Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-29
ABOUT FORT WORTH.
What the Pluckiest CITY in Texas IS Doing and
Trying to Do-Notes Of
Progress.

on the corner of Main and Seventh
streets.
Fort Worth has the handsomest churGn
edifices of any city OF its population IN
the United States. And yet new Snes
are being built. Three churoheT now
under way. or about TO be comE1enced ,
in Fort Worth will COS $500 900.
The Robbins brick store building, COR
ner of First and Calhoun streets, is about
completed.
A large and commodlous hotel con-
structed and maintai1ed on the most
elaborate scale is one Of the crying needs
of Fort Worth.
Fort Worth rivals Chicago in the mat
ter of grain elevRtors. Ehere are five of
them in this city with q capacity of $780,
600 bushels, which is remarkable for an
inland city/of the size of this ones but
then Fort Worth is railroad center, and
is located/in the midst of the finest agri-
cultur4 country in the Southwest.
Thai manufacturing Industries can be
conducted IN this city is attested by the
exhibit of stoves at the Spring Palace,
the same being the output of the new
stove works west of the city.
The spectacle of twenty five handsome
store buildings gong up simultaneously
on the principal streets of the city and
effacing the old shantiss that have done
discredit to the city so long will be in
spring to the people and a pregnant sign
10 visitors.
The work of putting down the casing
In the artesian well on Tucker's hill was
about completed yesterday and a trial of
the pressure will soon be made. 1t is
estimated at anywhere from twenty to
forty pounds to the square inch. If It
Rpproximates the latter calculation it
will be a magnificent showing. The sup
ply of water has been greatly increased
by cutting of the upper three strata
and limiting the flow to the lower one,
which lies at depth of about 1000 feet.
Judging from the action of the we'll
when the strata already tapped
were reached, when the next
one Is cut the flow will be
tremendous. According to the best cal
oulations the next one must lie within
the next 200 feet. The water that is
flowing from the well now is clear and
pure. The well as it is new, If it were
private property would be a bonanza,
but the needs of the public waterworks
are so great that the next stratum must
be reached before satisfactory results can
be attained. Every Indication at pres
most ardent will be more than fulfilled,
and Fort Worth still continue to be the
best watered city in the country. With
pure, healthy artesian water running
through Its water mains, Fort Worth
will gain world wide fame as the artesian
city.
THE REFRIGERATOR SECURED.
AS was published q few days ago, the
cattlemen of Texas made proposition
to Fort Worth to erect Sl00, 200 refrig-
orator and lease it to them for term OF
years. Yesterday the chamber of COM
meroe accepted the proposition, and the
refrigerator will be built. The cattle
mems company will operate a plant at
Victoria, at Columbus and at Fort
Worth, together with q cooling house
at Galveston. The refrigerator here
which is to be built near the Union
stockysrds at once, will be run TO fill
one-third OF the contract with q strong
English syndicate. The benefits to &C
orue TO Fort Worth by the closing of this
deal are manifest.
LAST OF THE DAGGETT SUIT.
Judge Watts has sent word to law
yers of this city that the last
suit against property owners hold
ing real estate under the Deggett
title has been dismissed IN the United
States court, in accordance with the de-
cision OF the supreme court of the United
States, and now this litigation is ended
forever, and there is no cloud on any
title to Fort Worth property.
THE IRON ROLLING MILL,
Three carloads of the heavy machinery
for the iron rolling mill now being
erected in North Fort Worth has been
received, and FIVE more carloads
are on the way. Messrs. Beach and
Dursok are busily engaged getting
everything in readiness to begin opera
tons.
THE FURNITURE FACTORY.
Capt. Lee Linn, who has returned TO
the city. reports that L. S. Wilson Of
Peru, Indiana, president of the furni-
ture manufacturing company, is nov in
Arkansas, looking at the timbers there,
and after gong through Eastern Texas
he viii come TO Fort Worth to begin
operations. The factory will be of brick,
and Will be located in Manchester, west
OF the city not far from ShumaR & Muir
phys factory.
NEW BUILDINGS.
Mr.. Robert Mozart Is still at work on
his project TO get owners of property on
Main and Houston streets to agree 10
erect handsome buildings on these two
streets, work to begin as soon as posi-
BILE. He lie meeting with good success,
and probabilities are that work on ten or
fifteen fine buildings will be under way
during the summer. This is surely a
move that must commend Itself to ell
property owners. There Is no donation
or bonus in this; simply an improvement
or the property owned by the men who
build.
The Episcopal military institute to
cost 500 200 is to be built on the
Edwards tract two aud one
fourth miles east of Fort Worth. Plans
are on foot to build a
rapid transit line 10 the institution.
The huge furniture warehouse being
built by Maddox s. Ellison near the
tracks of the Fort Worth and Denver is
nearing completion.
It is proposed to have the track OF the
electric car line to Sylvania completed in
thirty days. e. z. Chase, who is in the