Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-05
ABOUT FORT WORTH.
What the PIuckiess city in Texas is Doing and
frying to Bo-Notss Of
Progress.
roRTuNE,s FIELD.

There Is more money per capita in that
portion of Texas tributary TO Fort Worth,
in a commercial way, than in any other
section of the state. Farmers, mer-
chants, mechanics, professional men ana
people of all classes are better to do as
rule, in this section than in any section
of the American union. There are on'
few paupers and in most cases the un-
fortunates are cripples or in bad health.
Where a msa can work he makes
good living. Tho population
of this charmed circle is as rule made
up OF white, English speaking people.
Fort Worth has the smallest percentage
! of negroes, Mexicans or Objectionable
foreigners of any city in Texas. IL IS
distinctlvely an American city. Men
make cities, not mere numbers OF nu-
man beings. Fort Worth has more men,
IN the broad sense of the word, than any
Texas city of like population. What
holds good in regard to that rich
region tributary to Fort Worth
| holds good about the city itself,
There is more wealth per capita
| in Fort Worth than IN any other city IN
! Texas. Let's see what the record shows.
Fort Worth has 80 200 people living with
| in corporate limits of four square miles,
the smallest corporation in size In the
state. Those 80, 600 people and that four
square miles of territory. are assessed at
| SIC, 200, 900; there is that much real and
personal property. Dallas says she mas
| GO 600 people. That city covers nine
teen SQUARE miles of territory; the assess
ment is 500 ,00O, 900. San Antonio has 65.-
of territory the assessment is So 200 200.
In other words the wealth per capita
| in the cities mentioned Is as follows:
Fort Worth, 1888.
Dallas, 1922.
San Antonio, SS3S.
The other cities in Texas not named
vary but little in per capita wealth from
Dallas and San Antonio. The figures are
! from official sources except population,
| which is given as each city claims it.
| All this goes to show that the citizens
! of Fort Worth and tributary country can
| wear better clothes, eat better food, live
| in better houses and spend more money
| for the comforts of life than in any city
| or section of Texas. There Is always full
| consumption here and no over rToduc-
ton of manufactured goods, and for
| this reason Fort Worth Is the most in-
| viting field in the country for manufact-
urers-it is fortunes field for them. 1t
is the place of all places for large
wholesale and iobbing houses. 1t is the
| place of all places for residence.
WHEAT AND COTTON MARKET.
| Fort Worth should and can handle
800 900 bales of cotton per aunum. Fort
Worth should be the greatest wheat
market of the Southwest, and should and
! can handle millions of bushels of wheat
| every year. The chamber of commerce
of Fort Worth should set the ball in
! motion and put on foot plans that will
| bring about this result. Fort Worth is
| banking and money center, and for that
| reason all the money necessary to handle
| cotton and wheat can always be
| had at current rates. One or
| several warehouse and commission
| companies should be organized here
! and large warehouses and grain eleva-
| tors built. The farmer would nd
| their cotton, wheat and corn to these
| warehouse companies which would issue
| warehouse certificates on the cotton and
wheat stored and on these certifiou ties
the farmers could draw so per cent. OF
| the Va ne of their stored products. They
|
not being compelled to throw their oot-
ton or wheat on a depressed market.
| The most conservative bankers in Fort
Worth say this city can be made
| the great wheat and cotton mar
kets of Texas il the plans sug-
gested are carried out. It is
said that $40 900 to $50, 900 would be
| sufficient to inaugurate suoh business.
| With a concentration of the products of
| this section at Fort Worth the buyers OF
| the world would oongregate here and
| this would make q market.
FINE COURTHOUSE.
Considerable interest is being taken in
the move to have a fine courthouse built
for Tarrant county, and up to the pres
ent time no one has expressed opposition
| 1t is expected that 1t will take some time
| to arrange preIiminaries, but those who
] favor the move desire that the matter be
| act before the people fully so that in
electing county commissioners this fall,
it may be fully understood what Is
! wanted and the candidates put
| on record. 1t is urged that
It is very D or economy to put SIC, 900,
| Sl5 200 or $40 900 in patch work on a
building which year by year grows more
| and more inadequate for the public busi-
ness. Several leading attorneys suggest
that the bar take action in the matter ct
| once. If the subject is placed before
the people properly the next board of
county commissioners will provide Tar
rant county with the most magnificent
courthouse in Texas.
SOUTHWEST HEADQUARTERS.
One of the ressiss of the visit Of the
Eastern people to Fort Worth recently
and OF the efforts of T. J. Hurley is the
establishment at Fort Worth of the
headquarters of the Thorne type setting
| machine for Texas and Mexico.