El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-03
Industrial and
Commercial.

While r. K. Erwin and others of
Waxahachie are making arrangements
to build an oil mill at Fort Worth, par
ties at the latter place are figuring on
building a $50. 900 mill here.-San An
tonic Express.
The Arizona Timber and Lumber
company has just completed It's new
saw mill in Flagstaff and it was started
upslast week again. 1t is said to be
equipped with the finest machinery OF
any saw mill west of the Mississippi
Iriyer.-Prescott Journal Miner.
Chas. r. Fife, representing Chicago
and ST. Louis parties, closed deal for
sixteen acres south of the Texas & Pa
ctfic railroad to erect at Paris hun
dfed ton capacity cotton oil mill with
complete refinery attached, having the
lStest approved appliances and to cost
800, 000.-San Antonio Express.
1.-THE charter of the Princeton Hotel
company of San Antonio was filed in
tie secretary of states office; the CAPT.
tsl stock is $4,000; the corporation is
formed for the establishment and
maintenance of hotel; the incorpora-
tors are Thomas w. Mullaly, Sidney
81. Weis and r. F. Blair.-Houston
Post.
| The project of new street car line
to Taeubaya is taking shape. It is to
| start from OcampO street, run along
| burcio, Victoria, Sapo, Ciudadelia and
Pane, from which point it is to cut
| straight across country to Tacubaya,
partly through the new PaseO lands
Mexican Herald.
Mr.. w. G. Yesterday, representing
| Lamb & Co., manufacturers, of Free
port, Ill. is in Temple consulting with
| the business men in reference to the
establishment of plant for the man
| ufacture of farm implements with q
foundry in connection. The plant, as
outlined by Mr.. Yesterday, will en-
ploy about 200 men with good paying
wages.-Ex.
E. I. Pitttman, q leading citizen of
Ennis. has let the contract to M
Emery, an experience oil we'll man, to.
bore an oil we'll on his premises in the
| western part of Ennis. Work began
Saturday afternoon and the drill is now
nearly 200 feet. Mr.. Pittman hopes to
reach oil, but if the oil attempt fails he
will have the work continued for arte-
sian water, The attempt will be
watched by interested citizens with
much interest.-Houston Post.
William V. Futrelle, Rosa Gideon
Ella Futrelle and James o. Gideon, re
sidents of the territory of New Mexico,
have organized the Albuquerque House
of incorporation in Secretary Wallace's
Office. The objects of incorporation
are to engage and carry on general
furniture and house furnishing business.
Capital stock, $4,000; principal place
of business lotated at the city of Albu-
querque.-Ex.
A new shoe factory has been estab-
lished at Hermosillo by Simon Lee
& Co. The establishment is located on
Gale Carmen, No IS, opposite the
bank of Sonora. Mr.. Leo 81. Coppel,
the manager, Is young gentleman
who formerly resided in Tucson, and
afterward in Mazatlan. He is we'll
and widely known in both Arizona and
with ample capital and is prepared to
do very extensive business.-Nogsles
Oasis.
Yoakum Is to have q canning fac
tory. Sherman and Fort Worth are to
gets a knitting mill. An oil refinery
at Corsicsna will put her people to
work. Rusk is about to establish a
first class cotton mill. Galveston is
increasing the number of grain eleva-
tor; Houston is getting in condition
for several factories and Waco is to
have an auditorium to seat 1900 per-
sons. Some of the Texas towns really
appreciate the situation Dallas Times
Herald.
The North Texas farms are present.
ing busy scenes. The unusually severe
winter put the farmers behind In their
work and they are only now catching
up. In the last week every man who
proposes planting crop this year has
been busy as toy merchant on Christ
mas eve. The weather has been bright
and warm and they have been making
up for lost time. Land is fast being |
sowed and corn and cotton lands gotten |
ready for the crops. A large oats |
acreage is promised. Farmers report |
the wheat crop as being uninjured and |
looking well. Winter oats were badly
damaged in many localities. Much of
the land that was in winter oats is
being sOwed in spring oats. When the
thermometer was intimate with zero a
few weeks ago the farmers were de-
pressed and despondent. They are hap
py again and confidently expect q
bountiful harvest. Houston Post.
Mexico is producing at the present
from seventy to ninety thousand tons
Of sugar, which is entirely consumed
by her IL, 100000 inhabitants. Sugar
cane is being cultivated in about $500
naciendas and ranches, which produce
sugar, ''panocha, and aRusrdiente; in
Cuba, on the other hand 500 plantations
ire producing, 1,0OO, 600 tons of sugar,
n other words, in Cuba four and a half
lines less of places of production, pro-
luce more than twelve times the guam
ity produced in Mexico. Sugar plant
ng is carried on in Mexico today for
he greatest part "a it has been for