Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-30
ABOUT FORT WORTH.
and Trying to Denotes
of Progress
REAL ESTATE OUTLOOK

The real estate outlook Is good. Agents
all report an increased number of in
quiries and these from people who evil
IDENTIFY intend to buy. Among the East
ern men who have been in the city is
MIR. Sanborn of Utica, n. Y, who
! spent two days looking over the city.
| He left saying he was more than pleased
with the city, and had Fort Worth down
| fine so he could report to his friends. Fl q.
| b. Chamberlin, who has done more TO
| build up Denver than any man in the
| country, Is here in good spirits
| aud fully satisfied with Fort
Worth's future. Yesterday he, with
Messrs. Tallant and BurbrIdge. were en-
! PERTAINING Mr.. Studebaker, the famous
wagon manufacturer of South Bend +,
| Ind. Good will come out of this visit.
| A number of good sized trades are on the
taps and several have been closed. 1t
was stated on good authority yesterday
that r. H. Sellers had bought the
| Joseph H. Brown homestead.
IN THE NEXT THIRTY DAYS.
Fort Worth will hum with busy III
dustrv within the next thirty days. Our
factories now in operation are running
full handed and employing large nLm-
Der of men. On Thursday the Dalhman
refrigerator will be at work and
a thousand cattle will be
here by Wednesday to begin
operations on. A hundred men will soon
be at work at this establishment. Early
in November the great paokery Will be-
gin killing and packing hogs, and
seventy-fiye trained men are now here
ready for work. Col. Smith, Gen.
lit n
gently on the rolling mill project with
successful. A. w. Caswell and
grand hotel peoject, aud a meeting will
be held this morning to decide definitely
in regard to the site, and then the real
estate owners-those to be so greatly
benefited by the building of
the hote-will be waited on.
The shoe and leather factory
committee are still at work and need
only a few thousand dollars more to put
the factory In operation. The artesian
well for the cotton mill is down 800 feet
and the bids for the buildings will be
asked for shortly. A big distillery
is promised. The work on the brewery
buildings is going on rapidly. The Hen
bricks block is being pushed. The ma
chnery at the Dixie wagon factory is
nearly ali in place and operations will
soon begin there. Twelve residences
are going up in Union depot addition,
twenty resid encas arc going up at Pros
pect Heights, eight fine residences are
going up on Arlington Heights and two
other residences are being built In other
parts of the city. Fort Worth is q lively
CITY at this time.
FORT WORTH PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION.
There are several hundred patriotic,
energetic men in Fort Worth who are
anxious to work in some concerted way
for Fort Worth. They do not ask the
chamber of commerce to do 1t
all, they do not expect it,
but they do not feel able
to join that organization. They
propose to organize the Fort Worth pro-
gressive association, to act with the
chamber of commerce in all that will
benefit Fort Worth. A meeting would
have been held before this, but it was
not deemed fair to keep one man
from going to the Last Days of
Pompeii exhibit and take that
dollars from the fifteen public spirited
citizens who guaranteed the Sl5, 600 to
bring the attraction here. The Fort
Worth progressive association will be
heard from.
THE HOTEL PROJECT.
At last it has been decided that the
proper location for the $3.50 900 hotel is
the half of the block fronting south on
Ninth street, between Nam and Houston
streets. The subscription paper has been
drawn up, and yesterday was signed by
Mrs. w. A. Huffman for $40. 600. Mrs.
E. A. Hendricks, $4,000; Caswell Bros.
$500; Robert Mozart, $500, a total OF
$50. 900. The eight lots have been priced at
S1lo GOO, and this amount must be raised
to give the hotel company the bonus it
requires in the site. The hotel company
to give Fort Worth the finest
hotel In the South, eight stories high,
100x200 feet, with a southern exposure.
The sooner the SIl0. 600 is raised the
sooner will Fort Worth have this grand ]