El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-02
Industrial and
Commercial.

10 Commercial. 4
The fine diffusion plant known as the
Cslasieu sugar refinery was sold at
sioner T. T. Taylor to J. G. Norris.
president of the Canal bank of New
Orleans, for S25, 500. The plant was
sold under mortgage.
Roswell will have direct railway com
munication with Kansas City and Chi
ca0o in q few weeks, the ice factory
will be ready for business for March Is
and an electric light plant will be in
operation here bymidsummer, and there
| il something else coming, too. Can you
guess what it is?-Rosweu Register.
AL. Carpenter and wife arrived
yesterday from New York and are the
ter. Mr.. Carpenter is president
OF the Msmmoth-Collins supply COM
pany, who will build an establishment
near the mill, as also cold storage
house and slaughter house. The new
company will be ready for business
about April Tucson Star.
Miss Lizzie Baker, having bought
all the land lying north of her studio
on Hemlock street, has bad the old
| shacks that formerly disgraced that
part of town torn down and is now hav.
ing nice fence placed around her en-
| tire property. When Miss Baker has
completed her intended improvements
che will have the satisfaction not only
of having q beautiful place, but of
knowing that she has been the means
of materially adding to the looks of
that part of the city.~Deming Head
light.
Is there any reason why Houston
should not be made q tobacco market?
If our citizens devote One-tenth the
energy to this trade that they have
given to the cotton business Houston
will in few years be one of the lead
ing tobacco markets in the South.
There is no reason why our cotton
business should be lessened, and it will
not be, On the contrary, this line OF
trade will increase each year, for
Houston has every inducement to offer
as q cotton market. We can diversity
our markets without curtailing busi-
county in south and southeast Texas
can raise tobacco. Many of the m do
cultivate the weed. The finest to bac-
CO grown in the world is produced in
Texas. It Is said fifty times as much
Texas tobacco" is sold in New York
as is raised in the state. Dealers re-
alize that it ia no longer necessary to
call everything in the line of tobacco
"Cuban." They are beginning to apply
the fraud to Texas, and are trying to
steal the Texas name and reputation.
Houston Post.
Business men do not seem to realize
the narrow limitations of Texas cities
as markets for agricultural products,
0f ri mh n,rt
a diversity of crops do not seem to I'M
derstsnd that before such q condition
can be brought about there must be q
diversity of markets. The farmer has
realized this, and it is for this reason
that the platitudinous essays on crop
diversification that have been thrown
at him for the last twenty-five years
farmer Is waiting for the factories and
the people to consume his diversi6ed
products before beginning to revolu-
tionize his farming methods. The
One-crop idea that he Is accused OF en-
tertaininR 10 merely q reflection of an
actual condition to our cities aud towns. |
Did you ever stop to think that there |
thing except the products of the cotton |
plant? A limited amount of 9th err pro- |
ducts can be sold, but If any one thing |
save cotton is planted on an extensive |
scale it will be just so much wasted. |
Is it better for the farmer to raise |
garden products that will rot on the |
ground for want of q market than to
devote his time to scent cotton? Any |
amount of cotton can be sold in Texas, |
and the ready cash can always be OBJ
tanned therefor, but can this be said of |
any other product? The farmer can't |
create q market for other products.
That must be done by the men with
money to invest, who generally live in
the cities. The cities must increase
tn cir industries, establish factories and
offer markets Cor diversity of crops.
When that is done the fsrmer can be
relied upon to do his part He is
anxious to escape from cotton slavery,
but the path to diversified freedom"
must be opened by the cities.-Hous-
ton Post.
Work on the ice factory is progress
ing nicely. The building is $3.50 feet.
~ feet wide on the south ell and %
feet wide on the east ell, the latter be-
ing the boiler room. It has a very
truss roof, AZ foot span
without post, an excellent stone
foundation, so built that later on the
walls can be faced with brick, and is
The frame work is nearly all done and
partially enclosed. The work of brick
ing in the two 70 horse power boilers
will be commenced next Monday. In
The northeast corner of the building
there is tower for the ammonia boil
er which will be Is feet shigh, with q
ten inch standpipe 20 feet high on top
Of it, Thirty feet on the north side will
be taken uD by the condensers and sb.
sorbers. On the east side of the south
ell there are to be two cold storage
rooms about ID feet square. The ma
chine room will be 35x22 feet. In the
south ell will stand the brine tank.
% x 20 feet, resting on four heavy