Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-25
TOWN AND COUNTY.

tnat IL would not De Dao idea 10 Ill the
pond up and by so doing prevent the
possibility of sickness being conveyed by
water collecting and standing in it.
A movement is on foot among the
managers Of all the railroads centering
In Chattanooga to build a grand Union
depot, similar to the one at Indianapo-
lis. 1t will be blessed day when the
managers of the different roads centering
at Fort Worth begin to think of doing the
same thing here. The old rattle trap at
the crossing of all the roads in this city
is simply a shame. There has been
money enough paid out for damages for
men killed trying to get to the Fort
Worth depot to build splendid Union
depot here.
The different roads running into Fort
Worth report a steady increase of pass
euger traffic for week or ten days past.
| The most of it is into the state.
1t is reported that work on the Fort
Worth and Denver shops at this point
will begin on December /.
The track layers on the Fort Worth
and Rio Grande road are near Leon and
pushing on towards Comauche.
Receiver Cross says that the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas road for several
months has been In prosperous shape,
and he predicts release from a receiver
ship and an independent operation inside
of very few months.
The 2. C. C. C. exhibit at the Union
depot has been put into shape by the
active manager, MIR. Tilghman Graham,
and is being daily viewed by hundreds of
people. On the first day OF its opening
to the public over 800 people inspected
it. The quarters are altogether too small
and considering the amount OF good be-
ing accomplished the exhibit deserves
better quarters. On Monday next the
cham Der of commerce committee, COM
posed of live material, will go to Dallas
TO see about larger building, one that
will accommodate other exhibits beside
that of the P. C. c. G.
The long talked of Republican publi-
cation in Fort Worth is announced on
good authority to make its initial ap-
pearance next Sunday. A stock COM
pany for moderate sum has been Or
gained. The paper will appear as o
weekly Sunday sheet for time until it
gets on its legs. The editorial features
will be under the management of MIR.
Page Mckinney, and C. E. Hull Will be
the publisher.
Tom Meyers of Jack county came to
Fort Worth last Friday with flock of
sheep and goats which he found no diff
Guilty i'll disposing of in this market. He
received $500 in cash for the outfit. This
sum he placed in his pocketbook. Yes
terday morning when he arose he dis
covered the pocketbook and money gone.
The police were apprised. The book
was found on Second street between
Houston and Throckmorton rifled of Its
contents. Meyers thinks his pocket was
picked on the previous evening. The
police are still working on the case.
Superintendent Riley who will have
charge of the Dahlman dressed beef
company's works arrived yesterday af-
ternoou, and will at once proceed to get
everything in readiness for the beginning
of operations next month. The fact that
these works are to start up. aud that 200
beef cattle will be wanted in Fort Worth
daily is already having its effect and cat
tlemen have been here Investigating the
matter in view of furnishing the best
best beef cattle that Texas can turn out.
eff we can get the same price here
that we can in Chicago, less the freight, -
said Somervel county man to a GA
ZETTE reporter yesterday, 'this refrig-
orator will be the biggest thing for Texas
cattlemeu that was ever started up IN the
state. 1t will be money in our pockets
and the refrigerator will get cattle in
better condition than are sold in Chicago
from Texas. A beef steer will lose from
sixty to seventy-five pounds in the way
of shrinkage when shipped from Fort
Worth to Chicago land this would amount
TO nj least So per ihead, which saved by
a sale here would amount to big money
to the producer. l am q refrigerator
man, and would rather sell my cattle in
Texas than take them anywhere else.
There are lots others like me, too and you
can bet your life we are anxious to fur
nish the Fort Worth refrigerator with
the heifers.
The Fort Worth and Rio Grande people |
have not made public what their pro-
gramme is to be after the road has been |
completed to Comanche, but THE GA |
zETTE has been able to gather Informal
ton sufficient to form very correct
opinion of what is to be. The company |
has had engineers in the field for some
line running different lines, one of |
which went to Brentwood and another
by the way of San Saba to Llano. The
indications are that it will be the Ia tier
route ON which the road will be built-in
fact, it is said that route has been Sc
lected, located, and the estimates on it
made, and that work on It from
Comanche will commence In q very
short time after the road reaches
the latter place. There will be no
stopping after the work begins beyond
Comanche until Llauo is reached, the
entire line between the two places to be
let at one time. The distance from
Comanche to Llano is about seventy FIVE
miles, and with good force it will take
but few months to complete the extern
sion.
1t is also said, and there is no doubt
much truth in 1t, that Brentwood is not
going to get left on account of the line
being built south from Comanche to
Llano, but that a branch will be built
from Comanche to the former place.
Brentwood is an important station, SO
important that the Rio Grande road
can not well afford to give it the go-by,
and by so doing lose o splendid traffic
that now has to go on q round about
route to get to market. All that section
wants direct connection with Fort Worth
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