The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-07
TEXAS PROGRESS.

Pearsan News: We hear that experts
| have pronounced the water of the Brand
rock well, on Elder Townsend's land, to be
so eninently medicinal and curative, as
| even to surpass the far-famed mineral
water of the Wootan wells. That being SO,
z big hotel at Brandrock Spa in F'rio county
| is among the possibilities Of the near fut-
ure.
Another meeting of the waterworks COM
pany was held at Dublin city hall last Satur-
day and a committee of five appointed to
solicit more subscriptions and one of three
to confer with well diggers in regard to the
digging, cost, etc.
At Roswell water was struck at a depth
of I50 feet in the ertesian well of Capt.
Lea. This strike gives Roswell three
''spouters," each succeeding one finding
water nearer the surface. The Jaffa-Prager
well is 207, the Cosgrove well is 1877 feet,
while that of Capt. Lea is only $50 feet.
The water supply of the last appears much
stronger than the others. 1t spouts from
| the pipe ten feet from the ground.
The painters have commenced work on
the new courthouse az Childress.
The new hotel being erected at Santo,
Palo Pinto county. when completed will be
an ornament to the town. 1t is being
erected by Mr. w. H. Hayden from Mason
county, who has recently settled in that
town.
There is petition in circulation to Or
game Cottle county. There is little oppo-
sition, the cattle kings being the only
''kickers." There are three or four places
spoken Of as locations for the county seat.
The order by the county judge of Hill
county was given yesterday for 1925
clock to be placed in the tower Of the new
courthouse.
Luling is in dead earnest about that big
Il has a h.
scribed, and il is in the hands Of men who
will carry it to success.
Since the 1st of December there have
been thirty frame buildings erected in
Clarendon, representing $50, 900 invested in
homes and business houses in the last six
months.
Hale City has formed Joint stock town
company with capital Of 500, 200 at $40
per share.
The summer normal at Santo, beginning
the first Monday in July, promises to be
very instructive and profitable. twill last
six weeks.
Texas has nineteen students in attend
ance upon the Southern Baptist Theolog-
ical seminary and stands third upon the
list, Kentucky having thirty and Missouri
twenty-four.
Seymour Sun: Seymour has the capital
at home to start another bank of 100000
capital. Several parties have been in cor
respondence with some of our citizens to
establish another bank here, provided our
citizens would take stock.
The Clarendon Traveller says the big
pastures are being sub-divided into 100 and
640-acre tracts and bought by industrious
farmers from the East, and many cattle
owners are selling off their stock and be-
coming tillers Of the soil, or combining
farming and stock raising.
A $50, 900 hotel will be put up at Velasco.
Senator Farwell is the principal owner.
The Masons of jefferson will soon erect
one of the handsomest temples in the state,
at a cost of $4,000.
COLORADO CITY, May 3.-The county has
recently purchased an improved road max
ing machine and the roads of the county
will be still further improved during the
summer. The machine requires eight
horses to draw it, but it moves the dirt in a
hurry. Several Of the streets in town have
been ''treated" and greatly improved.
CHARMING, May dumas, the new and
enterprising town in Moore county, is push
ing its way to the front, to the credit of its
people. The enterprising citizens have ar
ranged with their neighbors of Charming for
a telephone wire to be constructed between
Dumas and Charming, and the good work is
to be got on with at once. Thus Dumas
will have means of communication with the
whole world. The waterworks in Chan
ming are in course of construction and
the works are proceeding rapidly.
ABILENE, May 2.-Many new buildings
are now in process of erection and our city
is again being seized by the prospectors,
who are beginning to invest quite literally.
TAYLOR, May Yesterday and to-day
have inaugurated big enterprises. The
Fort Worth packery (branch Department.
is in operation. The street car line opened
in full blast with good service. John
Threadgill sold three fourth interest in the
Washington Heights for s37, 600 cash to C.
H WEIGH, F. l. Welch and Albert Symes.
AMARILLO, May Never before in the
history of Amarillo haveso many substan-
tial buildings been in course of construc-
ton. This town viii have a population of
at east two thousand people within the
next twelve months at the rate it is now
growing. And yet we have no boom-only
good healthy growth to keep pace with our
increasing trade.
ITALY, April 29-This morning work be-
gan on a brick building Part of it will be
used by Messrs. Clark & Dunlap for bank,
which institution has been secured through
the medium of The GAzETTE's Texas in
Type column.