Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-25
THE WOOL COUNTRY.

Ballinger Citizen Discourses on the Needs
of His Section.
c. o. Harris, an attorney of Ballinger,
was met by q GAZETTE reporter, who
having whitfield to point the business
end of q new Faber, remarked:
81 see, MIR. Harris, that Ballinger,
has with yourself, some four of five del
egates to our manufacturers conven-
ton. One would judge from that that
your people feel interested in building
up Texas?''
fWell, yes. Ballinger, you know,
never does anything on the half shell
order, as it were. Being composed as
she Is, of live energetic business men,
who realize what it requires to build up
prosperous city and country, she may
always be counted upon to take part in
deliberations that in any way may prove
beneficial to herself or the state at
large
''Then 1 presume you would not
seriously object to the coming of capital
lists from the North or East TO establish
factories of any kind in your part of the
moral vineyard?'
owe would not only not object to their
coming, but, on the contrary, We would
be willing to substitute them literally in
order to induce them to come. We
have, You know, as good water facilities
for running factories as any city in the
state. The Colorado river on one side and
Elm creek on the other, which is larger
than your beloved Trinity, on the other
side of our town, both of which could be
utilized in this line with but little ex-
pense.
"What would we manufacture, did
you ask? Well, you must remember
that with perhaps the single exception of
San Antonio, Ballinger Is the largest
wool market in the state. We ship from
that point annually from two to three
million pounds. With a securing plant
this could be cleaned and secured, and
with factories we could work this up at
home, and the benefits to ourselves and
the state can be seen at a glance. For
factory of this kind, that would give
employment to fifty or seventy-five men,
we would give as a subsidy of from
$50, 900 to $50, 200. In addition TO our
wooden interests we grow al Immense
amount of fine wheat and great deal of
cotton. We therefore need roller mills;
an oil mill would also prove paying in
vestment with US. Our city is building
Tdpluly Will RcOu SuOstdulidl DUsi-
ness houses and our merchants, both
wholesale and retail, do q prosperous
business. We have a large country trib-
utary to us-necessarily so as we are the
distributing point for Coke, Concho and
Menard counties.
Glow about immfgration?''
'The influx has been simply WONDER
full during the present year. Our real
estate men, aud we have several frms,
are kept busy constantly showing and
selling land to actual settlers, and new
farms are being opened up daily. Our
lands, you know, are still cheap, but are
rising in value rapidly
t'Tell me something about the Pecan
Colorado Concho country-the great P.
c. c. country, you know!''
'"Now, you are a newspaper man
after my own heart, and if you will
negotiate round-trip fare for both of
lis on thirty days time over this mule
less street-car line, 1 will accompany
you TO the Union depot, where you can
examine our exhibit and learn more of
our country in ten minutes than can
tell you in week. This display can not
be surpassed by any section of county
in Texas or anywhere else.