Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-31
BEATTY AND BUILDING.
Bank Clearings for August, 10 80, Show
Considerable Gain Over 1889.
The Patronage Given Home Industries Aids in
the Upbuilding OF the City-Two New
Enterprises.
BANK CLEARINGs.


Clearings of Fort Worth clearing house
for periods mentioned:
Clearings for week ending August 80. 09s s61 !:
-,''--'- WV" E. B. HARaoID, Manager.
For month Of August, 1880. S. liz, 335. 80
z. B. HAERoID, Manager.
| NOTES OF PROGRESS.
Messrs. Brown & Bozzell of Washing
ton, D. G. 4, are having erected two
story brick building to be used for first
class steam laundry. Both gentlemen
being experts at the business, Fort Worth
will have what it has long needed. A
carload of machinery is expected IN q
few days, when operations will begin.
L. c. Wall and X. Nj. VanZ ndt,
Jr., have sold to Hirshfield s. johnson
| fifty-three acres of the Cohen survey
south of the city for S29I5.
Z. o. barley has sold to G. Rowe
three acres OF the Head and Alsabrook
survey for $4,000.
The contract for the brewery will be
let Tomorrow.
A. w. Caswell and f. ]. Jennings
have telegraphed from the East to Secre-
tary Biden of the chamber of commerce.
for Fort Worth advertising matter.
The chamber of commerce will hold an
lupOrkBut meeting TUESDAY.
BUILD UP FORT WORTH.
FORT WORTH, TEX, Aug. 80, 1890.
To the Secretary OF the Chamber of Commerce:
DEAR SIR-You want the second, viz. :,
Fort Worth, chapter of my tale of the
two cities and here 1t Is, although, after
reading this you may think me pre-
sumptuous in giving my opinion SO de-
cisively after only four months resi-
dence.
concluded my last letter after show
ing why Kansas City was Gin the con-
somme.' What now must Fort Worth
do to be saved? (from a similar fate
caused by similar causes.
As l take It Fort Worth citizens should
profit by the experience of the Gate City
at the mouth Of the Kansas river and
avoid the mistakes there made, chief of
which was the failure to keep the money
circulating at home, among the home
mechanics.
1 am told that, as a rule, the Texan
until of recent years never bought any
thing at home except what he could not
conveniently import from the outside.
This naturally is an exaRgerstion, but
good deal of truth remains in it, and
here lies the whole secret. Reverse that
thing from abroad that your mechanics
or those mechanics you seek to draw
hither cen make right here.
l see a call is issued for meeting
to encourage manufacturers to locate
in Texas, and would suggest that
to make q successful appeal to
other manufacturers you first teach
your rich men Ight here in Fort
Worth to patronize those manufacturers
that have located here. The small
buyer or builder or investor mostly buys
at home, but the moneyed man does not
yet look at his own best interests in the
right light, for he fails to employ Fort
Worth artisans because he can get his
goods in the Eastern market (presum-
ably cheaper.
.cored Kansas City rather hard in my
last letter, but must acknowledge that
l never heard of a man In that city com.
uniting such blunder (some say q blum
der is worse than a crime) as to 20 to the
rival cities. Leavenworth, Atchison or
st. Joe, to buy his goods, even II he did
send his money to big st. Louis or Chi
cago.
Yet here the owner of a large amount
OF Fort Worth real estate, q man of
many tenants, lsborers, mechanics and
others, Just returned from Dallss-our