Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-24
ABOUT FORT WORTH.
What the Pluekiest City in Texas is Doing and
Trying to Do-Notes OF
Progress.
TIE NEW COLLEGE.

berlin anent company the Metho-
dist Episcopal church South is to begin
the work of construction on its university
at Arlington Heights within forty days,
and it is probable that it will be COM
menced even before that time. The
buildings are to cost at least 500 900.
The institution will not be confined to
one building but will consist of several
smaller structures after the cottage plan +,
! they to be ultimately joined together in
one grand whole. This is the
most approved modern method for
the arrangement of such institutions, and
there will be nothing about this univer-
sity that does not conform to the latest
improved types. There will be six of the
buildings put up at once.
The visit paid Fort Worth by Jay
Gould yesterday was fraught with more
significance of happy character than
any event that has transpired in these
parts for many day. The visit was
not an idle jaunt, but was brought
about as the result of a quiet
trip made to Dallas a week
ago by MIR. A. It. Byers and Col. John
r. Hoxie. When he reached Fort Worth
yesterday he was conveyed to the gigan-
tic stockyards plant at North Fort Worth
anu WIS LuSIe SuOWu WHAT nau D6Bu
aSoQS, what was being done, and what it
PSsyAs proposed to do. He saw the stock
yards, the largest in the South, fur
nIshed with all modern appliances and
cOnvenienoes for the handling of cattle,
and he appreciated the possibilities of such
an institution at this point He saw the
men at work on the immense pork pack
cry which will control the trade of an
empire rapidly growing in population and
wealth. And be was made acquainted
with the plans for the construction and
operation of refrigerator at that point.
What the material result of these
things may have been it is not yet for
newspaperdom and the public to know.
But Col. John Hoxie is happy over
the results. When asked about them
yesterday afternoon he said: ''You go
on and say what you like about it IN THE
GAZETTE. Just put it IN the best you
can, and I'll guarantee you III fall short
of the facts by 500 per cent.
So it can be inferred Nj. Gould has
been successfully interested in the
projects under way in North Fort Worth.
That means at least the construction of
more lines of railroad to the stock
yards at once, and the granting
of further facilities for the conducting OF
Ia successful business at the yards.
~ Mr.. Gould's railway interests in Fort
@NOrth are TO be taken care of in such a
way that the city will be benefited. This
comes circuitouSly but reliably. The
first thing to be done is the erection of a
freight depot on the site of the old one
at the foot OF Main street. This building
will be of brick, as ornamental as posi-
BILE, and its dimensions may be stated as
larger than any similar building in
Texas.
And as regards a union depot-that' 5
all right.
The magnificent Hurley building is re-
ceiving its seventh story of stone. AS it
now looms it is one of the most substan-
tial and business-like ornaments the city
possesses.
A large force of men were started at
work yesterday, according to schedule,
on the new packery at the Union stock
yards. That building will be pushed to
completion as fast as men and money
can do it.
Yesterday the details for the lmme-
date construction and equipment of the
Texas rolling mill and iron works were
settled finally, and now that browning
industry of Fort Worth is to be pushed to
completion as fast as men and money will
do it. The company which is operating
the enterprise is backed by capital of
500, 900 and they know they are handling
a line of business which can be made
to yield large profits from a central
point like Fort Wotth. The building has
already been partly constructed, but
owing to conflicts arising as 20 details,
work has been at a standstill for
while. The building is located near the
Union stockyards in North Fort
Worth, along the line of the street rail-
way and close to the Cotton Belt rail-
way, and is about 14Ox70 feet In dimen-
sions The machinery is now in Mime
apolis ready for shipment to Fort
Worth, and will be loaded on the cars
as soon as letter bearing the result of
yesterdays proceedings can be carried
there. The mill is Intended for the man.
ufacture of all kinds of bar iron, such as
is used for railroad purposes. 1t is the
only industry of its kind in Texas. 1t
will be completed and in operation inside
of four months. The contract calls for
the employment of thirty FIVE men at the
start and seventy in the second year of its
opefation, but it is confidently believed
tb& 500 men will be at work there inside
94two years.
RECORDED TRANSFERS.
IT. B. Burbridge to Smith,
Casey and Mozart, lot -,
block A3, Daggett's addi-
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