McKinney Democrat, March 6, 1902, by Richard Beaver

FLOURISHING EMMERSON

NEW TOWN ON FRISCO RAPIDLY ASSUMING PROPORTIONS OF CITY

FIRST TRAIN DUE MARCH 15

FRISCO TRAINS TO COMMENCE RUNNING ON THAT DATE -- LIST OF LOTS SOLD.

Special to Courier ---

    Emmerson, March 6 -- For the first time we drive our iron quill through the mysterious gloom that surrounds the sanctum sanctorium of the editorial domain, where ye editor with a "Missouri river bottom" liver, cast iron conscience and moth eaten veracity, monarch indeed of all he surveys.  Even the "devil" answers to the very motion of His hand and trembles and shrinks at the glint of his eye.

We hail you, kings and subjects of newspaperdom,
And bring you the greeting of Emmerson.

    Our new city is building steadily but will be rushing when the road is opened which will be 15th of March, four passenger trains per day.
    Four or five brick buildings will be erected as soon as the road opens up, some two story.
    The following buildings will be built or are in course of construction:
    Emmerson Cotton Gin and Grain Co., 8 stand gin and warehouses.
    Fisher's gin, about 8 stands.
    Conway, Leeper Co., lumber yard.
    McAdams & Bro., lumber yard.
    Oil Mill.
    A flouring mill reported.
    National bank, two story brick.
    Cole & Cole, general merchandise, two story brick.
    Conway Leeper, brick.
    One or two other bricks.
    R.W. Yearger & Co., general merchandise, drugs, etc. 50x60 ft building. One 20x40, one 20x80 building.
    Brashears & Witt, general merchandise, 48x60 ft building.
    Tom Greer, general merchandise, 20x30 ft building.
    Buildings of some other business men whose names we do not know.
    Residences:  Will Quisenberry, to cost $1,500; Dr. I. S. Rogers, to cost $1,800; E. T. Roach, Chas. Hill, Dr. J. M. Ogle, Mr. Wiggins, Mr. Watkins, Wm. Brashears, Jim Gordon, King Anderson, D. Work, W. W. Cole, Mr. Harris, W. O. Hill, Tom Snow, Daniel Morgan, E. C. Chappell, L. Murray, Dr. R. L. Douglas, Will Wolfe, Claude Bell, Dr. McBride, M. E. church south parsonage, and some other homes.
    There are twenty other residences already erected.
    A Methodist church south will be built soon. They have two nice lots on Oak and Sixth streets.
    Fifty-seven lots sold to date by Townsite Co. and eleven lots sold by others.
    A deep well and water works are spoken of.
    We have it from an inside source that a railroad will be built by southern capitalists to tap five big systems -- the Il. & T. C. at McKinney, Frisco at Emmerson, Katy and T. & P. at Denton and Santa Fe at Krum.
    Our big eighteen acre railroad tank is still just a hole in the ground, since the Rain Goddess refuses to be wooed.
    Wheat is looking better, but rain is needed.
    Farmers fear that seed planted now will not sprout unless it rains soon.

Boarders Wanted.