Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-03-18

out of this city The extent Of travel IS
shown by the fact that about $4,000
people registered at Fort Worth hotels
during the year 1872. Soon after the
building Of the FIRST railroad the little
town began 20 make strides toward be.
coming n city The public square upon
which all of the business had been done
grew too small TO hold IL. Men who
thought they were living on farms near
town woke up to find that their farms
were wanted for town lots 1t was a
Justly infant the growing young city
having the proyerbial wild oats of youth
To sow. The headquarters for the i'm
meuse cattle and grain trade OF Western
Texas, IL was the rendezvous of sports
of all classes who We're attracted by the
large amount OF money the cattlemen
had and were willing TO spend. Fugi-
lives from Justice came from all parts
of the world. Gould the tales of the
town, as IL was in those early years,
be told, thcy would be as sensational
and romantic as any writer Of border
fiction could desire, But such men soon
learned that Fort Worth had the bravest
of officers, and for a fugitive TO come 10
this city meant certain arrest The des-
perad0es then began TO give the place a
wide berth One of the worst once telc.
graphed the city marshal IL am coming
10 take your town. His name had al.
ways struck terror TO the hearts of Ollie
ers, and he started with n gang of mon
to make his word good: but the reply
was, Come ahead Glad TO see yOu.
Bring collins along" The terror of Texas
concluded to stay away.
The wild oats period in Fort Worth
| did not continue long.
Tho town is 80 situated that il right.
| fully controls the richest wheat country
| and the best grazing country in the
| world. Every railroad coming into this
section found that Fort Worth WINS mo
/ most advantageous terminus TO be found
| capitalists saw In It the most desirable
! place for residence and the greatest Oh.
| portunity for money-making of any CITY
IN the Southwest
Affairs began TO be placed upon n solid
| permanent basis, the gamblers. Thieves
| and desperadOes were run off and nd
| not come back 80 quiet did the CITY be.
| come mat II now has one Of the smallest
! ponce forces known in amy city of its
size and yet has as low a criminal record
~ can Dc found anywhere. With tho
| exodus OF the lighthnCered gentry camf
in the banker the business man. iii,
doctor. the lawyer md the manufacturer
Instead OF the one.stOry saloon or DANG,
house, arose five six and seven-stofN
blocks of massive stone. Houses of n
! repute were supplanted by homes distin
| gHshed Tor elegance and comfort Bean
4 sA'tt' "f.ANN9f clkulN ana one hundred
feet wide were laid out, streets wer,
paved, hotels We're built, electric light,
were put up until the frontier town ol
1870 was transformed into model mod
ern city.
During the years Of 1887 and 1888 Il
VIII be remembered that there WIS ON,
of those Periodical epdemics known n,
Dooms when farm lands sold Mt auction
Tor from $40 10 $50 a trout foot. botel,
| We're built in waste places aud electri,
lights shone where corn-stalks had stoo,
before. Towns sprung up like mushroom,
aud vast industries were built mon mn
per. 40
Ioday m many cases these hotels mr.,
hhabted 10y bats and owls, or ghosts n
broken-hearted stockholders, and the NOV
boy swears at the electric light poes
whlle IN the projected town tho tinklin,
OF a COW bell, or the voice Of the farn,a
calling his hogs are the only signs of in
dustriai activity
At this time Fort Worth happDv os
capcd from serious injury Nj 1idn'
catch the fever, few prpm7n't y,
symptoms showed themselves ana onc
M @ while piece of suburban. prorprtt
TOO far from the city was sold fo, a Z
ger price than WIS perhaps wlrrante
ai the time, but thar wHs an The tog-
mas never stopped growing and r.al osfat
has @ stable valnNanA ihe amount 4
transfers rs steadily Increasing Dnrtn
ine pAl two yearl of Hnsucial tsprs.
sion Fort Worth has suffered 1854 90
most cities. NJ pr.ce of cattls had II,
sliAed' eu'1oh WAS az q low hsArs M