Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-30
TEXAS PROGRESS.

Pearsall News: We hear that experts
have pronounced the water Of the Brand
rock well, on Elder Townsend's land, to be
SO eminently medicinal and curative, as
even to surpass the far-famed mineral
water of the NNOotan wells. That being so,
4 big hotel IT Braudrock Spa in t'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 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 depth
of $50 feet in the artesian well of Capt.
Lea. This strike gives Roswell three
''spOuterS,' each succeeding one finding
water nearer the surface. The JaIa-Prager
well is POI, the Cosgrove well is lS7 feet,
while that of Capt. Lea is only $50 feet.
The water supply of the last appears much
stronger than the others. II spouts from
the pipe ten feet from the ground.
Arrangements are now being made to
erect block of four stone business houses
on Main street in Childress this spring.
The painters have commenced work on
the new courthouse at Childress.
Tilman King aud ]. II. Mundy have Or
dered a steam threSher and will be prepared
ers this Summer.
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. II. Hayden from Mason
county, who has recently settled in that
town.
Carson County Chronicle: The grand
jury adjourned Thursday. After four days
search they found nothing criminal in Car
son county. \ pretty good showing for
new county to have q record like this.
There never has been person convicted Of
a crime in this county where the crime
charged was penitentIary offense.
There are a number OF new dwellings
nearing completion at Archer City, and the
Progress OF that place hopes the moneyed
men viii continue to build houses until the
demand is supplied.
Work on the artesian well at Bellville,
Kerr county, has been abandoned after hay
ing reached 4 depth of 1900 feet at an ex-
pense of $4,000. 1t is not probable the
proprietor will make any further effort to
secure artesian water.
Digging still progresses in most salts
factory manner at the Sherman artesian
we'll AS yet the kind OF soil brought to
the surface is unchanged.
a hose company has been organized in
connection with the WieSS hook and ladder
company at Beaumont, and the officers are
NJ T. Robinson, foreman, and T. Rotten
stein. first assistant.
A Sl.OOO.0O0 real estate transaction was
one of the events at Galveston yesterday.
It was a big sale and will swell the real
estate transfers OF the week to big proper
lions.
Several new dwellings are in course of
construction in East Sherman.
There is petition in circulation TO Or
ganize 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 postofice receipts at Waxahachie for
the first quarter of 1891 show a large in
crease over the same period last year.
Shermau's board of trade is to have
printed $1,000 folders advertising that city.