El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-11
Ell Paso To Be Adequately
Supplied Within Ninety
Days.
IMPORTANT CONTRACT
Made With TheEI PasO Mine,
Mill And SmeIter Sup
ply House BY The In
ternatiOnaI Co.

Ell Paso is to be properly lighted. It
| is also to be supp lied with power.
This within ninety days. 1t is almost
certain to have an electric street rail-
| way before the end of 1900. These
| statements are the most important for
| the growth and development OF El
Paso that have been made for months.
On Saturday night the International
Light & Power company, of Ell Paso,
contr acted with the Ell Paso Mine,
Mill & Smelter supply house. the local
branch house of the Compania Indus
trial Mexicspa of Chihuahua, to put in
at once in Ell Paso an electric light and
power plant. The plant is to cost $50
OO0. It. will have q capacity of $50
horse power at first, which will be in
creased as the need demands. The
plant is to be. situated at the correr
of Santa Fe and Fourth streets. Work
on it is to be begun this week.
Negotiations have been pending for
some time between the Interna tional
Light aud Power company and the
Com pania Industrial Mexicana, tn rough
it's Ell Paso branch, upon this contract.
These negotiatiations were carried on
for the Compania Industrial MeXicans
by B. L. Berkey, the compauv's repre-
sentative in this city. Juan "A. Creel,
representing the Com psnia Industrial
Mexcana, arrived here last week to
close the contract.
A meeting of President Dieter, Direc-
tors Courchesne, Krakauer. Martinez,
and McCutcheon OF the International
company, and Mr.. Creel of the Mexican,
company, was held Saturday night and
the contract was signed. By its term
Mr.. Creel is to advance the Ell Paso COM
pany $25, 900. The remaining S25, 600 ne
cessary for the construction of the
plant hss already been raised By the
stockholders of the FL Paso company.
Mr.. Creel telegrsphed orders Satur-
day night for the machinery aud equip
ment for the plant. He said this morn
ing that it should be here within six
weeks and that it will not take more
than two weeks time from the time 1t
is received to have it installed and in
operation.
The contract for the buildings for the
power plant which are to be of brick.
will be let tomorrow or Wednesday and
the work upon them will be rushed.
The structure for the plant Is to cost
81, 900 to S., 900.
The new company is to supply power
as we'll as lights, as stated above. This
will be of great benefit to small manu-
featuring concerns and others needing
| small amount of power. Sufficient
power can be supplied by the plant for
the needs of the entire city.
The International company is to sup
ply Juarez as we'll as Ell Paso with light
and power. Mr.. Courchesne and Mr..
Martinez several months ago secured q
franchise for lighting Juarez and sup
plying power. This franchise has been
turned over to the International COM
pany, which will extend its wires across
the river, giving Juarez her first cleo
trio lights. The company expects to
do large business in Juarez, perhsps
80 per cent of it's total business. 1t al
ready has contracts from the city of
Juarez for twenty-five arc lights
The putting in of an electric car line
by the International company is pre-
sumably merely q matter of time. One
of the directors said this morning that
the car liue would be put in a. once if
the company were able to secure the
present mule car line running between
Ell Paso and Juarez. Most of the street
car traffic would, of course, be between
the two cities. it would be useless for
the International company to attempt
to establish rival line to the mule
line. According to the Mexican fran
chise, which the present street ca COM
pany holds, new company could net lay
tracks on the same streets 1t uses n
Juarez. The present company realizes
| the grip it has upon the situation and
| is not willing to sell for anything like
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