Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-21
REALTY AND BUILDING.
THE MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT
OF FORT WORTH CONTINUES.
Building Operations Now Under Way and
Soon to be Inaugurated-The Meth
odist College--Other Notes.
The material derelonrnsnt of Fort Worth

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 eXtraneouS forces
at work for the upbuildiug of Fort Worth,
do our people reasonably look for renewed
activity in real estate transactions. Every
sign points TO such activity and the recenE
increase in the number of sales leads
close observers TO come 10 the
conclusion that this activity IS
near at hand. The area Of Fort Worth IS
but little over four square miles, and in the
city confines, as they were when the United
Fort Worth covered exactly four square
miles. the enumeration showed 23.000 peo-
pie. On every square mile Of territory
5000 people lived In other words Font
Worth IS to-day the most compactly builr
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 10 the infants, nave
$40 9S per capita. The result of this accu-
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 VIII 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 10
mansions costing $4,000, IS, 600 and $3O-
900. In the month of March, always a dull
month for building, building permits We're
issued for residences aggregatiug in cost
Sl0,50o In April the new residences that
will be constructed or on which work Will
begin, will aggregate N cost something
over Sl25, 900. The Chamberlin invest
ment company alone Will build
~
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 al once. Twenty
houses are being finished on Prospect
Heights and siXty-tive houses viii soon be
under way on Lexington Heights
The foregoing enumeration does
not include the houses being built
those built by John ID. TempleJ0n, Hyde
Jennings. W. D Farris, Jake Zurn, n. c.
Blanchard, W. NJ. Boring and others. This
is what is being done in the way or resi-.
dcnCe building. Several store houses ssre
now under way. aggregdtiug in cost SlI5.-
600, and several large public buildings Will
certainly be i'll course Of con-
StructiOn within the next few months
i Federal building. a city hall. TWO school
houses and q fire hall in the Sixth ward are
cCrtaintieS. The AlasOns viii before long
build a temple that will be a credit to this
city. st. Andrews congregation viii build
a fine church, and one property owner has
decided to invest 100000 in store buildings
on the principal streets. Al this shows
that in the building line Fort Worth Will
lead all Texas cities this year. -