Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-22
REALTY AND BUILDING.
Now is the Accepted Time for Fort
Worth to DO some Pushing.
Activity In Real Estate circles-what . Road
to nano would do for This city-HOw
to Build up Factories.


times. Fort Worth is to be the busiest,
happiest and most prosperous city in the
country this year. The movement In
real circles has begun q month ahead
of the time expected. Shrewd men of
money see that now lie the time to buy,
and they are buying. The present week
has witnessed several heavy transactions
amounting in four days 10 over $3.50 900.
Nearly all the money invested comes
from the outside. Men who plant their
money here see that property is cheap,
realize that a steady and handsome ad-
vance will come, and are accordingly
anxious to get In on the ground floor as
quickly as possible. The city builders
are at work, and costly piles of stone.
brick and iron go up on al sides. Now Is
the accepted time for Fort Worth.
Every enterprise must be pushed, every
worthy project fostered. The city
fathers, headed by Mayor Smith. must
set the example, and public improve
ments on scale commensurate with the
future greatness of this city must
be inaugurated. No weak kneed
counselors must be listened to.
If million dollars should
be expended in giving this city what she
needs in the way of city hall. school
houses, fire halls, waterworks, etc. let
1t be spent with prineeiy hand, but let
the city get value received. Fort Worth
has S22 800 900 of assessable values;
next year she should have $50 200, 900,
then why wait to make these improve
ments? Let the hammer of the stone
cutter, the trowel of the mason, the
saw and hatohet of the carpenter make
sweetest music in Fort Worth. Let the
Of nh
ascend the upper atmosphere as signs
that below hundreds of busy brains and
deft hands are at work. Now is the ac-
oepted time 10 build city out of the
town of Fort Worth. Build the Albu-
querque, extend the Fort Worth and Rio
Grande, secure the Denver shops, get
the Gould headquarters. push the pack
cry and the refrigerator, secure
another cotton mill, buy Fort Worth
manufactured goods and patronize
Fort Worth merchants. build houses and
stores push the work on the,fine churches
being erected. Begin the work for the
grand Spring Palace of 1891 and do all
things for Fort Worth and in six months
we will know no rival. The time has
come and with twelve leaders of nerve
and money the people will take advan-
tage of the time.
AN IRON CENTER.
Fort Worth can become the one great
iron manufacturing city of Texas If she
SO wills it, W. A. H. Miller of Llano
and F. R. Malone ofaSan Saba are in the
city in the interest of their cities striving
to secure the immediate extension of the
Fort Worth and Rio Grande 80 those
towns and to tbs rich mineral lands of the
counties in which the two cities are To-
Gated. The gentlemen have been in con-
sultation with Col. Smith and other citi-
zens and feel considerably encouraged.
The development of the iron fields OF
Llano and the connection OF Fort Worth
with Llauo by the extension OF the Rio
Grande would make this city great
iron manufacturing center, the Pitts
burg of the South. Chicago, which has
immense iron rolling mills, brings her
coke and iron from points a thousand
miles apart, and at Chicago the work is
done that gives employment to thousands
of men. What Fort Worth and her peo-
pie can do to bring about the building of
the road should be DONE and then
furnaces, foundriss, rolling mills and
everything else necessary to handle the
iron should be established here.
NOTES OF PROGRESS.
e. P. Lingenfelter has completed the
residence of Mrs. Phil willing, on Grove
and Fifth streets.
r. E. Maddox leaves to-day for st.
Louis to look after his elevated street
railway patent. Mr.. Maddox says the
road has been perfected, and the first
one built in Texas shall be at Fort Worth.
Fort Worth merchants are busy these
days, and cannot afford to lose any
time. A house in which business was
being done had to be moved several thou
sand feet from Main street to make room
for @ palatial six-story building, and
while the house was on wheels business
was continued. Here ia oase where
business man changed mis- location every
fifteen minutes. but still made money.
That's the Fort Worth way.
One citizen proposes erecting ten resi-
dences in the cotton mill addition as soon
as the lot drawing takes place.
A sale of eighty-one acres of land south
of the city at $500 an acre is reported.
Work will be under way on the Ar
lington Heights 500. 900 hotel before
November.
7. B Burbridge writes from the East
that there was never such good feel-
ing for Fort Worth and never such in
curry about the city as now. Many
Eastern people will be here to see US
within the next few months.