Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-28
THE ARM OF GOD.
ANOTHER INTERESTING CHAT
ABOUT VELASCO.
Some Figures of More than Ordinary In
teres.-The Saving on Freight Charges
Alone-Why the Brazos is
Called the Arm of God

w. s. Decker, who has just returned from
a trip over the southern part of the state,
was seen at the Pickwick last night Dy
GAZETTE man and asked what he had seen
on his trip of interest to the readers OF IHE
GAZETTE.
Il have within the last few weeks visited
Galveston. Houston, Nelasco ana the smailer
towns in that section"
ssWhat do YOU think of the deep-water
question at the mouth of the Brazos, and
what do you thiuk of the new town OF
Velasco?''
II am pleased to be able to say that deep
water in Texas is a condition and theory
no longer; they nave it beyond shaaow OF
doubt x
And they are going to have great city
there,'' was asked.
perhaps not as large as Fort North will
grow inEtte same time, but they viii have
large city ~
THAT VI known real estate speculator,
L. C. Wallis interview in tbs mornings
GAZETTE COVERED everythings,there Is to say
about the totn,, believe"
DO you Il link the currSht of the river
strong enough to scour o. the channel as
..Sve!i. YOU Nm Judge If yourself The
Brazos river ribs at the fate of seven miles
on hour and thA Missisi ppi at the rate of
four miles, and &u kn3 y what the Missis-
sippi did towar3 ma ing deep water in
Louisiana"
Admitting thatth$ have deep water
there will that. in &hr opinion, build
c;ty!'' inquired the Nporter
Young man, hayA you ever reasoned
from cause to efrec4 tDo you know that
the products of 3.O0f04 600 acres of as fine
country as lies out hrs is tributary to
that ports A CLAM al the map Of the
United States will how fou that Nelasco
= =, 70 I,a +1k laa1iA.y pf the
South and the cSmmert$ll hope of he
Mississippi ] Hithei$p the great
carrying lines of the country have been
East and west, but they wikiow be North
and South. Young man, watch what [
say. Do you know that sd ng of SlO,-
0OO. 600 per month could be effe4e' III rail
road freishts by the short haurTo Velasco
over the long haul to the Atlantic sea-
board? The amount of products seeking
outlet at Velasco are far greater than
that seeking outlet at any other port OF the
country.
The Jesuit priests, who first settled
Texas. called the river Brazos de Dios-the
Arm of God. The commercial hope of this
great country, they believed, depended upon
the BRACES river. Recent events prove that
now and forever the Brazos Will be the
arm of God upon which must depend for
commercial prosperity the whole territory
between the Mississippi river and tue
Rocky mountains. Do you know that the
products of the West which seek market
through New York amount to 100000 tons
yearly2 The average distance. to be saved
by shipping this to Velasco is 564 miles
The cost of shipping 6,000,0 900 tons of grain
5f4 miles is S33, $40, 900. If this was ex-
ported via Velasco this amount would be
saved the producer and would add - per
cent to the price he received for his pro-
ducts.
There is no question but what the COM
merciai tide has set toward the gulf. In
eight months OF last year Galveston in
creased her exports SS,300,G0O. In the same
months Baltimore's exports fell of s., 3CG,-
600 and New sOrleans' s., 200, 900. Railroad
rates to Galveston are the same from Kan
sas points as they are to Chicago, and Chi
cage is 900 miles from the coast. and 1t
costs 3 cents per hundred for Tightening at
Galveston. But with deep water and no
Tightening the grain and provisions will
come to Velasco for export as surely as the
law of natural drainage operates. And II
the export trade such rs Nelasco is sure to
receive does not make a city l am no
prophet.
by the way, Wall did not tell you the fish
ing excursion he. Stuart Harrison and some
others took last Sunday. You ought to get
him to talk about that. They had never
been on salt water before. and when the
waves ran mountain high they suddenly
remembered what they had for breakfast,
so the story goes that the boys tell on them.
Get them TO tell you about IL.