Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-09
MANSFIELD.
A Tarrant County Town Full of En-
ergy and Ambition.
rrOunded by Fertile Lands and Thrifty
People, She is Pulling for Commercial
Strength at Rapid Rate.

Tarrant county leads them all for
| prosperous towns-in fact Tarrant is the
banner county of Texas, and it can't be
successfully oontradicted. Tarrant has
not single town on the staudstill, all
widewake, thrifty towns, growing as
rapidly as possible from towns into -four
ishing cities.
| Mansfield, being q Tarrant county
town, situated Oh the Fort Worth branch
of the Central railroad, eighteen miles
| southeast of Fort Worth and thirty five
miles west of Dallas in the edge of the
ross-timbers and being surrounded by q
most productive farming country, is
much in advance of other Tarrant county
ftowns in rapid substantial improvement.
She has Done more in the past six
| months to place her to the front than any
| other town in the state. The year of
I.lS9Q YlkkssFer be looked back TO as the
z3HteE86r birth of the future city of
| Mansfield. There is not the least shadow
| of doubt in the mind of the writer that
Mansfield in .he next five years will have
increased her present 1000 populatinn to
6000 or 5000; for her surrounding country
of various kinds of fertile soils, her pure
| waters, both surface and arteslan, her
splendid hea4fhful location, her liberal
euterpE3Eeas, wide-awake citizens and
shIg&8ssusiness men, and last, but in
WE least, her unsurpassed school adj
fSantages, are abundantly sufficient to
warrant even greater growth.
Mansfield has recently been incorpo-
rated, and from among heranost worthy,
honored citizens was selected q corps of
efficient officers, who will sever be found
faithfully doing their dug for the honor
of duty.
Mansfield is taking on Squite boom,
the result of which will fbe many most
valuable and lasting improvements. She
has already made much improvement in
the past few months, several good brick
business houses having been contracted
for, three or four gf them being con-
struoted now, and mSny beautiful resi-
derhes, costing from $4,000 to $4,000, that
would do credit to bur best cities, have
been Built.
Two Handsome ychurches are being
built, Methodist aSh Baptist. The Bap-
fist ohurok5s an elegant frame building,
costing SlN8s fnd the Methodist,
beautiful briea $osts $500. Other de-
nominations hsy good buildings, Chris
tian aRabsEam zand Presbyterian-in
fasxeHsthe pr4 cipM denominations are
bsesented. Eansfa has undertaken
u most commsh dable task. This move is
TO revive heHf former EDUCATIONAL fame
which she on e enjoyed ands &hioh makes
Mansfield dsfr to the hearts many of
our most di&inguished men andsgomen.
AS an educational point she is accflaed of
is she now& What will she be-and wfiSs,.
Long ereFthe iron horse came putting
through fer now incorporated limits the
work ofFducation was begun. The real
izarion ~ its necessity, love for it, and
q high appreciation of the good it brings
TO ind Tiduals, cities and nations had so
fasteEd themselves upon the hearts of
the oHizens as 10 convince all who would
giveE but moments thought that the
goo9twork had come to stay
Although of the old college building
little but ashes yet remains, still, living
epistles to tell what tMansfield male
and female college, has already done.
may he found proclaiming honor to their
old Alma Mater from many prominent
places throughout the beloved ''Lone
Star state.'
Inquire of our county officers, "Where
were you educated?' and note how
many answer, cat Mansfield, Texas
Ask of the bar, the bench, the pulpit,
the professorship the workshop, AND do
not stop in Texas, but go to the other
states, and the same quick answer comes
from many quarters of the enlightened
land: "The light that placed us where
we are was found in Mansfield college. -
The building burned and the people
its loss for time. but now it
seems that O hoard of dross was con-
sumed with 1t.
Whatever of dissention or strife may
have been born or matured in the COM
munity since Mansfield had a college |
seems either to have been consumed |
with the building or swept away by the |
popular current of Tarrant county's |
grand progress in education. All such |
MS cherished divisions have grounded |
their rsbellious arms and now the people |
as whole, forming one grand army of |
allies in common cause, are deter
mined to make of Mansfield college one |
that is second to none.
The work has already begun. The |
building mounts Phoenix-like from her |
ashes, and ere the winters blasts have
elighted the green leaves on the old |
frontier oaks, which weld their gracious /
umbrage TO that most beautiful college
site, the new college firmly perched may
be seen.
"a building proud and lofty,
Made Of the best of wood
Upon her new foundation
Right where the old house stood"
building Is not all. The people |
ave levied special tax of twenty cents
% the SI00 for school purposes. This as
lures to all residents of scholastic age full |
benefits, free in all departments of the
,plfegs. The school is now in fine work.
<5g6fder and under good supervision.
None but the best educators are EMPLOYED