El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-08-22
been considerable complaint


among Mexican coffee growers during.
the last year owing to the low price OF
coffee, but it was not because they were
not making money. There is still
easily from 100 to 200 per cent. margin
between the cost of growing Mexican
coffee and its selling price. Modern
Mexico.
Mr.. II. Q. Toncry, the real estate
dealer, returned on Thursday evening
from his trip to Tampico. While there
he took up q tract of land $50 miles up
the Panuco river at place called Ell
Higo. Mr.. Toncray will give more
particulars of this land deal. With
respect to Tampico he said that there
was no yellow fever there. There is
some malarial fever, in fact good
deal of it, but none of the other kind.
n fact there is no quarantine at San
Louis POtosi or other upper places on
the Central Railway against Tampico,
as there would be were the yellow few
er so prevalent at the port as some
think.-Mexican Central.
Manager McCarty of the Colorado
Creston Co.. has recently had messur-
ed the capacity of the big reservoir at
Minas Prietas, and Engineer j. G.
Kendall. who did the work, reported
that when filed the dam would be sup
porting more than "a, OOO, 900 gallons of
water. At that time there were 5000,
600 of gallons there. While there have
been heavy rains everywhere else in
Sonora this season, the Minas Prietas
region has been skipped, the first storm
having been on the first of August, and
another falling on the night of the
fourth. Both we're light. A very hard
storm, such as sometimes occur, would
fill the reservoir to overlooking and
give plenty of water to last a year.
Sonora Item,
cts an i'll wind that blows nobody
good, and the heavy rain yesterday
afternoon afforded an excellent Oppor-
tunity to the Ubiquitous ratero to make
hay while the sun did not shine. One
of the pickpocketing fraternity impru-
IDENTIFY snatched hatpin from the hat
of an American lady who had taken
refuge from the shower under the por-
/ tales of the Plaza Principal, and after
perpetratiug the robbery, had the
audscity to attempt to incriminate her
in the theft of a watch. The lady was
so disturbed by the incident that she
could not speak, and began to cry, the
thief then took to his heels. 1t is.how-
ever, satisfactory to note that the pO-
lice captured the young rascal shOrtl y
afterwards .-MeXican Herald.
w III. ". boyle, CulcdgO cOnGr6ctOr
has just been awarded the contract for
the construction OF a sewerage system
for the city of Guadalajara, according
to plans made by Carlos Blake, an
other American. The entire length of
sewers, both brick and tube, to be con-
structed is one hundred and thirty
eight kilometres. There have to be
built >, 96i lineal metres of main brick
sewer of very large dia-
meter, and 70.563 lineal metres of
auxiliary sewers of vitrifed sewer pipe
of various diametres. On the main
, sewers twenty large manholes have to
be built, 423 catch basins and $40 five
inch syphons with tanks. Besides the
contractor has to erect several build
ings needed for administrative pur-
poses. The compensation Of the con-
tractor will amount to a total of 81 500, >
900, Mexican money. The state gov
eminent, for it is with this authority
| that the contract has been concluded
| has arranged for a loan of 81 100000 in
gold to pay for this Improvement
Two Republics.