Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-26
SULPHUR SPRINGS.
One of Her Live Citizens Tells About Her
Necessities


Necessities.
THE GAZETTE has sought very persist
emily to CLEAN all the Information posi-
BILE from the representatives who are at
the great convention, that might be of
interest to capitalists and others who are
interested in the progress of our great
state.
| Being specially impressed with the elo-
quent and enthusiastic manner IN which
the claims of sulphur Springs was pre-
scented by Mr.. W. C. Hargrove, one of
the most active business men of that en-
terprsing city, a GAZETTE man sought
| himIin q hotel and elicitsd the following
| information:
"Tell us something, Mr.. Hargrove,
of the manufacturing interests already
! in your city, and to which you alluded in
| your speech yesterday, and also of what
| other interests there is the best outlook
for that Is not already represented, and
what are the prospects for you to secure
| these other needed enterprises?'
"Well, the enterprises that are
| specially crying for development and
looking to capital with pleading looks are
cotton, wool, sugar and iron. We re-
| ceive thousands of bales of cotton every
year from the rich, black lands in the
bottoms of White Oak and the two Sui
phur rivers, that is the finest long staple
received anywhere in the South, and
rivals in quality that produced in the
islands of the sea. Our wool has been
famous for many years as the best in the
state. 1t is of extra fine quality, and 80
much sought after on the wool exchanges
in the East that many attempts have
Springs wool, - and in quantity would
state that we are about the third heaviest
wool shipping point in Texas, and in
quality we stand at the head.
"Our sugar and syrup interests are i'm
mense. We ship thousands of pounds
of the finest ribbon cane syrup ever pro-
duced to all points on the Texas and Pa
ciHc and Fort Worth and Denver rail-
roads in Texas, New Mexico and Colo
RADIO. We really think, in fact know,
that a cotton mill, wooden mill and
sugar refinery in our city would pay bet
ter than at any other point in the South.
Capitalists are now corresponding with
our board of trade with reference to
these matters, and we are confident
that ii is only question of a short while
when we will have these enterprises
fully represented, along with the other
long list that goes TO make Sulphur
Springs the greatest manufacturing CITY
of its size in the state OF Texas to-day.
We are in very close proximity to the
great iron district for which East Texas
is famous, and our county is entirely
underlaid with fine quality of Ignite
with which to convert these iron fields
into pig and building irons. This ignite
has been thoroughly tested and is said
by experts to be superior TO coal, and in
fact equal to coke for smelling purposes.
as it is devoid CT bitumen, which
Is SO objectionable in coal,
We are very sanguine over our
prospects with reference to these enter
prises, as we know we can offer advan-
tages in the way of cheap fuel, abundant
other city can offer in the South. There
is old maxum that ''the place to do BUSH
ness is where business is being done. -
We believe this will hold true with refer
ence to the city to which we are all SO
much devoted. All our other enter
prIses are phenomenal success, our two
large furniture factories are doing an
immense business, our forests of hard
wood and native walnut are being con-
verted into furniture fit to adorn any
palace in the land. Our ice factory and
bottlIng works have not been Gble to fill
the orders, or meet the demand upon
them. Our oil mills send their product
of oil and cake to all parts of the United
States and Europe. The oil company
are erecting refinery where they will
concentrate the product of these several
Texas mills and make of it the finest
olive oil(Y) and refine it into the purest |
hogs leaf lard(?) in the world. A score
of other smaller enterprises are doing !
well; such as chair factory, ak handle |
factory, mattress factory, foundry, |
wagon and carriage works; cotton gin |
factory, etc. Our three colleges are the |
pride of North Texas, from their classic |
halls the sons and daughters of more than
a dozen states together with the republic
of Mexico, annually go forth to reflect
the credit of their almamater aud adorn
the circle of society in which they move, |
there three worthy institutions of learn
ing, together with the ward schoolhouse, |
give daily instructions to more than 1000 |
pupils.
'sThe city is now erecting a system of
waterworks to cost $50, 900. and sys-
tenn of sewerage TO cost S45, 900. Elec-
trio lightSwill be operated by the same