El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-11
Industrial and
Commercial.

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A large cotton mill is being built at
Barker, Texas.
Harrison county Tex, will erect
story court house.
The oil mill at Farmersville, Tex.
has begun sinking q 1500-foot artesian
we'll.
The citizens of Bonham, Tex, are
figuring on the erection of q cotton
factory.
Mexico's cotton mills are using
800, 900 worth of United States cotton
month.-Ex.
A 3-story brick building, costing $780,
600, will be erected at Marshall Tex,
by the Freedmen's Aid and Southern
Educational society.
Mazaslan's, Mexico, new freproof
market house which, when com pleted,
will cost 5000, 900, is to be the largest
and finest in Mexico.
Material is being unloaded at Mex
ia for new freight depot, and the
building will be put up at once, as the
workmen are already there.
The Colorado Iron Works has book-
ed an order for a complete two-stack
helms at Aguas Calientes, Mexico.
Mexico's imports for the fiscal year
ending June 80, will exceed fifty mil
| lion dollars gold. Imports are now
averaging five millions q month.-Ex.
A plan is on foot at Corsicana to or
ganize number of small companies
and individuals owing oil wells into one
big corporation; plain James Garrity
! is behind the deal.
Three tobacco factories at Mazatlan :,
Mexico, make 1000, O00,cigarettes and
SO 900 cigars weekly. They employ
over 300 men and girls who earn about
IS cents (Mexican) each per day.
Thirty cars of crushed granite, to be
used in street work, have been shipped
New Orleans, and much more of 1t l..
to go as fast as it is gotten out.-Ex.
The Young Mems Business League
OF Cameron will shortly begin the
erection of q $40, 900 building, part of
which is to be used "a an auditorium
with 3 seating capacity of 1OO0.-Ex.
| A round bale gin plant will be oper-
ated at Kyle, Tex, this season by the
being put in order, as an immense crop
is expected in that vicinity this year.
The Mexican Herald says that ex-
ports of English railway iron and steel
to Mexico for the first half of the cur
rent year were 5,617 tons, worth EDS
941, as compared With the similar
,657 tons, worth e25, 720.
Mr.. L. 81. Blanton of Washington is
in Abilene. Tex, for the purpose of
making Investigations and recon-
mending q location for the Federal
building, for the erection of which
$75, 900 was appropriated at the last
session of congress. Nineteen sites
have been submitted. Post.
| The Mexican internationally new
shop building at @. p. Disz cost $780,
900. It is thoroughly modern, the
power berg steam, electric and COM
pressed air. The outside walls OF the
building are OF gray rock from the
Castano quarry, the dividing walls of
| brick, aud the roof trusses of steel,
| supported by iron columns.
Under the title of Sociedad Agricola
de Industrial Francesa, company has
been Incorporated under the laws of the
republic of Mexico, with a capital of
100000, subscribed by French resi-
dents of this city for the purpose of ex-
plotting certain lands in the Coeama-
loapam district in the state of Yer a
Cruz and south of Alvarado. Mr.. Aug
ust G enin is president Of the company.
-Ex.
The work on the new Masonic WI
dows' and Orphans home at Fort
| Worth will be completed about Sep
TENDER l. A boiler house 72x64 feet,
to cost 1862, 80, containing room for
engines, boilers, etc., will be erected.
There will be in the rear a swimming
rool 15xl9 feet. Several bath rooms
will also be fitted up. A brick stable,
etc, will also be erected on the pre-
mises.
The largest wool deal made this sea.
son In lump to one party that The
Optic has heard of was recently made
by Charles Ilfeld to eastern parties. be.
ing negotiated by Thomas Ross. II
consists of 1000 bags of wool, or be-
tween 800 900 and 900. 900 pounds. Its
transportation to the cars will make
1926 transfer loads and it will take
seventy cars, or three trains to haul il
to Its destination. Although the price
was not stated, it is pretty safe to as
sumo that, with the prevailing price Of
wool, not less than $1,000 was 10
volved in the deal. 1t took the clips
from the backs of approximately 200,
600 head of sheep to produce thi:
amount of wool and it would take 400
men about ten days to shear that mum.
her of sheep. AS q wool market La
Vegas is undoubtedly the best city in
the southwest and the amount of WOO
handled here has been steadily increas
ing for several years past until now
over one half of the clip of the terri
tory is marketed in this city and the
importance of this can be understood
when one stops to consider that New
Mexico ranks second among the state
/ of tho nniQr, in moi Mt of Sxool Il,