Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-09
DEEP WATER FOR TEXAS.

Velasco. the deep water port. is the COM
ing city of Texas.-GSan Saba News.
Velasco, at the mouth Of the Brazos, is
rapidly becoming place of Importance.
= Reagan Herald.
Velasco is looming up as q deep-water
port. She has seventeen feet already. and
it is said viii soon have twenty. It's good
news to the wheat-growers. Vernon
Guard.
Galveston had better keep her weather
eye on Velasco at the mouth of the Brazos
That Omaha. Kansas and Gulf railroad
means sonnet hing for Texas Fairfield Re-
cordcr.
Seventeen feet of water on the bar when
the tide is out is what they now have at
Velasco. Thus the mouth of the BrazoS
was the first deep-water port in Texas
-[Cisco Roundup.
As between Galveston and Velasco the
Press harbors no feelings of prejudice for
or against either port, bit there is no gain
SAYING the fact that VelaSco enjoys 4 very
decided lead in deep water Advantages
Houston Evening Press.
At the mouth of the Brazos is bound TO be
the largest city in the state in the course of
q few years. All the great Northwest Is
materially interested in a deep water port
on the Texas coast, and this it has ut the
mouth of the Brazos-- Lockhart Register.
Vclasco is about TO solve the problem of.
deep water At the mouth of the Brazos.
Already seventeen feet four inches of water
has been obtained and tine channel viii be
made still deeper. Texas will have a port.
Texas continues to move up the line toward
the head Eastland Chronicle.
Deep water at Velasco is the excitement
OF the day. The rush of the people TO that
place is immense, and it was said thai
nothing like it was ever seen in the state
before Galveston Is looking on with.
bated breath and q jealous eye Bolton
Friendly Visitor.
Fort Worth viii now whoop it up for
railway direct to that port for sea-going
vessels just opened at the mouth of the
Brazos. The man who says, '.Velasco is
only SPECTATORS town. never was there,
or he would not thus advertise his inability
to see the sun a. MONDAY. The man comes
from some busted boom town and does not
realize the difference between condition
precedent and condition prospective
-lSan Antonio Light
Brennan Banner: 1t is unbecoming in q
great big grown girl like Galveston to be
cutting a Younger sister like she does
Velasco. ThereiS room on the coast for
DOJu OF Uueul. Il
The Banner has got worms. Galveston
has no war to MAZE on Velasco or any other
town. That is not her style. She is work
ing for Texas ami the great Southwest and
making war on the par to her harbor Thass
is au.-[Galveston Tribune.
Deep water at Vel;sco seems now to be
settled question. There is now seventeen
and one-half feet on the bar. and those in
position to know conend that the winter,
rise in the BrazOs rive will increase this
depth to twenty and possibly to twenty-five
feet Should such prove true, five years is
sufficient to make Vela.co the largest city
in the state.-[Dallas FarQers' World.
Yes, I've seen Velascd and l anu stfyf-
alive were the words IF Mr. J. K Till
man of the Portland company, as he shook
hands with Gulf News reporter yester-
day. Il had heard so mu9p- of the deep
water city that 1 determin5sd to SET it with
well, what do you think of it9'' queied
the reporter. ,
Il think it a daisy for an eight-week-Id
town, with future prospects at a premium.
There are already sixty odd business hous,s
there and more gtoing up daily. If thb
amt pretty good 1or an infant would Ike
to know what iSs."
DO ycu thiydk great city viii ever be
built thereby
II do, andl think in less than five Years
Velasco Will have population of 10000
souls at the least. 1t has country to fall
back on, and with deep water harbor l
don't see how it can possibly keep from
growing"
f.Did you invest any money in velasco
real estate!''
Not cent. My faith is pinned to this
portion of Texas and / am going to STAY
with it. I like our location better and the
country around Corpus is good enough for
me. This don't go to say, however. that
Velasco won't be a city, for honestly be-
ieve 1t will, and think its prospects as
bright as those of any town in the state."-
CORPUS Christi Gulf News.