Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-17
MOUNT PLEASANT.
Some Of the Many Advantages by Which
the Young City OF Titus County
is Surrounded.
Fertile Timber Land that Can't be Surpassed.
Business aud Society that Compare Favora-
bly, With any Town of Its Size.
Correspondence OF the Ggzette.

Correspondence OF the Gazette.
MOUNT PLEASANT, Ten, Nov. 70
This little city, the county site of Titus
county, is situated on the main line OF
the Cotton Belt railroad, about midway
between Texackaua and Tyler. Il is &,
this point that the sherman and Fort
Worth branches of the Cotton Belt
leave the main line and here che railroad
makes a consid era6le angle or elbow
the north end taking northeastsrly di-
rection, and the south end almost due
south, thus making the angle or elbow as
stated, thus giving Mount Pleasant more
territory from which to draw trade than
would be its share, should the road run
on direct line. Mount Pleasant has
ard is surrounded by many advantages.
il is situated i'll Gs fine II belt of fertile
timber land rs can be found in Texas, of
which land aud timber we Will give you a
fun, clear and correct description IN
some future article Mount Pleasant
he's population OF between 400 and
1900 rs per last census. L. ia quite an
advent of the railroad. which
reached this place in the spring
OF 1850, waa of bu: Little commercial i'm
portHnce; since then the town has joined
other towns in the Lone Star state in the
onward march. We have live and en-
ergetic set OF business man, and take
pride in stating that Mount Pleasant has
had as few failures us any town of its
size and volume OF business in the state.
Society is equal 20 the best. We have
live churches Of the Methodist, Presby-
bytrrieL (O!d school and Missionary
Baptist denominations, also a faithful
band of the Christian church, but no
pastor lust now. The Methodist and
Baptist churches both have large and in
teresting sabbath schools, and the Pres
byteriaus will organize another January
! next; so these put Mount Pheasant on q
high plane spiritually. We have first
class high school under the management
CT an able CORDS of teachers. The high
school building occupies Il beautiful To-
cation, with grand old forest trees to
shade the grounds.
The health of Mount Pleasant is good,
a. we have no loca! cause for malaria,
which produces nine-tenths of the sick
ness iii Texas. Yet We have an OccG-
slonul chill and few ccses OF fever
during the year. and these ere generally
produced by impruGenCe or exposure.
We are blessed with an abundance of
pure freestone water, obtained by dig
cling or boring IN depth from fifteen 10
thirty feet.
Our town Is composed of q good class
of buildings, both business and resident.
The business hOuses are principally brick.
The town is built OF the Mexican plaza
style, with courthouse in the center of
the hollow square. This building is not
as imposing in appearance as it should be
10 be in keeping vita M0uut Pleasant
and it's SURROUNDINGS, or as we would
wish, yet II IL a eat, cOmmodious, two
story brick structure. Our public Offices
are in the keeping of efficient, honest
men, thus giving US good government
and low taxes. Our principal CONNER
cial article is cotton, hut of late years
there has been quite a quantity of ribbon
cane syrup marketed here. Some DOL is
also marketed, but not enough to be
OF much Importance. OF the first
article named, Mount Pleasant viii get
from wagons, merchants and cotton
wei..hers' estimate about 10 200 bales.
We have one OF Tie best, If not the best,
compress in the interior of the state, II
is ii Tavlor's hydraulic. with capacity
Of 1900 per day. The company claim
that they will compress at least IS, 00O)
serenty-five Thousand bales this season,
wbIch is pretty fair work for the first
season rs the press vas oniy erected in
September last. Next summer We hope
20 have an ice factory added, and by
the next cotton season will have a cot
ton seed oil mill in connection with our
mammoth compress. We have numer-
Gus avenues now open aud awaiting in
vestment or capital which will speedily
and surely bring handsome profits.
Such IS tanneries, harness and saddle
factories, furniture factories, carriage
and wagon factories; the products of oil
these aro largely sold and used here and
ali shipped 10 US: this should not be so,
furnish the bark for tanning, ana as
fine hard wood and in almost inexhaust-
ible quantities, Tor furniture, wagon
aud carriage WORK as eau be found any
where. We know we have these ad-
yautegcs and invite ca pital and labor to
come ana reap u rich harvest for every
hour $ labor and every dollar invested,
and meet a hearty welcome from gen.
erous, hcspitauie people. 1t matters
not what NAY be tbsir religions, creed
or political faith, If only they be law
abiding citizens. We say come, and en-
joy our advantages with US.
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