El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-01
Industrial and
Commercial.

! Commercial. I
Porto Rico has 300 coffee plantations.
China exports IL, 900, 900 fans annual
/ ly.
The worlds navies employ 1896, 900
men.
Connecticut has Is, 637 cotton opera
tives.
Rockefeller employs %, 900 men.-Ex-
change.
Brazil produces half the worlds rub
ber.-Exchange.
| The invention of the typewriter has
given employment to 100000 women.
No less than SIS, 900, 900 is invested
in the glove industry of the United
| States.
form q trust, with capital of $50, OOO,-
OOO.-Exchange.
The railroads are doing an immense
| business and can we'll afford to paw
employees liberal salaries.-Exch.
It Is believed that the present year
will surpass all that have gone before
in the number of bicycles made and
sold,
| A silk trust with capital of $780,
| 900, 900 is to be formed. Union Hill,
Pennsylvania mills and some others
will not go in.-Houston Post.
There is still more talk of $780,
O00, 900 steel and iron combine. These
are the days of big figures and big men
| figure in the great pools--Mexican
Herald.
The uoited industrial commission
has decided to devote the latter part
| of May and q considerable part of June
| to the investigation of the trusts.-Ex-
| change.
The value of the gold, silver and
copper coined by Mexico during the
last IL years averages about S26 ,00O, 600
| q year, quite evenly distributed during
this period. -Exchange.
AS long as exports from the United
States lead those of any other nation
on the globe, the necessity for other
| than q revenue tariff will not be strik-
ingly apparent.-HoustonP Post.
The American Steel and Wire COM
pany has advanced the price of nails 10
cents keg, and all wire products 10
| cents hundred. Car axles have been
advanced 81 per ton.-Exchange.
On account Of the scarcity of raw
| 10 Material for the paper mills of Homo
lulu they now use the stalks of the
potato plant. which can be bought of
the farmers for so cents per ton.-Ex-
change.
1t is that the proposed peanut trust
is very likely to become fact. Most of
the factories are bonded conditionally,
| the options to hold good to May Is. The
growers of North Carolina and Virginia
are going into the combination very
freely.-Exchsnge.
The wheat flour exports in 1897 was
equivalent to Is, 562. 952 bushels of
| wheat, and that in 1898 to 69,O74, 744
bushels. Stated in grain, the COM
| bined shipments of wheat flour would,
| therefore, amount to 145, 124, 972 BUSH
| els for the former year and to 217, $685.
| 0O5 bushels for the latter.-Exchapge,
British Columbia is said to possess
| the largest compact timber resources
OF the world and only the fringe of it
| has been cut. Russia ranks next to
| Canada with 1913, zoe, 900 acres of tim
Der area, and the United States is clas-
sed as third, with $50, 600, 900 acres
Albuquerque Citizen.
Last year the importations of wool
amounted to 1926, 900, 900, the smallest
for two decades. During tie last year
of the Cleveland free trade administra-
tion the wool importations amounted to
S91, 500 900. Only such material is now
imported as cannot be furnished by
our own wool growers.-Albuquer
Citizen.
Every commercial and manufacture
ing industry is either directly or in
directly dependent upon mining in
some form or other. Even those who
s4eminO1V ara tho forfhoot ,o~na-od
will, at q moments thought. be seen to
depend upon the mines for existence,
whether 1t be for coal, iron or some of
the base metals, or for gold or silver
Las Vegas Optic.
The Anal gamated Copper companv.
. com binatiOn of q number of the prin-
cipal copper concerns of the country.
affected an organization is S75, O0O, 900.
The charter allows the company to
mine. smelt and mill copper, and also
gold, silver and other metals. It's pro-
visions also cover everything the com.
pany Is ever likely to desire to do, in
GLIDING buying and selling, building
and erecting plants, and acquiring pro-
perties.-Las Vegas Optic.
The labor department., United
it's fifth annual report. 1t shows that
all the principal groups of Industries
eharec more or less in rise of wages,
The result of all the changes recorded
was rise of about $217.S per week,
of which the greater part is accounted
for by the engineering, shipbuilding,
mining and building industries. In
round numbers the workers have sec
ured 81 300, 600 increase in wages an
nually through trade union effort
Albuquerque Citizen.
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