El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-27
Industrial and
Commercial.

4 Commercial. I
Taylor, Texas. is to have a $4,000
pressed brick factory.
Treasury statistics show prosperous
state of foreign trade.
A local telephone exchange will be
put in at Edna, Texas.
The Rio Bravo Coal company of
Texas has been Incorporated.
The new cotton mill at Denison,
Texas, will soon be in operation.
Taylor, Texas, is to have Touring
mill to be built by home capital.
The Sisters of Mercy will erect q
convent building in Paris, Tex.
The Crown mill at Socorro, New Mex
ice, has on 60, 600 bushels of wheat.
An aluminium factory will be started
in Mexico City with a million dollar
capital.
The Globe Arizona Electric Light
company is now running between 500
aud 600 lights.
The Baptist people of Mineral Wells
west part of the city.
The cannery at Las Cruces, New
Mexico, is now in operation and ship
ping tomatoes in carload lots.
The Southwestern company of Waco,
capital stock 800, 900, purpose, to do a
general merchandise business, has filed
it's charter.
The farmers and business men near
CT hon - n
$50, 900 to the stock of cotton mill to
be located here.
A Touring mill with capacity of 200
barrels day is to be built at Taylor,
Texas, and will be ready to handle next
years wheat crop.
Ledbetter & Wattinger have been
awarded the contract to erect the new
high school building for the city of
Austin at cost of $42, 900.
Mexico City finances are on q sub
stautial basis. the receipts amount ing
monthly to more than $4OO, 900, while
the expenditures are only 1850, 600.
The City of Mexico receives from
water rentals per month about $40 900,
rent of markets $4,000, city cemetery
81, 600, and the city slaughter houses
s47, 900.
Mexico is developing very rapidly.
Within the past three years Hermosil-
10, a town in Sonora. has doubled in
population, and the price OF real estate
has trebled.
New Industrial enterprises are being
recorded in Texas nearly every day
now. Manufacturing development Is
being agitated from one end of the
state to the other.
The Farmers Federation of the Mis-
sissippi Valley ts the name of $780,
Kas.. with Walter N. Allen of Reriden
as president and business manager.
The entire city of Mexico boasts of 2S9
meat shops, 1909 tobacco shops. 613
stores where wines and liquors are
sold, SS8 pulque shops, 80 bakeries, 80
candy makers. II billiard halls, and 20
bowling alleys.
| Some of the licensed establishments
in the CITY of Mexico pay quite heavy
taxes. The hotels contribute more
than Sc, 900 month, the liquor dealers
more than $40 600, pawn shops SO 900,
tobacco shops SIS, 900 and meat markets
81, 600.
The city of Mexico lighting service
com prises 4S1 electric street lights of
1000 candle power, 36s of 200 candle
power, and about $50 incsndescent
lights of 16 and so power candle power.
The cost OF the service per month is
about 1924. 900.
Articles of Incorporation of the Ari
IONA Power company have been e ed
in the Office of the county recorder OF
Maricopa county. The incorporators
are E. B. Gage, Q. J. Hall T. w. Penn
berton, G. F. Ainsworth and l.. q.
Chalmers. The capital stock is $780,
900.
The American Cotton Spinning COM
pauy has bought the old Depison cot
ton mills at Denison, Texas. The new
owners will expend at once about $751;
600 for Improvements and start the
plant in about ninety days, running
Is, 900 spindles at the start. 1t is eX-
pected that as rapidly as possible the
full complement of 10000 spindles will
be acquired.
Incorporation papers were fed in
Santa Fee in the Office of the territorial
secretary by society that intends to
establish at Las Vegas home for con-
sumptives, invalids and health seekers
W 10 are INDECENT. The home is to be
known as the Humanitarian Home and
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