El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-13
Industrial and
Commercial.

A strong company has been formed
In chihuahua to put up a sugar planta.
tion at Cenecu. The first assessment OF
$40, 900 has been already paid in.-Os.
= sis-Arizona.
Notice has been posted at the Della
ware rolling mill, of Philadelphia, an
uouncing a 10 per cent increase OF
wages of the $50 employees, to take ef-
feet April 1O.-Monterey Globe.
The Great Falls Manufacturing COM
pany of Somersworth, N. H., will res
tore the wage scale of 1895. Over %, 600
hands are employed In the mills. Cot
ton goods are made.-Monterey Globe.
The first of the artesian wells which
are being bored il IrapustO to increase
the public water supply is already down
rarily suspended awaiting the arrival
of more pipe.
A firm has put in chop mill at
pounds daily, and ia putting in a corn
mill, with the latest boiling machinery.
which will have capacity of 300 BUSH
| els per day. If the firm Is reasonably
| successful 1t expects to put In also an
up-tO-date custom flour mill .-Dallas
News.
Henry T. Kent and Charles A. CAL
houn of St. Louis have closed deal
with petroleum producers at Corsicana
Texas, by which the St. Louis men,
for themselves and associates became
200, 900 acres of oil land leases, the
price paid is near $4,000 and is said
60 mean pipe line to Galveston or
Houston.
The Sapsinena family of Buenos Ay-
res are said to own the largest frozen
meat plant in the world. Its capacity
is $500 sheep daily, or something like
IOO,0 900 each month. The freezing
rooms will hold 5000 sheep, while the
storerooms in which the sheep are
kept after freezing, to await shipment,
have room for over $4,000 sheep.-Ros-
we'll Register.
The new steamship concession OBJ
tanned from the Mexican government
by the British syndicate which will
bring vessels now coasting South
American ports to the principal Mex
lean ports on the west coast will prove
great feeder to the Cuernavaca rail-
road when it reaches Acapulco. Col,
Hampson has long distau ce VISION
Two Republics
Dowlen s. Co., of Hillsboro, have put
in corn and oat grist mill with a
capacity of $500 pounds per day and a
corn mill with one OF the finest boiling
mills manufactured which is turning
out as fine meal as can be found any
where. The merchants of the city are
giving them q reasonable patronage.
They will probably put in large GUS
tom flour mill at once, so as to be ready
for this years crop.-Houston Post.
The monthly operations in the Cor
sicana oil fields, Texas, during March
6r.i1
ed, sixteen of which are producers,
four are dry holes and one is gsser. |
During the month four mines were |
abandoned as improbable, leaving q to- |
tai Of 80 prod ucing wells, three gasers |
and forty three dry holes. The total |
number OF wells abandoned since deve-
lopment was begun in this field is sew
enteen.-EXchange.
Another industry of value to the city |
will sOon be in operation in Beaumont,
Texas. 1t is of character that natur-
many of similar kind that will sooner
or later be domiciled in this vicinity.
The plant referred to is one for the
manufacture of crOssarms for telephone
and telegraph poles and it will be put
in operation as soon as the machinery
can be shipped there.-Exchange.
The following knitting plants are re-
ported as being successfully operated
at Norfolk, Va: The Norfolk knitting
mills, the Portsmouth mills, the Chesa-
peske mills, the Powhatan mills and
amounts to 522, ZOO dozen pieces, or g.
264 900 garments, valued at 81, 900, 900
These industries employ 1000 hands,
who get on an average Sc per week,
total of $4,000 per week, or 1912, 900 per
year, paid to labor.-Dallas News.
A statement has been prepared by
The chief of the treasury bureau of ma
vigation showing that the merchant
vessels, excluding barges, built in the
United States and officially mum bered
~ the bureau during the three-quar-
,um Der 632, of 169, 794 gross tons, COM
pared with SAL, of 13S, 159 gross tons
or the cores bonding period for 1898,
md 400, of 125, 035 gross tons, for the
period of 1897.
The beet sugar factory at Eddy is
low closed after the prosperous season
# 1898 and 1899. The management is
Ow engaged in making contracts
nth farmers for the present year, and
rom all indications the products will
realty exceed that Of last year. The
apacity of the works is 200 tons day. =
nd the drawback heretofore has been
hat sufficient beets could not always
e secured. This year, owing to i'm
roved railway communication, the
tuation in this respect will be reliev-
4. Many farmers are coming in, |
lost of whom will engage in this in
News.
There is talk among New York
capitalists of establishing woodwork, 4
Ictory in the timber regions of south 1
,st Texas that would consume at least
600, 600 feet of lumber a year. There .,
Guild be much depend upon the ma n
ire of the operations that would be :"
L cd no M no Of