El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-28
Industrial and
Commercial.

II
The adulteration of coffee, cheap IS
| is its present price, is going On in Eng
land and France. There remain scores
of millions of people abroad who have
never in their lives tas ted genuine cof-
fee, and there ought to be fine field
for all the high-grade Mexican coffee
that can be raised. 1t is but lately
that factory was seized in France,
which carried on the business of manu-
featuring spurious coffee beans from
chicory, -four and sulphate of iron.
Chicory is worth from eight to ten
cents. gold, pound, and an expert de.
clares that the coffee mixtures and
''blends," sold extensively abroad,
often contain 80 per cent, of chicory, q
good number even IS to 81 per cent,
Chicory does no possible harm. and
the palminR off of the stuff on the
public ia not so bad as in the case OF
many authorizations of staple articles.
The meanest swindle is the spurious
coffee bean, made to look exactly like
green coffee and even coated slightly
with grease.-Mexican Herald,
The we'll on the w. j. Nozzle farm,
seven miles south east from COrsicana,
continues to squirt water and gas, the
volume of both inreasing day after
day. 1t is now throwing out Jumps OF
sand as large as the walnut to q height
of fifty feet, its performance being so
wonderful IS to attract large crowds OF
people from the city to witness the
sight The sand Jumps thrown out
are pronounced by old-time oil men to
be regular gas sand and the belief is
that the we'll has tapped one of the
most extensive natuaral gas deposits
ever struck in the country. What to
do with the we'll is puzzle to the own
ers. A valuable commercial product
is gushing up from it daily, but.it is so
far from the city and the manufacture
ing plants here that it can not be
utilized until q pipe line is extended
to the we'll. The geyser is the talk OF
the town and is creating great interest
among the oil men.-Dallas News.
A new industry for New Mexico has
developed in Grant county. The ella
Farm company last Monday made a
shipment of a carload, of more than
two hundred stands of bees. The bees
were shipped to Colorado. Since Mr..
Lyons introduced bee culture at the
ella Farm several hives of honey bees
have been found in the mountain
forests of this section. It is supposed
they are strays from ella Farm. Thus
Mr.. Lyons has been Instrumental in in
Producing the honey bee to the wild 8
of New Mexico. He is also entitled to
the credit of stocking the Gila.river
with catfish. croppy, bass and other
fine specimens of the fnny tribe
Silver City Enterprise.
Mr.. G. j. Hall, president of the
Phoenix National bank and of the
Arizona Water company, who went to
New York recently in company with
la,, <>ff hoH lot ro oil
company to consult with the Hudson
Reservoir people relative to water
storage, returned to the city late Fri
day night. 1t was the hope of the Of
fcers of the Hudson Reservoir COM
pany that ss result of the conference
with DR.. Chandler the last obstacle TO
a contract between the reservoir COM
pany and the Arizona Water company
would be ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, Repuo-
lican.
The Eagle Milling company has &C.
cepted the new mill which was built
and equipped for the company by Nor
dack & Marmon of Indianapolis, Ind
The building is complete with the ex-
ception of the finishing touches which
are now being made. The Office will
soon be ready to be occupied, and in
less than two weeks the old works OF
the company on south Main street will
be abandoned. The old mill has prac-
tieslly seen its last services already, as
the force of men have been transferred
to the new mill to get the machinery
in readiness for continuous operation.
Tucson Citizen.
Hon. P. B. Hunt, collector of inter
nal revenue, said last week: "The
industry is thriving in
this district, notwithstanding the fact
that we had sixty-two factories in the
1897 and only ffty-one in
1898. In 1894 there were 1888 ,054 ci-
CARS made in the factories in this dis
trict; in 1898 the records in this office
show that 5, 529, 344 cigars were manu-
featured. And as for distilleries, we
have more storekeepers on the rolls to-
day than at any time in the history of
he district.-Dallas News.
The soliciting committee that has
been at work for the past couple of
days endeavoring to procure the re-
quired donations from the citizens of
Marshall to secure the erection of a
miles west of Marshall, concluded their
labors this morning, securing the re-
9uired bonus. The construction of the
hotel will commence the early part of
April and will be rapidly pushed to
completion.-Dallas News.
b. L. Harris of the Pacific Coast
Borax company, is in Galveston. He
has arranged for the shipment of two
thousand tons of borax monthly
through this port to the refinery at
Newark, N. J. The borsx is, mined in
Deaths Valley, Cal. The shipments |
will be made by schooners, and the |
irst vessel will arrive here April 25.-l
San A ntonio Express.
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