Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-16
AUSTIN HILARIOUS.
Happy Over the Sale OF the Dam Con-
structi0n Bonds.
The Contract Let, Work to PegIn in Fifteen
Days-Wiison County's Tax Rolls.
Charters-Persnnnl Mention.


Special to the Gazette.
AUSTIN, TEX Oct I5.-The city Of Austin is
in holiday humor tonight, and everybody is
happy. The dam bonds were sold to-day and
the contract for the construction OF the
dam let. Bonds to the amount OF
$40. 900 had been issued in accordance
with the charter of the city. vote of her tax
paying itizens. the ordinances OF her council,
and the laws of the state OF Texas, for tn. pur-
pose of constructing dam across the Colorado
river anu erecting comple.e system of water
works and electric lighting. Tne bonds
both numbers being inclusive. dated August l.,
1880. payable IN gold coin of the United States
in the city of New York on July l., 1881, but re-
deemable after June 81, 1910, in numerical
order, bearing interest at per cent. per annum
payable quarterly in gold at the National city
bank in the city OF New York. Four hundred
thousand dol rs of these bonds were offered
fer sale to-day. This being the amount required
for the construction of the work curing the
coming nine months Promptly at u Oclotk
council met at Mayor McDonald's office to
open ana canvass the bids for the BON is
o ei 81 par PAL for ssoo.5 Ds wOrth We" Of
bonds. The second was that of W. J. H .yes &
The bonds. but asked reasonable discount.
The third b d Was made by an
Austin syndic'te, who, offered par
is composed of Joan and Lewis Hancock, K. T.
Brackinris ge, George Errckinridge. James
H. raymond and A. P. Woodbridge. Tne SYM
| dictate got the bonds. of cou Sc.
The bids for The contrac:. seven in number,
were then opened AMI resi and were as follows:
Diiley. Rynolds s. Co. of Rock Island. IL,
sl37,7 .; Bernard Corrigan OF Kansas City.
s6g7. $40; E H. Ca nor of Boston. sos, 2JO
James Riley Co: OF Pennsylvania. SCI .sJj; j.
smoot Of Dallas, 1854, aaj. The difference be-
tween the h CHEST and lowest bids
mion dSlars sveF Bernard
bid being the lowest, was promptly accepted
and the contract awarded to him. His bonds
men are W. S. Woods banker, Thomas Corr an
bid is about So o u der the estimate male by
the engineer In charge. Under the terms of the
con rat WORK is to be begun on the dam in
fifteen days
Universal satisfaction prevails in the city over
the successful outcome Of the scheme to inau
gurate new order of things for Austin: The
bounded. The pyrotechaic di, piay on Congress
avenue Is Almost binding. and the air
is lurid with flaming sky rockets
out and is making night Of 1t. The dam
business has made everybody as happy as
though it brought fortune to every house,
being too full for utterance,'' but the air is
rent with the mos deafening sounds
all the same by the caring. of canaon, crackers
and other explosives and the blaring OF tin
horns, while tine Capital City band pirades the
avenue and struggles in vain to blow little
harmony into the Devil, erng confusion OF
sounds and noises that prevail
lib s has oeen grea: day Tor Austin, and shs
is making the most of it.
The tax rolls of wilson county were filed to-
day. and foot up s., 3O6. 9l5, an increase in the
year of S3O9, Sal.
The secretary of state issued a charter to the
Tyler county Farmers Alliance and opera
tive association.
Professor Pritchett returned this morning
from visit to the Sam Houston normal school,
the contractors.
Professor Steruwitz and party of the geological
survey, who have been in tine field since May,
returned from Ell Paso county to-day to prepare
their report for the legislature.