El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-01-25
THIS is THE BIG YEAR; IT CAN BE
MADE THE BEST YEAR ON RECORDI
q. Business Is Teaching

The paving program to be revived Business Is reaching
west Texas offers one Of the best Of these It is
reconstruction period in the former drouth country
even where oil has not been discovered There is great
business opportunity IN the places where oil has been
discovered FL Paso fully alive to it2 Some firms are
Are all Of them2 Fort Worth is getting mint Of money
by reason Of the shorter rail haul is up to FL Paso
firms TO meet that competition And the further west and
northwest the oil field extends the better for FL Pasos
chances.
reports state Goods Of all kinds find ready market
Clothes automobiles pictures household and farm uten-
sis Grand pianos and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS is in
mand An 81 Paso who is trading in oil leases
planned recently, rather his wife complained that they
couldn't keep automobile because whenever they drove
one into Ranger someone induced them to sell at ire
sstble profit They sold three big expensive cars IN
few weeks It is isolated but from all reports
It IS fairly illustrative of general condition.
FL Paso looking to Mexico the field for big trade
revival and nightly Mexico is past the revolutionary
stage and its effects gradually wearing off The people
returning farming. sookTasng and mining and the
factories working such Of them get materials
All reports from Mexico are most encouraging.
The embargo, placed wartime measure, is the bar
Iier 70 Iu ana unIesICueo commerce between tne One1
States and Mexico through the southwestern border ports
Of FL Paso, Columbus Douglas Nogales and San Diego
Mexico has things to export which cannot be handled
and Mexico wants vast amount of goods which cannot
now be exported from the United States.
But the embargo IS to be lifted according to
surances from Washington, that scarcely reStTc
ton VIII remain In the interval agents Of the govern
to be stationed the border ports above
toned to receive applications and issue export licenses
thus eliminating delays hitherto annoying to business men
and handcappng transaction between American firms and
those in Mexico.
The passport restrictions also to be removed
that only personal Identification is TO be required This
viii allow American and Mexican business representatives
the border freely and negotiate in each others
country carrying trade in way that cannot be
phshed by correspondence at distance.
New industries in sight for FL Paso a few have
been announced recently and viii come for have
the trade territory, the materials and the labor supply
They viii come in larger numbers when Fl Paso gets down
business and works out the fuel problem which
stands obstacle The solution is hydroelectc power
10 be obtained from Elephant Butte dam and if everybody
plans and works to make that great idea materaze It
vii prove one Of the greatest Of this locatys assets
These things in the future and there is also in
the future the prospect Of increasing FL Pasos business in
New Mexico and Arizona, prospect which be made
certainty.
Thinking them all over not al these opportunities
worth looking forward to and planning and working for7
This IS the big year. Let's hit the ball, all of rs.