Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-09
ALVARAD0.
Why it Commands the Respect of Every
one Seeking Home in Texas.
High Commercial Rating Of the Towns ur-
rounding Country the Most Productive to
be Found Anywhere.

| Worth, on the Gulf, Colorado AMI S aniG
Fe aud the Missouri, Kansas and Texa:
| railroads, is situated town which for
many reasons should invite the attention
| and interest of all who are seeking place:
for profitable investment of capital in
every department of industry and all
branches OF trade.
We refer 10 the town of Alvarado, in
| johnson county, q town filed with citi-
zens of business pluck, energy and en-
| terprlse, which, since the date of its
foundation, has steadily, but quietly and
unpretendin zly, pressed forward in the
direction of all tending to elevate it TO
the scale which commands the respect of
those who contemplate making their
homes III Texas.
johnson county Is conceded to be one of
the very richest in the state of Texas.
| The soil the county over is of q black,
waxy nature, and for fertility is equal
TO the Mississippi bottom, and hardly
second to the famed valley of the Nile.
The county is being settled very rapidly,
| especially around the town of AlvRrado,
and is covered with extensive and mag
nIfcent farms. The soil is capable of
producing on an average of near q bale
of cotton to the acre, fifty bushels of
corn, and every kind of Southern pro-
duce in proportion. Cleburne is the
county site, and Alvarado is twelve miles
distant from Cleburne.
Alvarado is situated in latitude 80 =
deg, longitude % deg. west from Wash
ington, and its altitude Is but a tritie
lower than that of Fort Worth. The
climate is considered perfectly healthy,
almost entirely free from all malarial
dlsease. or ailments of a pulmonary
character.
The town is steadily increasing in pop
ulation, but its growth is not on the
order of q boom. The census of 1880
showed population of only 500; in 1888
1t was estimated by an official statistical
report at $500, and at this writing the
town claims population of 5000 souls.
The high commercial rating of the
town is demonstrated by the fact that 1t
has already two banks-one national and
one private-with capital stock of $780,
900, and that the assessed valuation of
property in the corporate limits in 1880
was SIPS, ZOO, and in 1890 is over
5000 900.
In 1889 the value of the various mer-
camille transactions of the town amounted
to the following: Dry goods, S270 900;
groceries, $3.50, 900; hardware $3.50 ,00Oi
agricultural implements, $500 900;
furniture, $40 900, and produce, $4,000.
The same year the different agricultural
products bought and sold by the mer-
chants of the town was $500 bales of cot
ton, $500 pounds of wool, 800 tons of
cotton seed, 800. 200 bushels of corn, 49,
900 bushels OF wheat, 1000 head of live
stock, and miscellaneous products to the
amount of $500, 900. These estimates
serve to illustrate our assertions to the
effect that the country around Alvarado
is one of the richest and most productive
on the face of the globe, and that the
town presents a most inviting field for
unlimited investments.
Alvarado can boast already of fifty or
more mercantile houses. Out of this |
number thirty odd are large and COM |
modious brick buildings, and there are |
out of this number fifteen or twenty |
that carry exclusive lines of dry goods, |
groceries, hardware or drugs. The re- |
mainder are in the way of general sup !
ply stores, livery stables, meat markets, |
etc. 1t has three churches, Methodist, |
Baptist and Presbyterian, and the con- |
gregutions of each are way up into the |
hundreds. 1t has also two schools, with /
an average attendance of over $50 pupils.
Several enterprises of an important |
and substantial character are just now
being iuaugurated at Alvarado. The
town Is situated on competing lines of
two of the most important railroads
which traverse tue South. The Missouri, |
Kansas and Texas road have already
built their roundhouss in the town, and
will soon construct their repair shops
there. This will give employment to
large number of men. They have large
Touring mill in the town capable of
turning out 100 barrels day, and
gin with a capacity for ginning four
bales of cotton day.
The question of constructing line of
street railway connecting the depots on
the two different roads, and of organiz-
ing hook and ladder fire company, are
being agitated; it is considered only O
matter of u short time when the people
will have each of these most desirable
in successful operation.
Alvarado and the surrounding country
is settled by sturdy class of CONNER
cial and agricultural men, principally
natives of the older Eastern states, aud
all of them seem TO be prosperous, and
many of them have realized fortunes in
q few years in this country.
To all who seek homes or places to in
vest in profitable business we say view
the country IN and around AlYsrRdo.
The town has also one eight column
"The Alyarado Weekly Bull
letin. =" It is ably edited by Mr.. F. B.
a member of the distinguished
Bailleo family of Rapides parish, Lou
isiana, and presents a neat and most at
trantive appearance, and merits in every
respect the Jealous support of the intel
ligent people of AlVarado and wherever
it iroulates.
The water supply of johnson county Is
on par with any in this immediate sec
ton of Texas, and the seasons for the
last number of years have been all that
were necessary for the production of
bountiful crops. Alvarado is too far
south to be reached by the billiards.,
which of late years have visited differ
emit points of the far west, and long and
disastrous drouths are unknown.
Alyarado is situated within two miles
Of belt of timber twelve miles wide
and extending in length entirely across
Johnson county. The timber supply is
adequate for all ordinary demand and
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