El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-18
Industrial and
Commercial.


Texas is beginning to be dotted with
cotton seed oil mills and nearly every
little hamlet in the country can boast
Of mill.
The progressive citizens of Airing
ton have combined their efforts and
money and as q result a fine oil mill to
cost S25, 900 Is to be built there at an
early day.-Exchange.
The charter of the Dallas Oil and Re-
fining Company of Dallas WAS filed In
the Secretary of States Office last
week, capital stock 10000. Incorpora-
tors, A. Silberstein. P. A. Fitzhugh,
w. II. Thomas, George N. Aldredge
and S. I. Munger,
The keystone Furnace and Thomas
Iron company of Island Park, Esston,
Pa, which was blown out q year ago
on account of the dullness of the iron
trade, has been put in operation, giving
employment to q large number OF
hands.-San Antonio Light.
Potts Bros. Iron company and the
lower works of the Glasgow Iron COM
pany at POttsdam, Penn, have notified
the puddlers in their employs of an in
crease In wages of from 81. SO to 81. Is
per ton, to take effect on May LIST.
This is the second increase given them
within 60 dsys.-Exchange.
The Pennsylvania Bolt and Nut
works and the East Lebanon Iron COM
pany posted notices of second in
crease of 10 per cent in the wages of
the employees, to take effect on May i.
has increased the wages of it's laborers
10 per cent.-Fort Worth Register.
Several business men were in Waxa-
hachie recently from Ennis and said
the oil we'll news down there was grow
ing into large proportions; that E. L.
Pittman had struck oil and others were
preparing to bore for oil. Waxahachie
has found oil. but as yet has been I'M
able to get the drills to work to bring
it up.
Two hundred and fifty companies
were incorporated under the laws of
New Jersey during March. The COM
bined authorized capital of these COM
panies foots up 81, Ill $780, 900, and the
fees paid to the secretary Of state for
issuing certificates of incorporation
amount to $120, O0.-Albuquerque CT
tizen.
With a capital stock of $4,000 the
Yorks Creek Artesian Development
company was organized on Monday at
Beasley's hall, Seguin. Prof. Martin
Ruppel was elected president and Mr..
w. Guessom secretary. Two wells
will be bored and owned by this COM
pany, one at Hunter and the other on
the 81. Hottie farm. The organization
will be incorporated at once.-Ex-
change.
The City of Mexico has new sewer
inn h4
ing built by French firm. Its dis
tinctive feature is a new pumping
plant, by which the sewers will be
flushed once in twenty four hours.
Here is an object lesson that will be
worth while for Mexico's neigh bors
on the north to watch.-St. Paul Pho.
neer Press.
The announcement has Just been
made that the Warner Bros. Co. of
Bridgeport Conn. has ordered gen.
eral advance in. wages. This concern
1s one OF the largest manufacturers of
corsets in the country and employs L.
400 hands. President I, De We're War
ner stated today owing to the general
Improvement in business conditions
ans advance of from ten to twenty per
cent would be made in nearly every de-
partment,
It's not exactly boom that Haskell
ts on, but when we look around the
court house square and see the four
new houses which have been erected
within the last few weeks and one new
store and shoe shop opened up in old
buildings and new newspaper to be
started next week, we begin to think
that things are coming alive again.
Some places would call it a BOOM
Free Press.
A meeting of leading manufacturers
Of collins and coffin trimmings was
held at the Waldorf Astoria in New
York recently with the purpose in
view OF forming q consolidated compa-
ny to control the coffin making trade.
From outside sources it was learned
hat above 20 per cent of the capital
invested in the manufacture of coffins
Ind trimmings was represented and
would probably go into the consolida-
ion.-San Antonio Express.
It has been officially given out that
he deal betweensthe St.Louis syndicate
md the Southern Oil company has
'een closed, and it is stated unofficial
y that the price paid for the forty six
wells and all the leases of the company
3 500, 900 cash, supplemented by an |
greement on the part of the purcha-
ers to drill fifty wells on the lease
lolds and to pay the Southern people
5000 on each we'll that produced as
auch as five barrels per day, making
be real price paid for the property
$50 900.
The new industries reported by The
'radesman during the week ended
April s. 1899, include among the more
important items a canning factory in
bams, coal mining development on
lookout Mountain, cooperage works
q Kentucky, two round bale compress
es in Texas, cotton mills in Mississip-l
i and South Carolina, the former q
ESQ, 900 investment; cotton seed oil
Hills in Georgia, South Carolina and
and Virginia, Touring mills
, Georgia. North Carolina and Vir-