El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-15

dynamo for the electric light will be at
once placed in shape aud the poles
erected and wires stretched.-Deming
Headlight.
Several prominent Americans nave
become interested in a plan to reclaim
the wilds of Yucatan by building what
Ia tt be called the National Yucatan q
Southeastern railroad, driving the In
dams from a vast and rich territory
hitherto undeveloped, and connecting
the port of PrOgresO and the capita OF
Yucatan, Merida. with British Hon
dural, Guatemala and Central Amer
lea railroads generally. President
Diaz of Mexico has made what the
stockholders describe as an immensely
valuable concession, and the work is to
be done by American engineers, under
the protection of Mexican troops. AT
ter they have built some three hundred
and fifty miles of railroad, it is intend
ed to compete with Havana and other
Cuban ports in the export of tobacco,
sugar, fruit, coffee, dye-woods, vege-
table ivory and ''wild' rubber.-Ex.
Ben F. Dotson, an extensive planter
in the eastern part of Brenham cOun-
ty, returned from Austin today and
brought with him forty Mexican labor
ers that he found in AID around San
Marcos. Mr.. Dotson has large tracts
of heavily timbered land near Will
liam Penn, and finds that he a not
only make a more advantageous con-
tract with this class of labor for open
ing new land, but they do the work o.
"clearing" in a very much more salts
factory manner than any he
has ever used. Mr.. ].
T. Hairston of Independence
has been using Mexicans also for clear
ing new timbered lands during last
fall, and eA presses great satisfaction
with the thoroughuess of their work.
Many persons in Brenham owning
small tracts of woodland adjacent to
town have employed M~exicsns to cut
cord wood and prepare the land for the
pillow, all of which has been done with
such eminent satisfaction to the land
lord that it has led 'to b employment
of hundreds all over the country. The
prairie lands in Washington county
are all in cultivation, but there are
thousands of acres of fine timbered
on that there is no class
of laborers here thai ear
be induced to do heavy kind of work
necessary to reduce it to q state of Gull
tivation. The Importation and intro
duction, therefore, of Mexican loborers
to be employed In work of this kind
will york something of a revolution in
the farming interests of this section of
country and will be a most substantial
contribution to the county's material
wealth and productive industries, as
this course will largely increase the
cultivated area.-Dallas News.
The news of the action of the Calves
ton city council in granting to the
Southern Pacific all that they asked
was q much discussed topic in railroad
and financial circles here today. This
action on the part OF Galveston will GO
more :oward attracting capital and en-
terprise than anything that could pos
sibly be put forth, for it shows a broad,
comprehensive view Of the needs of
great public enterprises, a number Of
form in the upbuilding of Galveston.
In discussing GslvestOn's future with
prominent men of finance in this city,
it developed hat there was an almost
unanimity of opinion that with the
operations of the Southern Pacific
lines via Galveston that city will be-
come one Of the greatest shipping CEN
ters of the country, and commercially
will control the southwest. When ask
ed why, if Galveston possessed such
immense possibilities, she remained
dormant for so many years, a shrewd
fnancier replied. "Galveston with IL to
16 feet of water was nothing out a local
city. but now, with 81 to % feet of wa
ter and one of the finest harbors in the
world and its geographical location. it
rises to the point of being classed as a
great international highway. It will
possibly not be the citizens of Calves
ton of today that will make her great,
although many of them may realize
splendid opportunities o opening to
them, but 1t Is safe to say, taking the
growth of other cities for example, that
new blood, men experienced
in the lines of trade that the change
produces, will step in and take the
places of those who, under old condi-
of trade and finance. In q few years
when GalvestOn's shipping becomes
more extended you will find large
houses engaged in the lines of import
and export whose trade will be far
reaching. Commercial enterprises on
a large scale are always bound to fol-
low superior shipping facilities, and
these Galveston will have beyond Der
adventure. The Goulds have parties
surveying the Galveston field for
them, and it is no secret that they
will be forced by the trend of things
to either establish their own water
lines to New York and the West In
dies or make close working arrange
ments with some existing lines, for
competition will compel this nov on
their part and they know it. There
will be q party of in fluential capitalists
now travelling together make a quiet
survey of Galveston's opportunities
before the end of this month, and they
have in view the establishment of sew
eral large industrial enterprises deal
ing in products that are cheaply con-
centrated at Galveston under present
conditions and facilities for s%hipping.'
The men referred to are those known
in New York as the First National
bank crowd, who are largely interested