El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-11-02
Mexican Notes.
Monterey is to have a new theat

Messrs. Sommer Hermann & Co.
| have secured concession for the
| erection of a new pier at Frontera.
| The Banco Commercial of chihuahua
of which Enrique G. Creel is president
will establish branch at Juarez.
Mexico raises sugar cane to the
value of S25 100000 year and annual
ly produces over $40, 100000 worth oil
sugar.
United States dealers imported SILL.
$50 of Mexican coffee in the month Of
August, as against S66,0S in August
of last year.
OF the total increase in the exports
| of Mexico, amounting to Sc 800 594 dur
| ing the last fiscal year, 81, 344, sol was
in precious metals and ores.
Mexico's corn crop reaches a value
of $75, COO, 900 year. The value of the
whe at raised in the republic only reach
es about one-sixth of this amount.
Mexico's cotton crop is reaching a
pro minent place in the agriculture of
the republic. This product now reach
es an annual value of over ten mil
lions.
Mr.. L. E. Girardey, of Paducah
Kentucky, will establish d ano factO-
ry in Mexico. He hopes to have the
finished product on the market in jan
uary or February.
Manufacturers of sugar machinery
are selling more machinery to Mex
leo this year than ever before. In ad-
ditiOn to the many new plants es-
tablished, the old ones are being great
ly improved.
The amount of Mexican tobacco ex-
ported has now reached value of
more than half million dollars
month, and each month continues to
show an increase of about 200 per cent
over the same month of the previous
year.
Auguste Genin, of Mexico City, has
secured a concession to establish two
powder factories in the republic. One
must be commenced in one year, the
other in two years, and both must be
in operation in three YEAR,. The
company is obligated to spend $25. 900
iu the enterprise.
Arlington U. Belts, of Toledo, Ohio.
who has secured a concession for
bicycle factory in the state of Vera
Cruz, states that he will have Mexican
made wheels on the market by Feb
ruary, 1898. Mr.. Belts says his factory
will turn out 10000 wheels a year.
The retail price of them will be 500
Mexican.
Every month shows an increase in
the shipments of Mexican tobacco to
the United States. The figures for
August show an increase of twenty-five
per cent. over the figures for August of
last year, while the first eight months
of this year show an increase of nearly
five hundred per cent. over the same
period of 1896.
United States furniture manufacture
ers are looking to Mexico for their sup
ply of mahogany. The total value of
mahogany imported from all countries
during August was S113,0 S5. of which
the imports from Mexico amounted to
S12, 920. This was an increase of near
~ three hundred per cent. over the
same period of last year.
a correspondent of the Mining and
Journal of Los Angeles,
who has baen travelling in Lower Cal
ifornia writes: There are few mining
districts in the United States where
mining can be carried on more
than in Lower California |
miners wages $500, laborers 81 20 |
per day. The laws OF the country are /
very best for the protection of the in /
weston, and, what is more to the point,
the laws are strictly enforced. In ali
the writer's travels through mining
districts, he has never discovered a
greater spirit of cordiality existing
between the officers of the government
and civilians on one side and the rep.
resentatives of foreign capital on the
)ther.h