El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-25
Industrial and
Commercial.

w. II. George and w. A. johnson
are having two stone buildings erected
near the postoffice. The town is stead
lily improving.-Da News.
D. M. Howard, OF Mineral Wells, is
having the ground cleared for the
erection of eight stone buildings, 25x
100 each. They will be located on the
east side of Mesquite street.
A number of gentlemen in this city
have formed company to exploit the
ulphur deposits of Ixtlahuacstl with
phuric acid and several of them have
planned ansexcursion to the mountain.
Mexican Herald.
Greenville is to put in a hosiery fac.
| tory some time thissyear. to manufact-
ure about 200 bales of cotton annually
into hose. This is step in the rig ht
direction. Let Texas towns manufact-
ure everything possible that Texas
people use.-Sherman Register.
The Munger Manufacturing company
has bought block of ground just
south of their gin at Mexia and will
begin the erection of a sixty-ton oil
mill st once. The company is now
having the plans for the buildings
made and have sent a representative
East to buy the necessary machinery.
Houston Post.
| Within two months over 1900, 900
bushels Of corn have been shipped from
Galveston by steamer. OF this guam
tity it is stated that all bat about per
| cent was raised in Texas. This is
significant Indication OF what may be
| expected of this state as producer of
grain. 1t is probable that few years
will see the value Of the grain exports
from the state greatly increased, end
that it may possibly be as much as the
annual cotton hipments.-Texas
Trade Review.
F. A. Mapzanares, Thomas Ross,
Max. NOrdhouse and Emil Tischann,
residents. of the territory of New Mex
| leo, have organized the Montezuma
Brewing Company, and filed articles of
| incOrpor alton in Secretary Wallace's
Office. The objects of incorporation
are to manufacture, brew, bottle, buy
and sell beer, ale, porter, soda water,
cider and vinegar; and to manufacture
and otherwise deal in ice and conduct
cold storage houses. Capital stock
S25 900; principal place of business
located in Las Vegas.-Santa Fe New
Mexican.
A movement is on foot in Great Bri-
tain to form a company to build, equip
and maintain a fleet of first class steam
ships for weekly passenger and
freight service between London and
Vera Cruz, uDder the joint flags of
England and Mexico. Plans, speci6-
cations and estimates have been pre-
pared by the Thames Iron Works and
Shipbulding company, of Blackwell,
England. The prime mover in the
matter is Henry Lafone, of Buffers
Wharf, Southwark, London. This
fleet will do much to increase trade be-
tween the two countries.-St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
Among the many American COM
panies operating in Mexico, none have
Coffee Culture Co. of ST. Louis, Mo.
This company began active operations
q little more than six months ago and
has already large part of the land
cleared, rubber nursery of 100, 900
plants, %, 600 two-year-old coffee trees
and 10, 600 rubber trees trsnsplanted,
in addition to side crops of tobacco.
corn, bananas. pineapple and yucca.
When 1t is remembered that the COM
pany had to secure labor, build houses
and cut roads through their property,
the amount of labor involved in the
Improvements ment toned will be more
readily appreciated, Nearly all of this
company's stock has been subscribed.
-Modern Mexico.
V. S. Wardlaw. who Is one of the
principal subscribers to the stock of
the Fort Worth Cotton Oil company,
which is going to build an oil mill at
this place, received an important COM
munication from J. J. Culberston of
Paris, one of the principal promoters
of the enterprise. Mr.. Culberston
wrote that he had contracted for q
large amount of machinery for the
mill in the East, this being the first
contract in that connection that has
been made. The company's charter
has been issued from Austin. The
understanding has been that the mill
would be built on the North Side near
the Union stockyards. However, the
company has had strong inducements
from the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
railway, Offering a sit e on their
right-of-wsy, which the company is
seriously considering, as there is said
to have been some hitch regarding the
location on the North Side.-Fort
Worth Register.
The Southern Oil com pany's we'll on
the Barth tract of land, near
for it is true, places it ahead
of the celebrated Hardy and Hslbert
well on the same tract and gives it the
title of the boss we'll in this oil field.
During the first twenty-five hours of
its life the we'll produced seventy-five
barrels of oil it is claimed, the pulsa-
tiOns being long and frequent, and it
afterwards settled down to steady
sixty barrel producer. This beats the
record of wells in this field, and it en-
courages the talent to look for still