Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-30
TEXAS MILLS AND FACTORIES.

Hamilton, Hamilton county--D. II. Will
Jams x Bro. have their new gin about COZ
pleted, and from present appearances there
will be plenty of cotton to run both on full
time. The roller mill here is turning out as
good -four as any in the state. S. d. Felt,
the present owner, knows how to push
things. de pays railroad prices for wheat
and furnishes all the merchants in the
county with flour to sell on commission.
RUsE. CHEROKEE COUNTY, July 24-Mr
Ed ; Maunsell of New Orleans, secretary
of the Cherokee iron manufacturing COM
pany, arrived this morning on business con-
nected with the Star and Crescent furnace
being erected between Rusk and New Birm-
ingham, and is highly pleased with the pro-
gress made. Several iron men came in
from Tenn assee to-day, and they pronounce
the Star and Crescent the bOst equipped fur
mace in the South, but what appearel to as
toniSh them more than anything else was
that several parties are delivering to the
furnace iron ore from their own lands, at
the price OF hauling. They said they never
saw country before where the farmers
produced iron ore, and they were old miners
and came here 10 take contracts to deliver
ore. When they mined in Tennessee it cost
81 per ton to get the ore out of the ground,
while here it can be delivered at the fur
mace for less than half that sum.
New BIRMINGHAM, CHEROKEE COUNTY,
July 21.-ln your report of the incorpora-
ton of the New Birmingham iron and i'm
provement company of Texas of this place
you have inadvertently stated the capital
was S35O,000 instead of s3,500.000, and as
this is the largest capitalization of any COM
pany in the state, and the fee paid for in
corporation $3.50 the largest ever received
by the secretary of state, we think it worthy
of mention. The city has assumed its nor
nal condition after the excitement of the
visit hyt ministries show octIv-
ity all along the line, and the demand for
houses is so great that new corners have to
pitch tents until houses can be built for
them The foundation of the new Sl50,000
pipe plant are rapidly assuming imposing
dimensions. The stack of the furnace of
the Cherokee manufacturing company is
almost up and it is fully expected this plant
will go into blast in August or September.
The Tasse Belle furnace will have coke
ovens erected shortly, which will greatly
reduce the cost of making charcoal The
100 tons of pig iron for one house in St
Louis did not, unfortunately, get off in one
train, as was first intended, owing to a
way company at Tyler. This is pity, as
it was grand opportunity tc advertise
Texas iron.
NEW BIRMINGHAM, CHEROKEE COUNTY,
July 3-Our pipe works are pro-
crossing so rapidly that our president, Mr..
Coleman, IS on the lookout for Superln-
tendeut TO take charge of the immenss'
plant. This plant when completed will emf
ploy about $50 more men, which means lie
demand for a lot of new houses.
TERRELL, KAUFMAN COUNTY, TEX, july
24.-The Terrell milling company ha
changed faces little bit in its makeup. IT
is reorganlzed with the following officers:
f. j. Lockhead. president; T. NJ. kell, vice
president; S. B. Anthony, secretary and
-raAc trYsa Mr. Ant
other Terrell people, who move away for
their financial health. has returned to Terrell
with confidence iii its prosperity, and es-
pecially in the enterprise he stands as one
Of the most conspicuous figures. The mill
is heeled for business. and will make