The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-12

the gross output Of these different yards.
| Houston brick find ready sale In different
sections Of Texaa and Louisiana and are the
means Of bringing to the city thousands Of
dollars each year.
COAL.
Owing to the cheapness Of wood, which 10
bdought to Houston by wagonloads and in
| carloads from points close to the city, the
amount Of coal consumed gives but faint
idea Of the manufacturing plants. The
railroads whose headquarters are here pur-
chase from agents in Houston and other
roads supply their trains at this point. Con-
sumption by the railroads amounts to
25O, 900 tons annually and steam plants
utilize 10000 tons. In domestic use 5000
tons Of anthracite and 10000 tons Of soft
| coal are yearly consumed, chiefly for heat
Ing purposes. wood being the fuel used for
| cooking.
WATER
| Houston Is blessed In the character OF
It's water supply. In domestic use cisterns
there are large number OF private ar
tesian wells. hotels, breweries. factories,
mills and presses having their own arte-
sian wells. Under the city are strata OF
the purest OF water. The Houston Water
works company, which supplies the pub
lie. have a gang system Of artesian wells,
the water being pumped to all parts OF the
NJ al t,.
to 1900 feet and furnish an average Of from
100000 to 100000 gallons daily There
are two standpipes for storage. one with
capacity Of 100000 gallons, being 60x15O
feet. The smaller standplpe is 20x95 feet.
There are four pumps. the capacity rang
Ing from 100000 to 100000 gallons day,
giving total pumping capacity II re-
quired OF 25,O00,0 900 gallons day.
~t PAINTS AND OILS.
in the matter OF paints, oils, wall paper
and picture frames and material carried by
houses in this line. Houston Is enabled
! TO compete with any of the large cities,
In fact, on account of freight rates and
ability to purchase. the Houston firms can
undersell either st. Louis or New Orleans.
| In some articles handled the firms in this
city can sell the goods at factory prices,
and thus save the purchaser the freight
charges. Trade In this line reaches out
all over Texas and Louisiana To the most
| remote point in the State from Houston
| the rate Is 80 cents per hundred. while from
| st. Louis 1t is 81 30. so 1t can readily be
| seen that interior merchants in Louisiana
| and Texas can make 1t to their interest
| financially to buy from Houston There
are two houses In Houston handling paints
and oils and everything In their line. They
do retail as we'll as a wholesale busi-
ness, which foots up in round numbers
some $550,000 annually.
BREWERIES.
Besides agencies for some OF the lead
ing breweries in the United States, Hous-
ton can boast OF two mammoth breweries
whose annual output is 1870, 900 barrels a
year, to say nothing of their vast trade
IN bottled beer all of which is made es-
pccally for this-cllmate and into which
only the very purest Of water or other
| ingredients enters. These two institutions
are the Magnolia brewery. operatsd by the
Houston Ice and Brewing company. and
tho American Brewing association The
trade OF both breweries has grown each
year since their establishment, and the
| territory covered by them has been con-
stantly added to. Houston made beer finds
| its way TO the Panhandle OF Texas and to
| points in Louisiana along the lines of the
Southern Pacific and Texas ard Pacific and
Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf railways.
Including their sales in Houston, which
would go elsewhere were they not here, the
two institutions annually sell something
over Sl,o0o.0o0 worth OF bee,. which means
that much cash for Houston, less hops,
| malt and bungs, all OF which are bought
in carload lots. the kegs and barrels all
being made in Houston. The kegs are
always thoroughly cleaned, and being en-
ameled inside, the beer never comes in
contact with tho wood no show something
of the vastness OF the trade, one concern
alone sells daily In Galveston 900 kegs
of their output. Employment at good wages
is given 10 200 men AMI purchases OF ma
terial are almost by the trainload. The
recent cut In ocean freight rates was
taken advantage Of, and large supplies Of
malt and hops were laid in. In the mat
ter OF fuel 5000 cars Of wood are con-
sumed in a year, all being purchased from
points contiguous to Houston Waco and
other Central Texas cities are liberal pa
irons OF Houston in beer purchases, and
hundreds OF dollars which annually went
from Texas to st. Louis and Milwaukee
now finds its way to Houston. At the
present. rate OF increase. the sales OF either
Of the Houston breweries will soon over
shadow those Of any other Texas city. And
in this line OF trade as well as others
Houstons great advantages in the matter
az freight rates and facilities for shlp,nent