Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-08-18
HOW IT WAS&IARTED.
OF THE TEXAS BREW
ING COMPANY'S WORKS.
The Stock now far Above Par and not for
Sale-What It's Business now
Amounts to.

| One of the many things for which Fort
| Worth is noted is her brewery. Fort
| Worth should be as proud of her Texas
| brewery as the Texas brewing company is
| proud of Fort Worth.
| Fort Worth has many manufacturing en-
| terprises that are doing well, turning the
| raw material into manufactured goods and
| shipping them all over the state, but none
| that have been so successful from the start
| as the brewery. But when you know the
| reason, il is very plain why it is so. The
| Texas brewing company have spared no
| time nor money in order to make the brew
| cry complete in all its appointments. They
| have the best plant, so men have said, who
| know what breweries are, south any where
| and as good as there Is IN the world, as far
| as completeness is concerned, and it is not
| u small one by any means, there being but
very few larger in the United States.
! The second reason why such good beer is
| made and the brewery so successful, is the
| good water to be found at Fort Worth.
And the third reason and the one which
insured the success as much as anything is
| the ability displayed by the president and
| general manager of the company, Mr. James
| j. Cannon. If there had been no Mr.. j. J.
Cannon, there would have been no Texas
| brewing company at Fort Worth to-day.
If there had, the stock of the company
would not cost you from $40 to Sl60 to-day.
even if you can find any to buy. as this is
y
stock was quoted sixty days after the first
beer was made.
For the credit of the wonderful success
that he Texas brewing company has mad
from the beginning is due Mr.. Cannon, he
being man of wonderful executive ability,
good business qualifications, one of the
most practical men in the country and a
Woodworking man, he being at the brewery
from in the morning until IL at night.
The story Of how Fort Worth came to
I Secure this mammoth enterprise, which
prohibits so much money from going out of
Texas and which employs so many men
VINO spend their money in Fort Worth is
au interesting one.
Mr. Cannon had sold out an interest he
had in a brewery in Dallas, little over a
year ago, and had made up his mind that he
would travel. He went 10 Mexico, and
travelled all over this state, and at last
came back TO Fort Worth
While here he was driven by a friend to
see a new artesian well which had just
been completed. While looking at the pure,
clean water, he having been used to the
muddy Dallas water for some time, he
thought to himself, - that water ought -
make fine beer" He went to Dallas, was
there few days, but kept thinking about
the Fort Worth water, and what fine beer
it should make. He could not get it from
his mind.
After selling out his brewery in Dallas,
he had made up his mind that lie would
never go into the brewing business again,
but after thinking over the situation for
several days, thinking what a fine point
from railroad shipping standpoint Fort
Worth was, concluded to send some of the
artesian water to brewers chemist to be
analysed
He came to Fort Worth, secured two
cans or the water, sent to Austin, Waco.
Houston and San Antonio and secured two
cans each from all the places mentioned.
These cans he sent to chemist in the east
not telling him where the water was from,
asking him TO lei him know how they would
do for beer-making The report came back
soon that the water which had been taken
from the Fort Worth well was the best
water for making beer that had ever been
found.
Mr.. Cannon soon organized 4 stock COM
pany with ample capital aud began opera
tons and the big establishment turning
out sixty tons of ice and 500 kegs of beer u
day is the sequel.
Mr. Cannon is more than pleased with
the reception his beer has received, as he !
said: ''Of course some people have 10 be
educated up to home manufactures OF any
kind. They think anything made at home
can not be as good as that made in another |
state, so we have made a better beer than
they could buy anywhere else and so sell |
the goods
While the brewery was being erected Mr.. |
Cannon wired 4 brewers supply house in |
the East 10 send him the best |
brew master he could find The |
party wired back that he knew |
of Il good one in Germany, better man |
than could be found in this country. Mr.. |
Cannon wired him to secure the man re- |
gardless of expense; whatever contract that |
he made would be satisfactory to the Texas |
brewing company.
Beer and ice by the carload are shipped |
daily as far west as Fl Paso and as far |
south rs Corpus Christi. The first full car |
of bottled beer went to Colorado City |
Thursday. II