Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-01
Fl. WORTHALL RIGHT
Is the Verdict of an Experienced
Invest or,
WHOSE CONFIDENCE is FIRM.
mr.. A. A. wkippIe OF Kansas City Gives
Some of the Reasons Why Fort
Worth is the Coming
City of Texas.

Mr.. A. A. Whipple Of Kansas City is one
Of the besu informed real estate men IN the
country, aud 4 man who has done much to
place Kansas City in the front rank OF
Western cities. Mr.. Wbipple Is student
cities and their growth, and what he
says is entitled to more than ordinary
weight The gentleman is no stranger IN
Fort Worth. He made his first visit TO this
city some four years ago, and was last here
early in 1891.
IN company with. Col. R. E. Maddox and
James W. Swayne, Mr.. Whipple spent part
OF yesterday in looking over the city, and
w's found in the evening just before his
departure f5r home by a GAZETTE man.
b, mas 90 ! think of Fort WORTH" he re-
Piled TO query: 81 am surprised after
looking over the city, to see the good condi-
ton in which l find affairs here. / ex-
Tected to ind depression, due to the low
price Of cotton and the sudden shutting
out of money which followed the passage
OF the alien land law. That Fort Worth
has not suffered as 1 expected is attribute
bic in part to the betterment OF the
railroad situation. There has been change
througoueht the west in the routing Of
heavy freight Il formerly went via
Kansas City. St. Louis and Chicago to the
Eastern seaboard, but now the movements
found that freights from ports
on The gulf are but 11Zc. TO 3 cents
more 10 Liverpool than from New York,
with q much shorter rail haul. The North
and South roads are carrying a
large proportion of freight now,
even Kansas shipping through
Texas ports. It is this fact that has de-
termined the Rock Island to build TO deep
water and it is the unquestioned under
standing in Kansas City that Fort Worth
Is the present objective point
"Thare IS another reason why Fort
Worth IS so strong to-day, one that will
finally make her u great city, and one Of the
things that first attracted my attention TO
this city. 1t is that you are the entrepot
TO the great West. The country back of
you is growing, is prosperous and is
rapidly filing up. When l, sew
eral years ago, was looking
around for investments for clients and my
self, the fact l have mentioned, that the
West was back of you, and the further
fact that Fort Worth was the undoubted
railroad center of Texas, decided me to
come here. We invested something over
800, 600, and l will cheerfully say that our
investments here have paid US far better
than in any city in the county in which we
operated. The returns have been very
large.
Fort w orth doesn't look like the same
place to me; your big new buildings have
changed the looks Of everything. / see
q bright future for the city.
The opening of the Indian Territory
will do you great good. The Indian co un-
try has TO a great extent been a Chinese
wall on the north of Texas Open this
country and Immigration will pour in
across the Territory to this section.
Many 4 farmer has been Kept from moving
TO Texas by the fear women folks naturally
have of being scalped while passing through
country, as they imagine, filed with In
dians.
The alien land law has worked a great
hardship to Texas. 1t was no stroke of
craftsmanship it was as a sunstroke to en-
terprise. know of one deal of $500, coo that
was on the point of being closed when it
was at once declared off. One mortgage
company withdrew 500, 600 from four Texas
banks, one of them in Fort Worth. and
this sudden withdrawal OF money for i
time paralyzed many business ventures.
There is one thing Fort Worth needs,
that is more hotel accommodations. The
Arlington Heights hotelwill help your city,
ard in winter Will have a number of guests
from the North. Fort Worth is all right"