Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-06
REALTY AND BUILDING.
The Chamber Of Commerce Closes the
Cotton Mill Trade.
The Finest Gas Works in the South Being
Built at Fort worth-Ths Trunk
Fsctory-Notes Of Progress.

The prediction made by THE GAZETTE
that August would be O month tull Of
interest to the people of Fort Worth Is
rapidly being fulfilled. A city builder
has been made mayor and will devote
his experience to the benefit of his fell
low citizens. That is one great thing.
Yesterday the chamber of commerce
met and took such action rs assures the
cotton mill TO this city. The principals
have been notified, and according TO The
terms of the contract between them
and the citizens, work will begin
inside of thirty days. 1t IS
now an assured fact guaranteed by
strong bond that inside OF twelve mouths
ct least 100 hands will be ct work i'll this
mill. The probabilities are that ESQ
hands will be ut work inside OF fifteen
months. There are still number Of
lots unsold which a syndicate holds TO be
sold to the people as an investment, the
money paid for them to go to the cotton
mill bonus. 1t certainly. does appear
now that after months and months OF
effort Fort Worth has at last secured the
much wished for cotton mill.
ELLIS HOTEL RENOVAToR.
A force OF Men are at work repairing,
papering, plasIeriug and renovating the
Ellis hotel, and when this work Is COM
pleted this hotel will be vastly improved.
THE NEW GAS WORKS.
The Fort Worth Light and Power
company is expanding nearly 500, 600 in
putting IN gas plant that will ONLY be
surpassed in size in the South 10y the
plants at St. Louis and New Orleans.
The work now under way is under
the SUPPLEMENTARY of Mr.. H G.. Beut-
ley of Chicago. who is thoroughly
competent to speak on matters pertain
ing to the manufacture of gas aud gas
works. This gentleman says the works
being put in are the best in the South;
that is, the most complete and the most
modern. The storage tauk built OF brick
is eighty-two feet in diameter ana
twenty-five and one-h half feet IN depth.
The gas meter which works inside the
tank is eighty feet IN diameter Rui
twenty-five feet deep. In IL short time
the tank and gas meter ut the old works
on Rusk street will be moved to the site
of the new works, and this will give ad-
dItlonal facilities. The old tank is
GOxl8 feet. The capacity of the
new works is 40, 900 cubic feet
per day sufficient for a city of 400
ment of the keen witted, far-slghIed
men who have planted their scores OF
thousands of dollas in Fort Worth. They
are building for a city of 400 zoo people.
Is the city itself building as wiselvt The
system is what is known as l2-inch
works. A large brick building l95x45
feet is being built over the tank. In Ill
feet of this will be the retorts, and ad-
joining Will be departments for
exhausters, condensers, scrubbers
and tar extractors; adjoining
these will be the rooms
in which the purifiers will be placed.
Next TO these will be the office. In six
weeks Mr.. Beatley says the machinery
will be in and then our people can get
some conception of the magnitude OF the
works. The gas works will be q big
thing, and when completed the city will
get better gas and cheaper gas than at
present. The company Is, IN addition to
the thousands being spent on the works,
putting down several miles of gas mains
which will give gas to portions of the
city now without illumination.
NOTES OF PROGRESS.
In March Halkens Bros. came 70 Fort
Worth and established q small trunk
They made no great STIR about
what they were DONG but nave gone
steadily until they employ in addition to
themselves and men on the outside five
skilled first-class trunk makers. 1t is in
dustries of this kind that build up q city.
The Fort Worth trunk factory will be-
twenty-five men inside of six
months.
John F. Moore, superintendent of the
stove foundry, is hard ut work getting
ha rLEa in Gbo fpr hYla
John F. Swayne goes to Boston to-day
to help the other Fort Worth hustlers i'll
pushing this city.
Sam Hunt sold a lot in Brooklyn
Heights yesterday for 5000. \ profit of
100 per cent. in q few months. Law
'ence Kennedy was the purchaser.
Maj. Haggart says work Will certainly
begin on the Hendricks block this month.