Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-02-25
HENRIETTA.

Stage Line to seymOur-Ikard Pasture to be
Cut Up-Bcard of Trade Organization.
Correspondence of the Gazette.
HENRIETTA, TEX, Feb. 21.-The ex-
tension of the Katy railroad to the south
west to Archer and Seymour is bringing
many prospeotors to our city. Many are
going to Archer City to make invest
ments. The first of next week daily
hack line will be put on from Henrietta
TO Archer and through to Seymour. The
hotels are all crowded, and on many oo-
casions on the arrival of the north
train on the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas railroad sleeping room is
hard to be found, and cots are in
heavy demand. The building boom has
struck Henrietta. The Ainsly block has
broke dirt and the foundation is being
put in for three large two-stoTy brick
houses. The contract was let to-day by
a. d. G0odenoUgh 10 put another story
on the Alliance store and make the struc-
ture 100 feet deep. SquiTes & Snearly
have the first story of their block nearly
up. Lots and real estate are changing
hands rapidly. Some large sales of Clay
county real estate have been made in the
last day or two.
The lizard pasture containing II 600
acres was bought to-day by Mr.. Nc
Cutcheon, cashier of the Panhandle
national bank Of Wichita Falls, and Her
man Specht of Specht colony Iowa Park.
The Il, 900 acres will be cut up into small
tracts and be sold on reasonable terms to
actual settlers. C. NJ. ClesDie has made
large Investment in city property. D.
Storms of Collin county has purchased
800 acres near town and has commenced
improving the same. L. B. Brown of
Cleburne, Tex, is here making some
investments in Henrietta city property.
J. Z. Wilson of Tarrant has purchased
$40 acres near town and Is making prep
aration to improve the same and erect
magnificent residence. Maj. A. G. IT.
vine of Gainesville is in our city and it is
reported that he has placed options on
large amount Of real estate in our city.
The Henrietta board of trade has met
and organized by electing the following
board of directors: Col. W. j. Swain;
w. A. Squire6. w. H. Chilson, F. B.
Wyatt. c. Is. Patterson, F. J. Barrett,
r. B. Farrah, L. b. Upham. The
board of directors met and elected the
following officers for the ensuing year:
Col. W. J. Swain, president L. P.
Upham, vice president; Capt. F. J.
Barrett, secretary; T. B. Wyatt. treas
urer. The board starts out with 100
members, and q membership costs So,
and all have paid up, and the directory
have rented a hall in Squires' block
which will be furnished in magnificent
style. on Tuesday night next Col. W.
J. Swain will announce his various COM
mittees, and then active measures will be
taken TO build uD Henrietta and Clay
county and show 10 the world their great
resources and induce capital and invest
ments to be made in our thriving and
growing little city and prosperous county.
The farmers are all busy sowing oats
and preparing their ground for spring
crops.
Wheat and all crops look splendid, and
all the farmers wear a pleasant counte-
nance and Jeel happy over their future
prospects.
The commissioners court has been in
session and has advertised for bids to
build $50 600 jail.
The Cumberland Presbyterian church
being erected here will make fine ap-
pearance when completed.
The Christian church will be COM
menced the Ist of March and when this
church Is completed all the church
denominations will be represented
by a good church building, and when
the new $50, 600 public school is COM
pleted the citizens of Henrietta can
truthfully boast of having more churches
and finer schools than any town in North
Texas of her size.
Col. W J. Swain has made g purchase
of 1900 acres of land near our city, and
it Is his intention to cut the same into ten
and twenty acre tracts and to put fam
ily on each tract laid out.
A committee has been appointed by our
board of trade. and they are authorized
TO correspond with the various electric
light companies, with a view OF putting
in an electric light plant in our city.
The Henrietta improvement company
have recently closed the contract with
some Eastern parties TO sink an artesian
well, and should they succeed in getting
water at any reasonable depth water
works viii be an assured fact in the near
future.
The board of trade will take active
measures to secure a street car line this
coming spring.