Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-09-19
I. J. HURLEY.
A Fort Worth Rustler Returns from
the North.
And Talks Interestingly on Variety OF Topics
The Financial situation-The Pros
poets for the Future.

al am glad to get back, and intend to
remain here now until next summer.
So spoke Col. T. j. Hurley, as he
alghted from a carriage at the CONNER
cial club yesterday morning.
Accompanying him were two young
men, whose bright and intelligent ap-
pearance indicated that they were related
TO Mr.. Hurley, and so it proved. They
are Mr.. Hurley's sons, come to live in
Fort Worth AID grow up with the coun-
try. Seth Gardner Hurley, O young
man of seventeen years, will engage in
business in this city, and 7. Jay Hurley
aged thirteen, will continue his studies.
az hnre led q pleasant trip and come
back invigoTa.ed, ready for the fight to
begin. - So the gentleman continued {.
''In the East found that the city OF
Fort Worth is more talked about than
any other Texus city. The merchants,
manufacturers and business men of the
city have the reputation in the East OF
working together for the interest OF the
city, which ls great encouragement TO
foreign capital, because the moneyed
men abroad feel that that sort of
enterprise will certainly win.
1tll uo ubOuh hAnhSIsA
situation as you saw it in the East. -
1.-The failures in Boston were dis
counted two weeks before their actual
occurrence. The failure of Potter,
Lowell & Co. will not affect any interest
III Texas of which have any knowledge,
except one small interest where their
stock was relied upon for an assessment
which cannot now be made, and other
arrangements will now be entered into.
Messrs. Lee, Ferguson and Taylor hor-
rowed money from this firm TO protect
their Interests in the Brnzos. The Brazos
company as corporation never
borrowed n dollar in the markets, but
fearing complications, and in order that
the work might not be even temporarily
stopped, two of the officers of the COM
pany have been appointed receivers by
Judge Bryant; and luckily for the state
Of Texas Judge Bryant, knowing the
great Importance of this undertaking and
improvement, ordered the receivers to
continue the work TO completion,
authorizing them TO borrow the neces-
sHry money on receivers certificates.
The action of Judge Bryant has been
fayorably commented upon by the East
ern people Interested in the Brazos, be-
cause the completion of the work Will
give gEehieT Ndlue W tuelE SECURITIES.
81 expect that the jetties at the
Brazos will be finished in sixty days.
Unlike other affairs of this sort there is
no real estate movement connected with
it. While The company own both banks
OF the river for twelve miles they have
meyer offered for sale an inch of ground,
and anything ever done in that country
will be the result of natural conditions
brought about through heavy shipping
"Were Potter, Lowell & Co. interested
in Austin and Gainesville!' interrupted
the reporter.
eyes, 10 the extent of one-eigbth of
the stock but that has been recently
purchased by some Boston parties, and
the control OF these two companies, as
well as Of the Gainesville land company,
which owns considerable property in
Texas, is now owned in 1exas. AS these
corporations have no floating indebted
ness of any sort, tight money or failures
will not affect them, they being on good
paying basis
GLOW does the feeling toward Texas
In the East appear TO you, Mr.. Hurley?''
al think you will see the greatest i'm
provement in the Panhandle this fall
that that section has ever had. know
Of my own knowledge colonies of people |
In Dakota and other parts of the |
Northwest, which nre contemplate |
ing sending committees to look |
over lands in the Panhandle this |
fall with a view TO settling there. | |
also know of one commercial house in /
Boston which within the past sixty days !
received positive instructions from Enro- |
pean correspondents to negotiate for the !
purchase of a large truct of land in the |
II, in In,
have evidently been reading about the |
resources and future of Texas, hence
this order.
al think the packing house here will
be Que of the best things ever started in
this city for its growth, and if we could |
encourage two or three large concerns to
come here with their shops, even if we
gave them bonus, it would be q good
thing.
''It our citizens would feel that they
could afford TO raise an emergency fund
TO be used in advertising the city abroad,
sending committees after manufactures
and bringing them here, 1t would pay as
an investment.
al would like to offer suggestion to
our merchants aud real estate men and
others interested In the city. That is,
that each one select from among his ao-
ouaintances and friends in the East list
OF names OF people in the North
and East, no matter in what state. Let
each one select his names without refer
ence TO the list of anyone else. Take
these lists 70 both THE GAZETTE and
Mail, and make contracts with those pa
Ders 20 send copies regular
to each person on the list,
and charge It 10 the home
party. In that way the Eastern man
will be educated as to- the every day ut
OF the papers, will know what
we are doing from day TO day, and will
know positively that the paper has not
been prepared for his special benefit.
awe can I get out better advertis-
ing pamphlet in this city than the regu-
llar everyday edition of The GA
zETrE."
With this level headed remark the in
terview terminated.
A few hours later Col. Hurley was en-
gagged with other live and enterprising
members OF the chamber of commerce
ievising projects and maturing plans tor
he good of the order.