Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-17
TEXAS PROGRESS.

The Jefferson opera house company
are going to erect q new opera house In
that city.
The new iron bridge over the Concho
river at Paint Rock, Concho county, is
nearly completed and is hne specimen.
MIDLOTHIAN, Aug. 15.-Parties from
Fort Worth in connection with the BUSH
ness men here will establish bank
within the next fortnight. The capital
stock will be $50 900.
PLAINvIEw, Aug. 1.-Two stores, a
restaurant, a hotel and grain house
were opened for business last week.
Work on the courthouse is progressing
rapidly and when completed Hale county
will have good public building.
COMMERCE, Aug. lG.-Commerce 10
to furnish the site aud the trustees of the
St, Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railway
company are to put plant OF $50, =
900 of machine shops, round house and
depot that will reflect credit on our
growing city and the railroad company.
The papers are all signed and de-
livered. This addition to our city
with the increased population of work.
men and artisans the enterprise will
bring, and the great amount of work
and business done at these two divisions,
together with the seven or eight thousand
bales of cotton our merchants are pre-
pairing to handle, will give to our city an
impetus not heretofore felt and make
Commerce the peer of any city in Hunt
county.
LAREDO, Aug. l5.-Arrangements
have been perfected TO furnish the city
of New Laredo, on the Mexican side,
with a supply of water through system
of waterworks TO be run III conjunction
with the waterworks in this city, max
ing the first international system of
works on the border. A ten-inch main
is to be run across the International
bridge up into the town, where it will be
tapped with smaller mains.
QUANAH, Aug. l5.-The piles, tim
bers, and lumber for the wagon bridge
across Red river, seven miles north of
Quanah, which will unite Hardeman and
Greer counties, have arrived, several
cars at time during the past ten days
and is now lying in piles along the siding
in this city. 1t is excellent in quality
and immense in quantity and will be
hauled away when the contractor is
ready to begin work on the
bridge few days hence. This bridge
when completed will turn through
Quanah the immense travel which has
heretofore been going from northeast to
southwest through the Indian Territory
and Greer county into Texas via YER
non, and will also change to Quanah the
trade OF vast scope of country north of
Red river which has heretofore been GO
ing to Vernon, and other points on the
Denver, Texas aud Fort Worth railway
east and west of Qusnah.
PECos, Aug. 16.-Mr. J. F. Hartwell
of Corsicana has been in Pecos a few
days and invested heavily in real estate.
He will shortly begin the erection of sew
eraI cottages for rent. There is q crying
demand for more business and residence
houses here. Twenty-Five houses could
be rented at once and would command
good prices. Work Is now progressing
on the twenty-second artesian well
here. Every one of them flows,
and there is no perceptible decrease
in the force as additional wells are sunk.
Pecosites are much elated at the boom
Pecos stone has created, and it will be
used here almost exclusively in business
houses and the permanent residences.
Architects are now at work on the plans
for the new depot, and it will be an i'm
posing structure. A liberal subscription
has been raised here for exhibiting Pecos
county products at the Dallas fair and
Spring Palace.
WEATHERFoRD, Aug. 16.-The laying
of the cornerstone. of the magnificent
stone Masonic temple now being erected
in this city, took place at ii o CLOCK and
was attended by large number of peo-
pie. The ceremony was conducted under
the auspices of the Grand Lodge, DR.. J.
A. Allen of Corsicana having been Sc
lected as master of ceremonies,
Mayor Buster grand marshal and Col.
Carey w. Styles orator of the day. This
temple when completed will be one of
the most attractive buildings In this part
OF the country and an ornament to the
city. A number Of fine stone buildings are
nearing completion, two just completed.
Messrs. Early Rogers and Spright Smith
have broken dirt to build two nice stone
buildings on York avenue.
MCKINNEY, Aug Il. Urea surer Tolk-
ington's annual report was led and ap-
proved. 1t shows healthy condition of
county finances. The report shows:
county fund, receipts ,S7222 .95; paid out
S35l6. OF; balance on baud, S3s66.7 rs.
Jury fund, re eipts, S3272 AZ; paid out,
S2l44. 10; balance on hand, SLIPS. %.
Courthouse fund, recei Is, S2946. IS;
paid out, $3.50; overdrawn, Sl3.62.
Road and bridge receipts, SI2S6 .03; paid
out, S630.62; balance, 1855 Al.
GARLAND, Aug. 16.-When Carfman
& Clark were having a well dug near
their store at about sixteen feet below
the surface Friday the diggers struck
copious flow OF water and oil. In q quart
bottle of water dipped up from the we'll
there was at least gill of pure kerosene.
A cloth dipped into the substance burned