El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-06
Industrial and
Commercial.

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Chair makers are now talking a
trust.-Ex.
Ovilla Texas has new gin and a
new saw mill.-Ex.
Granbury, Texas, is talking up an
electric light plant.-Ex.
Amalg amated tinplate men advance
the scale 20 per cent.-Ex. e
Chicago has the latest combine in
the way of laundry trust. Capital
81 ,OOO,O 600.
About 1000 stone masons and 400
steam filters have inaugurated strike
at Pittsburgh.
The telegraphic and telephone lines
of the world aggregate 2,029 1893 miles.
The miles of wire. s, 254, 044.-EX.
The new laundry trust in Chicago
has a capital of 100000. It is evil
IDENTIFY able to put competitors through
| the wringer.-Ex.
Pennsylvania feels the spirit of the
times and increases in capital from So,
600 200 to S15, 200, OO0.-Ex.
oxen, I,6OO 900 sheep, 100000 calves,
700, 900 hogs, fowls innumerable, and
$4,000 gallons of milk.
The fire loss of the United States
and Canada for the month of April, as
COIL piled from our daily records, says
the New York Journal of Commerce,
aggregates 1928, O00.-EX.
Seven hundred men of the Brother
90 P0il Mx.l/ az .
they demand that the hours of labor be
reduced from ten to nine per day with
out reduction of pay.-Ex.
The board of naval bureau chiefs has
decided to equip the six new cruisers
to be built with full electrical plants
for all the secondary machinery, in
Guiding winches and boat windlasses.-
Ex
Receipts of flour and grain at the
port of Buffalo for the month of May
show big decrease compared with
last year, owing chiefly to the late
opening of navigation and the strike
on the docks. Post.
Last year the people of the United
States used about II, 900, 900 pounds of
tea, which cost 1000, 600. The sec
rotary of agriculture favors another at
tempt at raising this commodity in
this country. -Albuquerque Citizen.
The appropriation made by the Tex
as legislature for running the state
government one year, ending February
%, 1000, is 81 $50, sos 90. The daily
expense is S7,3l3.SS; 1904. "A is expend-
ed every hUur and S5.OS every min
ute.
The annual report of the Pacific
Mail Steamship company shows gross
earnings of 81, 40, 713, against 81 O65,-
22O last year: operating expenses 3d.
O24, 377, against So, 443, 007: net earnings
81, 116, 1856, against 1920, 543.-HoustOn
Post.
Exports of gold and silver from New
York to all countries for the week end
ing May 20 aggregated SS49, $50 silver
bars and coin. and S5S PSI gold, q total
of 1907, S21 against a total of S32 ,931
gold and silver in the same week last
week.-Ex.
The new Fertilizer Trust announces
itself with $40, ZOO, 900 capital. Besides
manufacturing fertilizers, some of the
concerns produce boneblack, gelatine,
glue, phosphoric and other acids, sui
phate of potash, soda, etc.-Albuquer-
que Citizen.
The National Tube Company, new
S65, O0O,OOO Its annual production will
be one million tons of tubular goods,
enough to supply all the pipe-laying
politicians besides other business men.
Albuquerque Citizen.
The total bank clearings of all the
clearing houses of the United States
for the week ending May 20 have been
ST, 1863, O70, 544, decrease of 1854, 225,-
093, as compared with the previous
week. and an increase of 1898, 766 ,24S
over the same week last year.
Seventeen companies to manufacture
automobile carriages in as many diff
ferent states were incorporated in
Trenton, N, j., in one day last week.
One off these companies had an au-
thorized capital of 100000, and all
were backed by the same syndicate
Elk.
Ninety per cent of the patent and en-
ameled leather trade has given sd-
herence to project for com bination.
Options have already been obtained on
pal manufacturers in Newark are in on
deal. The capitalization will be be- |
tween $40, 900 600 and S25, 100000.
In the four months which ended May |
the school children of Chicago, who |
were depositors in the Chicago Penny
Savings society, had accumulated the
handsome sum of SIG, 5S8: This organ
zatiOn is designed for the sole purpose
Of encouraging frugality among the
pupils of the public schools, and it is
evidently meeting with success,-EX.
An automobile which left Cleveland
1t o'clock last Monday morning to
establish an automobile record between
Cleveland and New York, arrived in