The Fort Worth gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-189?, 1891-04-30

| four mouths and consumed about AGO tons
I, of cotton seed. Of this amount 1900 tons
were local product, which Al 50 20 per ton,
! the price paid reached the enormous aggre
| gate Of ST. ESQ.
Subscriptions toward building a cotton
seed oil mill were taken the first of the
week, and it is now almost an insured fact,
| that with the beginning Of the, next cotton
season Honey Grove will have one OF the
| best oil mills in the state.
| A proposition has been submitted to the
| people OF Granbur yby Mr.. j. H. Black by
which he proposes that if he can secure
5000 he will put in fifty-barren roller
mill, to do custom and merchant work and
have 1t running within sixty days.
Galveston is to have cotton tie factory.
The Blankenship & Blake company have
started up their clothing factory, which
! was recently moved to Waco from Dallas.
They use artesian water as motive power
| for all the machines, $50 in number.
Navasota is TO have a cotton compress
with capacity of over eighty thousand
bales, to be ready for next season. The
contract has been signed and Work Will
| commence Immediately.
The iron furnace at jefferson has been
compelled to bank its fires on account of
the little dependence to be placed in negro
labor An agent has been sent North after
white men.
Mr.. Ed Buckley, the manager OF the
Laredo cotton gin and milling company, ex-
presses the opinion that with continuation
OF the present favorable seasons, there will
be over 1000 bales of cotton glnned at the
Laredo steam Gin this fall.
Caldwell News: BRENNAN has had an oil
mill for several wears which has belonged
TO the Heidenheimer combine, which, when
ever it was deemed necessary by headquar-
tiers, was closed. 1t has stood idle for the
past eight months. The business men of
Brennan, aud farmers of Washington
county formed joint stock company last
week with capital stock of Sl50,000 and
have purchased the plant and are going TO
run it.
J. H. Parnum of Groesbeck has estab-
lished soda water mandatory at that
place, and is doing good business.
Bonfam News: Jefferson has just started
her iron works, and is now getting ready to
establish, or a large scale, the manufacture
of steel rails. Wolfe City has started an
iron foundry; Greenville will, in q few
days, commence an oil mill; Sulphur
Springs will start mandatory for max
ing barbed wire. Nearly every town in
North Texas has some kind of manufactur-
ing establishment. Bonham has several
and is preparing for more.
The Uvalde gin and milling company
has been organized with a capital stock of
$40, 600.
The Ennis waterworks and ice factory
are to be put in operation at the earliest
possible date.
A new mill and gin is to be put up at
Grady, Fisher county, in readiness for the
next cotton crop.
Honey Grove will be making ice in q few
weeks with which to supply her own wants
and the wants of Ladonia and Wolfe City
also.
Dr. Glazebrook of Elizabeth, n. J., was
in Laredo few days since. The doctor is
the head OF the syndicate which intends
erecting cotton mills in Laredo. II is pre-
sumed his visit is for the purpose of ar
ranging the preliminarieS for commencing
work on the mills.
Excitement runs high at Mount Pleasant
over the discovery of 4 rich vein OF lead in
the eastern portion of the county.
Work has begun on the Houston bagging
and cordage factory.
Honey Grove Citizen: And now the Sher-
man oil company is contemplating building
a fine steam gin at this place. They wish
to hold their share of the cotton seed from
this place, which they cannot do without a
gin, as the Bonham people will own gin in
the town. 1t is hardly likely that both gins
will be built, however, and if the oil mill at
this place is erected, possibly neither OF the
foreign gins will be built.
ENNIS, April PA. c. woodward of
Galveston has located with us and is ar
ranging to put in at once saltwater manu-
featuring and bottling company. Within
the next sixty days Ennis will be manu-
featuring her ice and soda water.
Bo,yHAM, April 24.-The Bonham ice fac
tory made its first run yesterday. Every
thing moved Off satisfactorily to its owners.
They commenced delivering ice this morn
ing This is what our city has long needed
able addition 10 our factory list.
BEAUMONT, April 24-Contracts for the
erection Of wooden and Touring mills at
this place were closed to-day. The principal
stockholders reside here.