Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-10-19
GIVE US FACTORIES.
WE HAVE sHowERED RAILWAY
ENTRANCES WITH GLITTER
ING GOLD IN PAST.
Let Us Now Provide Them with
More TO Do-Some Sensible and
Timely Suggestions.

There is a great necessity existing
In Fort Worth for more wholesale
houses" remarked gentleman to
Gazette representative yesterday.
This city possesses advantages such
as are. enjoyed by no other city in
the state, and by few In the Southwest.
Chief among these Is our unrlvalled
distributing facilities. As you are
doubtless aware. we have every i'm
portant trunk line west OF the Missouri
river and East or South OF the Rocky
Mountains. There IS country. tribu-
iary to this city magnificent In It's pro-
portions and grand In It's It's present
and future developments There Is no
city in the American Union today
whose possibilities can In any degree
approach or rival those Of Fort Worth
IL y a fact that all that Is necessary
1or this city to do la order 10 acquire
and maintain commercial supremacy
Is 10 reach out and pluck that which
a bpnehcent providence mas placed di-
rertly Ia her pathway.
'Dne ui the first movements | would
suggest In this line rs the location or
more wholesale houses here with
the possible exception Of the wholesale
grocery business, our interests In that
line are sadly deficient. Take for in
stance, the dry goods business. and
the Martini Brown company Is the only
wholesale dry goods house In Fort
WUth-h city OF more than 10000
population, and with country To sup
gily more than oqunlllug IN extent sew
rral Of the Eastern states. This con-
dition Of affairs In pTepogterous
The splendid business enjoyed by
the firm 1 have mentioned can be taken
as Il safe criterion for added business
ON that line and disCloses what can be
accomplished by Intelligent rnart
backed by the requisite capital. l re-
peat-the success OF this wholesale in
Etitutlon, which In Itself Is an honor
and a credit 20 Fort Worth, proves
That several like institutions could and
would flourish here.
Take the magnificent success that
has attended the Intelligent efforts OF
pr n W. williams 10 build up a
wholesale drug business here. and sou
have another practical illustration or
what can be accomplished here.
I'VE need more wholesale dry goods
houses. wholesale saddlery and hnr-
ness houses wholesale hardware
houses, and, indeed, ] might say. whole
snle houses In every line. Give us such
institutions, place small army Of
Fort Worth commercial tourists or
rvanEelists in the field. and you will
see Fort Worth hump herself as She
has not, done since the panther was
iirst routed from his lair.
Another polut ! want to suggest
while on the subject Is the necessity
Tor bringing more manufacturing en-
terprises here. Give us some institu-
lions right here, among us, that VIII
work up and prepare for market raw
material that we produce. Fort Worth
has spent hundreds Of thousands Of
dollars In the purchase Of her UNI
equaled railroad facilities. No road
has ever knocked at our gate and
prayed for admlttance but what n has
been granted We have paved theii
right of way into the city with shining
dollars. and now that We have brought
them here, We should give them some
thing to do. We should load their
down both going and coming. ant