The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 15, April 28, 1894 Page: 2
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THE TEXAS MINER.
THE TEXAS MINER.
W. B. McADAMS, EDITOR.
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One Year $1.00.
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PUBLISHED EDVECRY SATURDAY.
Entered at the Post-Office in Thurber, Texas, as Second-Class Mail Matter.
Thurber, Texas, Saturday, April 28, 1894.
A TIP FROM THE FOUNTAIN HEAD.
New York, April 23, 1894.
Editor Texas Miner:
I have just come from Washington, and from all indications I
think the pending tariff bill will be hung up until adjournment,
and that nothing will be done. Yours truly, F. B. T.
IN "OUR OWN LITTLE WORLD."
PUSH along, keep moving. This is the order of the day in this
camp. Every living soul among us adheres strictly to this
motto. The result is wonderful. Thrift, energy and enterprise
constitutes the make-up of our citizens. The town impresses
everyone favorably who comes here, and the remark, "your peo-
ple are wide awake and full of business," is heard on all sides.
To-day, we venture the assertion, and without fear of success-
ful contradiction, there is more substantial improvement going
on in this town than in any other of double its size in the state.
When we say "substantial" we mean just that word. Improve-
ments making with a view to accommodate the demands that
are sure to be made—that are now being made. Aside from
mines and mining, this furnishing the leverage by which all things
else here are moved, the mercantile business part of the town is
looming up with handsome structures. The hotel, and it is a
handsome, roomy, convenient one, is completed, and before our
next issue will doubtless be in full blast, a hostelry built and ar-
ranged especially for the convenience and comfort of "our boys"
and the traveling public, to be the best $2 house and equal to
any $4 house in the state. The brick addition to the mining
office is about complete. The handsome two-story hardware
store and Pythian hall is ready for the inside finishings, and is
towering above all the others. The additions to the general
store—already larger than any other similar concern outside of
Dallas or Fort Worth--are receiving attention. The work of
putting in the most complete gin and electric motor plant in the
country is well under way. This town is to be lighted with elec-
tricity, and that in a very short while. Roomy additions to the
restaurant and Lake Avenue hall have just been completed, and
also to the market house and cold storage. The livery stable,
sheds and'yards have been improved and added to. A wagon-
yard with all the necessary conveniences for the country people
who come here to trade has just been completed. The abattoir
is second to none in the state. A crockery department is to
be added. Plans are making for a furniture hall. A handsome
and commodious structure is soon to be erected for The Texas
Miner, then we'll add a power press, and run all our machinery
by electric motor power. In the residence portions of the town
every house is receiving and is to receive a new coat of paint,
and other improvements are being made for the comfort of the
occupants.
In mercantile matters Thurber has passed around the curve,
out of sight of all competitors, and is coming under the wire in a
canter, and'easy winner, awarded the banner for the best goods
at the lowest prices. Read the Texas & Pacific Coal company's
various "ads" in this paper from week to week, note the prices
and quality of goods, compare both with those of other towns—
the result will be you'll buy in Thurber, and induce your neigh-
bor to do the same.
A WONDERFUL EXAMPLE.
JN nine months of the present fiscal year—that is, from July i,
1893, to April 1, 1894—our exports exceeded our imports
$223>3°3>885- This is a wonderful example of what we can do
in this country, when the nation turns from extravagance in ex-
penditures toward being only slightly careful in its expenses.
From July 1, 1892, to July 1, 1893, our imports exceeded our
exports by about $160,000,000. In other words, in one year
this country has changed from running in debt $160,000,000 in
a year to the credit side of the ledger of $223,000,000, in nine
months.
IMPROVE YOUR CREDIT.
JH. HAWLEY of Galveston comes out in the News trying to
answer Senator Reagan's silver arguments. The only real
point he makes is that Galveston was not able to sell her im-
provement bonds in New York. Well, what of that, Mr. Haw-
ley? You inust improve your credit. Fort Worth and Dallas
can sell their bonds. He goes on through three columns of á
dreary waste of words, quoting gold standard Cleveland, "per
capita" figures of circulation, to his own edification, no doubt
until it tires one.
Mr. Hawley, answer us this one question: "What makes these
hard times? Is it not the attempt of the single standard men to
reduce our legal tender currency? If not, what is the trouble?
You, like Cleveland, seem to think you know it all.
Lost.—By the Democratic party, all hope of having a major-
ity of the next Congress. A handsome reward will be paid for
the return of the same, and no questions asked.
Wanted.—A receipt for keeping a seat in the United States
Senate in the face of a Republican Legislature in Ohio. Address
Calvin S. Bryce, Ohio, New York and elsewhere.
Senator Hill seems to enjoy sticking pins in the Administra-
tion's epidermis as much as ever. His speech against the in-
come tax was by far the best effort he has ever made in that di-
rection.
"A ticker trader," says Watson & Gibson of New York,
"made the remark to us one day: 'It seems very funny that
with only two sides to the stock market a man should eternally
be on the wrong side.' "
If Congress would devote a little less time to the post mor-
tem examination of the Hawaiian question and a little more to
devising means wherewith to alleviate the suffering among the
unemployed there would be less reason for discontent.
As a newspaper, the Fort Worth Gazette of to-day is what it
should have been years ago. There is no reason, from a news-
paper standpoint, why the Gazette should not have been at all
times "up to date." It's wonderful what a little "push" will
accomplish.
For Sale.—Being in need of a change, I will sell at a great
sacrifice my golden opportunity for a third term; also my tariff
reform theory. Warranted sound and kind in double or single
harness. G. C.,
Washington, D. C.
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McAdams, Walter B. The Texas Miner, Volume 1, Number 15, April 28, 1894, newspaper, April 28, 1894; Thurber, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth200462/m1/2/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarleton State University.