The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-01-19
PROGRESS OF BEAUMONT
Facts and Figures Given by The Sec
felary Of the Board of Trade.
THE RIVER AND HARBOR DELEGATION.
Attorneys In the Lloyd Murder Case Ar
euing on the Adnissiblity Of the
Confession Made.


Beaumont, Texas, January ls.-secretary
a. ID. Childress OF the Beaumont oil e1-
change and board Of trade Is most en-
thuslastic believer IN the future growth
aud prosperity OF Beaumont. along with
hundreds vi other citizens who can pie.
ture TO themselves nothing snort Of a big
city on the banks of the Neehes ten years
hence. This Is not picture conJured rp
Oy the magination, however for Within
the last Ten days two manufacturing con
Germs have been secured for the town hot
VII bring more than 1900 people mere upd
dlshurse not less han $4,000 per month
In wages.
Al was noted some das ago that East
ern CAPT aIlsts had purchased eishty.uIAa
acres out OF the Caswcl estate, soLth %
the city, as site for d big oil reuucly,
IRON foundry and machine shop Tie -.
mat these combined eutcrpr u arr to be-
loeated here lis soon as the buiidngs ,ru
ne erected was evidenced IN a vrry substan-
olai way today by she compan,s scruI NJ
ilsht-oi way Tor spar track to the
property aud The announcement, that :NVI
Ions o! m"nutac' lrius iron ina steel with
nc HdChiherJ nece %slrf to- tquip the va.
~. US pan =, has been r1plv for shipment
~ ~ wv 81 thFee lhb = aud J., now awaiting
~" e"mplctipn of the spur TO the site pur'
cnaseu By the comp1ny
atcrtldiy Ebu'liess has Information that
NM TViHPNHE mas cnpital OF - 100 UUU,
ami thai lie reflery to no erected riI be-
one OF the largest IN the country. some
~ ulP hjtellui 10 be h~cl ln No.. cnnstg.ir.
non OF the three plants Is now loaded o..
ING cars In Pennsylvania
rlne coming OF the pehmun eel m
!, Jon WORKS from East Chicago, which mas
ueaI to the manufacturing Geyp'cptnpui of
tht town. with its pr,+r'it f,rcr INC com
p"5@ haS a pay gnli OF ST." ono p5r month.
.hd u Is expected That lie force viii he
moved TO Beaumont 80 ~
... MG. H. Stoiti, VINO has been helping to
ny rgEoi I'll 10, iu hphuf 4 the
.pahy' furnished .aa following infoira-
4 ta l,, ShG company proposes to erect on
ni tnh ,Ne1'r d"rs5 par htS,.l US.
citv.'S :" luo northern suburbs OF the
me first building viii he looy8n2 feet
H. iI u. CONTAIN The puncHnr sh"aring.
[Sa,niuihg rolling and Hangine mar6inrr,,.
Tor preparing steel ryod In tants L il',,.s
b1tdaes, etc, It VITA also contain 1870 g'SS'
si".ae'S nnd. system of air lifts to handle
tAe Office Of The superintendent
! me- second building will he sOxl5O feet
n o. VII C9Atain benches ana ways for the
erection Of boilers. tanss and tank cars
oppressed air tools win lie used in his
lnird WIN come the stock house. 4ox15o
brrs T rjvotl WIZ contain plates, angles, tee
20 fourth -'iifing on rho list IL the hou
err house. In which pt. he placcd thn boii
cIS' engines, air conlprpssors, dynamos.
pumpS etc. 80 '"'"'''
,t t%th d. Is the hlqchgmith shop which is in
rho sixth building which viii he rsel
the companr's officers. win contain seven
rooms including The managers room. the
secrel0rys Office. the trcasurer's room n
room Tor thc directors, n general whiting
room toilet aud room for the draughts.
An extensive wharfage will he erected on
equioped with rnilroadltracks AMI switches
Complgte telephone and electric light sys-
tens VIII be installed and the miami VIII no
modern In every feature. Twenty.dvo cot
taTos ana sufficient number Of boarding
houses are to he erected for rho mon
Nhle the two concerns mentioned are
the only ones actually secured during inc
en- different enterprises are now here look
ing for. sites and investigating the advan.
tHgcs Of the town.
Secretary Childrcss Of the oil exchange
and board Of trndc is ALWAYS ready with
dozen reasons Tor the faith that Is In him
as to the future Of Beaumont. but his favor.
itc argument is this: If the Russian oil
field. remote from deep water hcmmed In
hv mountains on one side and devoid OF
Sucn vast and valuable commodities ms the
lumber and rice for which Beaumont Ia al.
ready famed. Witnessed the hull Hing OF a
CITY Of 40 600 peOnlc within less than ten
wears. whv shouldn't Rcnumopt have twice
TINT number Of people nv 1o102
Tho dozens Of innurieR that arc coming
TO the hoard of trade from mon who are
looking for factory sites certainly make the
future Took good 10 BeaumOntors.