El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-25
Industrial and
Commercial.

effort to secure factories. Yoakum is
no, making much OF an effort, but
needs one or two, none the less.-YOa-
KUN Herald.
New Jerseys average receipts from
corporation fees amount to $4,000 day
Few communities have ever realized
80 much from any species OF prost1tu-
ton as thst.-Dallas News.
EMPLOYEES of the four mills of the
Wheeling Steel and Iron company in
West Virginia and Ohio have been
granted In per cent advance in
wages.-Fort Worth Register.
Probably $50, 600, 900 people, a tenth
of the worlds popu alton, speak the
English language. Not to be fairly
versed in the English tongue in these
times is serious defect in business
education. -Exchange.
Seventeen electric vehicle transport
alton companies have been incorporat-
ed at Trenton. These companies were
formed by the Whitney -Elkins- Widen
er syndicate to operate automobiles in
as many different states.--aouston
Post.
The American Agricultural Che mi
cal company. com animation of several
fertilizer manufacturing concerns, an
nounced contamination OF plans
several days ago at Baltimore, Md.
The authorized capital stock Is S4O,-
DOC, 900 -Exch.
The consump tion of quinine by Anne
rican soldiers suffering from one
southern fever or another during the
past year is said to exceed 125. 0OO, 600
grains. There was hardly a man who
did not take the drug at one time or
another. Exchange,
The mills in the Colmesneil district
Texas are putting in full time The
Aldridge && Duncan mill, near Rock
land, is shipping from 500 to 600 ties
daily. William Cameron & Co.'s new
mill at Rockland is about finished and
will begin running Observation-Disclosures
Herald.
The manufacture of cotton goods has
to q great extent enriched the New
England states The culture of cotton
has done much to improve the South.
Until the Soath builds its own mills
and exports the manufactured product
of its cotton fields will this state of af
fairs continue to prevail.--Wharto
Spectator.
The offer of the English capitalists
to buy all the cotton yarn mills OF Bris-
toll county, Mass, has been accepted
by majority of the stockholders in all
the mills. The actual bonus to be paid
above the par value is 81. 455, OCO and
tn total amount the present stockhOld-
ers will receive is Sc, 460, CO0.-Houston
Post
A charter has been applied for by
the Olympia cotton mills of Columbia,
and the capital will be 81 100000. The
power ia TO be electricity furnished by
&. power plant OF COlu m bla canal. 1t
will be the largest mill in the south,
-; 1,o
The incorporates are leading business
men of umbia.-EXchange
Exports If live cattle from the Unit
ed States for the past nine months as
compared with the nine similar preced-
ing months show loss of 80, 767 head.
Foreigners are either consuming q
smaller quantity of American beef or
the suppl es from Argentine and Aus
tralia are doing the American cattle
trade some harm.-Midland Stock Re
porter.
The census to be taken next year
will dlesIppate some extravaganza ideas
of population as to certain ambitious
towns and cities, but it is hardly prob
able that it will show the aggregate
population of the United States to be
less than IS, OOO, 900, as a Washington
corr espondent has iutimated. Ii ia
more probable that the figure will be
above than below that mark.-Dallas
News.
The much-talked-of bicycle trust,
the original one promoted by A. G.
Spalding, materialized on the 10th
wnep the American Bicycle Company
was Incorporated under the laws of
New Jer-ey in Trenton. The capital
stock is fixed at $50, 900 900, of which
S35, 600, 900 is I per cent cumulative
Ia
common stock. The company is said
to be financed by the United States
Mortgage & Trust company of New
York and Lee Higginson & Co. of Bos-
toy.
The latest proposition to establish q
trust affects the drug jobbing trade
and the project is being promoted by
Elliott Burris, a New York attorney.
1t is proposed to include ninety-one
concerns east of the Rocky mountains
and north of and including Memphis
and Richmond, whose combined CAPT.
tai is estimated at S17, 900, 900 and
whose annual sales propably reach $780,
900 900. The combine will be capital
lied at S45, 100000 and probably no
subscription will be asked outside the
trade. Houston Post.
The Chewing-gum combination,
which is to be known as the American
Chicle Co., will be Incorporated at
Trenton with q capital of 5000, 600 of
which $4,000, 600 will be six per cent Gu
mulative preferred stock and So, 0CO, 900
common stock. The company will ac-
quire the following concers: The Bee
man Chemical Co.; w. J. White &
Son, Cleveland: The Kis-me Gum Co.,
Louisville; j. P. Primley, Chicago: S.
T. Britten & Co., Toronto; and Adams
& Co., Brooklyn. Charles B. Flint is
identified with the new company, he