FORT WORTH TO EL PASO
Bankhead Highway. “State Hwy No. 1” marking will be found practically all of the way to El Paso. Go south two blocks, turn right on Seventh street, follow double car line, 0.1 m. Star-Telegram building on right. Elks Club on right, 0.8 m. to 1 mile viaduct, 1.1 tourist park on left, continue west with car line, avoid paved road to right, 3.4 m. Arlington Heights Masonic building on right, 3.7 m. cross car line, 4.2 m. cross car line, 6.3 m. turn right, follow paved road to Weatherford. Pavement extends to Millsap. Along the lower way dirt road to Strawn—hard surfaced road to seven miles west of Cisco, thence mostly dirt roads to Iatan. West of that place graveled roads and in fair condition practically all of the way to El Paso.
Some construction work will be encountered along the upper road. Inquire Chamber of Commerce, Mineral Wells, as to best route to follow.
Figures in circles, distances from Fort Worth.
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1 BRIEF FACTS
1	ABOUT FORT WORTH	|
E “The city that never stops E E	growing.”	=
E	Altitude 670 feet.	E
E	-Mean temperature 65 degrees.	E
—	Area 39.82 square miles.	E
E	Population 15S.000.	—
E Thirty-six parks, area 8,627 acres. E E	Payroll two million dollars per	E
E	month.	E
E	131 churches; one university, three	=
E	colleges.	E
E -17 public schools, enrollment 23,197.	E
E	Bank clearings (1922) $577,294,105.	E
E	Building permits (1922) $12,127,-	=
E	542.	E
E	Postoffice receipts (1922) $1,789,-	E
E	764.	=
=	Eleven railway systems, 18 outlets.	E
E	Two interurban lines.	E
E	Center of Mid-Continent oil fields.	E
E	Nine petroleum refineries.	—
E	Forty-one oil field supply houses.	E
E	Natural gas for heating and cook-	E
E	ing.	E
E	U. S. helium gas plant; cost $5,-	E
=	000,000—only one in the	world.	E
E	Third largest cattle market in	E
E	America.	E
E	Greatest inland cotton market in	=
E	Texas.	E
—	Home of 5,700 railroad employes.	E
E	Livestock and packing interests	E
=	employ 5,200.	E
~	280 factories employing 12,000	E
E	men.	E
E	Leads Southwest in value of manu-	E
E	factures.	E
~	Number of automobiles registered	E
E	(1923) 32,000.	E
E	Daily newspaper with largest cir-	—
E	culation in the South.	=
=	Annual death rate lower than any	E
E	other American city of equal	size.	E
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Fort Worth—“Where Golden West and Sunny Southland Meet”