Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-31
HENRIETTA.
Lumber yards Unable to Supply the Demand
for Lumbpr-Soms Idea of the Present
Rapid Growth of the Town.

Special to the Gazette.
HENRIETTA, TEX. March 29.-Since
the good railroad news has been received
a syndicate has been formed and will
purchase $50 acres inside of our city
limits. A new addition will be laid out
and the land will be sold in lots and in
from one to five acre tracts.
Judge B. F. Williams has let the
contract to erect three two story
bricks on his lots on Main street. Work
Will commence on the Amsley block this
coming week. The contractors are now
on the second story of the SQuires s.
Snearly block and it will soon be COM
pleted.
Hon. A. K. Swan has had the grade
established on his two lots on the corner
of the square and Bridge street, and will
commence Immediately the erection of q
magnificent block of buildings. con-
tanning three 30x100 feet rooms, two
stories high and iron front.
Judge P. NJ. Slime will also commence
his new building on his lot on Bridge
street, 30x100 feet, two stories high, an
iron front.
j. T. Wyant is making arrangements
to make large additions to his hotel, the
Nsrth Carolina house, on Bridge street.
To give the outside world how Hem
rietta is improving, your correspondent
with a gentleman from Kansas City
went up into the cupola of the court
house, and from there we counted 1913
houses, not including the business houses
now being erected, that have been built
and now being built within the last three
months. Our lumber yards cannot
Oh 4 o for
lumber.
Our commissioners court at their last
meeting appointed r. w. Watkins our
county surveyor and G. B. Patterson
to meet two surveyors appointed by the
commissioners court of Montague
county to establish the boundary line be-
tween Clay county and Montague. 1t is
claimed by Montague parties that the
boundary line of Montague will run not
far from five miles farther west than now
established. Should this prove true il
will work serious hardship on
many of our Clay county citi-
Zens in the east portion of the
county and also work a hardship on our
neighbor, Wichita county, on our west,
for should the Clay county boundary line
on the west be extended to the extent as
claimed by some, it will place our thriv-
ing little neighboring village up the Fort
Worth and Denver on Clay county's soil,
and should it so turn out that she has to
come into Clay county, we will receive
her with open arms and 10 all we can to
aid her as Clay county town.
District court is now in session with
Judge P. NJ. Slime presiding. There is
great interest taken in suit now being
tried between the state and the Fort
Worth and Denver City railroad. The
state has sued the company for damages
for not maintaining a union depot at the
juncture of the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas railroad. Hon. John II. Stephens
OF Vernon, our state senator, is en-
ployed by our citizens in defending the
case.
The farmers are all busy blowing and
putting in corn and their spring crops,
and all say that since the late rain we
had everything looks fine, and wheat
bids fair to have large yield. Oats that
were drilled in were not injured by the
freeze, and the fruit was not injured as
much as was expected. The county as
SCISSOR reports that there will be an acre
age of four times the amount of crops
planted in Clay county over last year,
and all the farmers are in high spirits
over the flsttering prospect for large
yield of all kinds of small grain and
fruit the present season.