The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-04-23
ABOUT FORT WORTH.

There were eighteen deeds 70 real estate
sold filed in the county clerks Office yes
terday. Some of the sales are for good
amounts and the number indicates that
trading is reasonably active. Several
| are to build on and architects say that
they expect building operations to be active
! in short time. One firm has plans pre-
| pared for a $4,000 residence on which
work will begin on June l and
another residence to cost $500, which is
being built. This firm has also completed
| plans for SIS, 900 residence for Mrs. Sallie
| Huffman, which will be built on Buena
| Vista Heights in North Fort Worth over
| looking the charming valley of the Trinity.
| The residence will be three stories and will
| be Of stone and brick. 1t will De Of the old
| colonial style of architecture. It will
| have great, wide halls, that on the first
| floor being reached from three entrances.
In the third floor will be ballroom. This
! residence will be one Of the finest in Fort
Worth.
There is marked improvement in real
| estate dealings in Fort Worth. There were
nine transfers recorded yesterday, but this
by no means covers all the sales made.
T. B. BurbriGge yesterday sold TO Rudolph
Hochstadter, wealthy New York
importer, ten acres of land near the city.
Three citizens of Hopkins county bought
six lots in the Methodist college addition.
John Spurlock of Neyland bought two lots
in the Polytechnic addition and has ordered
plans for nice residence. He will move
to this city
W. F. Lane of Hunt county has pur-
chased two lots in the Methodist college ad
dition. He will build in short time. Mr..
SpurlOck, who owns 4 very large farm, Wis
tied the packery while here and ordered
years supply of meats for his people. John
D. Templeton sold four lots on Peach street
between Hampton and Harding for $1,000.
This was Il bargain.
y Springfield, No, citizen was discussing
values of Fort Worth property yesterday
with agents here. He considered Sl5,5 800
cheap for the corner of Main and Sixth
streets, twenty-five feet and the agents con-
sidered it so also. They said $4,000 was
cheap for fifty feet corner Main and Seventh
streets and held that all Main and Houston
street property was low at present prices.
The material development of Fort Worth
continues steadily and for the times rap
idly and on this development being made by
our people with the assistance of some out
side capital, and on the eXtrapeous forces
at work for the upbuilding of Fort Worth,
do our people reasonably look for renewed
activity in real estate transactions. Every
sign points to such activity and the recent
increase in the number of sales leads
close observers to come to the
conclusion that this activity is
near at hand. The area of Fort Worth is
but little over four square miles, aud in the
city confines, as they were when the United
States census was taken, at which time
Fort Worth covered exactly four square
miles, the enumeration showed $4,000 peo-
pie. On every square mile of territory
5000 people lived. In other words Fort
Worth is to-day the most compactly built
and densely populated city in Texas. The
people living in this territory nave
grown rich and are growing richer. The
assessed valuations show that every man.
woman and child, even to the infants, have
$40. 9S per capita. The result OF this acclj-
mutation of wealth is that people are leav-
ing the hotels and boarding houses where
they have resided, and are building houses
of their own which they will make their
homes Thus it is that the present active
building operations are seen. The houses
that are going up are of the better class,
from the cottage costing $500 and $1,000 to
mansions costing $4,000 s2S, 900 and $50
600 In the month of March, always dull
month for building, building permits were
issued for residences aggregating in cost
$4,000. In April the new residences that
will be constructed or on which work will
begin, will aggregate in cost something
over S125,000. The Chamberlin invest
fifteen houses to cost about
sixty thousand dollars Some twenty
houses will be erected in North Fort Worth
that will cost over eighty thousand dollars.
Ten houses are now being completed in the
cotton mill addition, and yesterday THE
GAZETTE was informed that fifteen other
houses would be built at once Twenty
houses are being finished on Prospect
Heights and sixty five houses will soon be
under way on Lexington Heights.
The foregoing enumeration does
not include the houses being built
by those who will occupy them, such as
those built by John D. Templeton, Hyde
Jennings, W. D. Farris, Jake Zurn, n. c.
Blanchard, w. NJ. Bering and others. This
is what is being done in the way or resi-
dence building. Several store houses are
now under way, aggregating in cost S175,-
900, and several large public buildings will
certainly be in course of con-
structon within the next few months,
a Federal building, 4 city hail. two school
houses and u fire hall in the Sixth ward are
certainties. The A1asons will before long
build Il temple that will be a credit to this
city st. Andrews congregation will build
a fine church, and one property owner has
decided to invest 100000 in store buildings
on the principal streets. All this shows
that in the building line Fort Worth will
lead all Texas cities this year.