El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-06-30
SMOKESTACKS THE GREAT NEED
FOR E PASO At PRESENT TINE
James G. McNary, After Trip Through the East Cites
What Factories Are Doing For Other Localities
and Urges That Ell Pasoans Combine From This
Time Forward To Locate Factories Here.

! establishments, I venture TO say with
out questioning the records, chose FL
Paso because of her natural location
OF the railroad shops, again, the same
thing can probably be said.
s'Of manufacturing establishments
of Importance. We have the cement
plant. the grain and milling company,
the foundries and machine companies,
the Ell Paso Milling company's Won
derfui wood working plant, which
will. once Mexico is settled. be a great
factor in the city'S Industrial life: the
FL Paso Refining company. kohlberg
Cigar company, bottling works and
doubtless a number OF others of vary
ing Importance which I do not at this
minute recall. More recently we have
the splendid new packing plant which
Joe Peyton has about completed, but
all of these combined represent a very
small industrial development, indeed,
for a city of FL Paso's commercial
and geographical Importance.
Rich Resources Nearby.
This region is rich in raw mate
rails of every description-wool. cot
tor sand for glass, hides for leather,
copper and all the metals, and IN
doubtedly resources of iron and steel
not yet developed.
The business men Of Dallas for the
past Is years have concentrated their
organized efforts toward the securing
their city. They have what I under
stand to be is one of the greatest
harness and saddlery factories in the
world. It seems to me that FL Paso' S
efforts have been directed too largely
toward the securing of conventions
and other movements. good in them
selves, but not Of sufficient perma-
nent and lasting benefit I believe
that in the long run a button factory
would be Of more benefit to our city
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clothes pin factory would form a basis
Of more permanent prosperity than a
cattlemen's convention. Conventions.
environments, half million dollar high
schools and court houses, high tax
rates and small pay rolls cannot be
the basis of permanent prosperity and
will not, in the long run. make a city
Smoke stacks and pay rolls and manu-
featured products are the things which
Will put the rest Of the world paying
tribute to Ell Paso.
Natural Manufacturing Center.
zone may answer that the city is
not naturally adapted to be a manufac-
turing center, because of the sparsely
settled country about us. This was
said when the cement plant was built.
but the fears of the pessimist have
not been realized in this instance The
same thing was said when our grain
and milling company built its DIE
flour mill which is now " orking night
and day supplying FL Paso and the
great southwest with flour. The rich
and rapidly developing country about
US is undoubtedly able to support cot
ton factories, wooden mills, shoe fac
tories. tanneries. iron and steel plants;
the list might be greatly prolonged
These things will not come of them
selves. In most instances they must
be gone after and inducements offered
Most cities of any Importance now
adays can boast of a Ford assembling
plant FL Paso might get one If she
would go after il hard Success along
these lines will require not only or
ganized public effort, as represented
BY the chamber Of commerce, but
great deal of earnest and consistent
individual effort If every business
man who deals in manufactured prod
ucts would give some thought and
study to the possibilities represented
in this direction by the lines which he
handles, the results would certainly
begin to show in a reasonable time
THE newspapers are always great
agency in achievement and progress
along any line. They can do splendid
work by keeping before the people
the city's need Of industrial
development"