Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-13
TEXAS MILLS AND FACTORIES.

T The 5000, 900 building erected for q
concentrater of low grade ores on the
I Rio Grande at Laredo is to be turned
into soap factory since the government
has prevented the importation of MexI-
can ore.
A committee are at work in Greenville
to solicity the money for the railway ma
chine shops.
/ A new mill and gin has just been COM
| pleted at Ben amin, Knox county.
One furniture factory will be estab-
/ lished in Beaumont in the course of o
few months. This is almost official, says
the Beaumont Journal.
WOLF CITY, Nov. 3.-Our oil mill is
running day and night, working up
ubou. fifty tons Of seed every twenty
four hours. The immense seed elevator,
with capacity of 2000 tons, is filled with
choice seed and in spite of the amount of
seed worked up daily, they cannot find
room for all the seed that comes in.
The ground for our S45, 900 stove foun-
dry has been broken and several thous-
and brick are now on the ground and the
good WORK will not stop until we have
one of the largest foundries of that kind
in the stare.
RUSK. Nov. "a large crowd gath
cred at the Tsssie Belle fifty ton furnace
i'll New Birmingham this afternoon to
witness the lighting of the furnace. APP
propriHte speeches were made by Gen.
John NJ. Clabourne, Hon. John B.
Long, congressman elect, and Col. w.
Il. Stosson. Mrs. Tassie Belle Blevins,
wife of A. Blevins, the originator of the
enterprise, then touched the match
which started the finest equipped furnace
i'll the South.
NEW BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 4.-The iron
furnace Mt this place has been in opera
ton week or more crushing ore, pump
ing water and adjusting the complicated
machinery. The first rum Will be
made the latter part of this week. Other
manufacturing industries will now follow
quickly on the success of ths furnace.
COMANCHE, Nov. S.-Mr. c. f. Mo-
Colloueh of Cranberry is in town to-day
and proposes TO build AN ice factory and
put in al electric plant if he can get the
cooperation Of our business men. He
has already met with considerable en-
enlargement, 1000 stock has already
been taken, enough TO insure the enter
prise at no distant day.
RUsK, Nov. S.-Ou last Wednesday a
ham, Rusk and Vicinity witnessed the
kindling OF the fire in the new Tassie
Belle furnace in New Birmingham.
Appropriate speeches were made by Col.
Carson, the superintendent, Gen. John
II. Claiborne, Hon. john B. Long and
Col. W. b. Slosson. The match was
touched by Mrs. Tassie Belle Blevins,
wife Of A. 3. Blevins, the originator of
the enterprise. This morning another step
was tnkeu in the progress of the enter
prise in the presence of several hundred
people-the steam was turned on the
engine that moves the hot blast by Mrs.
Carson, wife of the superintendent, and
the great wheels began TO revolve, start
ing the furnace into blast. Everything
worked smoothly. Speeches were made
by W. ". imboden, Tom Jennings, Esq.
of Noeogdoches. and Gen. Claiborne.
The plant is the finest and best equipped
for iron making III the South and will
make fifty tons of charcoal iron FER day,
worth near $1,000; and its going into
blast marks q new era in this country,
as 1t promises 70 be the nucleus