El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-25
Industrial and
Commercial.

Il tr6cte Lno coming year. COur lux
pumping plants were established there
last month. All the machinery was
supplied by United States manufacture
lers.-Chihuahua Enterprise.
Messrs. Crockett & Calhoun are
doing q thriving business in the mer.
chandise line at Sheffield. There are
several parties in that little town thai
are energetic, and if they don't build
up a village the fault will not be theirs
I-Pecos Co Pickings.
Expansion of American trade follows
expansion of American manufactures
| and expansion Of American shipping
and American territory follow as q
natural sequence. No merchant moves
into smaller store in order to accom-.
modate larger business.-Hornells
vile IN. W Times"
A number of prominent agriculturists
interested in the industrial develop
ment of JsliscO have organized So
ciety under the name of JaliscO Cham
Der of Agriculture and Industry, of
which Engineer Gabriel CastanOs has
been elected temporary president anG
Lie. Fernando Sactanos temporary Sec
rotary Chihuahua Enterprise.
trade demands better ocean vessels,
|
to be fulfilled. The supremacy of this
country as q manufacturer of iron and
steel is q foregone conclusion, and it's
progress in this direction will doubtless
eventually Outstrip and new era that
may come forward in shipbuilding.-
Chicago s'Tron and Steel.'
| There is talk at Brennan, Texas, of
organizing q company for the cultiva-
ton of tobacco in Washington county.
It Is believed that q cooperative or
ganizstion composed of tobacco grow
ers and merchants can be formed.
The proposed capital stock is 5000.
merchants interested will be able to
provide q satisfactory market for the
product.-Texas Farm and Ranch.
Mexico is one of the few countries in
the world where such q thing as an
over production of farm products is
impossible, and for that reason the
prices of wheat, corn, etc. are always
at q high figure. If every acre of
| tillsble land in the republic were un-
der cultivation the food market would
not be glutted, or even over stocked,
thus giving the farmer the surest
guarantee of q steady home Demand
chihuahua Enterprise.
Our cotton crop is estimated at IL,
VVO,OVV oa1os IOr 1O0Os ouO Ous iOT ooO
weather conditions would have reach
ed IL. 600, OOObales; according to past
yearly increases we look for about IA,
OOO, 600 for 1899. This will bring the
price to about 3 cents. The man that
can raise cotton at cents per pound
and make living will have to worry
through the winter with his last years
overcoat and make his socks out of
gunnysacks; but they will do it.-Pecos
Times.
J. D. Rountree. the we'll known and
popular we'll driller, WAS in Fort Stock
ton Saturday and Sunday. He is still
and HE friends are wondering how
long q time will elapse ere Mr.. Roun-
tree is known as q partner in the
Lockwood National of San Antonio
He has moved about eight miles west
of the we'll just finished and will sink
another we'll in that place, Mr.. Lock-.
wood having given up the idea of
pumping from two wells with one
mill. Mr.. Rount-ee states that he
struck the same strata of rock in the
we'll he is now drilling at $50 feet,
while it required 2lO feet to reach it
in the first we'll. He says he thinks he
will reach water much nearer the sur
face than this.-Pecos Co Pickings.
The Pacific Coast and Mexican Com
mercial company has filed articles of
Incorporation, the purposes being to
buy, sell and handle all kinds OF pro-
ducts and provisions, wines, liquors,
fruits, fish and meats, cotton, hops.
silks, wool, and all other classes of
goods either in the raw or the man
ufactured state, and to buy and sell
real estate, negotiate loans, run ware
houses, packing houses, machine shops,
etc. Principal place of business San
Francisco, and term of existence fifty
years. Capital stock ESQ, 600, divided
into 500 shares of the par value Of 800
each, all of which has been,subscribed.
The directors are "a follows: J. M.
Gray, E. j. White. San Francisco, and
A. Krause, 81. Kirschbraun and SEN
ator 81. V. Morehouse, San Jose.-
Anglo-American.
E. c. Creel is in Mexico City. To a
reporter of the Two Republics he
said: The Banco Central Mexicano
will be ready for transaction of bust
ness the later part of February or the
first part of March, and will have it's
Offices with Messrs. Kosidowski and
company, at Capuchinas No. 7. The
capital stock is Sc. 600, 900 and has been
subscribed in London, Berlin, New
York and the City of Mexico. Each of
the fourteen state banks of the repub-
lie is a stakeholder in the new bank,
which will transact in the City of
Mexico all the business that the differ
ent state banks may have here. It is
expected that .inasmuch as q large
amount of the stock ia held in Europe
the bank will be instrumental in
bringing large amount of foreign
capital into this country. chihuahua
Enterprise.
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