Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-11-24
A DEAL is PENDING.
AND THE PLANS WILL PROBABLY
DE CONTAMINATED WITH
IN A FEW DAYS
Some philadelphia Capitalists Inter
c.ted--To Lease building Used
for u Temporary Courthouse.

Another big enterprise Is on foot
contaminated.
This is the establishment Of n NAM
moth wholesale dry goods house. TO
be located In the building used for
some time as temporary court house.
on Seventh street, near the corner OF
Main. The building belongs to Mr..
Il. l.. Arnold of Graham, Tex. who is
largely Interested in real estate here
and elsewhere.
1t Is understood that the building
will be leased by some Philadelphia
capitalists who will use II for a whole
sale dry goods establishment. the two
floors. 100 feet square. anordlng ample
scope FOR very large establishment.
MIR. Arnold has been here for sever
nj days, and says he has every reason
TO believe the deal VIII be consum-
mated. and II will PROBABLY be denn-
itely settled by the mIadle Of this
week.
This will give Fort Worth one of
the largest wholesale dry goods es-
tablisnmcnts In the state, and ~ an
other indication that capital from
ABROAD IL Sli oISig 'uiHeu ia VIM VI
rection, with taith In the prosperous
future and present stability OF this
city.
While here yesterday MIR. Arnold
contaminated the sale OF the valuable
property on the corner OF Main and
Fourth streets occupied by Washer
Bros, the purchaser OF this property
being A. a. Green. representative OF
the Equitable Life Insurance com
pany. The property was sold for siS.-
900.
Mir. Arnold has had the ownership of
the property for about one yeai.
In conversation Mr.. Arnold stated
that the people In the great section
along the lines OF the Texas and Pa
cinc railroad, west of this city. tho
Fort Worth and Denver. and In the
country between these roads. We're
greatly interested In Fort Worth us
a market and regarded this city as the
natural point of supplies for all that
vast scope of country. The people In
that portion of the state are very much
| Interested In the progress OF the pack
ing house industry In Fort Worth. and
| the new deal recently made by which
| It is proposed to largely Increase the
packing house facilities would be Inn
mensely appreciated by the people OF
| the Panhandle, who have recently
| turned their attention to hay raising
| on a largely increased scale. With
market at Fort Worth these farm
ers can ship their hogs at amy season
of the y.ar. being sure of convenient
| market here.
What Fort worth especially needs at
| this time IL an extension OF the Wealth
| erford. Mineral Wells and Uorthwest-
| ern railroad from Wcntherford to Fort
| Worth and from Mineral Wells to
| Graham, In Young county, which would
make the road 100 miles long; YOUNG
county alone ships from 1000 TO 5000
bales of cotton year. and II Is ship
ped from Mineral Wells. Also this
county ships many cattle, which are
driven overland to points on the Fort
Worth and Denver for shipment. with
n connecting line OF railroad between
Graham and Fort Worth all OF these
cattle and this cotton would come to
Fort Worth.
The directors OF the road are tonsid-
ering the ndvisablllty OF making the
extension and Mr.. Arnold intimnted
II they met with the proper reception
here It would be soon accomplished.