Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-03-08

skotch Of myself that was rather siugu'
larry correct ana then conveyed inc
rather startling information thar | would
Die SUDDENLY and very soon. have
scarcely been able 10 think Of anything
else since. Queer how matter OF that
kind can affect a man, even Trough he
tries 20 persuade himself that he don't
believe a word Of t.
u. r. Enright-Thc manufacturing ~
forests Of Texas are going TO be much
grenter in the future than they have
boon Ia tho past. Until within the last
two or three years. fortunes have been
made rapidly 10 Texas lands and idle
capital has sought investment In land%
Now there is but little speculative noyo-
meut IN real cstnte and the lands sold are
Tor actual occupancy This VIII cause
capital 20 look TO other channels for In
vgstment. aud thu fact that rnilrOud ia-
cihtlcs are uncXcclicd aud timber, IRON
and coal plentiful within q comparatively
short distance Of each other, while
very large proportion Of the manufac-
tured goods used comes from far distant
states whore the natural advantages nre
no greater than they are here, win attract
capital and The result viii be- that there
VIII be a greater movement iu industrial
lines than ever before. ! am a frm be-
lever In the future of Texas and the
PROSPECTS We're never better than they
are now.
r.. e. MoAnulty-I returned from
cripple crock lat Wcek. Imagine
place far away from the railroads, whcro
year aud n half ago was nothing but
wild mountains fastuoss minhnbited ex-
copt by wild beasts or birds. now q place
with 1900 people with hotels that would
dO credit 10 Fort Worth. three news
p0per5 two banks. electric lights and
zoo companies each capitalized at about
q million dollars, opening mines and
building crushing mills. lt would seem
That magician had waved his wand
nud thousands OF people were brought
together by his art Some Of the rough
clements OF the usual camp are happily
hacking, and yet there are dance houses
ana saloons In close proximity to churches
and schools. Ii will undoubtedly be- the
greatest gold camp in the United S,atcs.
There are now 1900 people and there
VIII be $4,000 by the LIST of July. There
~ NO rnilroad there yet but the Colorado
Midland sixteen miles away, and the
Denver and Rio Gmnde, twenty miles
distant, have both graded to the camp
and viii build us soon as the ground Is
sufficiently thawed. The people are
sWnrtung there ON horseback In wagons,
Mills costing from $50, 600 10 S15 coo
are being built and there Is work for
everybody The camp X about four miles
wide and five miles long, with good pros
poets outside of that limit Capitalists
who have made millions of dollars In
other fields are putting In their money
aud there are new companies being formed
every day. One day while / was there.
there were thirty-soyen lawsuits filed over
claims. Tho government owned the
land and there Is good deal of lid-
cation over The patents aud the land
olhce is rushed us no. land Office ever has
hecn since the Oklahoma excitement
There is some placer mining. some tunnel
and some shaft mines. The ore rs slippad
10 Pueblo and Denver except what can
be- miLled ON Cripple crock. but there
VIII soon be enough mills there. The
actual yield Is from SOS to $3.50 n ton.
some of the mines averaging from SB5
To $40 right along 10 is the biggest gold
excitement since That Of California m
ISl9 The silver mines of Colorado
ARE not paying very largely and many
or them are not being operated. and the
attention of tie public Is hcing conccu-
tratod on the Cripple creek camp. / AIN
also negotiating us to a silver mine on
the san Sabu river In this state, but
! 1--we not seen it and have not so much
ia ~ II H. The parties ! am figuring
with think they have u big thing. They
say that the MrNicnus made fabulous
sums ont of 10 aud that the old church
records, the records OF mines having been
Kept m the old churches, will show that
the silver ran $500 a ton IL il comos
w 10 the approximations made % mo.
there viii bp great silver excitement
IN that section Of Texas