Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-18
REALTY AND BUILDING.
Fort Worth Can Have Grand Driving
Park and Fair.
TIE Graa. PacSarv tn BarIn Op'rs'ion7 ON
Nov NIB I-Krnsas City People
Coming to Fort Worth.
ENTERTAIN THEM ROYALTY.

City people. Inc Commerclai GNU Va
that city is arranging for an excursion
into Texas. The programme IL to leave
Kansas City on the 22d and return home
on the 2Sth. The plan is TO be in Fort
Worth on the morning OF Friday, the
oath. Some fifty or seventy-dve will be
in the party. They are Leading bankers.
wholes ale merchants, manufacturers ana
railroad men. The party will come on
Pullman train. three coaches, dining car
aud aggage car. Ii goes without say
ing that they should he shown the city
and otherwise well entertained.
DRIVING PARK AND FAIR.
Some time ago a largely attended
meeting of well known citizens was held
and inltiatorv steps taken TO give Fort
Worth a tirst-class driving park and fair.
The sentiment was that IL was time Fort
Worth was going into the fair business
oil an extensive scale. Col. Peter Smith
presided ut this meeting and appointed
committee TO report GU suitable site
aud the cost thereof. This committee
went 10 work with will, and last night
made its report TO IL meeting of enthus-
iastic citizens. They reported that Smith
and johnson OF Denver, Mrs. B. c.
frred to donate 100 acres of the finest
and most lever land near the city,
south of town, on the Missouri,
Kansas and Texus, aud near
other railroads. provided it was
used for fair purposes. The land Il
worth at least $40 900. and when the
announcement was made that this land
was offered as donation for Fort
| Worth's uphuilding those present were
| more enthusiastic than ever AMI deter
mined that the matter must be pushed TO
| a successful issue. II was stated that II
| Fort Worth would establish q fine driv-
| ing park and fair. that the best trainer
| il. the South wouII move his stable here
| at once. After discussing the matter In
| many of its details, it was decided TO
| have meeting of all interested i'll Fort
| Worth and grand fair and driving pnrk
ut th. cham Der of commerce rooms at
| 'clock Monday afte rnoon. Now is the
| chance to do someth ing for the retail
trade that will count, and every man of
| Fort Worth should be at the Monday
! Eusting.
| COMING TO FORT WORTH. ~
| A communication from Los Alamos to
the Las Vegas, N NJ. Optic says: 'Mr.
Mahlon Harold, who needs no praise
movable property and shipped it to Fort
| Worth, Tex. Mr.. Harold has left many
q dollar in this community. NJ. Har-
rold is brother of Capt. E. Is. Har-
rold.
THE PACKERY.
The black smoke was curling from the
| huge smoke stacks of the packery all day
Yesterday. A little army of men were
at work under Superintendent Thomas,
finishing the buildings and getting all
the machinery in place. Tho grunts of
| 1900 fine, fat hogs, waiting for the
| slaughter, could be heard not far away.
President NJ. G. Ellis said: 1--WE will
| almost certainly he ready to begin opera
| tons on November l. At the first we
will work seventy-fiye experienced men
who, with the best superintendent in the
county, have been brought from the
large packeries of the country. We
have men out buying hogs and VIII,
In addition to those now here, have
twenty carloads tomorrow. The COM
| pauy Is In the ma ket for 1000 hogs
right now, AMI they cannot come in too
| fast. Come around on November l aud
| see US at work. -
NOTES OF PROGRESS.
The fne 40-horse power engine OF the
granite roofing company was being
placed in position at the new two-story
| brick factory ut Manchester yesterday.
| The ccpacity ut the new works Is ten fold
greater than before.
DR.. q. b. Buck of Springfield. ILL.,.
who is already largely interested in Fort
Worth and who desires to buy more Fort
Worth real estate, arrived In Fort Worth
| yesterday. He says money is much
easter in Illinois now, and will soon be
| cheap again. In fret, he says, the great
West was not affected to any extent by
the New York furry. DR.. Buck says
the outlook Is fine.
A. o. Willburu of Walsenburg, Colo
RADIO, ia in the city to go into business.
J. A. Lsndon, prominent real estate
| man and alderman of Chicago, is one of
| the excursionists in the city. He SAYS
twelve coaches crowded with people left
Chicago q few days ago, three-foarths OF
them for Texas. Many Of them will in
vest in this state.
Frank J. Boot, a city builder from
Denver, was in Fort Worth yesterday.
The Chamberlin Investment company
people showed him over the city. He
was greatly pleased and will probably 60
into manufacturing enterprise here.
J. II. Gideon sends THE GAZETTE from
| Lehigh, I. T., a huge potatoe twenty
| three inches Ia circum ference and weigh
ing seven pounds. 1t is sample of
whs. tan Us raised In the Choctaw coun-
try.
| RECORDED TRANSFERS.
Thomas a. 3riuson TO Fl. B.
Baldwin, part of A. Medl.n
| survey lou w
], L. Scoggins to l.. B. Meme
fee, 45x75 feet, Tucker's adj
dition, block l7............. 200 90
Fort Worth wooden mill COM
pany 10 L. b. Meuefre, lots
90 and 81. block 4; lots %
and "a, block l5; lots Is aud
10. block, To-; lots 7 aud 3,
block 8; lots 10 aud Il, block
Z; lois 3 and 4, block IL; lots
land =, block Z; lots and 2.
block IA; lots 20 and u.
block 8; lots % and rs, block
II; lots 81 aud %. block l.;
lots 29 and 80, block g.; lots
23 aud "a. block 10; lots 8
aud 4 I, block l3; lois II and
I3, block II: lots II and 10,
block 6; lots % and q, block
a: lots 81 and 80. block Is;
lots 81 ami 81, block IL; lots
| 81 and 30 block 6: lots and