Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-27
BUILDING AND REALTY.
A New Factory that Will Add to Fort
WOFth's Importance.
A New Building and IOan Association Organ
ICED in the City-Improvemants Under
Way at Arlington Heights.


ideas of our people must expand as Fort
Worth has expanded. The time when
men gave $500 and $1,000 to enterprises
| calculated to benefit Fort Worth has
| passed. Men have grown rich here,
and the time has come for them
| ia talk $4,000, $40 900 and even $40 900.
| With little education and realization
| of the fact that such investments or do
| nations will make our citizens richer, our
| people will do their duty. Another thing
| we need at this time is some object GEN.
trail in character for which all can work.
| There is not property owner in
| Fort Worth who Is not interested in
securing fine hotel for this city. This
| city is suffering daily for want of a grand
| hotel. Owners of lots on the principal
| streets are of course more deeply inter-
ested than others, and if they would get
together and take $3.50, 900 of stock in
| a $3.50, 900 hotel the balance of the
money needed could be raised by bond
ing the building and site. Mr.. A. W.
Caswell suggests this plan, and Mr.. W.
A. Huffman has, l understand, agreed
to take $50, 900 of stock. Here is be-
ginning, and 1 understand several others
are ready to take large blocks
of stock. If $3.50 900 hotel
were under way, in the next few months
every lot on Main, Houston Rusk and
Throck morton streets would increase in
value 331 per cent. and values all over
the city and in the suburbs would appTe-
ciate considerably. -
FORT WORTH MUST SPREAD.
Hundreds of houses are being built in
Fort Worth as homes for her citizens,
but still the supply OF houses does not
begin to fill the demand. Fort Worth
Is gigantic clearinghouse, there are
more people TO the number of houses
than in any city in Texas. This must
and will change, cottage residences
and more pretentious houses will be
built in all the suburbs, while rows of
flats will adorn residence streets in the
city. When a large portion of Fort
Worth's population are domIciled in
houses of their own, three, four, five
and six in a house, men will
stop talking acreage property
and will talk lots. Every
clerk and man of small means, and even
servant girls, will invest his or her saw
ings in a lot which at some time shall be
a site for q home. Fort Worth will
spread in the next twelve months in a
way that will astonish most people.
There will be development north, west,
south and east, as fast as people can
reach the beautiful additions to the city u.
NURSERY, SEED AND CANNING COMPANY.
Some weeks ago this company was
organized III Fort Worth, and a charter,
with an authorized capital of 500, 900,
obtained. George Strong was elected
president, William Bryce, vice. presi-
dent; E. A. Tamplet, secretary; W. u.
Manchester, treasurer; r. DTumm,
manager, and, together with these gen.
tlemen, W. A. Huffman, J. c. Scott
and William Cauthorn were elected |
directors. Subscription books have been |
opened and $50, ZOO of the stock taken. |
The company already owns fifteen |
acres Of land half mile |
from the city limits, where |
extensive nurseries have already been |
established. There are eight hot houses |
with u 900 square feet of glass and these |
houses are filed with rare plants. IN |
one of the green houses is found an album
dance of smilax, in another roses, glad
iolas, narcisons and bulbs Of all kinds, |
in another 100 varieties of geraniums,
colnes, moon vines, etc. In another |
carnations and the finest collection
of chrysanthemums in the South are |
found, there being ITO varieties of the
latter, among them the Mrs. Alpheus
Hardy and Mrs. Carnegie. Another
green house is given up to beautiful
roses. among them the Bride, Catherine
Mermett, Pearl de Jardihe and Sunset.
In another green house are found baby |
evergreens, Japan cedars, bezonias, Of
which there are seventy-two varie-
ties, among them the late novel
ties brought from their native home
in, fhn o1a Dc Prov ef, |
named varieties of lovely pansies can
also be seen. In fact everything in the
nursery line from horse radish, bananas,
sage, asparagus, rhubarb and fruit to
the rarest flower are here. Manager
Drumm informs THE GAZETTE that Fort
Worth from this nursery supplies
San Antonio, Dallas,
Austin, Corpus Christi, FL Psso,
Albuquerque, Deming, n. NJ. Laredo
and hundreds of other places. The
reason of this is that Fort Worth has the
soil in which to grow everything and has
trunk lines to ship on reaching all points
as soon as possible. Mr.. Manchester is
now soliciting subscriptions to the stock
and hopes in q short time to announce to
the directors that sufiuient stock has
been taken to begin work on large
cannery.
NOTES OF PROGRESS.
The massive foundation for the Martin
Brown seven-story building is nearly in.
z. T. Hall and J. G. Jones of Johnson
county invested $4,000 in Fort Worth real
estate yesterday.
Frank Killoren of Stoneham, Mass. a
merchant, will come to Fort Worth to go
INTO business in April.
The great artesian well being drilled
by the city of Fort Worth has reached
lepth Of thirty-sIx feet.
There was considerable activity in
real estate circles yesterday, and some
leals Of magnitude were contaminated.
Bishop Key of the Methodist church
has purchased four acres of land on
Buena Vista Heights. and viii erect ]
Inc residence thereon.
Messrs. Gardner Work and R. NJ.
Oickerson returned yesterday from a trip
% Galveston, Houston, San Antonio and
'ther Texas cities, and say Fort Worth is
ahead Of any Of them.
The granitic roofing company have
the work OF clearing on the /,