Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-30

OF further extension will De settled i.
There has teen nothing officiakgiven on!
Us to where the road will be extended to
after it leaves Comanche, but u is geu-
orally understood that the main ARe will
go to Llano, while at no very distaft das
in the future q branch will be built from
Comanche to Brentwood. The ultimate
destination of the road in Texas bein 9
Eagle Pass, il would have been too much
out OF direct route for the main line to
be run to Brentwood, and this, in con-
nection, no doubt, with the very liberal
bonus offered by the towns along the pro-
posed route TO LianO, determined the
company to select the Liano route.
This line Is an important one to Fort
Worth, and the further it is extended
the more important it becomes. 1t PEN
etrates, now, one of the finest agricui-
tural districts of Texas, and further on
1t will tap magnificent mineral deposits
All the trade of this section, if the peo-
pie of Fort Worth act with good busI-
ness judgment, can be secured by this
city-otherwise it will 90 elsewhere. The
Fort Worth and Rio Grande can be made
to Fort Worth what the Denver has been +,
aud almost as valuable as the Fort Worth
and Albuquerque would be.
Since the news has been published that
the refrigerator and packing house in
Fort Worth are TO be started up, aud the
slaughter of beef cattle and hogs is to
commence in short time, it has been
noticed that there have been more cattle
men in the city than has been usual III
the past. Most of these visiting cattle
men have beef cattle to sell and they are
here to learn what they can do with their
cattle, aud they will no doubt, if they do
not ask too much for their beeves, con-
clUde trades with either the refrigerator
people or the packing house people. 1t
should be remembered however, that
because these Two establishments are to
be started up in Fort Worth and mar
ket will be created here for beef cattle
that the parties creating this market are
not going TO pay fancy prices for cattle.
They are business men at the head of the
two enterprises and will pay for cattle
what cattle are worth, but no more.
They want good beef cattle, but in ord er
to get them, 90 not propose to pay price
that are in excess of what the same cattle
will bring elsewhere, or prices that will
cause them to lose money on their pur-
chases. They propose to pay just as
much, less he freight, as cattle of the
CldsS pIluE MIL
sas City or st. Louis, and maybe little
more; and when they do this, the seller
is doing better than he would be to ship,
as he saves about sixty pounds per head
in the matter of sbrinkage. Texas
cattle men can do much to help the
cattle markets in Texas and not hurt
themselves, and if they go elect, they
can do much to hurt the market and not
do themselves any good.
DR.. C. f. Paine of Comanche was in
the city yesterday and stated that the
people of his town was greatly elated
over the completion of the Fort Worth
and Rio Grapdt to that point.
"We have waited long and patiently
for railroad, - he said, "and at times
began TO think that We would be left out
in the cold altogether. But we got one
at last and now our town is forging
ahead rapidly. In q few years Comsnche
will be q city of 5000 or 5000 population
/ don t think the road will halt long at
Comanche, but am of the opinion that it
will be extended to Llano in the near
futurs.''