El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-18
Industrial and
Commercial.

Spencer Bros. of Farr are moving
their gin to McGregor, as small grain
has taken the place of cotton in this
country.-Fort Werth Mail Telegram.
! Rusk, Texas, has a proposition from
New England capitalists to put in a
cotton mill. Citizens of Rusk have
raised S35, 900 in six days toward secur-
ing the Observation-Disclosures Herald.
Messrs. Rafael Villalpando and Enri-
que Aubert propose to erect woollen
factory in Zacatecas and have invited
by means OF circulars the principal
citizens of the capital of the state to
join decentralization Herald.
Enrique Lstour of Orizaoa, has
formed company with capitalization
of 800, 600 for the purpose of establish
ing several thread factories. It is his
intention to make threads of all classes.
Monterey Globe.
The buyers for the Graham syndi-
cate, who have been in ST. Louis, have
not been idle, and when they leave for
their Texas homes they will have left
100000 in the hands of ST. Louis
wholesalers.-St. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat.
7 Several gentlemen are in chihuahua,
who are interested in the establish
|
are not sure If the corn grown here is
suitable and they are still in doubt as
to supply of limestone water.-Chi-
huahua Enterprise.
The Hondo Deep Well company has
fled application for charter with the
state department at Austin. Its object
is to establish, maintain and operate a
81 stem of waterworks in the town of
Hondo, and it is to have an authorized
capital stock of &c. 0O.-Hondo Her.
aid.
The National Fire Clay Co. a new
concern recently established in this
city, indicates another step in the right
direction. Progress in industrial en-
| terprises Ia the great desideratum in
Mexico, and when q company of this
nature is planted here, Mexico is de-
cidedly the gamer by it.-Mexico An
Clio American.
The railway mileage of the republic
of Mexico made an increase of 44O
miles during the year 1898. A number
of important extensions are under
course of construction at present, AMI
the ensuing year will probably see q
greater mileage increase than last
year. Mexico now has about 1900
| miles of railrOad.-Monterey Globe.
J.H. Maxwell, of Waco, formerly of
North Carolina, bought 300 acres of
land near the Hill county line and put
| fifteen acres in cotton and two acres in
peanuts. He was here today, and stat
ed to The News reporter that the two
acres in peanuts netted him nearly as
much cash as the fifteen acres in cot
ton did.-Dallas News.
J. B. Wilson of Dallas and E. B.
Conner of San Angelo have sold to
Calvin and lizard Sugg of Sugden, T.,
the Wilson & aComer ranges near San
Angelo, Tom Green county, Texas,
con tanning 400. 900 acres of land and
Rrazed by herd of $4,000 cattle; the
purchase price approximates $3.50, 900.
1t is said that when the sellers and
buyers came to terms, Cal Sugg wrote
a check covering the entire amount
Houston Post.
For the past two months the Aqua
Pura ice company, of THE city, has had
$50 men at work putting up ice. At
La Junta they filed the two railroad
ice houses, and shipped $50 cars for
that purpose. At Albuquerque they
put in fifty cars. EThe large railroad ice
house here took 300 cars and the small
one thirty cars. Aside from this they
have filled all the local houses here for
home consumption next summer. In all
this company has put up 400 car loads
of ice.-Las Vegas Optic.
Oil was found flowing from an arte
sian we'll on the farm of Mr.. G. J.
George, about three miles north of
Waco, on the west side of the river.
1t appears that the discovery was made
by tenants of Mr.. George, and is about
1900 feet deep. It was sunk in 1890.
the city, and the hope is INDUCED on
all sides that Waco Is now to have d
run on oil wells like other Texas cities
are having. Indications of oil are
numerous, and lately much investiga-
ton has been going on looking to the
development of the oil felds.-Ft.
Worth Register.
A novel transaction was consummat-
ed in Paris, Tex, which is the only
one of its kind ever entered into in
Texas. The Paris Oil and Cotton COM
where thousands of cattle from the
Panhandle, fed here on the meals and
bulls for the St. Louis m arket, are
watered. This pool is entirely
frozen over with ice sevei inches
thick. A sydicate was organized, pur-
chased the ice on the pond sand put a
hundred men to work tomorrow
gathering it. They expect to Iclear
several thousand dollars on the in
Post.
Mr.. DeMier. the chief owner of the
guanO caves near Lava, was in town |
Wednesday, his business in this vicin-
ity being connected with another ship
ment of the fertilizer from Pope Sid |
ing. He said that an important dis
covery of high grade nitrate,
similar to the great Chi
liam deposits. whose market |
value Is $50 per ton, was made in the
cave beneath the guapO. The exact
value and extent of this new item Of