Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-26
ARANSAS PASS.
The Towns and Cities About the Pass
and Their Relative Positions.
Arkansas Harber, Rockport, Corpus Christi
Arkansas City, Ropesville-Ths Rail-
road Facilities.

BHEvrIIE. Tex. Dec. %, 1880.
Editor Gazette.
Your correspondent has recently VS.
tied the towns and cities around about
Arkansas Pass, and will briefly give your
readers some notes of the trip, he being
entirely disinterested. It is not easy for
those at distance to clearly understand
the locations and names of the different
places.
Arkansas pass proper is nearly half
Joseph's islands, aud is the entrance to
both Arkansas and Corpus Christi bays.
The new city of Arkansas Harbor is
located on the mainland on the shore of
Arkansas bay, near Corpus Christi bay,
four or five miles from the pass, and
holds the KEY to the situation so far as
central location to the pass is concerned.
Rockport, now called Arkansas Pass,
situated fourteen miles north of the
pass, ard ten miles northeast of Arkansas
Harbor.
Corpus Christi is situated on the west
side of the bay of same name, thirty-one
miles from the pass by water. and
Gregory, from Arkansas Harbor.
Three miles north of Rockport is the
pretty little city OF Aransas, or Arkansas
City, as It is called, formerly Fulton.
Four miles south OF Corpus Christi is
the Cliffs, or Ropesville, with its motor
street car line, Alta Vista hotel, taber-
nacle, chautauaua and many other i'm
provements. Much of the confusion of
names grows out of the change of name
of Fulton to Arkansas City, and Rockport
to Arkansas Pass, particularly the latter
change These points should have re-
tanned their former names.
One mile south of Rockport, along the
bay shore towards the Pass, is the Okla
homa addition to Rockport, where the
Arkansas Pass land company have re-
Gently given away 100 choice lots 50xl50
feet, conditioned that those selecting the
lots should each build a house thereon
costing not less than $500, by March 10,
1891. Many houses are being built there
under this offer.
Besides the places spoken of is Ropes
Pass, which is canal being dredged
across the southern point of Mustang
island, about twenty miles south of
Arkansas Pass and near Corpus Christi
Pass, which separates Mustang from
Padre island. Then on the gulf coast of
Padre island, few miles south, is the
site for the iron pier to deep water, as.
planned and incorporated by Col. Will
lett. From Rockport q railroad is now be-
ne built to Harbor island near the Pass.
The distance is ten miles, six of which,
under the contract, are to be com pleted
within sixty days, and trains are ex-
pected to be running the entire distance
bv next spring. 4 road Is also being
built from Arkansas Harbor to the Pass.
Considerable trestle work will be used on
both of these roads across the shallow
water. Passengers from the interior to
any of these points leave Beeville at
D. m. on the south bound Arkansas Pass
train, splendid coaches, including chair
cars, and arrive at Corpus Christi with
out change of cars ut p. m.
For Arkansas Harbor and Rock
port passengers change cars at
Gregory, ten miles from Corpus Christi,
and arrive at Rock port at $50. Trains
for the interior from each of these places
connect at Gregory at 8 'clock a. N.
Only mixed train leaves RockDort once
e. day, at ~ CLOCK, for Corpus Christi.
Except this the passenger service is good
and the roads are in first-class condition.
railroad passes over bridge about two
miles in length, which spans the shallow
water between Corpus Christi and Nueces
bays, and the view here from the early
morning tram is delightful. Passiug
from Arkansas City to Rockport the rail-
way skirts the shore of Arkansas bay, and
the lighthouse at the Pass and the sand
hills on st. Joseph and Mustang islands
are In plain view. These, with the many
sailing craft engaged in gathering
oysters, fishing and in other business,
sailing on the blue waters of the bay,
make the views to the passenger very
pleasant panorama.
Many Improvements are being made in
all these cities and everybody knows that
Corpus Christi and Rockport are the two
prettiest cities on the gulf coast, but just
now Arkansas Harbor appears to be at
tracing more attention than either.
Your correspondent has no interest in
either of those places, but believes there
is no better field for Investments than in
the country round about Arkansas Pass,
and many capitalists from the extreme
Eastern to the Northw estern states ap-
pear to share the same views.
PRO Bono.