El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-21
Industrial and
Commercial.

The we'll drilled by the Southern OF
company on the Burnett property cas-
of Corsicana which was classed as &
dry hole shortly after the drill scratch
ed the sand, has proven after deepe
drilling to be good producer, and ii
said to be good for from twelve Il
fifteen barrels daily.-Dallas News.
Southern pea packers are said to b.
hesitating to name prices on future
owing to the uncertainty as to the COS
of packing resulting from the high cos
OF tin plate and the higher price O.
seed peas which latter is nearly doubl
that of last year. Few packers, it il
said, took the precautiOn to cOntrac
ahead for 1899 peas, and they are un-
certain therefore what the stock viii
cost them In view of the advance il
seed.-Houston Post.
| The establishment of a factory fol
pressed brick in the city of Chihuahus
means improvement in the building o.
houses. in the future. The
clay from which the bricks arr
made, is transported q distance OF
eight miles by rail to the factory
found any nearer. The factory is busy
making brick for the inside walls of
the new theatre and new tiary,
now going up in this city.-Chihuahua
Enterprise.
Within two months over 100000
bushels of corn have been shipped from
Galveston by steamer. OF this guam
| tity it is stated that all but about per
cent was raised in Texas. This Is q
significant Indication of what may be
expected of this state as q producer OF
| TA t. II e.
| will see the value of the grain exports
from the state greatly increased, and
that it may possibly be as much as the
| annual cotton hipments.-Texas
Trade Review.
h. G. Waters, of the Bank of Lon
don and Mexico, places the amount of
money in use in this country as high
as $3.50, 900, 900. or about $50 per ca
pita. The population, according to
the last census, is about II, 500, 900.
The director of the mint says that
while the exact figures cannot be ar
rived at, the amount of money held by
Dealthy Mexican families in their
homes is very large, and represents a
existing in this cOuntry.-Chihuahu
Enterprise.
simultaneously with the arrival of
John G. Scales in Texas agents are 60
ing the rounds of Lamar county visit
views of securing options on all the
gins and presses. The farmers are
greatly disturbed and apprehensive,
feeling that trust combination is be-
ing formed detrimental to them and
that the passing of the gins into the
hands of outside parties will work
against their interests. Strong re-
monstrances are being made to the
ginners not to sell.-San Antonio.
The contract for the construction for
the lOw-line irrigation canal was let
by the Albuquerque Land and Irrigs-
ton company today to the Shut I'm
The canal will be thirty miles long,
and will penetrate the country that is
tributary to this city. The canal will
receive it's water from the Rio Grande
and will open up for cultivation thou
sands of acres that are DOW an arid
waste. The work of construction will
be commenced as soon as the ap-
praisers appointed to fix the value of
the lands through which the canal is
tospass make their report, which Is ex-
pected in a few days.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
The Mexican Mine and Smelter
Supply Co. is new organization at
Mexico City which will be known all
over the republic. Mr.. q. r. Ayres
is president; F. L. Smith, treasurer;
and VIM. F. Bushnell. manager. Mr.
Ayres has been identified with Fraser
& Chalmers for eighteen years, Mr..
Smith has been with the Mine and
Smelter Supply Co. of Denver, and
Mr., Bushnell is known all over Next
CO as the representative of G. W. Ray
mond & Co. OF Dayton: Ohio. and of
the Erie Iron Works. The new COM
pany proposes to maintain the largest
supply house in the republic. Mr..
Ayres is well known in Sonora and
along the west coast of Mexico, hav-
Ing recently visited this region Will
in the interest of Fraser & Chalmers.
-NoRales Oasis.
Ever since the discovery of artesian
water at Roswell and the boring of
wells $50 to $50 feet deep and flowing
from sixty to four hundred gallons per
minute, it has been supposed that the
pressure would not raise the water
higher than from fourteen to twenty
five feet above the surface of the
ground. But the boring of the $50
loot well by Cummins & Hedgecoxe
some time ago, on the tract of the lat
ter, some eighteen miles down the
Valley, demonstrated the fact that at
depth, a much stronger flow is obtain
ed. The pressure there was 35 pounds |
TO the square inch and the water flow
ed from the top of the pipe to
the full height OF the we'll machine |
derrick 55 feet above the ground, just |
about as strong as it did at the surface. |
With deeper wells more astonishing |
results may confidently be expecte id
Roswell Register.
Mexican Mineral Belt.