El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-01-07


A new paper mill is to be started in |
CuerpavaCa.
There is q talk of enIerging the Res
tauradOra WOODEN mill in Ures, Sonora
Leather exports from United States
o Mexico Increased from SIC, 26O TO
4,O17 last year.
Mexico used only 1,195 bushels of
wheat raised in the United States last
year but the sales of flour amounted To
46, $40 barrels
Eighteen car loads of machinery for |
the new brewery at chihuahua arrived !
last month from Chicago. The |
brewery will be operated in January. |
1t is said that military colonies |
will shortly be established in Yucatan |
and the Yaqui district, Sonora, where |
the Indians are not entirely suhdutd.
The Mexican government has pur-
chased a steamer, which can be used as |
a transport ship on the gull coast. |
already mas one such ship, the Oaxaca, |
on the Pacific.
Mexico nearly doubled her sugar
sales to the United States last year.
In 1S94-'95, the importations from
Mexico amounted 10 1866, 1876 pounds:
in 1895-'96 to zoos, 0G2.
a lighthouse was inaugurated at
Sa1iua Cruz on the 9TH instant 1t is
situated to the west side of the port
and throws three consecutive white
flashes eve y ten seconds.
MEXICO is gaining some prominence
as tobacco raiser. Last year the
| United States importatiOus from t.
republic were valued at SIS, OPS, nearly
double the importations in the previous
year.
Ell Correo de Jalsco states that a
wealthy t'renchman has had an inter
view with the governor of Jalisco in
regard III the establishment of linen
mandatory in Guadalaj lara. for whic b
enterprise he solicited certain privil-
eyes.
Senior Cranz, owner of the mines of
San Juan, has purchased tract of
land near Potam, Sonora, on the bank
of the Yaqui river, on which he in
| tends to cultivate beets for sugar. This
| is the first esta blishment of its kind in
Sonora. Four hundred tons Of ma
chiuery will be set up, including pumps
to irrigate the land from the river.
FL Trafco says: The distinguished
| French engineer. NJ. Maurice du
Chatenet. commissioned by great
| French capitalists to examine certain
| oOuOFd LuIucS WHICH IH6y WISH 10 dc-
quire, is about TO conclude a great
transaction about the mines of Cibuta,
| which belong to SenOres PiersOn and
| Hofvilleur. And behind this sale there
! will be others. since in the Sierra del
| Cibuta, there is much wealth to be
discovered.
| The Guaymas Impartial thinks that
a large business might be done in
| Mexico in preparing and exporting
| turtle oil, which it claims was pro-
| nounced superior to cod liver oil by
| the Paris medical commission of 1889.
| Millions OF turtles swarm off the shores
of Mexico in the Gulf of California and
the Pacific. The fishing is very simple
| a single man being able TO harpOOn as
many as fifty in day. In addition to
| the oil, the flesh is considered a great
Idelicacy, being so tender as to be cas-
| lily mistaken for veal.
The state of Sonora, by reason of its
| vast territorial extent and its magnifi-
cent plains, always covered with abund
ant and succulent pasturage, is well
| able to make cattle raising its general
or chief source of wealth. Formerly
this part of the republic abOunded in
| cattle, but today the number is greatly
reduced, on account Of the fall in price.
Very few devote themselves to this in
dustry as regular business. The gov
ernment should promote exhibits of
stock, IN order to give an impulse to
this important branch, says Ell Trafco.
The comptroller OF currency has de
;clared a dividend of 80 per cent TO the
/ creditors of the National bank of Hi
nOiS. The dividend checks will be de-
livered January Goth.
The populists claim a victory in the
fertilization Of the Colorado legislature,
while the republicans claim the