Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-01
SHIPS At VELASC0,
THEY COME FROM MANY POINTS
IN THE COUNTRY.
All Cross the Bar Easily-The Lucy Going
to Pieces Ten Miles Out-Spring
Sports Begin-Pr ogress Made.
IN PORT.
Special to the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
VELAsco, TEX, Jan. 9O-The u''record
breaker" Henry P. Mason. built at Bath,
Maine, and commanded by Capt. S. X.
Percy. arrived yesterday from Pensacola
with HOO tons of coal for the Brazos River
channel and dock company.
The Mason crossed the bar drawing SIX
teen feet seven inches, an inch less than
when she came in last month. But for the
rough and threatening weather when ne
sailed Capt Percy would have loaded her
down to seventeen feet.
The steamer Hiawatha brought rlarge
cargo of general merchandise and thirty
seven passengers down the river last night,
that came from Houston over the 1nterna-
tional and Great Northern tap TO Columbia
depot.
The steamer Alice Blair resumed her reg
ular run to Galveston yesterday.
The steamer Emily P, Is expected to ar
rive from that city to-day.
The steamer Whitewater IS taking on
cargo of cotton and country produce at her
up-river landings ana will probably arrive
here tomorrow.
The steamer Mascot, ashore on the beach
below Quintana, was sold recently, and
wrecl1ers are at work trying tn float her:
Four schOonerS went up the BraZoS last
night to take cargoes for this port.
Only one coasting schooner arrived from
outside Yesterday, but twelve are due from
Orange, Lake Charles and Beaumont with
lumber and shingles.
The schooner Lucy, ashore on the San
Bernard bar, ten miles below the mouth OF
the Brazos, is getting a terrible beating
from the breakers, and her hold is full OF
sand. She will probably go to pieces IN
few days.
NOTES OF PROGRESS.
Several gentlemen from this county have
| gone to Austin to attend the state meeting
| of cattlemen.
A company interested in market garden
| ing and orchards have bought 1850 acres
four miles from the city and cut it into
| small tracts for settlers.
Another sale of over 5000 acres adjoining
this will be closed next week.
Most of this land is 'hogwallow'' prairie
with clay subsoil, and anything that grows
| in Texas hOurishes thereon.
Many leagues of the same quality can be
| bought in this and Matagorda counties for
| 50 to 81 per acre on time, if the buyer is an
| actual settler who will improve his pur-
| chase.
There is every prospect of real estate 60
| ing up rapidly in the near future, and farm
| ers desiring good, cheap homes should take
a look around the only deep water port OF
| the state.
OVER THE NEW ROAD.
A special car arrived from Houston last
| night over the Velasco Terminal railway
| with Mr.. and Mrs. C. w. Angle and Miss
| Belle Marmion, who have been visiting
| friends at San Antonio. Contractors
| Painter and Lottridge are putting in
switches at AngletOn station and Chenango
| junction on this line.
| WILKES TRIP.
| The departure of Gus Wilke for Europe
| this week to close Arrangements for a
| steamship line to Velasco excited no sur
| prise here. as it has been known for some
| +i,,,n that the syndicate was OpuOtiatiOp for
| ships as published in The GAZETTE several
| months ago.
| THE LUCY.
THE GAZETTE correspondent went to the
| San Bernard river yesterday, ten miles
from the city, where the schooner Lucy lies
aground on the bar at that streams mouth.
She was loaded with cotton most OF which
will be saved.
Like GalveSton's, the San Bernard bar is
| very dangerous in rough weather and has
been the scene of many marine accidents.
Coasting captains are drawing out OF the
| trade there since Velasco became a port of
| entry, and q company has been formed to
connect that river with the Brazos, a mile
! from Velasco, by canal, thus bringing by
safe and cheap transportation all the Mata-
gorda trade here.
| To complete this canal requires digging
| through less than two miles Of solid earth,
rs there is a waterway the rest OF the dis
|
creek and three connecting lakes.
The three-master, Ada A Kennedy, Capt.
| Peter Kennedy of Bath. Me, that brought
a cargo from New York composed partly OF
hardware for wholesale house here, has
discharged and will probably receive her
sailing orders to return this week.
The brig Stacy Clark OF Boston is about
half unloaded, there having. been some
difficulty at first in getting enough laborers
TO do the WORK.
BEAUTIFUL SIGHT
was presented in the river Thursday by the
departure of thirteen large coasting
schooners, led by the fast sailing. stoop
scandinavian, all with every stitch OF
canvas spread fore and aft, racing Tor the
lumber regions Of East Texas and Louis
! lana.
The spring frolies have opened up on this
coast with grand ball last night il
Lorraine hall and another in the pavilion on
the beach The steamer Hiawatha took q
| party of over one hundred down TO the
latter entertainment.
The new pressed brick factory has turned
out 100000 brick this week, and the -four