El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-13
Industrial and
Commercial.
Industrial and Commercial.

Linen piece goods came here from
England, last year, to the value of
ZAP, 1926 against s37, 900 in 1897.-Mex
lean Herald.
| Permission to do business In the
estate was granted the New York and
Texas land company of New York
Houston Post.
| Over 500 specimens of Mexican
woods will be sent to the Paris expo
sitiOn. Thesgovernment has appoint
ed the eminent bOtanist Q. E. Pringle
| to attend to the collection-Two Re-
| publics.
A shipment of one million of bricks
has arrived from Monterey for the
contractors of the city drainage works.
The Avenida Bucareli is now blocked
for carriage and wagon travel.-Two
Repub lics.
w. r. Brents, prominent capitalist
of Sherman said there was little or no
doubt as to the success of the opening
of another national bank at an early
date. Already S85, 900 of the proposed
800, GOO stock has been subscribed
Houston Post.
The new cottonseed oil mill that has
been in course of construction in Jacks
boro for several months past, started
the manager, reports that everything
started off nicely. The seedhOuse is
full of seed, and they expect to run now
on full time. The mill has capacity
of from forty to sixty tons per day
Fort Worth Register.
During the year 1898 there were 3OO7
new industries esta blished in the south,
besides many extensive Improvements
were made on the old enterprises, and
the railway mileage of that section of
the country was greatly increased
past twelve months can be held as the
banner year for the beautiful South
land.-Railroad Journal.
The merchantile firm of Finn ,Fowlke
& Co., hard ware; D. l. Branham, dry
goods and Lee & Co., groceries, of Sey-
mour, have consolidated, and will form
themselves into corporation for the
purpose of buying and senlling goods,
wares and merchandise of every char
acter at wholesale and retail. The
capital stock Oof the corporation
The building of cotton oil mill
Fort Worth was decided definitely at q
meeting held today and work of erec-
ton will soon follow, the matter of a
suitable site only being left to be de-
Scales of WsXahachie and CulbersOn
of Temple, with Tuck Boaz of this city,
are the promoters. The mill is to cost
$50, 900 and will have q capacity of
eighty tons daily.-Ex.
Lieut.. Rodriguez Garcia, of the en-
gineer corps, has returned to this city
from q trip to the San Diego canal of
which he is the official Inspector. This
canal is of great Importance, and it
takes its name from the stream of the
same name. which is an sff1uent of the
Rio Grande. because it will receive
the waters of the stream and convey
them to district near Ciudad Porfirio
Diaz, where an agricultural enterprise
is being established, similar to the
T]ahualilO concern. Three fourths of
the canal has been completed and it Is
calculated that it will carry twenty
cubic meters of water per second.
Two Republics.
John E. Searls of New York, presi-
dent of the American cotton company.
his son, j. Foster Searls, and Richard
81. Edmonds, editor of the Baltimore
Manufacturers Record arrived in
Sherman from Gainesville in Mr..
Searls's private car. Mr.. Sesrls is
pose OF Investigating the me-
thods of handling cotton and
with view of putting in q number of
round bale cotton presses. Mr.. Searls
recently resigned the presidency Of the
American Sugar Refining company and
Western National bank of New York
in order to give his entire time to the
advancement of the round bale cotton
press system.-Shermsn Democrat.
The statistics for the first half of tn e
present fiscal year with regard to Mex
lean imports and exports have just
been completed. They show that i'm
ports for the period amounted to
twenty-five and a half million dollars,
gold, which is an increase over the
same period of year before of nearly
two million dollars. Nearly fifty per
cent of the imports came from the
United States. Exports for the period
amounted to seventy-one and a half
million dollars silver. an increase Of
nearly eight millions. More than two
thirds OF the exports went to the Unit
ed Standardization Herald.
The question of factories and other
enterprises for Hillsboro has of late
been much talked of there and much
interest is felt in the matter. Not
long since an enterprising firm which
has wealthy correspondents in the
north began to try to interest them in
the advantages of aillsboro as man
ufacturing Texas town, especially for
cotton mill. Their efforts are likely
70 secure cotton mill for Hillsboro.
This firm has taken an option on the
lots ara es their purchase will
be ordered and that the parties will
begin work on the mill in the near
future. It will cost about 5000, OOO.-l
Post.