Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-02
REALTY AND BUILDING.
The Fort Worth Convention Already
Drawing Attention to Texas.
The Necessity for the Enforcement. of the
Building Permit 0rdinance-A street
Grading Machine.
TIE CoNvENrIoN's WORK.

Inc convention nelu IN FORT worth 10
set on foot measures 10 bring manutact-
uring embellishments 20 Texas has at
tracted wide attention, and Il number of
papers North and East have commented
on the move The following is from the
| CLIQUE Democrat:
The anxiety of the business men of
Texas to attract manufacturing to that
locality is natural and laudable, and the
movement which the public spirited citi-
Zeus of the state have started TO accom-
plish this purpose deserves all the success
which It Gun achieve. Texas offers more
aud greater advantages for the establish
ment and operation of the line of indus
tries sought than are generally known TO
! the remainder OF the country. II is true,
/ of course, that the state is far removed
! from the great commercial aud distribute
! i've centers OF the country az at present
| existing. The great body of consumers
| are not found in tie territory tributary
! TO that com monvealth. But the con-
| ditons are fast changing. Population Is
| growing with great rapidity in the states
! OF the lower southwestern group, and the
| co merCial importance of the region is
! increasing and the area OF its activities
| extending in ratio undreamed of u
| dozen years ago. The growth in the
number Of consumers in that quarter
suggests and demands proportiOnute
growth among producers. While manu-
facturers established in Texas might not
be able TO compete actively for the trade
OF the Atlantic seaboard states, they
could, at all events, supply q large part
OF the requirements OF their own locality.
Nature has not dealt unkindly with
Texas in the dispensutlon of her fuvors.
Its supplies of timber, iron and coal are
extensive enough to meet the needs of
the Southwest for centuries. while it
holds an important rank in the growth
of cotton. AS producer of wool it
heads the list of the states. Few states
ives: of the Mississippi river are better
supplied with the elements which would
render manufacturing cheap and profit
able. The raw materials are in album
dance throughout the state, while the
market for the finished product Is broad
enng every year and must continue to
broaden indefinitely. Such q DIVERSE
ficution of industries Us mills and
factories would cause, while bene-
fitting the locality and supplying q
want which its citizens have long felt,
would scarcely fail, if reasonable
amount of judgment were employed, TO
prove rpmuuerutive to the men imme-
diateiY concerned in the enterprises 1t
ia noble work which the representative
citizens of Texas are seeking TO accom-
plish. If tact and Intelligence be dis
played, the task which they have set
themselves should not be difficult. Let
them present the attractions and adyan-
tages of their state in u fair aud satisfac-
tory way, and their endeayOrs are rea-
sonablv certain to meet with success.
BUILDING PERMITS.
There is absolutely no record kent of
the building done in Fort Worth except
that made from day TO day by THE GA
ZETTE. The city has an ordinance on its
books requiring building permits to be
taken out before house is erected in the |
city limits, but it is not one case in
hundred that the law is observed. No |
charge is made by the city engineer for |
issuing these permits and City Engineer
Kerr has an assistant IN his office |
always ready to issue the permits |
All the cities i'll Texas but Fort Worth |
have a building permit law which ia OBJ |
served. Surely the law can be made eff |
fective here. There il considerable |
complaint made that no Official statistics |
of building can be- had in this city. |
Such statistics are valuable and should |
be kept. The city has the right to know |
what character of buildings Is being |
erected. The attention Of the city |
council has been called to the matter. |
From the engineers books it appears that |
but little building is being done in this
city.
NOTES OF PROGRESS.
DR.. W. A. Adams has just completed |
FIVE residences on BoaZ street and has let
the contract for five more. Total cost |
about Sic 600.
Aldermen Ryan and Frazer of the
street and alley committee were busxse
yesterday watching the work done bS z
grading machine brought here by G. E.
kirkpatrick from Wichita, Kan.
Wagons were loaded in half minute
and nearl, 400 feet of street graded in
few hours. The committee was
greatly pleased with the work done and
will probably use the machine on Fort
Worth streets, which will enable the city
TO grade many more miles of street at
less cost than under the old system
This machine will also enable Tarrant
county to build good roads at small
cost.
There was quite stir about Rusk
street property yesterday, number of
offers being made to buy at good figures.
The fact that q street car line would be
built on the street, the prospect of
central fire hall and other buildings has
brought Rusk street into prominence.
The demand for dwelling houses con-
tinue una bated.
RECORDED TRANSFERS.
Fort Worth Wooden Mill COM
pany to E. L. Post, lots IS
and 10, block II, Wooden
Mill addition ......S 100 90 !
Mechanics Building and Loan
association to Mike Mans
field, lot 2, block 80, Fort
Worth 800 90
II. j. Dart to ]. B. Watkins,
100 acres Jacob Wilcox sur
vey, ..................... 1893 90
NJ. J. Dart to J B. Watkins,
SIX acres Mary E. Hudson
survey -, 4ss 90
NJ. ]. Dart to J. B. Watkins,
SO acres ] Rendon survey. Alb 90
Texans Abroad.