El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-12-28
Industrial and
Commercial.

Representat1ve-elect Smith OF Tai
g rant county, elected to the legislator
r at the recent election and living nea
Grapevine, has put 500 acres in wheat
. and feels sanguine he will realize vel
? from his investment.-Pe Times.
GEL Imparcial' saye that the grea
distillery scheme of a Belgian syndi
> cate with an alleged capital of SO, 600,
> 600, has fallen through. One of tn,
, promoters who went to Belgium t,
make the financial arrangements me
with such a cool reception, that he has
notified his associates in this city O.
the uselessness OF doing any more IL
the matter.-Two Republics Mexico.
There is not Southern seaport that
| is not ambitious of becoming q center
of steel shipbuilding, nor is there one
that does not possess attractions for
great shipyards, limited, now, only by
the draft of water over the bars. Moth.
ing would so hasten the deeping of the
channels and the harbOrs of Southern
seaports as the erection and equipment
OF shipbuilding plants adapted to the
construction of vessels of war and COM
MERGE of the largest size.
Some of the Washington county
cotton which has been held four, five
and six years for higher prices, was
unloaded yesterday. Some of this
cotton was mentioned in the Post re-
Gently as having been in zulcher's
warehouse for years. being held since
the market was at cents. Monday q
rise was noted as much as 81 cents
being paid in Brennan and about 200
bales of the old stock were turned
loose,-Houston Post.
| A concession has been granted for
| hn 70 of Ii =
connected with cold storage on a large
| scale, in the city OF Durango, which
proposes to furnish meat of a superior
quality for shipment to the City of
Mexico and other points Of large con-
sumption. The same concessionaires
also hold q concession for the establish
ment of q brick yard which will have
capacity of forty thousand per day and
be in operation by the 1st Of February
next.-Mexican Herald.
The new saw mill recently put in
operation by the Arizona Copper COM
pany at Clifton for framing mining
timber is . wonderful piece Of machi-
merry. 1t outs q piece of tim Der the re-
precise size to fit into mortices of COM
panion timbers. This Is done by
system OF circular saws, running
perpendicular and horizontal. All the
mining timbers for the mines at Long,
fellow and Metcslf are framed at this
saw mill, effecting great saving to
the company.-Bulletin.
Under the concession lately obtained
by Sebastian Camscho metallurgical
reduction works of a capacity of three
hundred tons daily will soon be erected
liar works erected in other parts of the
state, but of smaller capacity, under
the same concession. The latter COW
ers not only reduction works, but also
the right to run telephone lines be-
tween works, and gives the concession
aire exemption from taxes for tweeny
years besides many other material ad-
vautages Herald.
In Belgium the railways operated
and owned by the government have re-
duoed fares and freight so per cent
and doubled the wages of the en-
profit of $4,000 900 year. In Ger
many you can travel four miles for a
cent on the government roads. Wages
are I25 per cent higher than when the |
same roads were owned by private COR
porations, and the roads furnish the |
German government with q revenue of
$25 900, 600 year.-Southern Mercury,
Dallas.
Parties who represent . fine brick |
plant at Thurber, Texas, have been |
in the city for the past few days and |
have had on exhibition at the Mer- |
The vitrifed brick sample |
would make excellent street paving |
material and Mayor Fielder has been |
very carefully inspecting it. 1t is I'M
derstood that there is plenty of |
material in Sherman for the manu-
facture Of just as fine brick as the sam
Piles from Thurber or anywhere else
here about year ago has been very
revived and that something
may yet come of fisherman Daily
Light.
A conference between officials of the
American Sugar Growers society and
of beet sugar machinery
and representatives of beet sugar fact
ories now in operation was held in Chi
caRO Dec. 81. The question under con-
sideratiou was the effect of the propos-
ed annexation of sugar-produoing ter
ritory in the West Indies and in the
philippines upon the development of
'he American sugar-prOducing inter-
ests. The sentiment was unanimous
hat the acquiring of tropical sugar ter
'itory would seriously affect the deve-
opment of the beet sugar industry un-
ess there was some arrangement made
which would protect the domestic in .
lustry against the operation of free
rade in sugar from the new colonies
t was decided to make formal pro
est to cOngress.-Houston Post.
Among the more important of the
lew industries specially reported to
he Chattanooga Tradesman during
he week ended December II are q
hair factory in North Carolina; q
900. 900 coal mining company in West
Virginia; a large construction COM