El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-14
Industrial and
Commercial.

II COmMtICldl.
Stove manufacturers advance prices
| five per cent. San Antonio Light.
The railroad companies of the United
States pay annually about 800, 600, 600
| for labor.-EX.
Cotton yarn com bine files articles of
incorporation for capital of 81 800, 600.
San Antonio Light.
In the south within the past five
months $17 900, 900 of new capital has
been invested in cotton mills.-Ex.
The statistician at the department OF
agriculture estimates that in 1881 the
population of the United States will be
13O, 900, 000.-Ex.
All exports at Mstanzas, Cuba dur
ing the last six months, amounting to
50, 1877 ,7O2, came to the United States.
Albuquerque Citizen.
For the calendar year 1897. the Unit
ed States exported manufactured goods
to the value of S279, 652 900 and in 1898
to the value of 1907, 924, 900. while this
year the figures are likely to run up to
$34O, 600. OOO.-Mexican Herald.
The United States sent abroad dur
ing the ten months ending April 30,
1897, exactly 27S locomotives. In the
same months of 1898 it exported 1866:
for the same period of the current fis-
cal year the record has risen to III
Elk.
On April Is, 1892, fifty-eight banks
in New York held deposits amounting
to $780, 929 900, and these banks May
Is, 1899, held deposits amounting to
M n
years of 1858, TAI 900, or more than 70
per cent.-Ex.
There are now building in the ship
yards of the United States, for our own
and foreign account, more than fifty
naval vessels, valued, exclusive OF ar
NOR and armament, at over $40, 900 900,
and more than 200 merchant vessels
exceeding $50, OOO,0 900 in aggregate val
ue.-EX.
The Denison, Texas, Cotton mill will
start out with about $50 operatives.
This means an increase in Denison s
population of about 1000 people imme
diately and the mum Der will be increas-
ed rapidly. This is an opportunity we
can't afford to miss. The census is at
hand.-Denison Herald.
The Russian government has order
ed from the Carnegie steel works $780,
900 tons of steel rails for the great
trans-Siberisn railway. The outlay
represented in this order. the largest
ever given to one firm in the world,
will be between 50, 500, 900 and Sc, O00,-
600. 1t will take 200, 900 tons of pig
iron to make the rails.
The Distillery Company of America.
with an authorized capital of $125, 0O0.-
600, was incorporated here today to
60
spirits, alcohol, gin and all distillery
products and by-products. OF the cap
ital stock $55, 900, 600 is preferred. with
Z per cent cumulative dividends
Antonio Elk.
Northern Mexico-sinKing wells for
salt water to manufacture salt for min
ing and domestic purposes. One COM
psny has secured 10000 acres of salt
water territory at Camaron, 12O miles
south of Laredo, and have struck wa
ter con tanning II. per cent. salt, worth
from one to three cents pound.-Min-
ing Review.
The United States Investor, of Bos-
ton and New York, q vehement anti
trust paper, publishes table showing
hat the aggregate capitalization of the
and in course of forma-
tio9fsince January l, 1898, amounts to
$3.50, 783, 1888. The table contains the
on the subject it states that five billions
of dollars of the capitalization is ''wa-
ter. "-Ex.
Belgium is investing heavily in Rus
sian industrial enterprises, aud it is
worth noting that the foreign indus
trial development far exceeds the nat
i've. for last year the Russians. million
aries and small manufacturers, put
INTO new Industrial enterprises 1O7, 0OO,-
300 francs, Belgium 100, 900 900, Great
Britain $4,000. 900, France $4,000, 600,
Germany IA, 900, 900 and Austria 7.OOO,-
Mexican Herald.
To British North America the ex-
ports in the fiscal year 1899 will be in |
.oupd numbers 100000, 900, as against |
sS5, 900. 900 last year; to Mexico the |
exports will be about $25, 900, 900 as
against S21, POS, 900 last year: to Cuba
he exports will be about SlS, 100000
against So, 260. 900 last year; to Porto
Rico the total will be 81, 500, 900 in 1898
Ind to the entire West Indies group
he total exports of the year will be
'35, 900, 900 in round mum bers, against
'26. $4,000 last year.-New Mex
can.
The failures of the first half of 1899,
banking and financial included. were
1884, with liabilities of $40, 1854 Sol.
failures we're 4,S53, with
ia bilities of S42, O62, 953, of this S16,-
%, 555 was manufacturing and S23,-
IL 1854 trading. In the second quarter
were the smallest ever re-
,orted in that country for twenty-five
ears. The average per failure,
Z ,165, is the smallest ever known in
my quarter. The average per firm
q business, S12. 20, and the ratio of de-
auIted liabilities to solvent exchanges,
3 cents per 81 900, are also the small
st ever known in any quarter. The
silures of 800, 900 or more were only
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