El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-01-24
FORT STOCKTON CROWS FAST;
RAILROAD COMING To TOWN SHORTLY
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I hibition fever and still boasts a sa.
loon, something that few towns in west
Texas now claim. The saloon is con-
Quoted by Mart Adams, who is also
county commissioner and until the last
election was justice Of the peace. 1t is
the only saloon in 200 miles.
Moving the Cemetery.
The town of Fort Stockton has
grown so fast that 1t is now spreading
out around the cemetery that when
it was located was thought to be suf-
fciently far away never to give any
inconvenience. Work has already COM
menced to remove the bodies to a. new
cemetery considerable distance away.
The United States government has a
number of soldiers buried here and
bids have been asked for removing
these bodies to the national cemetery
at San Antonio.
Building material is easily had. Rock
for building purposes is quarried from
the mountains nearby and a fine grade
of cement can be obtained from the
gypsum rock also found at the base
Of the mountains. This rock when
burned becomes a fine powder and
makes a splendid cement if used alone,
but when mixed with 10 percent Port
land cement, is said to be as salts
factory as anything ever used Many
of the houses are frame and the lum-
Der has TO be hauled in by wagons at
present at 40 cents hundred freight,
but even this has not deferred the
progress Of the town.
Ice Plant; Electric Lights.
There is no ice or electric light plant
in the town at present, but these are
promised before the railroad gets there.
l. HOY inc %
franchise from the county for the
erection of an ice plant and an electric
light plant and promise to begin con-
struction before July next If this
plant is not put in, the Orient Land
company will put in a plant of its own
to light its new hotel and furnish
lights to people who purchase its lots
Ice at present costs SO a hundred in
the town, so it may be seen what an
opening the new company has Most
of the lights used here now are ace
tylene gas.
The 0rfent's Part.
The Orient Land company, which has
put several hundred new lots on the
market, has not followed the plan of
many railroads in boosting town addi-
lions. 1t has brought its station down
into the very edge of the 'old town."
not mile from the courthouse, and
the lots which it is, now marketing
form a continuation OF the Fort Stock
ton of pioneer days in the only logi-
cal direction for it to grow-out and
upwards onto the table land rising
from the springs and creek.
The lots have all been carefully
staked out wells have been sunk in
various localities and windmills erect
ed to furnish water, the STREETS have all
"a dad ~
Of the ''old town" streets-and the new
town and the old town are gradually
dovetailing into one.
There is no NORTH Fort Stockton,
no East Fort Stockton, and nothing
but just Fort stockton" said F. G.
Grimes, manager of the townsite com
Dany, and former state treasurer of
Kansas. We are merely building up
Fort Stockton. This is TO be a division
point on the railroad and it is a nat
Iral distributing point for region
arger than many states. The Orient
Land company a subsidiary corpora
ion Of the railroad, is bent upon build 1
ng up Fort Stockton, on showing it's !
advantages to the world, and on MAX /
Ing it what it. is destined to be-a I
great town What we do is for Fort /
stockton. We have secured what any !
1ne can see is the land onto which 1
Fort Stockton will logically grow If 4
We make the town grow. we not only 1
get business for our road, but 1t nat T
Irally covers the lands which we own ]
Is a townsite.%p
The stockton Hotel.
Then he cited as proof that his com /
0any is working for Fort Stockton I
solely, the fact that it has named the /
lew hotel the Stockton hotel; also that /
[ had continued the names of the old /
streets in its new addition, including I
stockton street.
That appears to be the policy of the /
orient wherever it goes-to build up !
he region, regardless OF who it helps, /
n order to make tonnage for the road; /
his is where the railroad makes back /
is money The opening up Of the /
OTIS by the Orient company and the I
'uilding of the road in the direction of I
he town has already more than trebIed /
property values in the entire town, so /
hat everybody has already benefited, !
'ut all feel that they will benefit still I
greater and almost everybody is hold |
ne onto every foot of land already |
'wned, waiting for the big growth that 1
S surely to follow the railroad
The new hotel will be completed by !
he first of April, the Orient people /
xpect, and offering such splendid ac- /
ommodations as it will be able to give, |
hey expect large influx of land seek !
rs, town lot buyers and summer re-
orters at once
Casts His Lot With Stockton.
Mr.. Grimes is alreday located on the |
round with his interesting family and |
las decided to make Fort Stockton his i
lone This is the place for me-" he /
aid. "and we are going to stay here /
n this fine climate" He has had the !
oundation laid for his home He has !
J. beautiful home in Kansas City. but |
With his family, he has taken a fancy |
o Stockton. His son, Russell. is in /
BUSINESS with him and his charming
laughter, Miss Hazel is already one
f the most popular young women in