Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-05
REALTY AND BUILDING.
Bank Clearings Increase A Per Cent.
for Last Week.
Progress on the New Electric Street Car Lines
Another Deep Arteslan Well-New
Residences Going Up.

The past week has been busy one IN
progress being made on the big buildings
in course of construction aud on q num-
Der OF new residences. In real estate
circles the feature OF the week has been
the advance in prices of Rusk street
property. The sale of lots in Prospect
Heights, and St. Helena Heights, to
people who want home sites has been
large.
NEW ELECTRIC RAILWAYS.
The work on the Riverside and Park
street electric railways has been pushed
during the week and in a few weeks
more these roads will be in operation.
The Hyde Park electric street car COM
pany expects to begin work on its line at
an early day.
THE LAST DAYS OF PoMPEH.
Manager SkifF of the Last Days of
Pompeii spectacle with remarkable en-
srgy has pushed work on the buildings,
grand stand and lake on the Spring
Palace grounds. He is spending
large sums of money to present
the work on grand scale.
Yesterday Contractor Kirkpatrick went
TO work excavsting for the lake with his
huge ditching machine, and in few
days the lake will be ready. Fifteen
citizens of Fort Worth, in order to secure
this great spectacle, have guaranteed
the sale of $50 boxes; seventy-five
OF them have been subscribed
for, aud a call is made on ali citizens
having the interest of Fort Worth at
heart TO aid in disposing OF the remain
lug seventy five boxes. The price OF
box seating ten persons for the entire
season of fifteen performances is
only 500. For further par
ticulars inquire of the secretary of the
chamber of commerce, whose office this
week will be ut Clio Main street. The
merchants could well afford to buy these
boxes and send the tickets to customers.
NOTES OF PROGRESS.
The Chamberlin investment company
Will to- morrow begin the erection of two
$3.50 residences on Arlington Heights.
Three residences are going up in St.
Helena Heights.
An addition is being made to the
wooden mill.
A deep artesian well is being drilled
at Hyde park. 1t will be 1900 feet deep.
St. Paul s Methodist Episcopal church
is rapidly being finished. The spire is
going up and the interior finish well IN
der way.
BANK CLEARINGs
Clearings of Fort Worth clearing
house:
Week ending October 4, ls9O...... 81. 599, go 6s
Same in l.24I GIG W
Respectfully, E. i. HAROLD,
Manager.
Per cent. increase, 44.3.
RECORDED TRANSFERS..
James Ryan TO A. NJ. Field,
lot II, block 20, Field IS sub
division Welsh survey. .....S $50 90
W. E. Butler to Texas land
trust company, lots % and
20, east half block Z, Field
wslch addition 800. 80. 1900 90
James Ryan to w. f. Butler,
lot 26, block 2, Schwartz
subdivision ................ 200 90
Fort Worth wooden mill COM
pany to J. w. Overmau, lot
IS. block 10, Wooden Mill
addition '''-........... so 90
R. c. closely to A. P. Pruitt,
east half lot 4, block 8, Ed
wards heirs addition. ...... 575 90
Fort Worth city company to
Mrs. Sarah O'Neal, lot IA,
block 10, city cemetery ..... 80 90
James Ryan to Isaiah WAL
lace, lot 5, block c, Ryan
subdivision of block 1853,
Sam Evans addition. -. 100 90
W. A. Adams TO Elsie Daggett,
l00xl00 feet T. G. Miligan
survey ...................... s25 90
Union land company to A. E.
Brasil, lot /, block Is,
Union depot addition. -. :. SIS 90