The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-04-23
TEXAS PROGRESS.

Armstrong county'S commissioners have
passed an order for an issue of $4,000 il
bonds for road and bridge purposes. This
amount will build all the bridges needed in
the county except one across Red river
and another over Salt creek.
Beeville Bee: The rapid development of
the county Is beginning to demand more
roads and better roads and fewer gates.
Gradually the pastures are being cut up
into farms, and each farm if possible should
front on public road without gates, giving
clear ingress and egress to the county
seat Naturally Bee county has the best
dirt roads in the state, and gradually they
are becoming cleared of the instructions in
the shape OF pasture gates.
The brick work of the new opera house
at Bowie, Montague county, is completed
and the carpenters are now in possession.
The commissioners of Limestone county
have awarded the contract for the new
courthouse at SIS, 200
DIR. A Murchison of Merit has had a well
sunk near the town plat and al sixteen feet
struck good supply OF water, but he and
others think it has very much the taste of
the famous Mineral Wells water. He will
have ii analysed.
Mr.. EpIToR-Doss City is on the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas railroad on the
line of Montague and Clay counties. This
hammer are heard early and late every
day, several business and residence houses
are going up and the location and surround
ingS are the best fOra good town that | ever
saw. Town lots and good farming lands
around the town are abundant, cheap and
sold on good time. Crops are good. We
have been having some rain and hail for
two Or three days. The health of our town
IS good, water good, etc.
The Colorado ice works got promptly to
work last week and are now turning out five
tons of very fine ice daily.
The Colorado electric light company has
closed 4 contract with the manufacturers
for u 40O-lignt electric dynamo, the plant to
be ready for operation on July !.
COLORADO CITY, April 19.-The handsome
new Commercial club building is nearing
completion, and VIII be ready for occupancy
about May 10.
COLEMAN, April 15.-Rocll is being hauled
and work begun on the new bank block to
be occupied by our new bank II will be a
very fine building, finished with white and
red stone that Coleman county is noted for.
SwEETwATER, April 16.-Our commission
er's court for Nolan county yesterday re-
ceived and paid for two new bridges that
were built under contract by 3. NJ. Aston
Of Colorado. They also ordered our old
courthouse taken down and rebuilt. They
duOptcu pans anu SltCluCdilOuS ana Will
receive bids Al their meeting III May, the
second Monday. The house is to cost not
exceeding So 600 in addition to the value of
the old building.
LANCASTER, April 16-Nessrs Moffett &
Brady of Waxahachie have decided to erect
in Lancaster a new gin containing all the
late improvements. The site selected is
near the crossing of the Houston and Texas
Central tap and the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas railroads, in the eastern suburb of
town.
Thornton has built in the past year be-
tween forty-tive and fifty houses, and every
one is occupied. Why not increase that
number, says the Herald.
Under the head of "Houston's Latest
Victory the Post says: The Texas lum-
bermen decided by unanimous vote upon
Houston as the proper location for the
is TO be the permanent official home of the
greatest commercial and industrial organi-
zation in the Southwest. 1t means that
Houston is TO be the headquarters for the
great and growing lumber industry of
Texas, which is destined soon to become
the most extensive in the Union.
The brick is all on the ground for the
large new building at the orphans
home at Garland, and the lime, sand and
cement viii be placed on the grounds
Immediately. Work will begin on the
building not later than May !.
Prof W. T. Mann, who owns a pecan
farm on the ConchO, says the Coming West,
is organizing 4 company for the purpose of
testing pecan culture in the Concho coun-
try to a thorough test. The culture of pc
cans as profitable crop has awakened
considerable interest in West Texas of
late.