El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-23
Industrial and
Commercial.

q Dig oil mill at Mount Pleasant
is nearing comD letion.
Several brick buildings have been
built at Graham, Texas, recently
Denison Herald.
The Roswell Bottling company is
putting q new mineral water on the
market.-Record.
G.. D Warmock has been awarded
the contract to erect the round house
and machine shops at Alsmogordo.-
News.
From Phoenix q car of hides we're
shipped this week to New York and
two cars of barley and one OF hay were
shipped north.-EX.
Mike Kennedy is crowding the work
on the addition to the round house, and
the opera house is still forging ahead
toward completion. Both of WiDslow.
l-Ex.
Work has commenced on the new
hall to be erected at the colored deaf,
dumb and blind asylum at Houston,
Texas. II is to COS S900O.-Houston
Post.
Work on the new depot at Clarks-
Vile is being pushed with great rapid
lty. The p~lasterers, carpenters and
painters are all at work.-Clarksville
News,
Despite the protests of 800 citizens,
the commissioners of Delta county
have decided to issue S35, 600 in bonds
for the purpO of building q new court
house.-Ex.
At q meeting of the city council of
Paris, it was agreed to furnish all
manufacturing enterprises that will
consume 200, 600 gallons or more water
per month at Is cents per 1000 gallons.
Dallas News.
The Trinity Rice Land company has
commenced work on it's irrigation can
al and will put not less than 40, 600
acres of Lam in cultivation, adding not
less thar $500, 600 income to this Sec
tion.-Dallas News.
The recent advance in oil to 80 cents
per barrel in the Corsicana field, while
it caused rejoicing among producers,
does not SATISFY them, they claiming
that Corsicana oil being better than
Ohio oil, which is selling 1T from 81 to
to SO cents, should command just as
much as the latter. if not more.-Hous-
ton Post.
Building operations here are at q
stapdstill again because of q brick
shortage. The kilns, it is said, are SO
far behind that it is impossible to fill
orders when material ia desired. Work
on the Hardy-Peck and the Ralph
Beaton buildings has been ~temporari-
Iy suspended OF this account. This is
the second suspension of work here
resulting from the same cause within
thirty days.
The bricks made by the Sarmina and
Oliveros company at Cuernava "a are
always in such demand that they can
not supply all III orders they get, and
are crowding out the Monterey brick,
because they give as good An article at
g less price. And the reason is simple.
the clay is equal, but Monterey is 1882
ktIometers from Mexico City, and
Cu~ernavacs is 120; hence the freight is
much less from the latter place than
from the former.-Two Republics.
According to q statement recently
published, there are 125 factories of all
sizes containing 491 ,443 spipdles and
IA, 759 looms, they employ 23,731 work.
men.
July, 1898, to the 3Oth or June, 1899,
Is. OIL 100 kilos of cotton; they.produce
1916, 8S2 places of cotton goods and
965, I'll kilos of yarn.
The value of the production was $14,-
963, 299 Mexican money.-Two Re-
publics.
Twenty years g Mexico had no
railroads.. Today there are nearly 12,-
0 miles in operation and new roads
are being projected every day. No
cotton miles we're in operation at that
time, at present there are owe 150.
Mexico no longer needs to import cot
ton goods. If they import it is simply
a matter of choice and not of necessity.
The WOODEN industry has made equa
progress, considering the demand, and
Mexico can today supply her home
market.-Modern Mexico.
The problem of native leather for
the republic of q first class grade has
probably been solved. A mod ern tan
merry was opened last week in Mexico
city. 1t has a capacity of 800 flashed
hides per men and employs 55 men.
This tanuery, called the Grand Nation
al, Is situated in the lands of the Ran
cho del Chopo beyond Santa Maria,
northwest of the city. The factory is
a large and substantial masonry struct-
ure consisting of two floors and an at
tic. The tanning is performed undera
secret process invented by Mr.. Gusta-
vO Rohrer, of Newark, N. j., who holds
the position of tie clinical manager of
the factory. It is owned by a joint
stock company of which the president
is Sebastian Camacho and the vice pre-
sident Mr.. Jose de LanderOs y Cos.
The general manager is Mr.. Jose de
Cevad Y Baldenebro; the assistant
general manager. Mr.. E. Gomez, and
the administrator, Mr.. Francisco
Symonds.-Ex.
A new railway called the Coahuila
and Pacific has recently been project
ed to run from SalttllO to TorreOn. 1t
is reported that contracts have already
been made for the work of grading. No
country in the world, says the Mining