Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-14
PENNOCK ENTHUSIASTIC.
HE SPEAKS VERY HIGHLY OF
VELASCO AND ITS FUTURE.
He is Investing Heavily in the New Town.
The Water on the Bar-The Build
ing in Progress-Other Matters.

Col. C. II. Pennock Of Wichita Falls is in
the city, stopping at the Pickwick hotel.
Col. Pennock is OF the firm of Penuock, Ed
wards & Co, large real estate holders and
brokers OF Wichita Falls and Decatur. The
colonel has had very extensive experience
in new towns and Dooms in the United
States, having commenced buying property
in the ''boom'i towns of the oil fields IN
Pennsylvania in the sixties, and has in
vested in every town nearly in the West
since that his judgment has advised him so
to do.
He has large number of wealthy clients
who live in New York whom he buys
for: men who know him says he has never
made bad investment. He having Just
returned from the deep water harbor at the
mouth of the Brazos, the readers of The
GAZETTE will be glad 10 hear what such a
man thinks of DE place. IN answer to
questions the cold pei said
Il have just retSned f9m what in my
honest opinion is y be ths future city and
deep water harbor TsSas. left Velasco
at ! a. m. yester9ax on the far-famed
steamer, Alice BlailS for Columbia, from
there to Houston on pc tap and arrived
here at Il. N. this G&ning. You see it is
not a very long joul3eyA
Upon wuat do tou use your belief IN
s'The reasons a many Md various. In
the first place th4 Brazos ri r channel and
dock company hive gone to work and have
secured deep 8hter at the mbSth of the
Brazos, while all of the other so-cMed deep
water companif have been tryinsso get
ready
DO you knoA it to be fact that they
have deep water2h
Eyes. was present and saw Capt. L. Fl.
Travis of the schooner Comet throw the
lead coming over the bar, and which indi-
Gated sixteen feet of water; his schooner
drew fifteen feet at the time. They have
the iettleS so far completed that the first
high water that comes down the Brazos
river will scour out the channel, give them
twenty feet of water, and high water for
all time. The place where the city Is to be
and where the building is going on is well
located ON high ground overlooking the
beautiful Brazos river; it is a beautiful
place. 1t is Just such place as l should
pick out we're l selecting a location for 4
future great city; the drainage is first
Glass;
.rtaIs there much improvement going on
there ncw2'
Yes, a $4,000 hotel with 100 rooms is
nearly completed, stores and dwellings are
being erected as fast as lumber and men
can be secured. One of the main reasons
for my believing that this place will make
a great city is the fact of the company who
own all the land at this place being SO
wealthy and also so very clever and liberal.
The Brazos River channel and dock COM
pany and Texas land and immigration COM
pary through their energetic resident man.
ager, G. W. Angle, can not do enough for
the people who come there, whether they
wish to buy or not. They are willing to
assist enterprises of any kind that wish 10
locate"
is property high2''
NO considering the future tie ton has
do not think it is. Lots can be bought
there now ut from 800 to $1,000 according 10
the location and on easy terms. To show
YOU that | think they are a good invest
ment: This is my second visit there. [
ssent down three weeks ago with Thos. F.
West and five other citizens of your city at
which time we bought property 10 the