El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-11-23
Industrial and
Commercial.

d Commercial. !
The new and extensive flour mill of
Eagle Milling Company at Tucson is
nearly completed. 1t Ia the largest
mill in the territory.
A. M. Blazer, the inventor of a
rotary engine, is putting up one of his
machines at the Albuquerque foundry.
He will probably dispose OF it in Ariz-
ona,
The series of experiments being con-
Quoted by Prof T. D. A. Cockerel at
the Agricultural college, with the soils
of the Mesilla valley, Tularosa and
Alamogordo mixed with gypsum from
the white sands" are progressing
finely. So far both peas and wheat
are doing best in the Alamo gordo
soil, which is dark adobe, and has
never been cropped. The mixture of
gypsum with adobe appears to improve
the soil for wheat as was expected
Albuquerque Democrat.
Acetyiene gas for general COM
mercial lighting was burned Saturday
night in Wabash, Ind, for the first
time in the history of the world. The
new illuminsnt was turned into the
down town mains and lighted up
number of business houses. The light
burned with q steady flame, and was
apparently as brilliant as sunlight,
| diffusing to such an extent that print
could be easily read remote from burn
ers The company will begin supplying
its consumers all over the city Nov. 15'
Exchange.
| The Great Western tin plate mills in
Joliet, Ill. were burned to the ground
recently. The loss Is S250,0O0 with
$47, 500 insurance, in twenty companies.
The tin plate mill furnished employ
monitor 276 skilled workmen, double
turn. It was among Joliet's foremost
and most Hourishing industries. This
plant was established some twelve
years ago by Joliet capitalists. It was
then known as the Joliet Sheet Rolling
Mills company. It was later absorbed
by the Great Western company
IGlobe-Democrat.
| With Q railroad running through Lin
colu county, ,NewMexico, and the estab-
| lishmept of q national ssnitarium a old
| FIT. Stanton, and many other improve
ments in the way Of mining, e+c., that
| will follow in the wake of such enter
prises, all of which is only . question
Of few months. stock in pcoln cOun-
upward that will be q surprise to the
conservative who has kept his dust
| securely sacked under a time lock,
waiting for something to turn up,
, which he-prone to take q selfish view
of erything-considered sure
thing.
The oil interests at Sour Lake,
Texas, is being steadily developed.
Another splendid we'll has just been
struck ct depth of 225 feet. The out
put of this new we'll is upward of 25
barrels per day. It is high grade
lubricating oil and has gravity OF 30
per cent. greater than any other oil
produced in this country. A new re-
finery with q capacity of 100 barrels
per day is now in operation mere. This
promises to become one of the greatest
oil producing regions on the continent.
Oil has been struck here wherever the
ground has been punctured. One com
pany proposes to drill fifty wells.
For six month past the Spanish oil
manufacturing company, known as the
Companis Refinadora de Petroleo, has
been making experiments with Ameri-
can oils 10 order to perfect their OWL
manufactures, and have st last sue.
reaching practical results. This
means that the Waters Pi-
cree Oil company will have q
formidable competitor in the manufac.
ture of oil for lightning purposes. The
Spanish company assayed fifty Amer
lean oils, and upon the basis of their
; analyses will manufacture hereafter
what they consider the equal of any
oils made in the United States.-Mex-
lean Herald.
A special to the Globe Democrat
: from Austin says: Col. Sam S. Ash,
who is largely interested in the now oil
field at Sour Lake, in the southeastern
part of this state, Is here. He states
developed. There are already large
number of producing wells, and one
company has just let the contract
for the mediate drilling of fifty
more wells. Oil in paying quantity
has been struck in every well drilled
up to this time. In q we'll put down a
few days ago oil was sstuck at q depth
of 225 feet. The output of this new
well is twenty five barrels day. A
refinery has sjust sheen .comp leted
and placed in operation at Sour Lake.
Its capacity it 100 barrels of oil per
day. A company is now being or
ganized for the purpose OF building q
railroad from Sour Lake to some point
on the Southern Pacific.
A Dallas special says: ''The officials
of the Dallas New Cotton Compress
company 1.-THE Allgeyer press)
when asked today If they
expected to stand by their
letter of few days ago sent to the
freight agents of the railroads entering
Dallas, in which it was stated that the
old rate of 10 cents per 100 pounds for
COMPRISING cotton would be adhered
tn despita the rulinU Of the railroad