El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-09-29

without being tied and will eat almost
anythiog, SO that the prospectOr has
no fear Of being left afOOt in The desert
or in the mountains.
The city council is wading along
slowly through the valuation OF proper
ty for taxation. No great changes are
an Inclination to pull down instead OF
increasing property valuations. One
argument that properly owners used
before the county board of equaliza-
tion was that in Increasing the valua
ton of property for county taxation
that increased valuation worked to the
advantage Of state taxation and the
property owners were lDJured thereby,
but this argument cannot be made
with the CITY as the state derives no in
come from city taxation. 1t would be
far better for the city to increase val
uations and lessen taxation. Thi.
would be fairer to the small property
owIer and would advertise the CITY to
advantage.
Ell Paso is still on the improve At
east one tundre d buildings are now in
course of constructive or are contem-
plated in the near future. People
from all sections speak favOrab of the
prospects of this city. 1t is so located
that 1t has q great commercial future
before it and now that money matters
is getting easy investors are taking ad
vantage of the bright prospects here ana
are piac ng their money to got d ad want
age in rock, brick and mortar. " hen tn,
White Oaks begins work this will no
doubt give new impetus to the build
ing boom and mauy of those who have
been thinking of building will put
their thoughts into material shape.
Many good business men p. edics that
Ell Paso will have population of 25 ,OOv
people inside of six Years. So mote
1t be-"
The yellow demon is causing sac
havoc in southern and eastern Texas.
Refugees of the scourge are fleeing t,
they know not where. Ally plac,
where tney are allowed to stop, out OF
the range of the dead disease, they
halt. However, no place wants them
Tuey are Undesirable visitors and ar.
generally met at the depot and told to
move on. The yellow fever this yea,
is not near as bad as when it rageo
through the Mississippi valley in rs.
Then it was more fatal than now ana
the epidemic spread over larger scope
of country, bu it never crossed the
T. IS line. Then there was a stric
quarantine This year quarantine was
esta bl shed ear y and the few suspected
cases that have been reported in exa
should not Cause such scare as it ha
tnrc ug hout the state. Even in FL PasC
people are taxing The scare. There II
no Danger whatever here from the vel.
low fever. 1t is d disease that is no
and cannot be contagious in this higL
altitude. Tnis WAS proven in Memphi
in '78 and is proven yearly in Mexico
The fever is IN Vera Cruz every yea
and p op!e who feel it's fanes Sc ting il
go To the moub tains at Oriza ba and NJ
longer feel its eff -cts. L. tax a wet
Climate for the yellow fever to get b
footoold. r 'und about knows hereo
he spe AXIS On thi subject, as he h as ha,
the yellow fever himse and pa sec
through t,.e scourge at Memphis il
1878.
During thu past week the poll &c ar6
newspapers have ma0e it so warm fol
the hoboes that large numbers of ther
have skipped TO the other side OF the
river and CT liens there have begun
complaining of the nuisance, but the
Mexican authorities do not hest ate or
expense when a nu sance has to be
abated and will DO. doubt find some
way in which tt handfe1he tfamps II
the Ell PasO authorities would now
begin war on the local bum and
vagrant nuisance and run them in the
same as they do the foreign tramps the
city would soon have enough street
workers to repair all the stagnspt
pools that are loca'ed in d itferent parts
OF the city. The police are onto tie