Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-15
REALTY AND BUILDING
What the Proprietor of the MaIuiae.
turers' Record Has to Say.
Missouri Merchant Wants a Building 50x9oQ
Feet, Three Stories-A Winter Resort.
Sales Made.

The aggregate sales Of real estate made I'm For
Worth yesterday approximate Sl65. 900. Most
this was residence property with one sa,sc,
country property for 500, 900. There was a sz-4
of tract of land south of the city cOnts. 1f-,
about twenty acres for S22, 600.
Walker, Heaton & Bury sold a syndicate eight
acres southeast of the city for SsOOU.
The Fort Worth land and street railway CON.
pany refused $4,000 for FIVE acres on Hr----
Heights looking the valley Of the IVES:
Fork.
a WINTER RESORT.
There can be nc question that Fort Worth Pos
sesses all the requisites to make a drs,--.as,
winter resort, and visitors to the city are sp17s
ciating the fact. F. 5. Belcher Of Cba-.-rs.
Mich, connected with the W. c. Belcha- Lana
mortgage company, the headquarters of w-.er
have lately been moved from Austin CD E.-.
Worth. has been visiting here for several ta-s
leaving for his Michigan home last night BE-
has decided to build magnificent winter res.
dence here which ne viii with his family Ose--v
for SIX months IN the year, spending the summer
IN Michigan.
c. c. Cobb, president OF the State bank o.,
Eaton Rapids, Michigan, Is so well pleased with
Fort Worth that he says he VIII sell out where
he now lives and move TO this city.
Several Denver people have decided On maize
Fort Worth their home in the winter months
THE NEED FOR HOUSES.
E. o. barley said yesterday, II don't know
what TO do, have so many calls for residences
cannot I'LL could rent fifty residences II ] had
them
Frank II. Williams says a prominent citizen OF
klrksville, No, was here several day. an.
wanted q business house 5OX200 feet. ts.l NJ
three stories. He could not get 1t. for there +,
but one vacant store room in T ort Worth. g..
25xg0 feet. He left instructions with N- VIII
Jams to let him know Just soon q housed.
the character mentioned could be had. Mr.. W.
Jams says seventy-hve residences to rent g- SIS
to $40 per month would not supply the demand.
FORT WORTH s FUTURE.
Mr.. W. H. Edmonds, one Of the proprietozs oG
the Baltimore Manufacturers Record, was IN
Fort Worth yesterday on his way. home irons
visit to Llano county, where he went 10 iuspec:
the beds of iron found there. He says the hes.
bessemer ores are in LlanO county in practicable
inexhaustible quantities, and that reliable exc
pertS say there IS an abundance OF magaHess 10
with the extension of the Fort Wo-a
and Rio Grande to Llano, would
be midway between the iron and the coke and
here great blast furnaces and smelters WILLIE
built. He says that large factories to make cut
lery, edge tools and other articles into which
steel and iron enter viii also be built here, and
then the future of Fort Worth Is assured. H5
believes deep water Will be obtained at the mouth
of the Brazos, and that this alone Will put
new life into the entire state, which is now
attracting so much attention Mr.. Edmoui5
says the iron beds near this city should DO
prospected fully at once, that if iron is f0un5
in sufficient quantities furnaces would De
erected at once. He believes the greatest de-
in Texas and North Carolina, but that Texas
above all has everything desired to make il al
empire commonwealth.
In conversation with Mr.. 7. j. Hurley. of the
Fort Worth loan and construction COM
pany, he said his company was now PREPARED
to erect apv character of building Main OF
Houston street from four stories up for CONNER
cial purposes If lease Of three TO five years could
be obtained.
L. GerIinger writes from Chicago that manu-
facturer of staple and fancy soaps is DESTROYS of
locating in Fort Worth, and will visit here
shortly. He also mentions two other factories,
which will develOpe later.
Maj Clements of the city council saws he VIII
not vote for SO, 900 city hall, but if the limit OF
the bonded Indebtedness is not reached he viii
favor q 500, 900 city hall.
Robert A. Wilson. proprietor Of immense paint
works in Iowa, who was lately in Fort Worth,
writes that he is hungering TO come back 10
Texas, and asks after the wheat crop. He has
been answered that wheat never promised better
than now, and that fine rains have fallen. He
says he has sent one pilgrim to Texas in the past
few days.
A. j. Chambers and John Ratican, continue
to build neat cottages in Chambers addition
fast as built they are filling up.
J. P. Hughes began work yesterday, on the
new round house and machine shops of the
Work began yesterday on the Texas Novelty
works.
GATHERING AT THE CENTER.
R. VI. Dickerson, Esq, of Messrs. Work &
Dickerson, general agents for the Massachusetts
Mutual Life insurance, of Wichita, Kan, has
just arrived in Fort Worth. Mr.. Dickerson in
forms US that his company has decided to enter
Texas, and that Fort Worth Is the railway
center of the state, they have decided TO make
this their headquarters for the Southwest
They will eventually employ q large force 0f
men, who Will also make their headg quarters
here. The Massachusetts Mutual IS known %
be one of the oldest and best companies in the
world. The Massachusetts Mutual has already
loaned out about 81, COZ. 900 in this state and
they say tIat Texas is good enough for them.
RECORDED TRANSFERS.
NJ. A. Maupin and wife to city of Fort
Worth, lot 5, block 81, Jennings
G. W. Alexander to s. T. Carroll ten
o oG' the ri river tu Hea! me '.t s!ounu 290
o. c, Bowles, part Of lots and in
block o, Rosedale addition .-... ..--. 2,ylg ~
George 7. Fielding to w. A. Paddock,
lot IL, block u, Brooklyn Heights ad-
dition. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. .-.--....-. IL. gJ
W. W. McNatt and D. E. McN5att to
w. P. Blake and Mary B. Blake, lot
in Arlington, John Hewett survey Jy u
J. VI. McCluer and wife TO G.. ;, Hurt
and 81. A. Williams, sixty acres on
worth 3ESo l' '5esA, 'ous .iiss from fo'' $4,000
/, j. NJ vincent ' addition @oou., o,o $4,000
George T. Fielding TO Robert c. B.
Rowe, lot II, block Il, Brooklyn 5000,
Heights addition. ...................... 100 ID
a. part Of block g, fuckers sddtion- $500
Henry Tanner to Helen II. Mckee 49,
acres on Marine creek, northwest Of
Fort Worth, and 40 acres five and
half miles northwest of Fort Worth. lrZ-J "
e., W Years and wife to s. o. Noodle
william Weoh 'st1, gSi. =! D.''A 2,sJ1
Zane Cetti to Joseph McCluer, los acres
on Sycamore creek, W. r. Loving
survey
Florence Peak, Clara Walden and Ollie
Peak to Drew Pruit, three and two
third acres 5. d. Jennings survey. /, yJJ W
2. E. McAnulty, Thomas Roche A. ".
Carter and John F. Tierney TO Drew
Pruit, six acres S. D. Jennings survey q. 90 "
A Mothers Terrible Act.