El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-14
Industrial and
Commercial.

BOnham is being constructed OF brick
and stone, and will be large building
and will contain all the modern i'm
prOvements.
Work is being rapidly pushed on the
> new Touring mill at Bonham. The
building when finished will be five sto-
ries high, and will be modern In all re-
spects. 1t is stated that it will be the
largest Touring mill in north Texas
Elk.
Dirt was broken at Marlin for the
erection of two hotels one is to be q
; three-story brick of forty-five rooms
and up to date in all it's apartments;
the other will he q frame building near
the hot we'll. These buildings will
very likely be completed within the
next sixty days, in time for the rush.
Dallas News.
The poles for the new electric light
plant at Bonham are being erected in
the business part of the city, and it
will be but short time now until Bon
ham will have two electric light plants
in operation. The machinery for the
plant is on the way here now, the en-
CINE having already arrived. The
power-house is being erected on West
Second street,-Ex.
"There promises to be more miles of
railroad built in Oklahoma and Texas
during the present year than during
any other year in the history of those
sections, and a number of these lines
will have entered New Mexico before
the close of the season, which means
big boom in the mining interest of
New Mexico and the agricultural de-
velopment of the other sections. p
Denver Mining Record.
At Jefferson q company has arrang-
4 ad 70 oh for thn
pose of making steel to be utilized in
making plows, pillow beams, etc. No.
pig iron made here has been
thoroughly tested and it made first
class grade of steel. The No pig
iron, it is thought, will do the same,
but no trial has been made of 1t. Mr..
G.. A. Kelly, father of Mr.. Marvin
man to erect and operate q furnace in
Marion county. He is very familiar
with the qualities of this iron, and be-
| lieves the iron question of this section
| is solved-Dallas News.
The movement of cotton in Texas
during she past fortnight has sagged |
off materially. The railroad people |
say this was largely due to the fact |
that it was known that new rates were |
soon to go in force at a reduction. The |
new rates went in on Friday, and rs |
they are 10 cents per 100 lower than
those which have recently been in eff
feet, it is believed that they will great
ly accelerate the movement and soon
clean up the little cotton remaining in
the country. The copy for the new
Texas tariffs Is coming in very slowly,
and but few of the tariffs have thus
far been issued. The first batch of
notices resulting. from the southwest
ern bureau meeting, in session at ST,
Louis lost week, was received here to.
day. 1t pertains to cotton rates, and
lines the Interstate rates up with
those in Texas. The Interstate rates
become effective March 1S.-Dallas
News.
Among the many fine artesian wells
In Chaves county, the one on Otto
farm seventeen miles
from the fact that the wa
ter is soft. No satisfactory explanation
Of this fact has been reached The
water tastes decidedly like rain water
and makes fine suds with most any
Kind of ordinary soap. The we'll is $50
'eet deep and is cased for $50 feet from
The surface with six inch casing. The
low, which has not been accurately
n easured yet, Is variously estimated
It from 400 to 600 gallons per minute.
No Hedgecove is to be
on his good
Ortune, which he has won by deter
mined effort and the expenditure of
considerable money. His success has
almost every land owner
ot already begun boring for artesian
7ater, to lay definite plans for doing so
8 soon as possible, and this important
actor in the development of this por-
ion of the valley is becoming more
with each test made, max
ng it certain that the confident ex-
ectations of those who have insisted
bat startling results were sure to be
let by going deeper are going to be
Register. 1
Arizona will, in the course of a few
ears, have the greatest storage basin 7
1 the world. 1t is proposed to i'm
ne spring and winter, and to draw on
ais supply in the summer for irriga-
on and other purposes. This will be
,cated in the mountains sixty miles
ON Phoenix. The United States gov
has granted to the Hudson
& Canal company this basin.
nown as the ''Tonto Basin to be
any has completed all it's engineering
ork, and plans and specifications have
st been completed. 1t proposes to
lild dam at the head of the canyon. :
here the river energies from the
asin, thus creating a lake, which will
'ver eighteen square miles to N
,pth of 100 to 200 feet. 1t will be ~
,cessary TO build dam 200 feet high
I'd some 600 feet in length at the
p, although the canyon is only 200 x
ct wide from the first 100 feet from
e bottom. The territory of Arizona -
IS granted the company the use of
e channel Ct the Salt river in which