El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-02-02
Neighbour
hood Notes
TEXAS PROSPERITY.

TEXAS.

A man connected with the Texas
board OF trade in recent communica-
ton to the secretary of that associa-
ton embodied in his letter the follow
ing inter esting facts regarding the
prosperity of Texas:
The past years prosperity in Texas
has been very marked; several of orr
crops were the largest ever known;
wheat, for instance, probably fifty per
cent greater; our cotton crop can make
a strong showing: our cattle interests
continue paying 20 to 80 per cent; our
bank statements in their tremendous
increase reflect this prosperity; and
now comes the Beaumont oil well, the
greatest oil strike known-the best
advertisement for Texas that we have
ever had
The cotton crop of the, previous year
was $3.50, 900 ables, the value of which
at an average of GA cents was $76,-
562 500: The last crop estimated at g.
$50 900 bales at 81 cents per pound, is
showing for Texas.
The individual deposits in all nat
ional banks in Texas show for the
year 1899, s54,246,7 1888; for 1900, ST.
S17.7S3
The population of Texas ten years
ago was 2,235 ,523; by the recent census
3,04S. 10 people are now living in the
one of four or five states in the union
that can make such a showing in an
increase of poulation.
BREWSTER COUNTY RICHES.
A dispatch from San Antonio says
that men coming to that city from
Brewster county, where valuable Gin
nabar mines have been discovered
state that at depth of IA feet a pocket
of quicksilver was struck from which
SO pounds of the pure stuff was dipped.
Nuggets of pure ore weighing 60 and
rs pounds have been found that yield
IS per cent pure quicksilver. So far
the methods of extracting the metal
from the ore are very crude, but by
the expenditure of 800 return of
$500 is made
There is no railroad in less than rs
miles of the mines. Maria, on the
Southern Pacific. being the nearest sta
ton. The country is one of the widest
and most difficult to travel in Texas
The roads or trails are over noun
tains and through gulches and can
yonS that are almost impossible.
Preparations are being made to fully
develop the territory.
SIX MEN FIGHT.
People living in the vicinity of the
DriSkill steam laundry in Austin
thought the other morning that the
place was afire or that a boiler had ex-
ploded. They rushed to the place with
blalched faces and two policemen to
investigate. They found the trouble to
ne a big fight in which six men par
ticipated- Two Of them fell out over
dispute and came to blows. Then the
other four Joined and there was a
lively scrimmage for a short time.
Glass was broken, iron was scattered
over the floor and marble crushed to
dust in the melee, making sufficient
noise to be heard several blocks. 1t
is alleged that two women also took a
hand in the fight and they were ar
rested along with the men and all had
TO answer to charge OF disturbing
the peace, which it seems they surely
did
CONSUL FOUND DEAD.
Col E. P. Claudon was found dead in
his bed at Galveston. He was French
consul at San Antonio and was well
known throughout the south. He was
a colonel in the confederate army and
mad held public office in Galveston and
San Antonio for the past thirty years.
He went to Galveston about a week
ago on business and was in apparent
good health He was rs years Of age
and leaves a wife and other relatives
in San Antonio.
NEW MEXICO