El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-08
Industrial and
Commercial.

INFLATED by last years very prOhtab Die
crop results, are quite anxious to plant
4 an increased acreage this season.
Latest reports from Germany indf
. cate that the acreage of sugar beete
for 1899 will be no larger than that OF
1898. and may possible be somewhat
smaller.
The Lehi factory is undergoing 9
great many improvements, which Will
tons of beets daily. About $50, 900 will
be expended.
Two car loads of German sugar beet
seed have arrived this week. This
, will be ready for distribution on March
25th, and planting will likely begin
early in April.-Lehi Banner.
Pennsylvania farmers have petitioned
the legislature of their state to pass q
law giving q bounty of one cent on
each pound of sugar manufacture ed
from beets grown in the state.
A. Knollin & Co.. of Kansas City,
have leased 80 acres of land at Norfolk
, Nebraska, and will next season pre-
pare to feed 40. 900 lambs there on beet
pulp from the local sugar factory.
The Union Sugar company, of Santa
Maria, California, has closed contracts
with farmers for 5000 acres of beets.
The company will also grow beets on
1000 acres of It's own land near the fac
tory.
The Chino sugar company is now
preparing fertilizers from its refuse
lime cake The lime cake is pulver-
lied and put up in 1OO-pound sacks for
shipments. Orders for over 500 tons
of it are now in.
The defeat of the bounty bill by the
| ris 1of ,,r q q an6ad
| beet sugar sgitation in that state Cap
ital cannot be obtained for the erection
of factories and the farmers are in con-
sequence disconsOlate.
Mr.. Troxwell, of Dublin has sub
mitted o proposition to the business
men of Gatesville to erect an oil mill.
The proposition has been accepted
and the work of erection Is to COM
mence not later than June l.
Mr.. ]. A. Price is putting in the ma
chinery in q new roll er mill at Goldth-
waite, Texas and by May 1 it will be
ready to make bread for the people.
The mill will fill long felt want in
the section and will be well patronized
by the general.
The La Grande (Oregon) factory is |
said to be planning to bring raw sugar
from Honolulu on scale that would |
keep the factory running at full time
on tie refining of this product during
the nine months of the year not devOt-
ed to the manufacture of beet sugar.
The new electric plant al Wilcox will
consist of two dynamos and direct
three wire system, everything being
of the latest improved design The ice
machine will be of the best make and
will have in connection cold storage
for at least two carloads.
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machine are to be in operation by June
1st, when Wilcox will begin to put on
airs.-Range News.
A. P. Davis of the United States geo.
logical survey. was in town yesterday
from Riverside, near which place he
has been in charge of boring opera
lions. A line of holes has been sunk
across the ella at q point midway be-
tween Riverside and the Ripsey mill,
solid granite bedrock being struck in
the deepest place, at seventy-five feet.
ed at Queen creek. Nothing yet has
been found more favorable than the
original location at the Buttes, though
3 comp etc survey is being made at all
to be favorable points,
Florence Tribune.
The we'll on the w. J. McKie farm,
seven miles out from Corsicana which
was drilled as an oil prospect over q
year ago, has developed into q genuine
salt water producer, Parties from
there state that it is shooting higher
eight nearly 100 feet, and it comes
out with a noise like escaping steam.
The water is highly saline and yields
3 large percentage of pure salt. A
farmer in the height orhood boiled
DOWN an ordinary washk kettle of the
water and it yielded nearly peck of
pure salt, of good quality. This has
put people to thinking and there is
talk of forming company for the ma
nufacture of salt from this and water
70 be secured from other wells.
Messrs. Anderson and McKenna. two
.entlemen recently from Southern Cal
fornis, are here in Tucson for the pur-
rose of organizing company to estab-
ish and maintain a permanent water
,ower plant, The plan seems to be q
ssible one, and it is to be hoped that
hese gentlemen can bring the project
o successful conclusion. Their plan
t some favorable point south of the
fty, and conduct it along the higher
round until it will reach sufficient
levation, and then to drop the water
own upon the Peluon or other 1heels,
nd thus create the desired power. 1t
> well known fact that only the low
st flow of water during the entire
sason can be counted on for practical =
over, and while the flow in the river
t it's lowest is not all that could be de- -
red, it is believed that several hun
red miners inches can be added to
ne flow by series of channels and r
ross cuts above the point where the
alter is to be taken from the river L
ed. If this can be done it will give
nple water to make a powerful plant,
nd that of course, means che8Der |