Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-14

Ss't6r more. If ''Uucle Sam expects to Keep up
I with the procession, il would be we'll for his
/ agents to get a move on them. We need that
| government building that congress said we
| Panhandle national bank of this place shows,
| among other things. deposits subject to graft
Sl9S, l59. This OF itself speaks well for the fnan-
! cial condition OF the people rs well as for the
| management of the bank, and especially so
| when it is taken into consideration that there is
| another bank here-the City national-which is
| also doing fine business.
HASKELL, TEX, June u.-Hasken is still on
| the boom. Several new houses are in course of
erection. The first national bank of Haskell is
fully organized with a cash capital of $50 OOO
and will open for business by the 18th.
There Is also move on foot to organize a sec
ond bank to be known as the Haskell national
bank, composed principally of home citizens,
and we hope that each bank may do good bust
ness and prosper.
-BALIINGER, TEX. June PA rousing and
very enthusiastic mass meeting was held at the
courthouse last night to perfect the organization
of what is known as the Ballinger progressive
committee. thirty-fve of the most active bust
ness men of the town and county were chosen
members of the committee and its or
ganization perfected by the election of ID. p.
Gay, president, and j. N. Winters and W. A.
Davis, secretaries. Twelve hundred and fifty
dollars in cash was contributed to the commit
tee last night. As much more will be raised by
voluntary contributions to-day.
GRENADA, Tex. June IO.-Professor Wither-
spoon of amarillo has Just finished his new res
idence and brought his family here. Mr.. Dean
formerly of Mcpherson. Kan, has lumber on
the ground for q two-story residence. J. J Sto-
vail of Cleburne has erected new residence
and moved his family here, with the intention
of making this his home. Mr.. Mcbride is
erecting a business house to be used for dry
goods. Mr.. B. 3. Hayden is preparing TO build
q residence, and when completed expects 10
bring his family here from Amarillo. The well
now being bored on the square will soon be fin
lShed and In operation.
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ty seat of Hardeman county and the largest town
IN the county. 1t has population OF at least
ZOOO and no town on the Fort Worth and Den
yer railroad is building faster or has brighter
prospects for becoming great city. At resent
writing the number of new business buildings
being built will cost away up in the thousands,
stone hoteL 75Ti00. to cost So, 600: a
$40, 900 roller-mill; elevator, SI2 600; First
national bank building, SIS, 600; w. G. Lewis &
70, two-story stone business house, 5000;
w: u. montgomery, stone business house.
SCUM; T. B. Coster, two-story stone business
house, $4,000; Randolph g. Franklin and Pro-
lessor Wiley, two story business house, 5OxIO9.
$4,000; stone courthouse, SIS, 0O0; J. T. Spears
stone business house, $1,000. In addition to this
number there are many new dwellings in course
OF construction, many of which are very hand
some. Besides these there are probably one
hundred dwellings under contract here. Quanan
IS the future city of this great wheat belt and
1t isn't long off until this prediction will come
true.
CORPUS CHRISTI, TEX, June 1.-THE Ga
zETTE correspondent arrived at this place a few
days since and found the town in the midst of
quiet boom. From Corpus Christi TO Port
Ar2nsas, four miles south, syndicate are grad
ing street railway to be run by dummy engines;
also grading nd Smelling the streets ana avenues
which are broad and well plated A $50 900
hotel is now being built on the bay front. MANY
other improvements of like nature are being
made by the syndicate. There is some activity
in real estate, but the prices greatly inflated
and they have inflated ideas. For instance
they hold bay front lots 2oxl2O feet at $780, and
require an obligation to build house to cost not
less than $4,000. These prices and requirements |
slightly diminish as they recede from the bay |
front.
Corpus Christi is destined to become a good |
town. but perhaps not the great seaport city of |
the Southwest,