Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-19
REALTY AND BUILDING.
Fort Worth Most Remarkable City in
Two Ways.
What Canning Factory Would Do for the
City-The Cotton will.
The College.
A REMARKABLE CITY.

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| she does, and remarkable for what sh'
| does not do. Great things hav5 Deen ac-
| complished, some of them stupendou
for city like Fort Worth. but smaller
| things which were comparatively easy tc
do have been left undonb. II Fort
Worth had had a splendid hotel John C.
Brown would have located the head
quarters of the Texas and Pacific here
If Fort Worth had had fine hotel the
Lombard Investment company would be
here and men who came and
went away would have staid. Yet q
grand hotel could be secured if an old
time effort were made. Other places
have canning factories and do well
Fort Worth buys from these Texas can
ming factories, but Fort Worth is so re-
markable she fails to get one, notwith-
standing the small cost. The brewery
was not secured when it could have been.
Fort Worth is indeed q remarkable
city. -
VOICES FROM IOWA.
Charles Bullock and W. J McAhren
are two citizens of Denison, Iowa, who
visited Texas and Fort Worth during the
Texas Spring Palace. When they
reached home they published a two COL
umn letter in the DenisOn Bulletin which
will certainly do great deal of good.
After telling of the Panhandle and Iowa
Park they say:
"We were met at the pot by r. W.
Tibbetts and wife and were given a royal
welcome to " here frost never bites and
where ice is made to order by steam.
Frank, as we call him, was formerly
treasurer of Ida county, and later q
partner of Mr.. BIS in Sioux City, He Is
a whole souled, honorable man, and is
in the real estate business and is dong
well. Any information given by him re-
garding Fort Worth can be relied on.
Frank spared no pains in showing us the
city. 1t is certainly destined to make a
large one. 1t has the hustlers who are
not afraid to put in the money to advance
the town.
Among the many Bcquaint ances we
made were the firm of Messrs. Casey &
Swasey, wholesale merchants. They are
among the finest gentlemen we met in
Texas, and are doing much to build up
Fort Worth. They have q hand in
almost every enterprise that tends to ad-
vance the city. Should any of your
readers ever visit that place dom t fail 10
make their acquaintance. Mr.. S. is
brother of our own Swasey of Dow City.
During our stay the Boston and Chicago
delegations were there and banquetted in
fine style. We were provided with
tickets, but modesty prevented our at
tendance.
''The Palace which has since burned
and in which Mr.. Hayne, formerly of
Iowa, 10 st his life in rescuing women
and children from the flames, was a
work of art and a gem of beauty. 1t
was fashioned after the style of the
Sioux City Corn Palace, only on a more
extensive scale; it was much more elab-
crate aud the artistic work was simply
gorgeous. To attempt a description
would be useless, as it would fill VOL
umes. Products of almost every variety
in the state were on exhibition. And
one scarcely realizes the vast extent of
Texas until he views the varied pro-
ducts requiring diversity of climate and
soil to produce them.
"Before closing we would CO injustice
not to say word regarding the people
of Texas. We have thought Texas was
filed up with fugutives from justice,
tough characters that emIgrated from
every locality that became too much
civilized for them; that good citizen
was not safe, and especially not if he
were Northern man. Alas, what err
rors of thought we fall into when we
give credence to stories circulated by ir-
parties, which do them no
good, and others much harm. On the
contrary we found as nice a lot of peo-
pie as there is on Gods green earth.
Pleasant, kind, hospitable, generous to
a fault; who took us kindly By the hand,
and everywhere we went gave us
IL h.
no fears of Texas on that score. -
THE COTTON MILL.
Several IdSs in the cotton mill addition
were placed yesterday. TIE solicitors
believe they w place eREdgh to secure
the prize. TheyeEill bssent again to-day
and It is hoped evekZsk6 will do what he
can. 1t is conced&k by nearly everyone
that these lots witDeSw worth three times
their cost in tVE yeafs. We have had
several Efforts 1eretofare to get a cotton
mill. Let usskor fail this time, for it
would bolster up prices of city property
IMPORTANCE OF CANNING FACTORIES.
Editor Gazette.
The value of fruit and vegetable can
hing factory to Fort Worth and farming
Ticinity can hardly be oFer-estimated. A
plant with running capacity of 80, 900
cans per day of tomatoes, corn, peas,
,eans, sweet potatoes and all kinds of
lruit, will work 600 hands during tine
ieason, putting up four carloads per day,
,qualing $4,000. Those not acquainted
With the tomato crop will probably be |
to know that an acre OF ground |
hat will produce good corn, wheat or
,oton, will yield from 500 to ZOO bushels |
If tomatoes. Averaging crop of toms-
.oes at 400 bushels per acre, at |
10 cents per bushel, which is the |
average price paid by canneries for
tomatoes, the farmers gross returns |
would be 500 per acre, which is better |
han the production of wheat, cotton or /
,orn. The returns of peas, beans, corn, /
weet potatoes, okry, and all kinds of
ruit, are nearly as good returns to the /
producer, the tomato, requiring no /
more attention in cultivation |
han the corn crop. Ten |
lcres can be successfully managed by /
me hand until picking season, when five
good hands will be req uired. Fort 1
Worth has excellent shipping facilities.
An institution of this kind will add /
greatly TO her business interest.
It would give a market to the farmers
or products that would soon become |
taple and pay handsome returns to the I
company projecting the enterprise. Thais
business enables the farmer aud
to psy cash for their supplies,
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