Texas Mining and Trade Journal, Volume 4, Number 9, Saturday, September 16, 1899 Page: 7
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TEXAS MINING AND TRADE JOURNAL.
FORT WORTH NEWS NOTES.
Mr. John C. Phelan, assistant general manager of the Texas
& Pacific Coal company, was one of a quartette of prominen t
Fort Worthians to take in Galveston this week. The News, in
commenting upon their visit on last Thursday, says:
"The following quartette arrived here from Fort Worth Tues-
day morning: Hon. Edward R. Meek, Judge of the United
States Courts for the Western District of Texas; Hon. George P.
Meade, director of the Fort Worth & Denver City Railroad and
Referee in bankruptcy; Hon. C. K. Bell, chairman of the Demo-
cratic State Executive Committee; Mr. J. C. Phelan, assistant
general manager of the Texas & Pacific Coal Company.
"If these gentlemen had come to Galveston singly and alone
the visit of each would have had 'significance.' It would have
been said that Judge Meek came to Galveston to see Dr. John
Grant, Republican National Committeeman for Texas, on mat-
ters of political importance. As a matter of fact he did meet
Dr. Grant, but just precisely as Mr. Bell met him. And if Mr.
Bell had not been with his Republican friend he would have been
here for political reasons. As a matter of fact he met the
prominent Democrats. If Mr. Meade had come alone, the Fort
Worth & Denver would have been projected to Galveston in
three minutes. Had Mr. Phelan came alone he would have been
talking vitrified brick for street paving purposes to the board of
public works.
"Really and truly the gentlemen, who are inseperable friends
at home and abroad, came to Galveston for a day or two away
from business and to get a salt bath.
"When a reporter asked the gentlemen 'What are we here
for?' they gave him the horse laugh.
" 'We are above suspicion,' said they in chorus.
" 'Look at this,' said Mr. Bell, pointing to Judge Meek.
" 'And look at that,' quoth Judge Meek, cocking his thumb at
Mr. Bell."
Colonel Morgan Jones returned Wednesday from a several
weeks' visit to W ales, where he was the guest of his brother.
He says that the coal and iron industries are prospering to a
greater extent than any other interests at this time. He heard
while in England a great deal of the Dreyius case, and he found
in some places that the sentiment was divided. Some thought
that Dreyfus had made mistakes, was not popular, but does not
deserve the punishment he is to receive.
When Texas is mentioned in England, Colonel Jones says
that a discussion of the cattle industry is at once entered into,
and that the State ranks well, partly by reason of being at the
head of the list in this great interest.
Colonel Jones says that still further improvements will be
made on the Consolidated street car lines of which he is presi-
dent. The old Main street cars will be taken off and new and
better ones put on.
He is very much interested in the water problem in Port
Worth. He has had considerable experience in constructing
water systems, and is of the opinion that underground water can
be had in sufficient quantity to furnish the city at all times.
Fort Worth is in the middle of a bad fix for water. No fire
pressure for 25 minutes after an alarm is sounded—and no well-
regulated lire will wait. No water for domestic or sprinkling
purposes except for one hour out of twenty-four.
George B. Loving claims to have been successful in his efforts
to procure capital in New York and Boston for his livestock
combination. He is en route home from New York, but intends
to return there early in October to complete his organization.
With regard to this he says: "We will have a capital of not less
than $30,000,000, and will take in about all the ranches and live-
stock in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. I have heard nothing
from the Retail Butchers' Association of late, but if they want to
do business with us their propositions will receive respectful
consideration. Thirty-five additional ranch owners have offered
us options which have not yet been considered."
The work of compiling the new city directory has advanced
so far now that Messrs. Morrison •& Fourmy can give an estimate
of the increase in Fort Worth's population.' When the last di-
Editor's Awful Plight.
F. M. Higgins, editor of the Seneca (Illinois) News, was af-
flicted for years with piles, and no doctor or remedy helped him
i until he tried Bucklen's Arnaca Salve, the best in the world. He
writes that two boxes Wholly cured him. Infallible for Piles.
