Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-04-30
TEXAS MILLS AND FACTORIES.

A STOCK company Will De Incorporated al
Galveston by Chicago capitalists to estab-
liSh q new town near that city for the pur
pose of inauguratins manufacturing enter
prises.
Parties at San Angelo have purchased
the franchise of the Sherwood canning fac
tory, and will operate the same.
Another large mill and gin is to be re-
moved to Cuero from Meyersville by
NIessrs. Houston. 1t has capacity of
forty-fve bales per day.
The Luling ice factory is idle. The ma
chine was toe small to manufacture ice in
competition with the breweries, and the
proprietor abandoned it.
Runge, Karues 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. c. Baumgarten and other Schulenburg
parties take $4,000 of the stock, and the
citizens Of Hallettsvile the remainder
5000
A company was organized at Tyler last
week to establish q 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 tlattering
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.
Alvarado Bulletin: The most unpleasant
news the Bulletin has to tell its readers is
that the directors of the canning factory
held meeting Wednesday afternoon and
decided that the plan upon which the COM
pany had been organized was not a practic-
able one and so disbanded. 1t is to be
hoped, however, that the idea of building a
canning factory will not be altogether
abandoned.
Greenville Headlight: w W. Garrett,
son of W. II. Garrett of this city, eXhib-
tied in our Office specimen of coal taken
from a shaft sunk four miles east OF
Emory, Rains county, which has the ap-
pearancc of being good article OF coal.
Mr.. Garrett says they passed through three
strata of it. The first is twenty-One feet
from the surface and is three and half
feet thick; the second IS thirty-eight feet
from the surface and seven and a half feet
ING lIlI-u SkISLLUul -4Odi ACSs
from the surface and is six feet thick-the
last is the best quality. Underneath this
third stratum they found bed OF clay,
well suited for the making of fre-proof
brick, fourteen feet thick.
Crockett is to have knitting mill. The
machinery has been ordered and an ex-
perienced man will be in charge of the
business.
Archer County Progress: Archer county
raises an abundant amount of wheat, and
the citizens have to ship it away to have it
ground and then pay freight on 1t back
again: consequently they pay freight on it
both ways, which takes o neat sum of
money, and we could save that by talking
for good Touring mill.
Gainesville Herald The Alliance mill
here is worth at least $1,000 MIR. Paul
Coulter is endeavoriug to organize joint
stock company to pay this Indebtedness and
own and operate the mill. twenty thou.
sand dollars capital is all that is needed. or
this Mr. Coulter and others have secured
subscribers to about 81, 900 stock. Mr..
Coulter thinks the directors can get up
$4,000 more stock in the county, leaving a
balance of 5000 This the people Of Green
vile should take, forming an alliance with
the farmers of the county that would be
q bargain at $4,000 and under management
such as the present, could certainly be
made to yield handsome dividend.
There has been some talk Of organizing
SIS, 900 stock company and building a cotton
seed oil mill at Whitewright- There has
not been any material development yet.
Texas Wells Herald: Our reporter learns
that the Bowie mill is to be resurrected and
put upon solid financial footing through
the interest oil our own J. P. Herod. There
is a good wheat country lying to the west
of Rowie, and with the strong, level-headed
business qualities that Mr. Herod will
br,ns to it, we are sure the Bowie mill will
~ eafter be success.