Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-24
TEXAS SPRING PALACE.
A Great Luminary in the Skies of Texas
that Cannot be Hidden.
The One Great Mistake Made in Advertising
Texas Resources sbroad-The I'm
preston thus Created.
FORT WORTH, Tex, March %, 1890.


interest in the success of the Texas
Spring Palace, the gates to which vii
swing open to the world on the 10th OF
May next. That the Palace has already
done more to properly present the supe-
rIor claims of Texas to other states than
any enterprise ever devised, no unprej-
udiced mind will deny. We have but
to pause for a moment and survey the
field to be convinced that something
of recent occurrence in Texas, has turned
the tide of immigration to this splendid
empire. Not only is the Panhandle dis
trict of the state astonishing the country
with its influx of wealth, thrift, intelli-
genoe and general development, but not
single city of Texas but has experienced
the electric touch and is now climbing
to greater financial and commercial i'm
portance. The column is moving gradu-
ally forward, and at its head, with q
step steady, resolute and certain is Fort
Worth.
What agency has wrought this won
derful impetus towards commercial SUI
premacy in the great Southwestern sec
ton of the country?
Why is it that until recently every
hamlet that slumbered in the great for
ests of the East and contentedly rested
upon the vast expanse of our Western
domain is quickened into life, merged
into action, resurrected into a grander
hope, and is clamOring for recognition
and supremacy IN the mercantile world?
Why is it that certain cities of Texas
which eighteen months ago were content
to move slowly IN the march of progress,
and apparently willing for the world to
forget their grave possibilities, are now
regiTded with the conviction thai they
possess superior resources, such as 'the
world will not willingly let die, - and
are now aggregating the purchase money
of real estate at hundreds of thousands
of dollars per day?
Why is 1t that Fort Worth finds the de-
mand upon her for seven and eight-story
buildings now being erected by Eastern
capital, and though spreading and grow
ing to such an extent as to astonish the
most hopeful citizen among US, houses
cannot be erected sufficiently fast to
shelter the people aud satisfy the de-
mands of commerce?
Why is it that the eight nation al banks
of this city, though constantly increasing
their capital and showing the largest per
cent. clearings IN the world, can scarcely
accommodate the demands of trade, and
yet the field is regarded favorably for the
location of more banking facilities?
Why this wonderful yet normal advance
of realty here IN Fort Worth, and why is
it that hundreds from other growing
locating here and joining their fortunes
Iy,f NJ ha NJ
Thee is a reason for all this. In the
first place Texas is a state of wonderful
resources. It's lands are superior, its
eli mate delightful, its minerals the very
best, its water unequaled in the world
for quantity and quality, its laws who'll
some, society cultivated, brave and gen.
erous, with the most colossal educational
endowment the world ever saw. These
and many other things are elevating
Texas to high rank among the states of
the Union.
But there is another reason for this
looking towards Texas. 1t is direct and
immediate. It is the Texas Spring
Palace, which has by the zeal, energy,
llberality and devotion of the people of
Fort Worth, assisted by her friends and
neighbors been transfXed as a great
luminary in the skies of Texas, that can
not be hid. It's influence is felt every
where, aud it has caught every eye, and
from the highways and hedges the people
are indeed compelled to come In, and
when they look and examine for them
selves, the whole thing is settled. Our
people have assured the people of Texas,
that if they would aid US, we would this
year give them q scene far more
beautiful, illustrative and deserving
than before. If possible it now begins to
look as though Fort Worth would keep
good her promise to the people, and the
different counties of the state should hold
up the hands of Fort Worth, seeing we
are all in the same vessel, and bound
for the same port. No man can tell
what a great benefit will be the Palace
this year to all Texas. Every neighbor-
hood, however unimportant, will feel its
kindly influence.
So much for what have said generally
about the Palace.
Now, l have suggestion to make. l
want to see the Palace, as it will, sur
pass anything ever devised by the hand
of man towards calling attention to the
material resources of a country. I want
to see the Palace, as it will, contain a
fair specimen of the varied industries
duu EcsOuTC0S VI 1tAd6 elOChEblbiBRJ bE-
riculture, mining, etc. Even at this
la te day, Notwithstanding all efforts to
the contrary, Texas is largely unknown
and misunderstood. But I undertake to /
say that there is one thing the entire
world understands, and that is that
Texas is q great cattle country. The
great diffioulty Is they think, or seem to
think, that this industry constitutes the
chief and (the more unintormed) the
only industry of Texas.
do not underestimate the Importance
Of the great cattle interests of Texas,
and l do not wish to be so understood.
am proud of the wealth, intelligence
and splendid citizenship that is found in
this department, but am of the belief,
having been associated with the people
n their every day life, from the St.
Lawrence river to the guilt of Mexico,
and having been for thirty odd years a
resident Of Texas, that the continual, |
lnceasing and irrepressible manner in |
which the people Of Texas attempt to |
force upon the minds of the people of |
other states, especially in the North and |
East, that Texas is great cat |
lie country is great mistake |
ind has often resulted in more
harm THAI good. About the first thing |
With which the average Texan formerly
RECALLED his Northern friend when visit |