Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-15

tiers Will give you rising market at all
times. There is no possibility of shrink
age in values, the tendency will always
be upward until they reach that figure
attained by lands in thickly settled COM
munities of older states. But the home
seeker and even the foreign investors de-
sire to know more than that the land is
productive and that it is cheap.
They desire to know the mar
ket facilities, transportation IA
cilieties, educational advantages,
religious privileges and the moral
tone of the people with whom they will
have to live and associate. Those Of
such moral status as would not pause to
make these inquiries we do not want.
AS to our moral status it is only neces-
sary to say that we have but two whisky
saloons in the entire county, and if they
are getting rich they well conceal the
fact. Two or three have starved out
and quit the business. Gambling is at a
low ebb and only practiced in secret
places. Such facts we think establish for
us a good moral character as a people.
Our jail rarely ever has an occupant.
AS to educational advantages, we can
say, that at our county site, we have q
large tWo-story, very handsome, stone
schoolhouse, containing four apartments,
constructed at a cost of about $1,000
raised in greater part by private sub
scription, in which thoroughly graded
school is conducted from eight to ten
months a year, and there are eight or
ten schoofbouses already in the rural dis
triots of OF the county, mostly erected by
privale contributions, in the various set
tied communities, and every foot
of territory IN The county is
included in some organized school COM
munity. As to religious privileges we
can say that at our county site we have
three large houses of worship, owned
and occupied by the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, the Missionary Baptists,
and Christian church, and there is SER
vice in one or the other every Sunday,
the pulpit of each, at present, being
filed by able and entertaining pastors,
Rev. W. L. Thurman at the Christian.
Rev. j. A. Moore at the Baptist, and
Rev. j. Il. Chambless at the
Methodist. There are two other
church organizations expecting to
erect houses in the near future, viz: The
Cumberland Presbyterian and the Old
School Presbyterian. There is also a
local church organization, of some de-
nomination, at every schoolhouse in the
rural districts. The church-goer is
largely in the majority throughout the
county. We do not think it out of place
to mention in this connection that we
have at county site an organized lodge,
in working order, of Ancient Free and
Accepted Masons, also lodge of Knights
of Honor.
AS to market facilities, Sweet
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only one, but it is ample, fully keep
rounding country; as the demand in
oreases our old enterprising merchants
meet it, and some new merchants come
supplied in all needed lines at prices
competing with those of large towns in
contiguous counties, and the agricultural
producer and the wool producer finds a
ready market for his prooucts at prices.
less freiRhts, equal to any he could pro-
cure by shipment. Money on short loans
can be procured without trouble at very
reasonable rates, living rates.
Thomas Trammell s. Co., private
bankers have never yet failed to sup
ply all money needed to carry out the
business of our people, although they are
the only bankers for large scope of
country. Their solvency is beyond
question. They have a capital of at
least $500 900. You can also at Sweet
water find fair average lawyers, good
physicians, blacksmiths and machInists,
in fact you Will find almost anything
your needs or fsncies may demand, ex-
cept rampant vice.
Sweetwater is at present a town of
about 1000 inhabitants, containing q
number of fine buildings, such as the
churches and school house before men,
toned, courthouse and jail, a large
brick and iron bank fair hotel accom-
and it is almost certain that
four large brick storehouses will be built
this summer, and all material therefor
furnished by dealers and manufacturers
of SReetwater.
As to transportation facilities trunk
line runs through the county from East
TO West. SWeetwater IS the station. with
fine new stock pens and all the advant-
ages of shipping livestock, etc. 1t is the
Texas and Pacific railway. We invite
all home seekers to come and see us; we
will treat you right, and We feel oonfi-
dent you will remain.
4 Wonder Yorker,