Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-20
THE OUTLOOK.
What Fort Worth May Reasonably Ex-
pect if True to Herself.
The Vast Territory Tributary to this City
Men, Not Natural Advantages,
Make Metropolis.

The development Of that vast territory
in Texas tributary to the city of Fort
Worth is but in its beginning. A thou
sand agencies are at work for Southwest,
West and Northwest Texas. Great rail-
way corporations are bending their en-
ergies to fill up the waste places. The
best class of farmers who understand the
cultivation of the soil, the growing of
wheat, corn, oats and other cereals
cotton and fruit are occupying the land 4,
and in the he1t two years hundreds of
thousands of acres of land now I'M
touched will be yielding bountiful har-
vests. AT last all old prejudices have been
broken down and the great state Of
Texas is Acknowledged to be the eH1@
pire state Of the Union. South and
west the tide of immigration il flowing,
and this section OF Texas will seesfhe ad-
vancing armies of developers meet on its
soil and, occupying the land, bHild vii
lagos, towns and cities where to-day the
Texas steer and the praaEis dog hold
high carnival. ETen milliops of acres of
land tributary to thiseity planted in
wheat, 5000, O0a off seres planted in
corn, the corn ted tSShogs and cattle,
what a market could Fort Worth not be
build wisely and 81 prepared to handle
the trade that wanld naturally come
here. go
Fort Worth has railroads penetrating
the great Grain beltief the state; that
grain shouId6e handed in Fort Worth.
A dozen Or twenty gfeat Touring mills
will notEee enough IN a short time to
make r1ls wheat intds flour. Let the
millerg&of the countTys know this: let
them ;asiow that money can be made at
Fort Worth by building 5mills and eIe-
yatoESs give them the land on which to
builda8if necessary and make this city
the danr center of the Southwest.
WHere there is corn there will be hogs
and rat beeves. Let Fort Worth prepare
TO slaughter these beeves and hogs, and
send the products to market ready tor
consumption. a move has been Hiase
in this direction, let it never ceasesuntik
Armour, Swift. Whitaker, Dold, MofS
ris and Fairbanks and other packets,
have plants near our great Union stock
yards. Men and brethren Fort Worth can
be the packing center of the grsndest
section of the Union If the necessary
work is done now.
Natural advantages never yet made q
city. Men make cities, and they could
build a metropolis in a swamp or on
mountains if they so determined. Look
at Chicago and Kansas City. But nat
ural advantages are a great assistance,
and Fort Worth has every possible sd-
vantage over any city in this section.
Are the men not here to build the city
when nature has done so much for
them?
There are vast beds of rich iron ore
lying within stones throw of thiSeftk.s
but that iron is worth less than SO much
sand until it is developed. Why8sit we
here idle when we might be a great iron
center.
Do we want to see Fort Worth a CITY OF
200, 200 people in three years? 1t can be
done. All that is necessary is to set the
machinery in motion, get our men to
work and the result will astonish the
most sanguine. Indications are that
what has been outlined will come to pass,
then where could one make q better in
Yestment than in Paramount addition