Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-23
REALTY AND BUILDING.
A Fort Worth Factory That Demands
the Raw Product.
A TASTY Cars at the Outlook Cor Couple of
hontis-A Iartrry Burg-NLat Is
Made In Fort Worth,
You CAN LIVE AT HOME d.

Fort Worth made blankets, cook in Fort
Worth made stoves, ride in Fort Worth
made buggles, shoe their horses with Fort
Worth made shoes nailed on with Fort
Worth made nails. Their cakes, crack
ers and candies are made in Fort Worth:
the baking powder, vinegar, brOoms and
mattresses used are made in Fort Worth.
The tables, chairs and bedsteads will be
made here. The doors and windows to
their houses viii be made here also
They now buy Fort Worth -four and meal
and smoke Fort Worth cigars. They will
soon save their own bacon and cure the
hams they eat. The canned fruits and
vegetables they eat will be grown in Tar
rant county and packed in Fort Worth.
This is but the beginning.
PROMISING SUBURB.
Manchester, just west of the stove
foundry on the Chamberlin investment
/ company'S land, seems destined to be-
! come a manufacturing suburb. The
sash, door and blind factory buildings
are now going up. A furniture factory
will move there from Indiana. a con-
tract has been closed with the Granite
Roofing company, by which the company
, agrees to erect large stone and brick
buildings and move their plant to
Manchester within sixty days, and now
two other factories have been secured.
+ The prospects for a large cotton mill are
also good.
DEMAND FOR OKRA FIBER.
The moss collar, cordage and bagging
company are now ready to furnish okra
seed to any and all who wish TO plant the
same. As this crop will grow on any
land that will grow cotton, IL is expected
that large number of farmers will give
II a trial, especially as it requires very
much less work than cotton and Is not
effected by drouth.
The seed is worth twenty-five cents per
pound and can be had of the moss collar,
bagging and cordage company. Samples
of Okra fiber are now on exhibition in
the show window of Washer Bros. cor
uer Fourth and Houston streets.
The following directions are given for
planting, cultivating, ETC.:
Okra can be planted the latter part of
March or eariy in April, and if planted
broadcast for fiber only, it will be ready
to cut in ninety days. You can plant
any time or any month seasOnaUle but by
two crops, as after cutting the roots viii
sprout again. Sow the Okra seed in
drills the same as cotton, and thin out
about every four inches apart and Guilt
vate the ground the same as cotton. II
is be to SOW i'll drills. If you SOW broad
cast the same as peas ii takes large
amount of see1 to the acre-l20 pounds,
and it would not thrive as well, as grass
would interfere.
Sow in March as above stated by
drills, fifteen pounds to the acre. If
wanted for the fruit and short fiber then
SOW also in drills, but thin out every
twelve inches. This fiber is for mat
tresses, collars, etc. as the stalks have
knots, but the long stock cut and raised
for fine long fiber alone and of best
market value must be sown as explained
and thinned out every four inches. ANY
land that will raise cotton will raise okra.
DR.. NJ Chambers of 50 Canal street
New Orleans has experimental a great
deal with okra, and is satisfied that it |
Will soon become one of the most profit |
able crops that Southern farmers can
raise. He has already received letters |
of inquiry from Scotland and England in !
regard to okra fiber.
AS soon as the okra product of this |
section justifies it the capacity of the |
Fort Worth factory will be largely in |
creased.
THEY ARE SATISFIED.
Messrs. Leonard and Morrow are two |
gentlemen who live in West Virginia, |
but who are now visiting IN Fort Worth. |
In 1879 these gentlemen were in the |
then village of Fort Worth and bought |
two lots on Houston street for $500 |
apiece. They are now offered Sl2 900 |
for each lot, but don't want to sell. |
At the same time they bought some
farming lands in this county for So per |
acre which IS now worth $40 per acre.
They propose to invest more money in |
FoIt Worth and think seriously OF COM
ing here to live.
IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS.
There was much inquiry for real estate
yesterday and considerable trading.
There are several S15, ZOO and $40, 900
deals on foot which will be brought to q
close in few days. At least Sl28 900 of
outside capital will be invested In Fort |
Worth in the next few days. The feel
ing is general that April and May will be
big months for Fort Worth. Real estate
will be active and during the sixty days
mentioned several fine buildings which
have not been alluded to heretofore will
be in course of construction. One of
these will be 50xi00 feet on Main street
SIX stories high; another will be five
story structure to go up on Houston
street.
4 FEW NOTES.
The Dixie wagon works will soon be in
full blast.
Denver firm will open a clothing
house on Main street early in April.
A lot I00x19O on Pennsylvania and
Jennings avenue sold Friday for $4,000.
An Austin man is looking for q stors
on Main street in which to do business.
The foundations for H. W. Tailant's
residence on Arlington Heights are being
put in.
Work has commenced on the attractive
residence of Mr.. Sanguinet in block No.
Sc, Arlington Heights.
e. Mont Rely aud Hebert Austin have
sold to Galveston citizens two blocks in
the Vincent addition for 5000.