractors express de-
termination to comply with their agree
ment, and say they will 90 1000 feet be-
fore they give up. There is no doubt but
that by the time the POGO feet is reached
the water will he running over the top of
the we'll.
The contracts for building the street
car line and sinking an artesian well NJ
WhitesborO, GraysOn county, have been
let and the cars will be running within
sixty days. Work on the we'll will begin
Immediately.
The new bank building Mt Tyler is just
on the point of completion and will be &C.
cupied Immediately.
II has been discovered, SAYS the Hen
derson Times, that Nacogdoches is built
right square on a bed of green mari that
will in few years be worth millions as a
fertilizer. There are several hundred
acres of the article liz Rusk county.
The Cactus club of Ell Paso will erect a
$50, 600 club house.
Dirt has been broken for the new bank
building at Haskell, and will be COM
pleted by March. Another fine building
is to be erected near by.
The iron bridge, which is to be put
across Elm on the Pilot Point and Dem
ton road, where the former bridge was
washed down, says the Post Mirror,
was unloaded from the cars Monday As
soon rs hauled out to the site the work of
placing will commence. The King iron
bridge company, of Cincinnati, has the
contract. The main span is 100 feet and
the approaches, which will be of wood
tressel, are to be 260 feet.
There is rumor of two moro banks
being established IN Abilene soon.
The Round Rock bank opened Its doors
for business last week with q capital of
about 5000, 900. The First National
bank of Round Rock Is the name of q
bank that will begin business about Jan
uary l. The bank building is under con-
tract, and will soon be ready for the
vaults, which are on hand.
A clearing house is being organized at
San Antonio.
Several large pastures in Navarro
county have been cut up INTO con venient
farms and neat cottages erected on them.
DENTON, Oct. 31.-A question that
has been agitated by the people and pro-
gressiye citizens for a long time past has
just been settled. 1t is the waterworks
and electric light system. The city
council at their last meeting signed d
contract for complete system, and
work will commence at an early date.
brentwood, Oct. 3l.-At the sug-
gestion of W. W. Roberts of Tyler, the
business men held a meeting this evening
IN the rooms of the City national bank
for the purpose of organizing joint
stock company to erect cotton compress
ut this point. Thirty thousand dollars
was raised at once, and the press will be
ready for the next crop.
CORPUS CHRISTI, Nov. 2.-The board
of trade held d largely attended meeting
last night TO secure large cotton mill,
Is 900 spindles, employing 500 hands,
which resulted in the immediate cor
with New England cotton
mill owners. H. 3. Chamberlain, Dem
yer, was present, and expressed the
belief that the cotton mill can be secured |
here owing 10 its nearness to deep water,
which, he says, is certainly ut Ropes |
Pass, and the early com pletiou of the |
railroad to Brownsville, which will open |
up an excellent market for the product |
not only in the United States but Mexico |
and South America.