Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-04
TEXAS MILLS AND FACTORIES.

The mattress factory of T. J. Ridley is
being pushed TO completion, the press being
nearly finished and OTHER machinery being
put in place.-Beaumont Enterprise.
George H. Pfeuffer will put up a fine steam
| gin and grist mill at Cotulla next month
| with all modern improvements with ca
| pacity of twenty-five to thirty bales per day.
The Frazer mill is fast assuming proper
lions. The building is up and covered, and
nearly all the machinery is on the ground.
! The Waxahachie Oil mill is located on
| the line of the Katy road just below the
| Hawkins spring.
| The single mills of Orange are being
kept busy filing orders.
| The Laredo tannery keeps steam up now
| constantly in running the machinery used in
| its process of tanning leather.
The car and machine shops of the Mexi-
| can national railway at Laredo are now
running day and night with a double shift
of hands.
The contract for the oil mill at Waxa-
| hachie has been let and work will proceed
at once.
DR.. Brooks informs US that he has ad-
vices that the oil mill men viii be in Rock
dale to-day. and the erection of an extensive
plant at this place is Il thing of the near
future Rockdale Messenger.
full swing.
Work on the large new gin is being
pushed right ahead. When this important
enterprise is placed in motion Bartlett can
boast of three of the finest gins in the
county.
The Decatur canning factory opened last
week and has been canning peas. Berries
and fruit will soon be ready, and then steady
work will commence.
The compress company of Honey Grove
is shipping the heavy machinery back to
the foundry to have it repaired from the
damage by fire. They are going right
ahead with rebuilding the compress, which
Will be all o. k. for the next season.
The contract for the buildings for the
wooden mill has been let and work COM
menced in Southeast Greenville.
Messrs. J. n. Hughes, J. B. Dale and
Hugh Hasell, the cotton seed oil mill men,
are in Greenville ready to push work on
their buildings to be erected in Northwest
Greenville, on the old compress site.
The Jim Hartman gin at Rockwell is
nearing completion, and when finished will
be one of the finest gins in Rockwell
county.
The Bolton oil mill company will increase
the capacity of the mill from forty-tive to
sixty tons during the summer.
Work on the new bag factory is progress
ing magniicently, and soon Sherman will
have another first class factory in opera
ton.
Mr.. W. H. Deesler of Pawnee, Kan,
practical creamery man. is in Greenville
with view to making some sort of deal
TO take charge OF and operate the Greenyille
creamery.
Greenville-The lumber, brick and other
material for the wooden mill buildings are
being placed on the ground. Work on the
foundation is progressing rapidly.
Work on the oil mills will begin at once.
Whitewright-A number of our progress
i've citizens met in the opera house to-day to
perfect arrangements to build a cotton seed
oil mill. o. Y. Rathbun was called to the
chair and J. c. Ruebell chosen secretary. 1t
was decided TO build forty-ton mill at
once. Fifteen thousand dollars of the stock
was subscribed and a committee selected,
with DR.. May as chairman, to solicit the
balance of the $50, 200 stock. The commit
tee are confident they can secure the neces-
sary amount by Monday next.
Henderson-A scheme is now on foot to
organize stock company with capital of
$780, 200 to build huge tram from this city
down into the heart of the long-leaf pine
timber tracts about fifteen miles distant.
Already the idea is meeting with encour-
agement. One large milling company has
offered to establish SIC, 600 plant here i'm
mediately.
Pilot Point-The Pilot Point canuin: fac.