El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-08-03
Industrial and
Commercial.

erected.-Ex.
A move Is on foot to build pavilion
at Gainesville.-Ex.
Harrison county will erect three
story courthouse.-DenisO Herald.
Six brick business houses are being
erected at Rockwell, Tex.-Pecos
Times.
The Bsptists are building a new
church at Morgan, Texas.-Sherman
Register.
A cotton mill, then a creamery, and
| a canning plant, are ell coming to Bon
ham.-Bonham News.
The new roller flour mill has COM
menced operations at Gsinesvflle.-
Bonham News.
A bank has been established at RIOS
we'll, N. NJ, in which the stock holders
are nearly all cattlemen.-Sherman
Register.
At the present rate of growth it is
estimated the next census year OF 1900
will find no fewer than 100000 per-
sons earning living either directly Or
Indirectly through electrical enserpr1s.
es.-Albuquerque Citizen.
The Clay county Cheese company
which is located at Henrietta, Tex,
has been incorporated. The company
has capital stock of 81 800. Work
has begun and cheese will be made in
quantities to supply the demand.-Fort
Worth Register.
Bonham's new 2OO-bsrrel flour mill
and 1OO,O 900 bushel elevator were set in
motion recently. The company has
already purchased $4,000 bushels of
wheat and is still buying at the rate of
5000 bushels per day. Fifty-six cents
is the price paid.-Dallas News.
The Freedman's Aid and Southern
Educational society, which meets in
Indianapolis next week. will let the
contract for the erection of $4,000
building on the Wiley university
grounds in Marshall. The structure
will be of brick, three stories.-Hous
ton Post.
Prof. Chas. Curtiss reports that
American bacon is being shipped to
Ireland, re-stamped and shipped to
England as Irish bacon. which has the
highest reputation in the world. Thus
is wholesome lesson being forced up
on English cyclists by American Chi
canery.-Ex.
A cotton oil company was organized
at Bartlett; Texas, capital, $50 600. w.
j. eagle, PRESIDENT; w. F. Fulton, vice
president; John T. Bartlett, treasurer
G. A. Linderman, secretary; G. W.
Hill, manager. Capacity of the mill,
thirty tons q day. The mill will be
ready for the present growing crop.
A large plant for the slaughter of
horses for "beef" ia going up at Me-
dora, N. D. The object of this concern
is to supply the meat hungry people of
Europe with horse flesh and our own
city people with canned horse, to be
labeled beef" For these purposes
down horse or mule will do.-Ex.
The Southern Pacific railroad will
erect q building at the Paris exposi-
sources of such portions of the west as
are tapped by it's various lines. For
this purpose the road has set aside the
sum of $50. 900 and It's expenditure has
been placed in the hands of w. h.
Mills, who will superintend the
Ryley s. Shaw, contractors and build
ers of Jacks boro, Texas, have closed a
contract with the city of Fort Worth
for 5000 yards of crushed stone, to be
used for street purposes. This con-
tract will cause rock crushing plant
to be esta blished in Jacksboro, the
stone here being considered far super
Tor to anything in the state for said
There is shortage of vessels on the |
Pacific coast for carrying freight to |
;he Orient, all the available tonnage |
olies to our army in Pacific waters and |
N Pacific islands. Consequently |
reiRht rates have advanced, bread
tufts have advanced and consumption |
decreased in China, Japan and other
EASTERN markets.-Ex.
At Tlacotalpam the Compania de
Iavegacion de los Rios de Sotavento is
citing up in the shipysrd at that place
team boat 120 sect long and of $50
orse power, which cost S78, 900 and lie
o be called the Vale Nacional. When
he is launched four others will be put
nto the trade, the San Jose, Papalea-
am, Playa Vicente and Soyatepec.
he shipyard employs 100 men, with a
ierald.
In the electric light and power in
ustry, as reported in 1880, there were
hree central stations in the United
tates, employing 230 persons and pro-
ucing an output valued at S45S, 400.
EN- years later, or in 1890, there were
VIC 6boGO VI ASOW VIC |
f Colum bia and the city of st. Louis
lone 134 establishments, employing
900 persons and producing an output
slued at 81, 1888, 22a. In 1892 the ag-
regate capital invested in electric
ghting plants throughout the whole
0untry was $3.50, 900, 600. In 1895 there
ere 2, 124 central stations and 7.475
olated plants, making a total of $500
The capital of the
sntrsl stations alone was S259. 956, 256.
t least Al, 900 persons were employed {
| these plants.
Papers have been signed up by w. M. 1
owe of Dallas Tex, and citizens of