Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-29
Why Fort Worth is the Place for Manu-
factories.
An Opportunity for Fort Worth to Become q
Great Cotton and wheat Market.
Tie New Mansion
FORTUNES FIELD.

Of the American union. There are but
few paupers and in most cases the un-
fortunates are oripples or in bad health.
Where Il man can work he makes
a good living. The population
of this charmed circle is as a rule made
up of white, English speaking people.
Fort Worth has the smallest percentage
of negroes, Mexicans or objectionable
foreigners of any city in Texas. II Is
distinctively an American city. Men
make cities, not mere numbers OF hu-
man beings. Fort Worth has more men ,
IN the broad sense of the word, than any
Texas city of like population. What
holds good in regard to that rich
region tributary to Fort Worth
holds good about the city itself,
There is more wealth per capita
in Fort Worth than IN any other city in
Texas. Let's see what the record shows.
Fort Worth has 80 200 people living with
in corporate limits of four squars miles,
the smallest corporation in size In the
state. Those 80, 900 people and that four
square miles of territory are assessed at
SIC 200, 200; there is that much real and
personal property. Dallas says she has
62 600 people. That city covers nine
teen square miles of territory; the assess
ment is $50, 900, 600. San Antonio has 60,
900 people, covers thirty-six square miles
of territory the assessment is S22 900 900.
In other words the wealth per capita
in the cities mentioned Is as follows:
Fort Worth, 1888.
Dallas, 1922.
San Antonio, 1888.
The other cities in Texas not named
vary but little in per capita wealth from
Dallas and San Antonio. The figures are
from official sources except population,
which is given as each city claims it.
All this goes to show that the citizens
of Fort Worth and tributary country can
wear better clothes, eat better food, live
in better houses and spend more money
for the comforts of life than in any city
or section of Texas. There is always full
consumption here and no over produce
ton of manufactured goods, and tor
this reason Fort Worth is the most in
viting field in the country for manufact-
urers-it is fortunes field for them. 1t
is the place of all places for large
wholesale and jobbing houses. 1t is the
place of all places for residence.
WHEAT AND COTTON MARKET.
Fort Worth should and can handle
300 200 bales of cotton per anuum. Fort
Worth should be the greatest wheat
market of the Southwest, and should and
can handle millions of bushels of wheat
every year. The chamber of commerce
of Fort Worth should set the ball in
motion and put on foot plans tnat will
bring about this result. Fort Worth is a
banking and money center, and for that
~ h.
cotton and wheat can always be
had at current rates. One or
Several warehouse and commission
companies should be organized here
and large warehouses and grain eleva-
tors built. The farmer would nd
their cotton, wheat and corn to these
warehouse companies which would issue
warehouse certificates on the cotton and
wheat stored and on these certiflo ties
the farmers could draw so per cent. of
the va ne of their stored products. They
could sell whe the market suited them,
not being compelled to throw their cot
ton or wheat on a depressed market.
The most conservative bankers in Fort
Worth say this city can be made
the gre4t wheat and cotton mar
kets of Texas IL the plans sug-
gested are carried out. It is
said that $40, 900 TO $50, 900 would be
sufficient to inaugurate such q business.
With q concentration of the products of
this section at Fort Worth the buyers of
the world would oongrsgate here and
this would make q market.
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS.
A little army of men are at work de-
yeloping Arlington Heights. The steel
a he t. IL,
the floors and street car tracks laid and
the approaches nearly completed. BY
June or 10 electric street cars will be
running out the grand boulevard as far
as the loop. Three OF the elegant Pull
man palace street cars have been re-
eeived and others are on the way. The
oars received are perfect beauties,
they are painted white with gilt
trimmings, and Mr.. Pullman writes they
are the most Elegant cars ever made by
him. The Arlington Heights company
Yesterday determined on an additional
line of street railway through its pos
sessions. This line will begin at point
west of the Clear Fork bridge, run
south to Manchester, the factory eddi-
ton, thence west over the dam at the
lakes, and then on to q connection with
the line running out the boulevard. This
will be an electric line two and seven
eighths miles long.
The work Of laying three and one-half
miles of water MANS will begin at once
and later on lateraEs will be added. The
power house at Lake Como and the car
house are completed. while the four ele-
CANT residences to cost $50 200 are well
under way. BY the middle of June
rapid transit to Arlington Heights will be
THE NEW MANSION.
Architect Kane said yesterday that
work on the new Mansion hotel would
begin as soon as the Spring Palace closed.
OF the SlI5, 900 to be expended s123, 200
IS already IN hand. The stone building
on the corner of Rusk and Fourth and
all the frame and brick buildings on
Fourth and Main streets will |
be torn down and the new |
hotel fronting seventy-fve feet |
on Main street, and 200 feet on Fourth |
street, i've stories high, Of brick trimmed
with stone, will take its place. The |
work will be finished IN six months.
THE BREWERY.
1t looks very much like the people of
Fort Worth did not wapt 500 900
brewery by, paying asbonus of ST. 200. |
The COMMITTEES stopped work Yesterday,
q Ftar. ohtaiufitey eona Se500 in suhuorfr,- i