Cure guaranteed. Only 25c. Sold by T. P. M. & M. Co.'s Phar-
macy.
Mrs. T. E. Butler, Noonday, Texas, writes: After suffering 15
years from Indigestion and Torpid Liver, and after having taken
Black Draught until I had lost all hope, I used one package Dr.
M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine with most glorious results. Sold
at T. P. M. & M. Co.'s Pharmacy.
Jarrott & Allard invariably name the lowest price on Dry
Goods, Notins, Dress Gooods and Millinery.
The latest style Bracelets with pendant hearts in gold and sil-
ver. Sold with or without hearts, at the Pharmacy.
TEXAS & PACIFIC EXCURSIONS.
Until September 30, round-trip tickets will be on sale to
Cloudcroft, New Mexico, with final limit for return 90 days, with
transit limit of one day in each direction, no stop-over privileges
allowed, at rate of #22.10. Tickets must be executed at Toboo-
gan. N. M.
Until further notice round round trip tickets will be on sale
th Mineral W ells, final limit of 60 days from date of issue, at
rate of #3.05, and transit limit of one day in each direction.
Account meeting of National Association of Merchants and
Travelers in Chicago, Illinois, to be held September 20-27, will sell
tickets at rate of one and one-fifth fare for the round trip on the
certificate plan.
The new arrangement of the Texas & Pacific railway for tak-
! inS care of Passengers to Hot Springs, Arkansas, does awav with
¡tee lay-over at Malvern. This makes the best service ever
| offered those who desire to visit the greatest Mineral Springs in
| America. The Texas & Pacific runs two fast trains daily, equip-
| ped with superb Pullman Sleepers and handsome new reclining
chair cars, (seats free).
G. A. Hall, Ticket Agent.
CLOUDCROFT.
C^LOt DCROFT is in the newly organized county of Otore,
j New Mexico, one hundred miles north of El Paso, Texas'
on the summit of the Sacramento Mountains. It is at
the terminus of the Alamegerdo and Sacramento Railroad.
Having an altitude of nine thousand feet above sea-level, it
commands a magnificent view of the surrounding country. On
the north, White Mountain covered with snow the greater part
of the year, rearing his hoary head 13,000 feet high; on the west
the White sands of the Tularoan Valley, which constitute the
most wonderful formation in New Mexico and presenting an
appearance not unlike white billows rolling in from the sea; and
on the south and east boundless forests of spruce and pine sway-
ing on the hills and in the valleys below, all taken together form
a scenery unsurpassed from its magnificence.
climate.
The climate of the Sacramentos is simply superb. It is not ex-
celled by that of any other region. The atmosphere is cool and
invigorating and absolutely free from impurities. As evidence
of the excellence of the climate of this region of New Mexico, it
is only necessary to state that the United States Govennent,
after careful investigation of all the country in its vast demain
best adapted for a Marine Sanitarium, selected Fort Stanton,
only a short distance away, as the site for that great institution'.
Write to E. P. Turner, Passenger Agent, Texas & Pacfic Railway
Company, Dallas Texas, for full information regarding rates,
schedules, chair cars, sleppers etc., etc.
rectory compiled by this firm in 1896 was issued it indicated a , -
population of 33,000. The next issue will show from 38,000 to ! when Dr. King's New Life Pills do the work easily and perfectly
A Powder nill Explosion
Removes everything in sight; so do drastic mineral pills, but
No need to dynamite your body
both are mighty dangerous.
39,000, including suburbs,
mated at 34,000.
Those within the city limits are esti- j Cure Headache, Constipation. Only 25 cents at T. P. M. & M
| Co.'s Pharmacy.
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McAdams, Walter B. Texas Mining and Trade Journal, Volume 4, Number 9, Saturday, September 16, 1899, newspaper, September 16, 1899; Thurber, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth200524/m1/7/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarleton State University.