Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-12
REALTY AND BUILDING.
A Large Retail Dry Goods Firm Com
ing from Trinidad.
Real Estate Sales Yesterday Over 100000.
One $4,000 Sale yade-Re-
corded Transfers.

The real estate market Is fairly active
In Fort Worth. Yesterday q number of
sales were made aggregating over 500, I
600. Building ptrations are also active
and there is fair promise that several
large manufacturing institutions spoken
OF before will soon be in operation.
Messrs. Moses and Sugerman. two en-
terprising merchants of Trinidad, COL
orado, desiring larger constituency to
draw trade from, closed a lease contract
yesterday with Mrs. w. A. Huffman aud
J. B. Simpson for the building now &C.
cupied by the Martin Brown company.
They will occupy the whole building,
which Is so by 100 feet, four stories high,
and will open up one of the largest retail
dry goods establ ishmeuts in the Sou;h-a
veritable emporium, in fact. Several
thousand dollars will be expended by the
owners of the building fitting IL for their
purpose. One of the firm informed q
GAZETTE reporter last night that they
were here during the holding of the
Spring Palace and were then so itKs'
pressed with the advancement and,sssfo-
gress of This city, and as g field Sfbr BUSH
ness that they resolved to move here.
1t was matter OF business with them,
he said. and they thought Fort Worth
the best town they could have struck If
they had scraped The earth and skinned
the sea.
awe have contracted for lease on
the building for FIVE years, said he,
''and we intend TO be Fort WORTHLESS in
every sense of the word. We will bring
with us about twenty clerks and employ
about forty persons in all. We thought
that the town was ripe for just the sort
OF an establishment we propose TO put
in.
NOTES or PROGRESS.
Yesterday Mrs. W. A. Huffman sold
to local syndicate represented by Mr..
Jas. W. Swayne tract of forty acres
from the Richards survey on the South
SIie for $50 900.
L. f. Butler yesterday purchased half
interest in Provine and Naples addition
to Fort Worth for So GG2 so.
RECORDED TRANSFERS..
E. P. DOwuey to T. o. Bar
ron, 200 acres William Nc
Cowan survey 1876 acres same
survey, ITO ucres Josiah
Walker urvey............. SII 900 90
John L. Scoggin 10 II. p.
Scott, part of block 10,
fuckers addition. .... 600 90
Robert Mozart and Jake john
son to Mrs. s. A. Feegles,
lot 3, block 2, Johnson's
subdivision block %, Fields
addition. ....... 400 90
George Blandin to A. j Roe,
1853 acres on Dutch branch. 20 90
John P. King to A. L. Pals
ley, lots and 10, block 2,
St. Helena. ..,........... 1000 90
Powell, Luckett & Casey to
Ben f. Still, lots 3, 6, and
8. block 8, Paramount eddi-
ton ...:...,......... 49,. 1900 90
William Pardon to John Rea,
5oxl83 East Thirteenth street $50 90
Fort Worth loan and coustruc-
ton company to Thomas j.
Hurley, 209 acres l. Schoon- 4
over and J. Watson survey. so 900 90
B. F. Sprinkle to Mrs. Eliza
Frederick, part of lot II,
block l, Evans South ad-
ditiOn .......... $500. 1850 90
W. j Bailey to P. T. Ryan,
part of block So, Jennings
West addition ........... 5000 90
W. Il. Coffmau TO Thomas d.
Miller. lot 10, block 5,
Brooklyn Heights. ....... 125 90 |
Geo. 7. Fielding to W. Il.
Coffrnan, same.. 100 90 |
Alvina Virgins to W. r. Nc
Laury, part of block 80,
Fort Worth. ............ $50 90 |
Catherine Galloway to J. G.
Daily, interest in E. Grant
survey ....... .......... 200 90
Fort Worth wooden mills to ST.
mon Hass, lots and 10,
block 8, Wooden mills adj
dition ..................... 100 90 |
J. r. Pollock to julia W. Tay-
lor, lot 8 in block 81, Jen-
nings' south addition ..... 700 90 |
Thomas Melton to Cora NJ.
Martin, part block SO, Jen-
nings' south addition .... 1880 90 I
". q. Manchester TO J. j.
Connolly, lot 5, block I,
Brooklyn Heights. .. 200 90 |
W. E. Sansbury to ]. NJ. Hem
derson, interest in NJ. Ellis
survey. ............. zoos 90
Edward Hovenkamp to J. S.
Sansbury, 800 ncres north
east from city. 1900 90
Frank Metranger TO Luther
Boaz, lot 8 block 81, HYDE
Park addition ... $50 90 |
Luther J Boaz to W. j. Har-
din, same ............... 1000 90
J. G. Martin to A. J. Crutch-
field, west half lot 4, block
%, Moore, Thornton s. Co.'s
addition. ................. 2.1oo 90
Z. B. Menefee to Sam Jones,
tract in Fort Worth l00xlI6
feet near Texas and Pacific
Railway addition. ..... $500 On
Texans Abroad