El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-03-22

That which has always characterized
the citizens of Ell Paso, namely, the
spirit of enterprise, is now turned in
the direction of securing and building
up manufactures for the city. There
are at present great many factories
in the city which are giving employ
ment to large number of people with
good pay. The territory tributary to
Ell Paso contains almost all the differ
emit sectional products to be found in
the nation, and which form the founda-
tion of commercial intercourse. There
are sections best adopted to grain grow
ing, best suited to the raising of cattle
and sheep, most productive of minerals,
and richest in the character and varie-
ty of woods. There is growing trade
for Ell Paso made goods, in Texas, New
Mexico, Arizona, California and the
republic of Mexico. The circum stanc-
es to be considered in the introduction
Of and success of manufactures in Ell
Paso are very favorable, for the sur
rounding country furnishes in rich
abundance the raw materials used in
the most important branches of pro-
ductive industry, and it also offers a
certain market for the output. Tie
development of productive industry in
the south Is SO rapid and 80 resistless
that it is making alarming inroad upon
the factory Industries of the north and
east. 1t will be seen that many OF the
industries of Ell Paso have Deen es-
tablished during the past few years and
the advent of the White Oaks railroad
coupled with the completion of the Rio
Grande, Sierra Madre and Pacific coast
railway, will give manufacturing in Ell
Paso quite boom. Although less
widely known as a manufacturing than
as shipping and distributing point,
Ell Paso is not without industrial insti-
buttons whose products command ready
sale both at home and abroad. Her
splendid shipping facilities eminently
fit her for manufacturing center,
enabling her to reach all markets
cheaply, quickly and conveniently;
while the raw material to be found at
her very doors, is surpassed in neither
quantity or variety anywhere. One by
one, unostentatiouSly but continually,
manufactures are being added until
the list is gratifyingly large one; an
important catalogue of thriving in
dustries among which may be men
toned the Ell Paso Foundry and Ma
chine Co., FL Paso boiler works, two
modern ice factories, several large
cigar factories, sash and door factories
and planning mills, brick yards, lime
kilns, bicycle factories, shoe factory,
flour mill, sausage factory, candy fac
tory and a host of others, as the auc
tioneers say too numerous to mention
but all worthy of attention"
The list above given is very far from
complete, it will serve, however, to
illustrate that the Ell Paso of today is
more than a health resort, more than a
great railroad center-that it is even
now one of the most important produc
ing cities of the southwest. The man
ufacturers in business have pitched
their tents, or to speak more correctly
fired their furnaces here, because they
realized that Ell Paso possesses ad-
vantages of location and situation, I'M
rivaIled, in the southwest from the
manufacturers standpoint. Here are
few of those who have helped and are
helping greatly to build up the queen
city of the southwest as manufacture
ing or producing center.
Ell PASO CIGAR MANUFACTURING CO,