The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-05-07
TEXAS MILLS AND FACTORIES.

TEXAS MILLS AND FACTORIES.
| Parties at San Angelo have purchased
the franchise Of the Sherwood canning fac
tory, and will operate the same.
Runge, Karnes county, will soon have an
| extensive brick making plant. The ma
terial IS similar to the Calaveras brick
| clay.
The Wichita roller mills company an
nounces that they will be compelled to shut
| down their mill the forepart of May in
order to prepare to handle their share Of
| the great wheat crop of 1891.
| Hallettsville is to have an oil mill. Mr.
| E. G. Baumgarten and other Schulenburg
| parties take $4,000 of the stock, and the
| citizens of Hallettsville the remainder
$1,000
| A company was organized at Tyler last
| week to establish Il trunk and coffin fac
| tory at that place. The stock was all taken,
| officers elected and charter applied for.
Mr. E. c. Crowther, the efficient superin
tendent of Furnace Jefferson" has re-
| turned from an extended trip in the inter-
est of the Lone Star iron company. Super
| intendeut Crowther heard many tiattering
| encomiums passed upon the superior quality
| of pig iron he is turning out from the rich
ore mines of Marion county during his alb
sence in the leading iron districts of the
| country.
Crockett is to have a knitting mill. The
| machinery has been ordered and an eX-
| perienced man Will be in charge of the
| business.
The Greenville cotton seed oil mill will be
located ON the site of the old compress, 200
| yards north of the ice factory.
| The new cypress mill of Messrs.
Lutcher s. Moore at Beaumont will be COM
| pleted some time IN July.
| The Texas tram and lumber company of
| Beaumont will soon put in machinery for
the purpose of making barrel slaves and
| barrel heads. This viii utilize large
amount of material that is now burned up.
| It is understood they have closed contract
| to furnish large salt plant several thou
| sand carloads of slaves and heads for bar
rels.
E. S. Wood has his washing machine fac
| tory about completed at McGregor.
The Reliance saw mill at Beaumont will
| stop next week sufficiently long to permit
| the new eighty horse power boiler to be
placed in position. This will give the mill
four forty horse power and one eighty
horse power boilers and will add consider
ably to the capacity Of the mill
Seymour is to have new roller mill of
seventy-five barrels capacity.
There is talk of establishing one or two
furniture factories at Marshall.
Mr. F. L. Mundy is erecting a large saw
and shingie mill on Caddo lake, five miles
below Jefferson.
Quanah is to have cement mandatory.
The Dublin ice factory is now ready to
fill all orders for ice on the shortest notice.
The Brennan ice factory has been thor
oughly ovcrhauled and is now turning out
an adequate supply of ice of excellent quail
ity.
The Alliance mill and gin at Black Jack
Grove will be increased in capacity to meet
the demands.
The furnace of the Lone Star iron works
at Jefferson is now turning out fifty tons
of iron per day, having begun operations
March Il The directors of the company
have voted to establish steel plant at an
estimated cost of 81 ,000, 900. The Touring
mills which were burned some time ago
will be rebuilt with considerably increased
capacity.
The twin cities of Rusk and New Biz
mingham announce as among the coming
new industries rolling mill, cotton mill,
stove foundry, sewage-pipe factory,
another twenty-five ton furnace (the
fourth) and the street cars between the two
cities are to be operated by dummy en-
CINE.
QUEEN CRY, May 3-Our people antici-
pate Il UlS DOOlu, Us Iuey tApeCt W CIOSe d
contract with an English syndicate within
the next thirty days for the erection of
blast furnace for working the immense de-
posts of rich iron ore at this place.
GREENvILLE, May 2-The committee
have secured takers for about two hundred
and forty of the 26l lots necessary to be
taken to secure the woollen mills. Parties
who have not been seen will take the re-
naming lots thus completing the number.
This enterprise will give employment to
about seventy-tive people, and will be po-
tent factor in promoting the prosperity of
the city In connection with the establish
ment of the mill, the boring Of an artesian
well to supply water for the factory is be-
ing discussed and the experiment will moro
than likely be made.
TERRELL, April 30-The work at the
waterworks and ice factory is going bravely
on. The company proposes to be using ice
made by the new ice factory by June 10.
MExIA, April 3O-The last carload OF
machinery for the ice plant arrived last
night. Manager Taylor is pushing with
untiring energy to get ready to supply the
demand that is now upon US.
GREENvILLE, April 30.-The directors OF
the Alliance milling company are endeavor-
ing to form joint stock company for the
purpose of buying and operating the mill at
this place. Judgments amounting to about
$50, 600 are standing against the company to
be forecloscd in August. BY recognizing
and paying off this Indebtedness. the mill
can continue running, as now, on paying
basis. Prominent merchants and capitalists
of Greenville will probably take stock in
conjunction with the farmers and Alliance
men who now have stock.