Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-10-08
oRosnY Avn uurrMAN.
Fine Lands. Industrious Citizens and
prnsnernns Communities.

prosperous tOmmunhtttSs
Crosby. Texas. October 6.-Frlday and
Saturday were vertable days Of rest to
the pilgrims bent on collecting taxes and
seeing the country as II ls, realizing what
It has been and predicting what It will
be. What It could be is an elastic topic,
capable OF being stretched across al
most ll.imitable Imagination.
Crosby is twenty miles east of Houstot
on the Southern Pacific railroad, has one
store, two residences and a switch;
postofilce, n large water tank; the coun-
try is rich. well settled and Is being inn
proved, yet with all these advantages.
regular patr sl.dr, year n,o, n ,s and
Cedar Bayou to Huffman and the
county line east OF the San ia
cinto, river, the railroad company have
not demonstrated that they knew tho i'm
portance of a depot to the people OF
Crosby. and the increased business for
themselves such slight additional ex-
pense would develope. Having witnessed
the inconvenience and noted the busi-
ness done, such an Improvement I'M
presses itself on the suggestive apparatus
of the ordinary citizen. II Is learned,
however that tho accommodating off,
cials were about TO answer the petition
OF that entire section some time ago and
had lumber on the ground for q shell
tering depot, but the dangerous delay
in elevating It Into the atmosphere re-
suited in the gradual removal OF the ma
terial e'sewhere with the nccommodq-
lions OF depot II is the opinion OF the
people in the vicinity that the increase
of travel will more than nay fer the out
lay in a short two months. one farmer
said that on several occasions he had
driven through TO Houston rather than
suffer the pro Ut Inconvenience expert
The station good trading uolnt and,
as a rule. cro s. though small IN acre.
| age, ore good, the land being capable OF
being trusted to do Its share in produce
ton. Corn has good crop. cotton was
short ms elsewhere, on account OF rain;
| garden produce needs rain now, and es-
| pecially the potato fields. Cattle nre plcn-
| tiful on fine ranges and in good condi-
tion. Some farmers put In number Of
acres OF broom corn, md while II ma
tured nicely they are confronted with
| the condition OF no market this side OF
st. Louis or Cincirnati.
Mr.. r. p. Du1ks presides over the
/ only store at Crosby, attends to the post
| office and acts rs agent merely to accom-
| modate his patrons. Train after train
passes Crosby and the water the engines
| absorb Is an item for cnmnutation. A
steam pump In charge of William Gibson
| who has furnished water for the past
| quarter OF century. keens large tank
fun TO stake the painting, putting. groan-
Ing engines which stop at the place In
| number thirty to fifty in a day.
Collector Curtin was accommodated
with come cash by iaxnayers, showing
that the people we're not all moneyless
Among the number greeted by tho visit.
ing aggregation were, besides Mr.. Dunlti
and his family. who treated the visitor
IN a most courteous manner, Messrs. VIM
Gibson. @. A. Mckinney. David McNin
ney Joseph Anderson. II. Brewer, Thns
Thompson and the star rorte agent VIM
Mckinney, who transports the mail from
Crosby to Huffman.
Here. too. as well as from Webster. La
Porte. Lynchhurg. Cedar Bayou ant
Huffman, n good number of citizens have
been summoned as juros- 10 attend AMI
vened on Monday.
on the trip from Crosby TO Huffman