Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-01


| her domain Huntsville was the largest
inland town, numbering 5000 or COCO people.
| The entire product of the state in 1865
would not amount to 81, 600, 600. That could
| be parted with, for al must eat or starve.
| In 1s76-77,- d small iron plant was put in
| from Portsmouth, Ohio, Later the New
York iron company commenced
| the manufacture of iron. Roll
| ing mills were added in 1882
| The output at first was unsatisfactory and
returns meager, but the industry grew into
strength and 1gor. and increased year by
| year until IN 1890 the state of Alabama
ranked the fifth in the output of iron in the
| United States, and added The round sum of
| SIS, 600, 900 to the wealth of her domain.
| Birmingham, Ala, has now populationof
| over 10000; her coal and iron interests pro-
duce SlS,000,000; her entire agricultural
interests do not produce as much. She is
| Of the new South, prosperous and
ascending the scale in all her industries,
her credit restored, her future assured.
The magnitude of freight traffic shows the
] advantage the iron and coal industries
would bring when developed in this state.
This vast volume of trade cannot be under
stood at glance, for with sthe outgoing
| freight the mines produce nearly as
much other freight is set in motion. The
supplies for the mines are generally
brought from other districts, even to the
food. as regions surrounding mining indus
tries are productive of nothing but the
minerals for which they are worked. It IS
estimated that over $50, 900, 600 of capital is
employed in the Lake Superior regions in
| railroads and in conducting the business of
those mines.''
slow can Fort Worth be benefited by
this data"
with these facts before US LEI US con-
slider the prospect under ordinary circum-
cTg ftrfr ~
Worth as center, lying near and between
these treasure beds nature has furnished
with lavish hand on all sides of us. The
coal measures are estimated to exist in 3d.
coo square miles of the state If half of
this were true, the amount of
coal could not be estimated in
tons. But we know there is enough
good coal to justify endless supplies of iron
being made, and if Fort Worth would use
the same united strength and will in bring
ing the two together here for manufacture
and supply the most necessary wants in
iron, it would lead to innumerable branches
of other industries, 1t would give
employment to skilled labor, it would
thereby increase the population and
wealth of the state, and especially the city,
in centralizing trade to a greater degree
than any other enterprise has ever done, or
could dO.n
'sWhat grades do the Texas ores show?'
1
and Llano ores are nearly identical with
those of the Lake Superior regions, and are
both known as the magnetic or bessemer
ores. Can be worked by what is known as
the single process, and are valuable for all
classes of iron and steel.n
GLOW about the coal supplies?"
''The coal found in some of the north
western counties is fully equal to the Goals
of Colorado or the Indian Territory for
steam or fuel. am satisfied IL is fair
cokiug coal Any amount of fluxing lime
con be procured in and around Fort Worth.
l have shown Pittsburg as an old example
of what iron and its Industries
prosperity OF Birmingham, and the help
to Alabama. VIII Fort Worth follow her
example and with her g;eat advantages in
railroads and in all natural and artificial
interests, place herself at the head of
island cities of the continent? The mileage
would be the same in transportation
whether the coal and iron was brought to
Fort Worth,go the iron. to the coal, and
wise versa with the saving of lime trans
portatiOn in favor of Fort Worth where 1t
exists in large quantities. If this should
become the home of the iron industry
of Texas another twenty years would
bring about changes that the most visionary
could not conceive. Thousands of men
would find employment at the mines, in the
transportation and at the works. 1t would
lead to rolling mills for railroad iron, foun-
dries, car works, agricultural implement
works, cotton tie factories, and would make
a city of magnificent proportions, the pride
OF future generations and a monument
to the memory of those whose
genius gaveQ the first impulseaS to
the undertaking. Let US hope that when
some one of the strangers now with US shall
return in years hence, he may find surprise
as great and pleasant as greeted me after
twenty years. absence And that men
shall continue to cherish the same spirit of
hospitality, the same generous impulses
that always have endeared the stranger to
the home of the Southerner and Fort, Worth
have hundreds of furnace stacks, their
fires of native coal melting ores for all the
Western empire, and manufactured by her
own people and for their profit. The saving
of freight alone on what iron and coal Texas
uses would pay the entire expense of the
state government if the saHse was produced
from her native tr9A FOCAL"