Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-05

FORT WORTH x aug. Atm, loJO.
Editor Gazette.
Yesterdays GAZETTE contained an
editorial headed "Take it at its flood. -
This editorial contained more facts
and hard sense than l ever saw placed in
the same amount of space in newspaper
before in my life, and II Fort worth will
but cut it out, heed it and be true to
herself, she is as certain to be city of
100 900 people at the end of FIVE years as
''grass grows and water runs.
As you say "a combination OF causes
have attracted attention to Texas. - This
is TO q greater extent true than most
people realize.
The crowds who went to California
are returning East, not finding such
paradise there as they expected to find.
A great many who located in the cold
regions of Montana and Dakota are COM
ing TO Texas to seek q milder and
more agreeable climate.
Every train bound north on the
"Denver' road is crowded with home
seekers who hail from all over the North
aud East. We think we have seen q
great immigration into the Panhandle
the past year, thanks to the "Pan-
handle'' routes advertising, but it is
Is 70 follow during the
next five years. The tide of
emigration, which has been to the
headed this way, and will not stop until
west of Fort Worth is occupied aud
placed under cultivation.
When this great section of the country
10 in bu N tod a 10 nj ~ vii ha hp1 m
buy what they produce and to sell them
what they consume. Will Fort Worth
be that city?
say she will if she only takes advan-
tage of her opportunities.
Fort Worth is more extensively adver-
tised than is any city of Texas, thanks to
her enterprisiug citizens. AS result OF
this men arrive here everv day looking
for houses in which to open business.
Some wish to wholesale, some to retail,
but not q vacant house or room can they
find. They are told by owners of prop
erty that If they will make q lease they
will build such a house as they desire.
They ask how long it will take to
erect it, and upon being told
nine months or a year, say: 'Oh,
we cannot wait so long, and go
to some other city. A person cannot
find a dwelling house to rent in the city.
Where are the many people who are to
work in the new manufacturing estab-
lishments now under course of erection
TO lodge when they arrive?
Eastern spectators cannot be induced
to invest their money in buildings in
new town unless the citizens themselves
of that town back their faith in the town
by improving their property with some
of the money they have made in the
town.
The time is ripe and conditions favor
able for Fort Worth.
Fort Worth has the same advantages
that Chicago and Kansas City had in
their infancy, and which will make Fort
Worth the great city of the Southwest.
Chicago and Kansas City both became
great because they were both
great railroad centers and had
railroads reaching out penetrating the
in every direction, they were
both at the gateway to vast farming
They were both helped to
greatness by the great livestock interests
Of the West.
Fort Worth is already the great rail-
road center of Texas and the Southwest.
She is at the gateway to as vast an area
Of as fertile land as was Chicago or Kan
sas City, and she is soon to be the great
livestock market of the Southwest. With
the completion of the peckery and re-
under course OF erection, the
Texas, Arizona and New Mexico farmer
and raucher will no longer be compelled
to send his cattle and hogs to Kansas
City and Chicago to be slaugh-
tered, but will send them here.
where it will be slaughtered, packed or
canned, and from here shipped 10 Mex
leo or Europe via deep water on our
coast.
The Swifts and Armo urs of Chicago
and Kansas City Will have to also erect
plants here in order to hold their trade.
and some time in the near future Fort
Worth will find that she is a great city,
Il her citizens will only heed your ad-
vice.
1 have watched the growth of Chicago,
Kansas City land wichita, Kan, and
know whereof speak.
a PROPHET.