Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-06-13
BROWNWOoD, BROWN COUNTY
Statistics of the Town and County, Embracing
Educational Facilities, Town and
County Institutions.
correspondence OF the Gazette.

| Correspondence OF the Gazette.
BRowNwooD, TEX. June 11.-Brown-
wood, the county seat of Brown county,
Is situated on Pecan river, on the Gulf,
Colorado and Santa Fe railroad, 100
miles southwest from Fort Worth, fifty
south from Cisco, 125 miles west from
Waco and 135 miles northwest from
Austin. Population, $500; taxable
values (oficiaD, 81, O41 ,Gl2.
EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES.
The Daniel Baker college VIII be COM
pleted by September l, 1890. Building
to cost $50, 900, and endowed by the
Presbytery of Texas. Also the How
ard Payne college 4 the main building to
be completed by October l 1890, cost
$50, 900, and two wings to be added next
year at further cost of $50 600; ssns-
tanned by the Baptist association of5sthis
district. Two public graded SCHOOLS,
employing nine teachers, nine months
session. One high-grade private school,
employing four teachers. One KINDER
garten school.
TOWN AND COUNTY INSTITUTIONS. HI
A So, 200 courthouse; two iron bridges
cost SIG 900; a system of waterwofas
cost $50 900, with an unlimited supply of
pure water; four fine church buildings:
one roller mill, cost SAC, 600, daily
capacity 200 barrels flour Sgd a o..
barrels meal; one five-toH1c ice tsea
tory; one broom factory; <hree c0tson
gins, one washing machine factory \
one hay press factory, two s19Honal
banks, one wholesale hardwafe house -
one wholesale grocery house, on whole
sale dry goods house, three newspapers,
the Pecan Valley fair association, capt.
tai stock S25, 900, with 100 acres of
ground, well improved; fifty-seven
brick and stone business houses, head
quarters for Farmers Alliance, district
composed of Brown, Coleman, MoCul-
looh snd San Saba counties. Brentwood
pays $3.50, 900 per annum freight on in
coming merchandise and about one
third as much outgoing merchandise.
Shipped last yeast year 1 200, 900 pounds |
wool, II 900 bales cotton, 1900 cars live |
stock, 175 cars flour, bran and feed; 40 |
cars gram, $50. 200 worth pecans; ship |
ment of hides large.
Estimated shipments for 1890.
Cotton, 20, 1000 bales; acreage more |
than double last year-all crops good |
and in fine condition. Wool-Shipments |
about same as last year. A large pro- |
portion of the clip in warehouses now. |
The wholesale merchants of Brentwood |
sell goods to twenty four counties. There |
have been shipped from Brentwood and |
points west on the Gulf, Colorado and |
Santa Fe railroad within the last ninety |
days over $500 cars of livestock. The |
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe rail-
road gives Brentwood a direct |
outlet TO deep water at Galveston;
the completion of the Fort Worth and
Rio Grande to Comfort via Llano will
give Brentwood deep water at Arkansas
Pass.
BROWN COUNTY.
Area, 9O5 square miles; population,
II 200; soil black and% gray loan and
chocolate loan; about Is per cent. first
GLASS agricultural land, the remainder
good grazing land. Plenty of timber for
domestic purposes and waterein aDun-
dance, furnished by the Colorado and
Pecan rivers, Jim Ned, Whitewater and
Clear creek, Indian Blanket, Delaware
and Mesquite creeks, Salt creek, Point
creek, Willis creek, Hogg creek and
Elm Creek.
PRODUCTIONS.
Wheat, oats, corn, cotton, millet.
sorghum, rye, barley, alfalfa, broom
corn, peaches, pears, plums and april
cots, vegetables of every variety in
great abundance. Average yield per
twenty bushels; corn,
iorty; oats, eighty; cotton, one-halt
bale; millet, three tons; alfalfa, eight
.ons; sorghum five tons.
The heslth of our county is as good as
my portion OF the stste.. No malaria ORR
,ther sickness. Population exclusively
Thite-not more than forty negroes in
he county. Society good.