El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-12-23
Industrial and
Commercial.

ArblClo6 OF 1nCOrpOroLlOn 1Of the Ar
kansas Zinc company, capital stock
place of business, have been field with
| the Arkansas secretary of state.-Big
Springs Paragraph.
There is q movement on foot among
local capitalists to erect an oilmill here
in the near future, says Mount Pleas
ant special. One of the parties stated
this morning that the plans were as
| Stunning definite shape, and that in all
pro liability stock company would be
organized within q few weeks: It will
be known as the Mount Pleasant Oil
company.
Texarksna Is to have q new stave
factory. The new factory will be erect
ed on Rose Hill adjacent ito the Gen.
trail Coal and Coke company's large
mill, by M. T. Bailey of Michigan He
will manufacture salt barrels for the
salt works at Hudson, Kan. The
December 2. 1t will employ sixty five
or seventy men.-Denison Herald.
Last weeks output OF lead and zinc
ore was again large and the price paid
for all grades of ore were very salts
tors. While the top price paid for
zinc ore WAS not advanced, there was
an advance of from 81 to 81 per ton on
interior grades of that ore, thereby
materially increasing the general
averoge paid. Tho demands for zinc
ore con tinues to increase notwithstand-
ing the large increase In production
Monterey Globe.
The Houston Post of last Sunday
states that 'the most stupendous cot
ton blockade ever witnessed exists in
Tn
we're over $500 cars tied up, and more
pouring in. The H. & T. c. has had
as many as 1900 cars daily tied up at
Houston for want of storage or ship
ping facilities. The cotton crop of
Texas and Indian Territory isl expect
ed to exceed 1000, 900 bales, by far the
largest cotton Drop ever known. OF
the entire crop of the South now In
sight Texas 10 credited with more than
one third. And the railroads are get
ting more profit out of it than the pro-
ducers.
Capt. S. S. Ashe of Houston and a.
81. L. Benson of San Antonio were
here in the interest of capitalizing the
property known as Sour Lake Springs,
situated in southeastern Texas. Their
object is to make the property the seat
OF . health resort that will draw
thousands of health seekers to Texas,
-
| there that will be visited by many
northern people. Capt. Ashe and Mr..
Benson report that they have secured
S2O, 900 among about 200 stockholders.
They expect to raise 800 900 to start
with, and will have probably 1000
stock holders. The company will be
organized as soon as $50 600 10 taken,
and the erection of . modern hotel,
ssnitarium and bath houses will then
hA~ Il 81 to m
railroad connection with the outside
world.-Exchange.
Among the new industries contem-
plated for Orange, Tex, says q dis
patch, in the near future perhaps the
most important IL the erection of the
largest floating saw mill in existence,
which is to be put In operation on the
Sabine River. The object of construct
ing this mammoth plant is to recover
and manufacture into lumber the mill
lions of, feet of timber now lying USE
less on the bottom Of the river and re-
presenting the sinkage OF years OF tim
Der business on the Sabine. In the plant
will be included immense barges TO &C
oommodate the machinery, powerful
row boats for towing the barges, tim
Der, etc., steam cranes and derricks for
raising the sunken timber, and q corps
of expert divers, who will be employed
in locating and securing the immense
quantities of pine and cypress timber
that rest from twenty to forty and six
ty feet below the surface of the
water.
A recent ST. Louis dispatch has the
following to say concerning the Mexi-
can orange: A large number of orders
have been received by local dealers
during the last few days for Mexican
oranges from Eastern cities, and St.
Louis Ia supplying the country with
this class of fruit. The business of ex-
porting oranges by st. Louis houses
was commenced ten years ago. since
which time the business has Increased
very rapidly. An importer who
in the interest Of the orange
trade says the possibilities for
the development of orange culture In
Mexico are almost unlimited, as the de-
mand will increase much more rapidly
than the supply, even under the most
favorable conditions. The first car OF
what are known as Matador oranges
was received few days ago from Jslis-
co, Mexico. Owing to the severe injury
ing last winter prices are advancing
rapidly. and Mexican oranges are now
bringing from 81 to s4.25 per box"
Beet sugar is destined to become one
of the most valuable and important in
dustries in Colorado. Ample proof of
this is shown by the result of the tests
upon a trainload of sugar beets shipped
q few days ago to the Grand Island
factory by the Gulf road from lands
along it's lines in northern Colorado.
The beets contained larger
amount of saccharine matter to
the hundred pounds that any
ever before received at the
factory and the yield per acre was
nearly 100 per cent greater than that
of the nOn-i rriU GATED lands Of Nehraska