Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-25
TEXAS PROGRESS.

Work on the new $4,000 hotel at Canyon
| City is progressing rapidly and will soon
be completed.
| . Dublin's new city hall is under full
Roadway, and it will soon be occupied by
| the city fathers.
A 500. 900 cotton mill is in serious
| contemplation at Temple.
Sherman will probably have another
race course, thus forming a circuit with
! Bonham, Paris and Gainesville.
Twenty stone business houses have re-
Gently been completed at Granbury.
BRowNwooD, Sept. 1.-THE corner
stone of Howard Payne college was laid
! yesterday, with Masonic ceremonies.
EThe citizens of Terrell have spent
within the last twelve months $1,000 for
the improvement of public roads leading
| to their town.
An iron bridge is to be placed over
| Spring creek on the Graham road in
| Baylor county near Round Timber W hich
| is TO cost the county about $1,000.
Agents of strong company of capt.
| talists from Kansas City, Mo-, and Fort
| Scott, Kan. are in Greenville making
the preliminary deals necessary to put
ting in a rapid transit electric railway to
the suburban properties lying around the
city. If these are successful the Green
vile Banner states that the following en-
terpri5es will result: Electric rapid
! transit street railways, system of
electric lights, q first-cass private col
| lege with fine buildings and beautiful
| grounds, an extensive system of railway
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ment of vast section of suburban prop
| erty.
( BRowNwooD, Sept. 1.-THE City
national :,alk building is now in course
of construction. 1t is to be stone
| building of architectural beauty. Brown
wood is certainly on boom; not 2 resi-
dence vacant and seventy-five or 100 be-
! ny now built.
! A complete system of waterworks is to
be put into the town of Eddy, McLennan
| county, Immediately.
Bolton has two artesian wells, one 440
feet deep and the other 425. They are
both regarded as possessing medicinal
| properties. The Bolton artesian well
company has made a contract with q firm
which is to borse another 1900 feet deep,
| or deeper if required. The cost of the
we'll, according to present estimates, will
be somewhere between $4,000 and $500.
COLEMAN, Sept. 20.-Messrs. Malone
| and Gage, boring for coal six miles south
of Coleman, have struck at 500 feet
water that comes out ut the top of the
ground, and it is thought that at the
| depth of 600 feet they will strike a strong
| flow. Our people are very hopeful that
artesian water will be found, and in
which event we can get 1t in Coleman at
! about the same depth.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.-The follow
ing national bank has been authorized to
commence business: The Beckham ma
tional bank of Graham, at Graham, with
capital stock of 500, 900; president,
William P. Beckham; cashier, Edmond
b. Norman. Application for authority
to organize a national bank has been
filed with the comptroller of the cur
rency By the First national bank of
Eagle Pass, ct Eagle Pass, by F. V.
Blesse and associates.
The Gree nville Herald says: That
Greenville is on the eve of mighty boom
no person who has given the matter half
thought will deny. Every day de-
velops something new that materially
brightens her prospects, and at no time
in her history were her citizens so wide
awake or her prospects better.
Arkansas Pass now has upon IL the
greatest building boom it has ever en-
joyed. More than fifty buildings are in
progress OF erection. There is good de-
msnd for mechanics at So per day and
laborers at Sl.50.
A magnificent clubhouse is in prospect
at Greenyille. 1t is the intention to or
ganize a stock company with capital of
$50 900 for this purpose.
The San Marcos operahouse Is nearly
completed and 1t will compare favorably
with any in the state.
The rapid transit steam street railway
system of Corpus Christi is now in opera
ton and is complete success.
While boring for water for the Alamo
gas was struck. The search for water
will be continued, but 1t is probable that
q well tor gas will be bored.
PECos CITY, Sept. 20 Irrigation here
Is not confined to the canals taken from
the Pecos river, but there are thousands
of acres in the western and southern
portions of the county now being irri-
gated from bitches taken out of Toyah
creek. Besides the ditch of the Pioneer
canal company, which is taken from the
river about nine miles above this place,
the Pecos River irrigation company, of
which Judge o. W. Williams of Austin
is president, have a ditch about COM
pleted which Is twenty-five miles below
here, and which takes in all the land on
the west side of the river, and the Grand
Falls irrigation company is now taking
out q ditch on the opposite side. All of
these companies get their supplies in
Pecos, and as the country is developed
Pecos will become the city of Western
Texas. She has all the advantages of
delightful climate enjoyed by any other
point. and in addition offers the man
with the hoe sure dividend on his in
vestment.
WACO, Sc !. 22.-Real estate trans
fers for the week ending Saturday, Sep
TENDER 20, including deeds recorded and
filings, was over $3.50, 900. About three
fifths Of this was city property. On FRI