El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-01-21
Industrial and
Commercial.

guel county, New Mexico, will be dis
continued at the end Of the month.
The mail for the above Office will be
sent hereafter to San IQnscio.-Albu-
querque Citizen.
Cotton raising is receiving Q great
deal OF attention in Kansas and Okla
homa, and the climate seems to be ad-
mirebly adapted to this crop. A bale
OF Monterey county cotton took first
prize at the New Orleans exposition.
This year there will be more cotton
put in than ever before, and it is GER
tain that Kansas will be numbered
among the cotton producing states
Exchange:
The Mexican congress- has confirmed
the concession granted to A. B. Smith
and associates of Los Angeles, Cal.
Under the concession the company 10
given an immense tract of land on the
Gulf of California, and under the con-
tract made It Is to be colonized 1t once.
The company is to at once construct
railway to Yuma, Ariz., and to con-
duct Q steamship line to southern Mex
ico.-Railwsy Age.
The Albuquerque Land and Irrigs-
ton company today fled in the prob
ate clerks Office q verified statement,
as required by the acts of 1891 showing
that work had been commenced on the
construction of the canal, pipe lines
and reservoirs. The company also fl
ed In the same Office q detailed map Of
the survey of the canal. showing its
course and length.-Albuquerqu Citi-
zen.
A. o. Wheeler, the enterprising
proprietor of the steam laundry, is
right In line in improvements, be hsv-
ing spent several hundred dollars
lately in adding new and improved
machinery and buildings to his plant
on Douglas avenue. Among the new
| machinery is 36-inch body iron of
the very latest and best make heated
by gas, and shirt starchinR machine
that starches shirts with such rapidity
that it would put the average
"washee man" to shame. He
has also added @ starch cooker In
up new wash room and new boiler
house in the rear of the main building.
This institution turns out large quanti-
ties of work from the small towns up
| and down the road and has Q regularly
established agency in Santa Fe, and In
this way brings many good dollars into
Las Vegas every month which helps
done here.-Las Vegas Optic.
In the past five years about $780,
600 900 has been sent out of the United
|
Hereafter this large sum of money is
not going to be paid altogether to for
eiRners. American citizens will get
some of it. Coffee is now the largest
article Of export from Puerto Ricv, and
he product there can be greatly in
creased, since . very large proportion
Of the island is capable Of producing
s0eos:.ful which on .s grows hiehl %Ss:
and mountain sides. In psrts
of Cuba conditions are similar, and 1t
one time the coffee production of that
island amounted TO nearly 1O0, 200
pounds annually, though after the in
production of the sugar industry IL
practically pre- SS;ny dis.ppess,sd sugar grow;
coffee is being successfully grown, and
the area here can be materially In.
creased. The same is true of the
Philippines. Coffee Is about to become
an American product. So are lot Of
other things which we have hereto
fore had TO buy of foreigners. Few
people realize what very big country
we are going to have preeently.-Ex.
q. T.. Staiti, of the firm OF Horne,
Staiti ADD Co. recently, returned from
Elgin, Bsstrop country, where he had
ported oil fields of that section. Mr..
Staiti, In conversation with q reporter
for the Times-Herald yesterday said,
in discussing his visit; 81 was sur
prised to find about the same quality
Of oil near Elgin that we have here
and that is feand at Corsicana.
1t hasa 3 fine gravity and is a.
The people at Elgin have been very
slow to realize that they probably had
within their grasp field O: pay oil
that would at no distant day bring
their city to the front rank of oil CEN
tres. The we'll from which the oil
that I examined had .been taken, ts
three miles from the thriving little
city. It was bored about nine years
,, ago by German, to q depth
of 280 feet, when the oil was
! discovered. No attention was paid
little was ns said ooncsrnioe the e'' oil
When anyone attempted to make 10.
vestigations the old German stoutly
protested, saying that the oil was
worthless, and he did not care to bs
molested with peoples questions
About three months ago G. S. Palm,
. one of the merchants If Elgin, prevail.
, ed on the old German to ALLOW him Il
take some of the oil and have 1t an
, alyzed. This was accordingly done
and samples sent to Corsicsns. Hous
ton, Sour Lake, and cu sour firm IL
this city. After making q careful ex-
animation and analysis, I decided
would visit the region and make fur.
ther investi Cations. am we'll enough
satisfied with my visit that shall be.
gin boring for oil at once, and have NJ
fear that pay oil will not be found
Mr.. Staff! said to the reporter that the
4. we'll at Hewitt, seven miles from THU
city was now about 500 feet deer
and the work was being pushed rap
idly.-Fort Worth Mail Telegram.