Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-28
VELASCO, TEXAS.
The Deep Water Port of the Trans
Mississippi.

A writer in Bradstreet's Weekly, says
deep water navigation is the father of
commercial greatness" The people of Gal
! weston have believed that and have placed
their entire hope of becoming great city
on getting deep water.
Nelasco hoiSts banner with deep water
! emblaZoned upon it, and eXclaims Sub
| hoe sigma vincimuS." 1t Will be amusing
and interesting to note the caperS OF these
| two rival places, The success of either, or
| of both will be the success of Texas. OF
! course Galveston now has the government
! on her side, for the government must stand
| by her engineers one and all, like a mother
! by her children. even if they have grown
! stupid with well-fed idleness: but Velasco
has the water, despite the reports of Uncle
| Sans engineers that deep water could not
| be obtained at the mouth of the Brazos.
And Mr.. Street says deep water IS the pa
renEof commercial greatness and Calves
| ton seSs Mr.. Street is emine9sly correct.
| President Harrison and hjs cabinet said
many gdpd and true things fabCut Calves
ton ASIAN advertisement, nothing it
seemed atShe time coulF be stronger or
better However, the hFd hitter was the
secretary ofNe treasury and he was not
in the presidential party July 9TH instant
he struck bldg that fill be remembered
sun-dried beachespt fhe gulf in letter to
the collector of cult FMS at Galveston de-
claring velasco p of entry pending the
meeting of congress-, De says: In view of
the fact that the NateNover the bar at your
port is not of sufFient eepth for vessels of
| certain draught, Such vessels, although for
eign, may be allowed to gaao Velasco''
hard hitter. not only makes port of
entry. but in one sentence he records the
fact that Galy Eston has not water enough
to do the busf hess and that VeIasco has.
The ways bf advertising, are devious:
Senator FrySof Maine gave birth to gulf
summer effort of the Maine senator. 1t was
published in the Forum" and the adver-
Using agents wrote the Velasco people So
Letting liberal advertisements for that
issue, setting forth the Frye article on gulf
ports as reason why they should adver-
tise The article appeared, and it men
toned every port on the whole Gulf of Mex
leo except the mouth of the Brazos. The
Velasco people say Senator Frye doesn't
know it all, if he is neighbor of Blaine'S.
President Lott mercilessly crushed one
deep water boomlet the other day. Poor
Arkansas Mr. Lott has turned his back on
you. l suppose you wish he would emulate
the example of his ancestress OF the same
name and suffer the same fate. Who IS
sorry for the purchase of lots in Lofts lot
terry? Why, the Velasco people. They say:
Come over and live with us and realize
your rosiest expectations. Next time buy
where deep water IS fact, and not a
promise
At Galveston steamship is now loading
with Texas wheat. She cleared the Gal
weston bar carrying 81, 900 bushels, drawing
thirteen feet, six inches and hghtered D.
$50 bushels at a cost of 5000. Had she
loaded in Velasco, she could have taken on
ler whole cargo, $3.50 bushels, without
Tightening at all, and gone over the bar
iyfa tive
would have saved $500 lighterage, SIS pilot
age, and S5454 wharfage, a total of
Sl2O3. A.
That extra money, which is the result of
a shallow port is paid by the farmer III
North Texas who raised that wheat
The three-masted schooner, Henry P.
Mason. on July 10th inst. unassisted by
tugboat sailed over the bar at Velasco,
drawing sixteen feet six inches of water.
Capt. Percy, the commander said he re-
GREETED that he had not loaded to draw
seventeen feet six inches, for the freight on
the extra cargo would have paid the entire
expense of his trip. He was enthusiastic
harbor. He gave convincing proof of the
sincerity of his belief in Velasco by pur-
chasing $1,000 worth OF lots.
Thirty days ago at the TOWNSHIP of
Velasco there was nothing but beautiful
live-oak trees. Now it is almost covered
with lumber and hundreds of workmen are
grading streets and bouievardS and build
ing houses and wharves. y large four
story hotel is rising away above the trees
and it is alive with worbmen. They say
every man who comes to see the place in
vests. This do not know, but a happier
lot of real estate men l never saw. They
must be making pleasing commissions.
Another large ship from New York, the
NJ. r. Cuza, has just come in over the bar
without touching. She is loaded with
cement and stone to make the coping, which
is the finishing touch to the jetties.
0. W. CRAWFORD.
VELAsCo, Ten, July p. ...ss,sjj