El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-06
WITHABUHlANT RAW MATERIAL
Ell PB51 SEEKS MORE FACT TORIES
Is the Logical Location for Many Kinds of Manufacturing
Plants; Has Hides for Tanneries; Lumber for Mills;
Vegetables for Canneries and Railroads to
Distribute the Finished Products
BY GEORGE H. CLEMENTS.

HTL PASO ships her hides and
pelts and buys her leather. She
1 - ships her wool and buys bIan-
kets. She ships her fruit and vege-
tables and buys canned goods. She
: sells her cattle and buys her beef from
1 Kansas City"
The foregoing sounds like a knock
and II is knock" 1t appeared in a
! boost article written in 1902, but is
I just as true today as when it was
4 written IS years ago.
still Is Work To Do.
II appeared then under the caption,
The, Man With the Hammer" There
Is Just as much work for that man in
: r. PaSo now as there was on the coca
sion of his visit'at that time He should
probably swing the hammer more Wig
/ orously now than he did then. because
IN the - years which have elapsed the
need for the enterprises he was then
contend1ng for has increased many
fold and at that time there were many
I things which stood in the wax of the
establishment of these enterprises
which have no place in the category Of
obstacles in 1914
What He Meant to say.
What THE Man With the Hammer
meant to say then was that FL Paso
should have tannery. a wooden min,
a canning factory and a packing
house. She should have ali those
1 things and more. FL Paso has an abun-
dance of cheap coal at its door. and
{ cheap coal means cheap power. She
/ has an abundance of cheap uns--ilIed
| labor. She has abundant transporta-
ton facilities, an extensive market and
rapidly developing agricultural, min
eral and cattle raising country OF
which she is the center.
What FL PasO Should Have.
FL PasO should have not only all
those things which "The Man With
the Hammer" said she should have, but
she should also have copper mills, shoe
factories, furniture core factories, au-
tOmobile assembling plants, all Of
which would give employment to thou
sands of skilled and unsl1il1ed men
who would do their part toward build
ing up the city.
FL PasO has advanced wonderfully
along manufacturing lines since The
Man With the Hammer" wrote his
Jeremiad" Is years ago, and which
furnishes the basis for the Observa-
ton herein contained.
Magnificent Possibilities.
With the magnificent possibilities in
the fruit and vegetable growing way.
furnished by the fertile valleys up
and down the Rio Grande. from EI
Paso, there would seem to be no good
reason why we should depend upon
California for our asparagus, or upon
Wisconsin for our canned peas or to-
matOes. What is true of vegetables
is also true of fruits.
The FL Paso valleys We're once IA
nous for the grapes produced. The
FL Paso valley is the only place on
the American cOntiRent, so far as
known, where the Bartlett pear
reaches perfection, and where pear
blight is unknown. Apples thrive in
the valleys adjacent to Ell Paso, but
reach their greatest perfection in the
fertile valleys in the mountains of
New Mexico and in the Pecos valley
of New Mexico, as well as of Texas.
which are directly tributary to this
market
A canning and preserving works
ought to do a great business in FL
Paso and undoubtedly would were the
ENTERPRISE to be undertaken by men
with money who know the game ard
know how to get the best possible re
suits.
Why We Fall Down.
Ell Paso merchants say that some of