El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-11
Industrial and
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The finance committee appointed at
the cotton mill meeting held at Wealth
erford Wednesday evening report that
there was subscribed already by ele-
Won men the sum of $55, 600. A hun
dred thousand dollars will be raised
and Weatherford will have cotton
mill.
J. S. Cullinan & Co. have applied to
the city authorities for q franchise per-
hitting them to lay pipe line in the
city for the purpose of supplying mills
and manufactures, including the two
congresses. with oil for fuel purposes.
The M after ia now in the hands of the
ordinance committee of tho city couu-
Gil and will be acted on finally at the
next council meeting two weeks hence.
Dallas News.
Az soon as the branch road of the
Mexican Central from Yurecuaro to
Zamora was opened on the let OF this
month q powerful company with mil
lion dollars capital was organized in
Guadalajara to establish at cotton fac
tory at Tacoma. The factory will be
run by hydraulic motive power from
the waters of the river Duero and will
be named LA Michoacana." The
Two Republics.
G. w. Haynes has something new
this week in the water pumping line.
Hondo and planned his fine house. he
found that the water would not rise
high enough from the srteeian pres
sure to throw the water over the house,
although it was sufficient to carry 1t
into the second story. BE decided he
could overcome this by means of
hydraulic ram. The manufacturers
srtesian we'll, but he tried it anyway
and the ram was attached to the we'll
Wednesday. It was found that little
ram that cost only S22 would raise the
water thirty-fve feet high, and at that
height he can fill q tank holding 100
gallons in about two hours. Might
} there not be q suggestion In this dis
covery for providing permanent wa
} ter works system for the town?-Ros-
we'll Record.
report of the operators in the Cor
sicana oil field for the month of June
shows that during the month twenty
nine wells were drilled, one less than q
we'll per day, of which eighteen were
producers, ten were dry holes and one
was good gas well. During the
month one we'll that had been pay
the output had fallen below the pay
point. At the close OF the month
fourteen new wells were being. drilled
and rigs were up and building
i. for the additional wells. This
report shows that there are now
in the Corsicana oil field Q total of 400
producing wells. the daily output OF
which is over 300 barrels, which sells
for IS cents per barrel, or total OF at
least S21OO per day, all of which is paid
out by the pipe line people, settlements
being made monthly. There are six
. good gas wells in the field. seventy
four dry holes and there have been
since oil operations began here twenty
: one wells abandoned because they had
. ceased to be profitable producers. Tbs
daily output Of oil Is gradually increas-
producing list. the total output of June
being the largest in the history of the
! field. Two new wells were drilled in
last night and today, both of them
being several miles north OF the city.
Sturm brought N one of them on the
1. Baum place for a company of local
J people, and it makes good showing
for at least ten barrels per day. The
: other we'll is proposition of Judge
Rufus Hardy, located on the Berry
place, near the Egan-Cullinau we'll on
the Watkins place and is reported as
an average producer.-Dallas News.
Several months ago the News repro
duced from the Cotton Planters Jour-
nal highly amusing and interesting
article concerning the experiment of q
, Mississippi cotton planter in training
, monkeys TO pick cotton. The bare
mention OF the fact is enough to pro-
duce smile of incredulity from a per-
son hearing of the suggestion for the
first time, and the readers of the News
were inclined to treat it as huge joke.
Since the item was reproduced from
the Cotton Planters Journal. however,
numerous paragraphs have appeared
in other papers on the subject, and the
experiment is said to have proved q
success. S. E. pat Warner, leading
and enterprising young farmer of the
Roxton community, grower, of the
mammoth big boil and long staple COT
ton. is in receipt of the following let
ter, which he handed the News for
publication:
HAEZLHURST, MISS, June 24.-Mr.
Pat Warner, Roxton. Texas: Dear
sir-I have been informed that you are
the most enterprising cotton grower in
Texas, and spent more money in i'm
proving your cotton than any other
farmer in your state. Now, as you are
interested in raising cotton, 1 know
you cannot realize very much money at
the present low price and pay so or go
cents per 100 for pickers. Now want
to ship you fifty monkeys to pick cot
portation charges 1 will give you q
mortgage on the monkeys and guaran-
tee chem to pick 125 to $50 pounds of
cotton NOR dav will a1sO aopd a