Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-02
TEXAS PROGRESS.

very train, and yet the rush, 1t is ex-
ected, has as yet scarcely begun.
The Hartley Headlight says: DR.. d.
C. Bennett of Bedford county, Tenn.
was in town this week. He will locate
on a section OF school land and handle
fine stock. He speaks in glowing terms
of Hartley county, and says he can IN
duCe twenty families to come from ni8
old neighborhood to this county.
4 great many of the families who have
left Kaufman county have returned and
concluded to stay.
An artesian we'll is being sunk at FL
Paso by private capital.
An artesian well is being sunk near
Claude on the 400-acre tract of land that
recently sold for S25 900.
Among the improvements prospected
at Midlothian is the establishment of
bank.
The Wichita Herald saws: Brick and
stone, mortar and lumber are the chief
commodities now in demand in Wichita
Falls. The building still goes on and
will remain active until cold weather.
The men of means in the city are attest
ing their faith in their town by investing
their money and helping to make the
town more solid and substantial every
day. The number of brick and stone
buildings that are already in process of
construction, together with the others
for which the contract has been let, is
remarkable. No town in the state Ia
building up faster or on q more enduring
basis.
The contract for the construction of
two stone piers for the bridge over the
Papaw creek, in Grayson county, has
bean awarded to Smith & Tibbett for the
sum of 5000. The work is TO be COM
pleted within thirty days from the time
of the contract, weather permitting.
The Colorado national bank will COM
mence business October l with $50, 900
capital.
Plans are now being drawn up for the
Childress bank building. 1t will be the
most beautiful building in the Panhan-
die when completed.
Colliugsworth county will vote to-
morrow for county site and county Of
ficers. Wellington is IN the lead for per-
marent county site.
Building is going on so rapidly that
there is q scarcity of brick all over the
state, and contractors are somewhat him
dered by it.
On Saturday, October 4, the Memorial
lodge OF Childress, assisted by the lodges
of adjoining towns, will lay the corner
stone of the new courthouse in Childress.
The Comanche county commissioners
have let the contract for new court
honse to Ellis s. Moody of GreenevIle
for S64 $50. The new county buildings
:,
Work will be pushed.
The Wichita Herald says of the I'M
provemeuts at the Falls: One by enc
the wooden buildings are disappearing
and their places being occupied by brick
or stone. Whole blocks are now filling
up with this latter class where year ago
stood the unsightly frame built in the
towns infancy. The resident portion of
the city also is no less active in building,
on every hand new homes embracing
everything from the neat and pretty cot
tage TO the handsome two story resi-
deuoe, are spring up and being occupied
by new corners who have recently made
Wichita Falls their home, brought with
them their means for investment and
have come to stay.
Our citizens can now boast of as ele-
CANT sn opera house as any city in
Central Texas. 1t is furnished with the
latest improved opera chairs, the
scenery is excellent, it has a seating ca
paeity of 500 aud will be lighted with
electric lights.
MARIENFELp, Sept. %. -Marienfeld is
putting on a new appearance. New
stock pens are being erected, and some
of her empty storehouses are being
moved SO they will stand facing the
depot. This will add to the looks of the
town. Rev. Father Peten has made
most of the new wine. He says il gets
better every yeaI. He will put out
several thousand more new vines. Every
one is interesting himself TO plant
trees and vines. One firm sold Sl400
worth of trees and vines In Martin and
Midland counties. This looks as IL some
thing will be done to reclaim the staked
plains. The California raisin grapes
have proved success, and thousands of
California vines will be set out. and also