Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-08
BEATTY AND BUILDING.
The Crying Need in Fort Worth Is
dwellings, and Stores.
What the Real Estate Men Have to Say Lbou,
1.-THE Grand HoteI-New Resi-
derces Being Built.

/ The crying need of Fort Worth is more,
residences and business houses. Not \
day passes that real estate men do I9sI
have applications for both that canuOg
/ be filed. To show that such is the ease
a GAZETTE reporter called on humber
| of real estate men yesterday and put the
question TO them: "Have you applica-
| tons for residences and storehousns that
| you carnot fil?' They gave replies as
foil ows:
| F. w. Tibbetts-I have applications
| for houses to rent every day, especially
those that Will rent for about $50 per
month, but cannot begin to fill the de-
maud. Mr.. Morris put q brief notice in
/ THE GAZETTE a few days ago that his
residence was for rent. The morning It
appeared there were eight applicants.
/ OF course seven of them were dtsap-
! pointed. We need residences very muchf
| p. A. Huffman & Cove have on an
/ averge six ap locations per day for resi-
/ deuces, that we cannot fill. The average
| inquiry per day for storehouses is two
| Two gentlemen from New Orleans wereI
| here few days ago looking for busi-|
| ness house on Main or Houston street
but they could not find a store and LEFT
| the city. Here Is letter from a mert
| chant in Vernon, asking us to get him p
! business house and a residence. w
cannot get them. This is u common oc-
Currence.
Massia, Miller s. Co.-Residences are
in great demand. We are compelled TO
tell people every day that we cannot fini
residences for them.
Walker Heatou & Bury-Six Gpplics-
tons a day for residences is the average.
We have residence on our book to be-
vacated Tomorrow, and to-day we have
had five different persons i'll the office
trying to rent it. AS to business houses,
we can only say thut Il merchant from
Tennessee tried to rent these offices for a
dry goods store, but we couldn't give
them up.
I Ii. q. Lee & Cove have had O great
many applications for residences, but we
cannot find them. During the last
month we have had several applications
for business houses. merchant OF
Atehson, Kan. wants IA Main or Hous-
ton street store for a stock of clothing.
An EldOrado, Kan, man wants q store
building for stock of dry goods.
FRY & Fakes-We have had considera- ,
Bile inquiry for business houses. Moret
than we can supply. One merchant 7
wanted store 25xl0O feet, two stories.
We could not get it and We had TO take
part of store. There is a constant de-
mand for Main and Houston street
stores and this demand should be sup
piled. We could have located mer-
chant here a short time ago but no store
house could be rented.
Swayne, Allen & Cove could rent
100 residences and half dozen stores on
Main and Houston streets to-day if We
could get them.
w. r. Sauner 81 Cove haYe four or
FIVE inquiries daily for residences, but
the residences are not here. A Cleburue
merchant applied to-day for store
house, but We could find no store for
him.
Veal, Wright s. Lenoir-We have doz-
ems of applications for residences we can
not supply. Four ladies have been here
in the last two hours looking for dwell
ings, but we didn't have them. We are
offered a profit of 25 per cent. on our
lease on this room for mercantile pur-
poses.
H. C. Caswell-Fort Worth needs store
houses on Main and Houston streets,
three and four stories. The chamber OF
commerce mas stopped trying to get job
bers to come here, for the simple reason
that there is no place in which they can
do business.
J. e. Reilly s. Sou-We can't begin to
supply the demand for residences.
Dsrley & Kane-Plenty of demand for
residences, but no supply commensurate
with it.
NOTES OF PROGRESS.
W. T. Maddox is building a $4,000 res
ideuoe on Jones and Fifth streets. The
building will be handsomely finished aud
will be an ornament to the First ward.
Col. Peter Smith says that all that is
necessary to secure the building of q
half million dollar hotel is to get the site
the Chicago people want.
The building of much needed Central
fire hall is being agitated. The council
will probably take action on the matter
in few weeks.
W. T. Steele is going to build five two
story residences on his block of ground
on Burnett street lying between Texas
and Thirteenth streets. None of them
will cost less than $4,000. Two will face
east on Burnett, two west on Cherry and
Que south on Thirteenth. The frame of
one facing Burnett Is already up and
ready for the roof.
D. G. Gulden is building q two-story
$500 residence on Cherry street, between
Texas and Thirteenth.
RECORDED TRANSFERS.
]. W. Alderman to Sam c..
Jackson, lot 6, block 3,
College Hill addition. IS l 800 90
]. L. Tyler to Char lesBound,
lot l, block %, Moore
Thornton addition ...... 1900 90
John q. Ryan to E. G. SUIT
ton, lot 4, block l, Ryan &
Bergen's addition. ..... 1850 90
Il. II. Lacy to E. Friedrich,
lot 9, block 2, Lawn Place. $50 90
For &c 80 fhe Dnilu Gazstta .pfN ba GENT si0