Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-27


money with which to carry on extensive
building operations, and the building and
loan associations, seven in number, are
doing good work in this same line.
PROJECTS IN HAND.
Let the candid man read what Fort
Worth is working for and build
ing, aud then compare the
record made here with that
of any other city aud draw his own con-
illusions. Fort Worth is building:
A tannery and shoe factory,
A large pork packery,
An Iron rolling mill,
A wooden mill,
A sash, door and blind factory,
A large bottling works,
A oordags factory,
Granite roofing works,
Cement works,
Machine shops,
A huge refrigerator.
She is hard at work in efforto to Sc
/ cure;
. A large cotton mill,
An immense brewery,
A large furniture factory,
A SIoo ZOO military institute,
Two railroads,
A pillow factory,
The fnsst hotel in Texas.
The Fort Worth and Denver machine
shops to cost $500, GEO, and which will be
the largest sad best in Texas, giving
employment to 500 mea, will soon be I'M
dsr way, AID where now the bread
prairie is found bustliRg little settle
ment of 1000 souls will exist in q few
months.
THE BREWERY PROJECT.
Secretary Biden of the chamber Of
commerce had the brewery subscription
list in charge yesterday and met with fsir
encouragemens. Just as. soon as the
bonus of $40, 900 is raised work on the
brewery which will cost from Sl25, 900 to
S2o0, 0eo will begin. Not dollar of the
subsidy 10 asked by Mr.. Cannon until the
all In and beer brswed, The brewery
buildings are to be erected within the
corporate limits of Fort Worth.
y THE REFRIGERATOR.
A, telegram has been, sent by the
! ehanber of commerce to President stod-
dard of the state dressed beef company
notifying him that Fort Worth accepted
the 500, 900 beef refrigerator, work on
she stone aud brick buildings to begin
Just rs soon as he desired. Up to last
night some S65, 200 of the 500, 200 had
been secured, and the Fort Worth loan
and construction company gave the local
company notice that 1t would furnish
whatever the balance required might be
and take mortgage bonds for same. An
effort will be made 10 increase the
amount of stock taken. but
whether this Is done or not the entire
500, 900 is at command.
NEW STREET RAILWAYS.
Fort Worth to-day has the best street.
car service in the South, but it win soon
be much improved by addition of new
lines. It will only be few weeks until
the Arlington Heights electric railway
will be in operation and five miles of
track added; to that already in use.
Work IL to begin on the two and q half
miles Of electric railway to Riverside
in . very short time, and inside of sixty
days Pullman palace vestibule cara will
be running to Svlvania. The Park street
railway company expects to begin opera
tions en- its line In q short time. This
line will run to Park Place, TO AYondale,
Mistletoe Heights and Manchester.
ELEVATED STREET RAILWAY.
Fort Worth was the first city in Texas
to have electric street cars. and now she
Is the first city to have an elevated
street railway. 1t il proposed
by R. E. Maddox, E. N. Turner
James W. swayne and others of this
city and capitalists in St. Louis to con-
struct an elevated street railway leading
from the courthouse square to the denss-
ly populated districts southeast OF Fort
Worth. The route of the road as pres
ent mapped ont, is from the courthouse
out West Westhsrford street 10 Throok-
morton, down Throekmorton past the
Ellis hotel to Fourth street, east on
Fourth street past the Pickwick aud Mans
sion to Jones, Calhoun, or some paral-
lei street, thence 10 the Union depot.
Lake park, Hyde park addition and be-