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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF TEXAS
ing a ten story office building, at a cost of about
$700,000, in the near future.
Pierre Levy and associates have purchased a site
in the 900 block on Main Street extending through
to Commerce Street and will erect an eight story
building to house a large motion picture theatre and
offices.
The Citizens Hotel Company recently erected at
Eighth Street between Main and Commerce Streets,
the new Texas Hotel, which cost two million dollars.
The company, made up entirely of Fort Worth citizens,
paid $350,000 for the site, which is 100x120
feet. The hotel contains 450 guest rooms and is
fifteen stories in height.
E. N. Schenecker has recently purchased a lot,
100x200 feet on East Seventh Street between Calhoun
and Jones Streets and announced his intentions
of erecting an eight story building to house a wholesale
grocery establishment.
The United States Navy constructed a Helium gas
plant two miles north of the city at a cost of four
million dollars. Several petroleum refineries have
been completed within the last two years and more
are to be built. These new plants, when completed,
will give Fort Worth an additional refining capacity
of 75,000 barrels per day, and if present plans are
carried out the total expenditure on these plants will
be in excess of fifteen million dollars.
The Monnig Dry Goods Company has recently purchased
a lot, 75x200 feet, extending through from
Main Street to Commerce Street near Fifteenth
Street, and will erect a seven story building to house
its wholesale department.
W. C. Stripling, a dry goods merchant who owns
the entire block between Main, Houston, First and
Second Streets has made additions to his store which
give him a seven story building covering the entire
block.
The Texas Motor Car Association has just completed
an addition to its plant at a cost of $300,000.
The Chevrolet Motor Car Association recently
made an addition to its assembling plant which cost
$250,000.
The Alexander Lumber Company has just completed
a plant for the manufacture of interchangeable
unit houses, which cost $250,000.
The Texas Creosote Manufacturing Company has
finished its plant in which it has invested $200,000.
The Star-Telegram, an evening paper, has erected
a building at a cost of $400,000.
Oil well supply concerns in Fort Worth during the
past two years have taken out permits for warehouses
which cost in excess of $2,000,000.
The city of Fort Worth is doing its share toward
caring for the rapidly growing population. The
filtration plant was recently completed by the city
cost $300,000. During April, 1919, a bond issue of
$1,890,000, was voted to provide for sewer, water and
street improvements and extensions for the construction
of a sewage disposal plant.
Recently Tarrant County, of which Fort Worth is
the county seat, and which already has the best road
system in the state of Texas, voted $3,450,000 additional
bonds for good roads.
The Southwestern Telegraph and Telephone Company
is spending $460,000 on improvements and extensions
on its system in the city and more than
$1,000,000 on improvements in the long distance service
to the various towns in Texas and Oklahoma oil
fields.Building operations in Fort Worth are limited at
this time only by the inability to get more builders
and laborers. Already a large army is employed
and recruits are being sought to double this army
if possible. New houses have been built and are
being built in every part of the city, and yet the cry
for more residences is becoming louder and louder
as thousands after thousands of new homeseekers
continue to pour into the city. Among the recently
constructed buildings are: The twenty-story W. T.
Waggoner Building, the twenty-story F.
the center of the oil industry of Texas, many
of the largest producers having established their
headquarters here; its refinery and pipe line facilities,
reaching to the various oil fields of Texas, and
Oklahoma; its packing houses, cotton gins and cotton
seed and peanut oil mills; its industries of every
kind and unexcelled general commercial conditions;
its schools, which rank among the finest in the state,
both in teaching talent and in buildings, and its climate,
water and people-everything that makes a
city desirable as a home.
Fort Worth offers two special advantages to home
seekers in its schools and churches. For grade and
high school work there are a number of private and
church schools in addition to the public schools,
and for those wishing to take college courses there
are no schools of higher education offering better
advantages that the Texas Woman's College, under
direction of the Methodist Church, and the Texas
Christian University, under direction of the Christian
Church.
Practically every denomination is represented
among the churches of Fort Worth and each has
a substantial following. Many of the congregations
have built houses of worship that would be an advantage
of any city in the country and several
have established and are conducting) institutional
churches with great success. One church in the city
has a membership roll of about 4,000 communicants
and has the largest Sunday school in the world.
Fort Worth is the capitol of the "land of liquid
gold," not in the sense of the city where laws are
made, but as a city which reflects in its culture
and prosperity the contentment and happiness of a
united commonwealth.
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Davis, Ellis Arthur & Grobe, Edwin H. The Encyclopedia of Texas, book, [1921..1922]; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth21069/m1/62/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.