El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-22
Industrial and
Commercial.


Stunning important proportions. Inc
exports of the extract this year will ex-
coed last years. shipments by several
hundred per cent.
Near Jiquiapan, state of Michoacan,
it is reported, magnificent coal depo-
sits have been discovered. The rail-
road passes within kilOmeter OF the
place where the coal has been found.
Those who are posted in commercial
movements in Mexico City, are re-
marking on the large increase in traf-
fic in the past few weeks. The yards
at Santiago are crowded with freight
cars with merchandise for this city,
that being the receiving station.
City Engineer John B. Hawley of
Fort Worth is back from Corsicana,
where he went to arrange for petro-
leum for the city to be used as an ex-
pertinent in sprinkling the streets OF
Fort Worth. Mr.. Hawley said that a
wagon would be rugged up this week,
and that as soon as the oil reached the
menced. About $50 barrels will be
consumed.-Dallas News.
Houston, Tex, March 16.-President
Smith of the Meadow Brook Land De-
velopment and Meadow Crook Cotton
soon award the contract from bids on
hand for the erecting of the Meadow
Brook cotton mills near Houston. The
total of machinery and building will
amount to $500, 900, most of which is
machinery already purchased. They
are to be erected on TOWNSHIP OF 100
acres.
A subscription amounting to $500 has
been subscribed by tho citizen of Rose
bud and surrounding country with a
view of organizing stock company
for the purpose of sinking an artesian
we'll. The subscribers held their first
meeting last Friday and elected offic-
ers to serve until January l, 1900. The
initiative steps have already been
taken toward getting a charter for the
company. The people of Rosebud feel
enthusiastic over the prospects of ar
tesain water, having at the head OF the
enterprise set of business men with
pluck and energy.
Yoakum Is to have canning factory
Sherman and Fort Worth are to have
q cotton factory, Greenville gets
knitting milan oil refinery at Corsi-
cana will put her people to work
Rusk is about to establish a first-class
cotton mill-Galveston is increasing
the number of grain elevators-Hous-
factories, and Waco is to have An audi
forum to seat I, 800 people, Some OF
the Texas towns really appreciate the
situation.-Dallas News.
The citizens of Celeste met Friday
night to hear the report of the COM
mittee appointed at the mass meeting
last week to solicit subscriptions to
build an oil mill. They reported they
had received S35, 900, and it was decid-
ed to build of the latest pattern, well
equipped, with Cotton capacity.
Work will commence at once and be
pushed until the mill is completed. A
move is on foot to build fine flour
mill and q brick hotel and put up a
bank, all to be completed before the
summer season is over.-Dallas News.
class hotel. The company has been
formed, the site purchased, the requir-
ed amount, $4,000, subscribed and
ground broken for the erection of the
building. 1t will be located just east
of the court house on the Herman Butz
properly. The mean dimensions of
the building are 125x62 feet, with an
attached dining room of 16x2O feet. A
gallery feet in width will be built
around the entire outside of the house.
The rooms will be of large size, mostly
14x16 feet, and will be built with the
comfort of the guests in view.-PecOs
Pickipgs.
One of the best openings for Ameri-
can capital in chihuahua at the present
time is offered by the great demand in
this city for building stone. The open
ing of extensive quarries, where stone
would be worked by modern methods
Is an inv estment that could be made to
pay handsomely. There is great deal
of building going on in this city and a
new railroad is being constructed out
demand for fine and ornamental stone
must increase. Near chihuahua there
ere quarries, eaisly accessible, which
produce very fine quality of hard,
close granite stone; not far from here
there is rock easily workable and
soft; which quickly hardens after ex-
posure to the atmosphere. From these
Indications it is evident that building
stone is to be found in Chihuahua in
great abundance and variety. The
person or company starting modern |
.ock working plant, would make mo-
9fisd from the S'"r''-0h'n0"h0" Enter
Under the existing conditions the |
gulf states are brought into direct |
Ind uneven competition with Europe |
n practically all their foreign trade |
,ther than that of raw cotton, forest
products and mineral fertilizers. With |
he exception of their sales of these
products, the future commercial
relations of the gulf states will be less
With Europe than with Mexico, South
America and the Pacific countries.
Their textile and iron manufactures
IAN hardly hope to find much of a mar
1et in Europe. In the south Atlantic
.lso their competition with Europe
will be very keen. 1t is to the Pacific
tates of South America and to Asia
hat the people of the southern states
nay turn with the best prospect of Sc