Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-01-29
REALTY AND BUILDINGS.
FORT WORTH REAL ESTATE ON
AN OLD-TlME MOVE.
Tho Demand Tor Properly Is General Over the
Cily-The Building Record Shows Up Well.
0Ulslripplna All Texas Giles.

The real estate market during the past
week has been quite lively such ns 70
give reason for much announcement. a
number Of Eastern capitalists have Wis
tied the city and after a very thorough
examination have expressed themselves
as being not only well Impressed with the
city. but very sauguine as TO IFS future
growth.
II Is predicted by some Of the best iu-
formed real estate men of Che city that
the year lS3 will bo one of The most
prosperous yoars that Fort Worth has
ever had. Property Is very cheap in
Fort Worth, aud the conditions ARE So
favorable for its probable Increase In
value that &c seems now h the proper
time 90 buy real estate.
There Is fair movement Of property in
the famous additions 10 Fort Worth,
Al OlcuWOOd several houses arr going up
and % number of lots have been sold.
AZ Polytechnic Heights and Manches-
ter. near the cotton mills, six cottages
are being erected, and the college people
have made several sales Of lots to out
sdUrs,
The inquiry for Arlington Heights
property ia evidently ON the increase,
and roodly number OF the hest citi-
luus are arr lugiug To reside iu this beau.
iiiul suburb. The fact that Arlington
Heights possesses so many of the modern
,uuycuicu 'ps that are not found in the
houses of Fort Worth proper, is begin
Mug tO have am effect, and causing "a
number look toward the Heights as
their future home.
Transfers show several sales OF lOt4
ut Lexington Heights. and It ia more
thuu probable that few months lmr
VIII sec 20 street car line penetrating this
property
81. Helena Heights and Lawn Terrace
property Is also in demand Both have
been greatly improved aud lots are sell
The building operations In the city
keep property iirlu, aud thur has boru
more than one offer made during tho
past week for gilt.vdgcd inside property.
The rapid growth of Fort Worths trade
nVcessitutng the erection of additional
buildings, gives lots ON the four
principal streets liked value
based on the revenue they are
certain to yield when houses are erected.
BUILDING RECORDS.
The buildings for u new lumber yard
covering the block between Tenth mud
Eleventh aud liusk aud Jones streets
are MP This has been vacant ground
heretofore.
Dyer Bros. are erecting three story
brick storhousc corner l,lIsk and Euur.
tpputh
- ne NANN'lWA IltN lfNlNllilfN lll' Nlil
yuruly thcutpr building on the corner of
Rusk and Fifteenth and enlarged 1t 90
use 10 hereafter rs stable for his huc
horses
The stone cutters are getting ont the
dressed stone for the grand Masonic TEN.
pie ou Main and Second streets. The
excavation for the foundation Is well
under way.
Work win begin this wccl, ia getting
The new bank building ON Second and
Houston streets ready for occupancy.
Robert McCUrt's handsome sUudstonc
front stuphJusea on Main. between Tenth
and Eleventh are nearly completed
Work is 10 begin at once on three two
story brick stores To- cover tie ground of
the burnt district un Main aud Thir
treuth streets
The massive stone foundation of the
SlI5OJO Federal building Is going In
rapidly.
A good idpn of the grandeur of the
new city nall can now Dee obtained from
the binding as tur as completed
The county commissioners are now ad-
Nrrusug for plans Tor The finest court
house in fpNnS ~ cost not less than
%imWo; possibly 100000 win be- cx-
pended.