Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-31
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Presentation Of Medals for Su-
perior County Exhibits.
The Different Counties Honored with
Gold and Silver Medals and
With Special Mention.
The spseeh of Presentation and the FIoQuenee
Of the DiHeren. Responses, Ornate
and Descriptive.

In the intermission yesterday between the two
parts of the afternoon it was arranged that the
presentation Of several medals to winning coun-
ties should come of. And prompt to the hour it
did.
The various presentations were made by Pres
! idtnt Paddock. The winning counties were
Houston, "a gold medal for the best display Of tim
bers and forest products; Cherokee, gold med
al Tor the best display. OF minerals and ores;
| second best display of ores and minerals;
Hardin county q silver medal for the second
/ best display Of timbeTs and forest products. A
/ medal was also presented to Reeves county for
I the best display of grains irrigated land.
/ Honorable mention was made Of Burnett county
( for its creditable display OF stone and marble.
( President Paddock and the gentlemen who
/ made the responses entered the band stand at
/ 3 O'Clock. President Paddock held in his hands
! the medals in their plush cases and he imme Ii
ately proceeded to the presentation speech. he
said, In brief, that sit was always pleasure to
recognize merit and bestow credit wherever it
belongs. so to-day, as a representative OF the
| Texas Spring Palace, am pleased to present
these medals which have been awarded TO the
different d partments by committees appointed
! for that purpose. These committees were Sc
lected with great care and on the sole ground of
: their qualifications. After Dainstaking exam
lnation Of the exhibits Of the different counties
n lese medals were awarded. Houston county
mn 10 this time have been sleeping on their
rights KNEW Gs@indfG Of their "hs sdSan.ag Sse
SATISFIED :, that they knew them themselves.
would like make separate mention OF each OF
NOT time The d;ommittee went out of their way,
and have uiven 40 medal to Reeves county, out
on the staked Plain @ wbers ne9 w wet tsngbt
when a child that there was nothing but des-
ert.'' e.. A., -,
President Paddock then presented the medal
for Houston comfy To JUG 1ge l. n. Cooper of
this city, who responded forc tnat county ms
former home in fine address.t ne spoke OF ms ms
first coming to Houston county from the mus
oF CpDrgia and the change VfnlCn " ne
over the face OF Texas. Where tyas silence Is
now the shrek of the locomotfse anu inc
hum OF cities destined to play an I'M par
in the drama of commerce. The liz u. .! tne
Lone Star has caught the eye OF civiSLskC!OnHi;;
The time is not Tar distant when tins star Sf The
be able TO dictate the commercial policy cl tte
country. Soon it will be in political circles VINO
can carry Texas instead of who can
carry New York. That Houston county
should bear away this prize is not startling. butt
it is fact full Of Significance. 1t contains
$50, 900 acres of land and has now IS 900 popula-
ton. 1t has good shipping facilities, the best
water earth. good churches, superior schools, |
low taxes, debt merely nominal, timber in pro-
denes the world. The county only waits devel-
opment. After paying tribute to the energy |
OF A. II. Winters Judge Cooper closed.
Mr.. A. B. Blevins received the medal for |
Cherokee county, and after being introduced as
the champion hustler OF East Texas, be made a |
short speech, urging the necessity Of a road
in five years he said he expected to see q |
great manufacturing ceuter and iron market. |
he gave comparisons OF BlallStlCS III re- |
gard to Cherokee iron and Pennsylvania iron, |
which were always in favor of the former. For |
structural purposes it has no equal.
Mr.. ]. E. Werner, editor of the San Saba |
Times, responded for that county. he said the |
county was almost unknown because !
Should be remedied. The key to success
is more railroads. A mixture of San |
Saba iron and Cherokee iron was. better
minerals; not dollars worth has ever been |
sold. We raise wheat and oats and corn and |
cotton. We are just on the border of the wheat |
belt and the cotton belt. Both are profitable |
crops. We want farmers and stockmen. We [
have marble. granite, sandstone, limestone. A |
GAZETTE man once sat down and marked |
Worth and he lived to see them
all come aud more. Now let me make map,
and Mr.. Werner turned in and outlined q SINH |
lar one for San Saba county, and il will come.
DR.. J. j. Inge who comes from Reeves county, |
tell wheat, responded Tor that county, After |
thanking President Paddock, he said. When |
left home two months ago Reeves county was
unknown in Texas, and to-day her fame as . |
great agrcul tural district has been heralded all
over the land, from Maine to California and |
from the Northern lakes to the orange groves of |
Florida. Her supremacy a great agricul-
tural land has been promulgated. We have |
valley 800 miles long with an average width of /
twenty to thirty miles, soil unsurpassed for
fertility and water to iIrigate at least half of it.
We have grown cabbages all the way from ten
to sixty mine pounds. sweet potatoes weighing |
twenty-five pounds, and in addition to tie |
cerials show-I, we have growing on the Pioneer
canal farm all the products grown in the tenn
perate zone, and ere many months shall have
passed away the Pecos valley will be full of
prosperous farms and Pecos City the metropolis
Of the great West. again thank you for my
self, for the citizens OF Pecos, and especially do
I thank you on the part of B. K Brant, TO
whom all the glory belongs.
Hardin county was not represented the
stand, and Mr.. Lewis Moore responded grace
fully His whole address was glowing de-
scription OF what Burnett county held within its
borders. At Marble Falls there is a l0, 900 horse
power water privilege. Their red granite and
marble, blue granite and q lithograph were its
prominent features. It's grand scenery, improve
mentS, both actual and contemp plated, were rap
idly touched upon. The country the Colo
RADIO river was fine stock country and all that
was wanted from the thriving little city of Mar
bic Falls TO the borders was development. hr.
Moore again thanked the Palace management
and closed.
This ended the presentation addresses, and the
band stand was vacated just in time to let the
members OF the band file into their places.