FORT WORTH 



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Arthur, its neighbor, became the reshipping 

 points for the great bulk of freight passing 

 into and out of Western Canada. In Fort 

 William alone there are eighteen grain ele- 

 vators, with a total capacity of 30,000,000 

 bushels. The leading industrial establishments 

 are large flour mills, having a daily output 

 of about 15,000 barrels, stove and car-wheel 

 foundries, breweries, shipbuilding yards, fac- 

 tories for making various kinds of building 

 supplies, and plants for making heavy iron and 

 steel implements. 



Noteworthy buildings are the post office 

 and custom house, the $85,000 city hall, erected 

 in 1905, and the public library. The park 

 reservations cover 125 acres. Points of in- 

 terest in the vicinity are Mount McKay, Kaka- 

 bcka Falls, 120 feet high, and Sleeping Giant, 

 or Thunder Cape, eighteen miles across Thun- 

 der Bay. A.MC N. 



FORT WORTH, TEXAS, the county seat of 

 Tarrant County, is a rapidly growing shipping 

 and manufacturing center, in the northeastern 

 part of the state. In 1876 there were fewer 

 than 1,000 inhabitants. By 1910 this number 

 had increased to 73,312 and in 1916 to 104,562, 

 by Federal estimate. The city has an area of 

 more than sixteen square miles. 



It is attractively situated on an elevated 

 plain at the junction of forks of the Trinity 

 River. Dallas is thirty miles east, Austin 175 

 miles south, and El Paso 615 miles west and 

 south. It is on the Texas & Pacific; the In- 

 ternational & Great Northern; the Chicago, 

 Rock Island & Gulf; the Gulf, Colorado & 

 Santa Fe; the Fort Worth & Denver City; 

 the Saint Louis Southwestern (Cotton Belt) ; 

 the Saint Louis & San Francisco; Missouri, 

 Kansas & Texas and the Sunset-Central Lines. 

 In addition to these there are two electric 

 interurban lines. 



Buildings and Parks. The Federal building, 

 Tarrant County courthouse, built of granite 

 and marble from Texas quarries, the city hall, 

 Central High School, union railway station, 

 Coliseum and the Chamber of Commerce 

 Auditorium are the noteworthy structures. 

 There are twenty-one parks, varying from one- 

 half acre to 113 acres in area. About the city 

 are unexcelled hard-surfaced country roads. 



Educational Institutions. Fort Worth is the 

 seat of the Texas Christian University, with 

 which in 1913 was united the Fort Worth 

 Medical College; Texas Woman's College, the 

 successor of the Polytechnic College (Meth- 

 odist Episcopal) ; Baptist Theological Sem- 



inary; Southland University (state school of 

 the Disciples of Christ); Saint Andrew's 

 School (Protestant Episcopal) ; Saint Ignatius 

 Academy (Roman Catholic) ; Masonic Or- 

 phans' Home and School for Texas, and a 

 number of smaller denominational and tech- 

 nical schools. The city has a Carnegie Li- 

 brary, a law library and the medical college 

 library. 



Industries. Most of the trunk lines of Texas 

 converge at Fort Worth, making the city one 

 of the most important shipping centers of the 

 southwest and a reshipping point for almost 

 the entire state. Agriculture and stock raising 

 are the supporting industries of the vast sur- 

 rounding country. The grain handled annually 

 by elevators and mills in Fort Worth is valued 

 at over $35,000,000, and the cotton business 

 exceeds $50,000,000 annually. The wholesale 

 fruit and produce business amounts to $60,- 

 000,000. 



Meat packing houses in 1914 slaughtered 

 1,985,426 animals; Fort Worth ranks well with 

 the leading cities in this industry. Among the 

 other important industries are included corn- 

 meal and stock-feed mills, cotton and oil mills, 

 railroad repair shops, foundries and machine 

 shops, silo plants and many lesser manufac- 

 tories. The city is an important horse and 

 mule market. 



In view of the possible failure of the water 

 supply from a number of artesian wells, the 

 city has constructed a large storage dam on 

 the west fork of the Trinity River, seven miles 

 distant. This work cost $1,500,000, arid it has 

 a storage capacity of thirty billion gallons. 



History. In 1849 a military camp called 

 Fort Worth was established on the present site 

 of the city. The camp was abandoned, and a 

 later settlement, which became the county 

 seat in 1860, was incorporated in 1873. The 

 fort and settlement were named in honor of 

 General William Jenkins Worth. The commis- 

 sion form of government was adopted in 1907; 

 the departments consist of five commissioners, 

 mayor and tax collectors. 



FO'RUM. When used without modification 

 this word usually refers to the great Forum, 

 the center of the life of ancient Rome. It 

 lay in the hollow between the Palatine, the 

 Quirinal and the Capitoline hills, and to it 

 flocked the dwellers on those heights. Here, in 

 the early centuries of the city's life, were the 

 markets, where the farmers displayed their 

 fruits and vegetables and the fish dealer his 

 wares; here the political meetings were held, 



