El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-08-25
FIGURING
MILL STARTED
Las Cruces Men Erect 100
Barrel Plant to Furnish
Flour Products.

Showing faith IN the great opening
for. industries I'm FL PasO. J. b. Han
cock. a miller Of Las Cruces. sold out
his mill in that city. Joined his broth
erinIaw. B. +. Kelly, OF san Antonio.
Tex. and C. 3. Jackson. a business
nan OF Las Cruces. and formed the
Community Milling company c. T.
Putnam erected a mill building for the
new company at Bassett and Lee
streets. and the firm IS now running
a business which is certain to be an
asse TO the city OF FL Paso and a
financial success for the owners
The large gray building. neatly
trimmed with green. is an ideal InlLL
Il is clean, and every piece OF ma
chinery. i'm the work Of making
excellent flour. is In its place Milling
work began on Monday OF this week
Uses Marvel Mill
The American Marvel mill. invented
some ten years ago in London, Eng
by A r. Tattersal has been in place
several weeks. This mill is an IN
/ genious affair. by which wheat can DC
] made into excellent flour in several
/ minutes, and through the snort pI9-
] cess IL can retain its life sll5ul
/ adjustment Of the mill makes different
] grades Of flour, and so they can pro-
] duce coarse kinds, suitable 70 use as
] breakfast food, and more delicate ana
] finer grades Of flour. The mill is also
] confined 70 grind all kinds Of chicken
J. feeds, chops. etc, and the mlllers nope
F that the exCellency Of the grains and
[ flours produced viii create mar
ket in the city and adjacent ulslrlcls
Naturally Advertised
The company which puts out the
I American Nllers' Marvel mill adVer-
I tfses extensively in magazines ana as
all flour made in these mills IS named
T -Flavo" and all the mIllers belong 10
the American Community Mlllers as
. sociatiou. the individual miller re-
. ceives the benefit of the advertising 8
T 10 keen the standard Of the flour
] high the millers are obliged TO send
a sample Of their flour monthly %
I lie r0r1na1y and II il falls 70 pass
I The test the mill is taken from them
English Adopt Marvel Mill
I An interesting fact i'm connection with
this mill is that the English govern
4 meut has adopted the mill Tor tnelI
army Of 6.99o.o00 men a.
Although Air. Hancock expects 70 DO
I a mercantile business he IS also mop
ing TO do an exchange business win
the farmers, and viii exchange Il9lf
for wheat. The mill turns out 4lN
barrels Of flour a day besides many
L barrels Of chops, chicken feed, etc
tobacco and cigar wholesalers In FL
Pas0.
Products or steel, iron anu t-A 90 :
turned out in El Paso in larger ans
larger quantities by the sheet metal
works located here. One Of the laEs-
est is the Hills sutton & White Co.
I at Myrtle and Dallas. Others are the
/ Western Metal Manufacturing COM
panv. on 81. Vraiu. and the Henry
/ WeIsch factory. which occupies It's
new building on Texas street
Tons unOn tons OF ice are manu1ac-
rrIred in Fl Paso during the summer
and one concern handles an average
OF 100 tons day. Owing 70 an eI-
ficfenr system of distribution, the
rosr price of ice has not advanced
In 81 -Paso. The Consumers, Fl Paso,
and Rio Grande do most Of the manu-
featuring. shipping ice all over tns
sourhyresr. Ia is also manufactured
hv the FL Paso Brewery and py
Bush q Son. Texas and Dallas streets
Paste edibles in the shape OF mac
aroni. vermicelli and the like. mucn
Of which IS sold along the border. are
made here by the Sharp-Ellott com