El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-12-28
Mexico.

| The Acapulco is the name of q
steamer of 800 tons, with three masts,
recently bought in England by the
Occidental r. r. Co. for the Mexican
Pacific coast trade.-Chihuahua En-
terprise.
At Gusymas American tramps are
com hitting many robberies, entering
fishing for what they can get through
| the window bars with hooks on the end
OF fishing poles. Several of them have
been arrested Globe.
Jack Follensbee is we'll known in
chihuahua, but it is not generally
known that he spent the past summer
in Cuba, fighting Spaniards. e. G.
Creelmsn, the New York journalist, in
an article in q recent number of the
Review of Reviews declares that he
owed his life to Follensbse. Creel-
man was wounded; but for Follensbee
it appears he would have been killed.
|-Chihuahua Enterprise.
The Reata branch of the Mexican
International railroad was formally
liuaugurated and placed in operation q
few days ago This branch line runs
from Reata, on the smain line of the
International road to Monterey, the
distance being seventy-two miles. This
gives Monterey direct standard
0usge railroad connection with the
United States, by way of Eagle Pass,
and 1t is announced that through trains
over the new line, connecting with the
Southern Pacific at Eagle Pass, will be
put on immedistely. Two surveying
parties are now In the field for the In
ternational road running preliminary
| routes for the proposed extension Of
that road from Durango to Mazatlan,
on the Pacific coast, and from Durango
to the City of Guadalsjara. AS soon
as these surveys are complete and are
approved by the Mexican government,
work constructing the important ex-
tensions. The International is part
of the Southern Pacific system, owned
by the Huntington syndicate.-Ex-
change.
An English syndicate is negotiating
for the purchase of all the breweries
of Mexico. Representatives of tho
syndicate have made offers for
the purchase of the large brewery at
and 1t 10 said that options have been
secured on those two concerns. An eff
fort hiss also been made to secure OPP
tiOns on all of the other breweries in
this country, but with what success IL
not known here as the negotiations
have been conducted very quietly.
The same syndicate threatens to erect
10 OTcWSTy 6b OTlZbOo uulSee Uu0
owners of the brewery already in oper-
alton there consent to sell that prop
erty to them. The two largest brew
cries in Mexico are the ones at Toluca
and Monterey. The Monterey brewery
was erected about eight years ago. the
promoter of the enterprise being
Joseph Schneider, of ST. Louis. Mo,
who was for several years it's manager.
1t was paying enterprise almost from
the start, and it Is said that it more
more thar paid for the money expended
for it's construction within ten months
after it begun to dispose of its product.
The Toluca brewery has also made
an immense fortune for its owner. The
big profits in the brewery business in
this country is what attracted the at
tention of the English syndicate, and
It Is expected that the deal for the pur-
chase of the majority If not all the
oreweries in Mexico by this syndicate
will be contaminated within the next
ew weeks. The amount Of money in
7olved in the deal will run into several
Millions of dollars Exchange.