El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-14
DEVELOPMENT
MONTEREY PLANTS
MAKE ENGAGEMENTS
Despite Disturbed Conditions In Repub-
lie, the Industrial Growth of
the CITY Continues.

lie, the Industrial Growth OF
the City Continues.
Monterey, Mexico, Feb. 14.-NOtwith-
standing the natural depression OF
business over Mexico due to reYolu-
tiOnary troubles in other parts of the
republic Monterey, the acknowledge
Industrial capital Of Mexico has made
during the past few months some very
substantial improvements and more are
planned.
ing company has in the past five
months added three 300-tOn furnaces to
its Smelter here, which plant is known
as smelter No. j. The third OF these
furnaces was blown in last week with
others after about a months shutdown
due TO the inability to get fuel and ores
during the recent strike Of the boiler
makers and mechanics on the National
railways These new furnaces ABOUT
double the capacity Of the plant briSg-
ing il up to about 200O tons daily and
making it the largest lead smelter in
J. F. Austin is superintendent Of this
shelter. He is a nephew Of the late
7. S. Austin, who built the FL Paso
shelter.
Telephone improvements.
The telephone company here now has
q complete underground conduit system,
and is putting in 5000 modern tele-
phones. Just as soon as all connections
are made. which viii probably be this
month, the company will move into It's
new building, a reinforced three story
concrete structure This is the only
building in all Mexico designed eSpe-
cially for telephone purposes.
New Gas Plant.
The Canadian company controlled by
the McKenzie-Mann interests Of To
rontO, Canada and owner Of the electric
light and power street cars and water
here put into commission its new gas
plant on Jan. 1. Connections are being
made and many people are beginning
to use gas for heating and cooking, par
ticularly. This is the third gas plant
erected in Mexico. Mexico City has one
and so has Guadalajara-
In September last La Malinche' fur
niture factory here finished a large
two-story brick building in which il is
manufacturing Settees and chairs OF
hard woods imported from the United
States. This company, which is COM
posed Of Mexican capital purposes com
mencing the manufas%ure Of other lines
Of furniture very shortly.
The Monterey steel and ironWorks,
the largest Of its kind in Mexico, viii
soon add steel and iron pipe making
and wire making to its works. It Is
known that the company has ordered
the machinery for the wire making
Clothing Factory Enlarges.
Miguel Cirrillo & Co., manufacturers
OF mems clothing, have ordered new
sewing machines TO more than double
the capacity of the factory when $50
people, at least, will he employed This
company is rising to the growing de-
mand in Mexico for grades of ready
made clothing similar TO that common
in the United States and has proved
that just as good can be made here
and cheaper
Monterey's being the center for six
lines Of the National railways. its near
proximity to the TampicO oil fields on
the south and the Coahuila coal fields
on the north, and having cheap electric
power furnished by a local company
are the leading factors in making it the
Industrial capital OF Mexico.
Try New Machine.
Decanini Brothers. owners Of the
large marble works here, are about to
put into practical operation a machine
of their own invention for the extrac-
ton Of ixtle Oechugilla) fiber. The
machine, operated by gasoline engine,
both on wheels, can be readily moved
from place to place The inventors
claim that the machine viii turn out
from 1000 to 1880 pounds of thoroughly
cleaned fiber every 10 hours. They ex-
pect to put IT at practical work next
week