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E!L PASO HERALD Saturday, March 12, 1910. " ' - ' III ' .. . O- . r- -. . ' ' ' ' JICTRQVflL ML Fl ' P0Qne IMlvPirf'VB frwia I eI"$7 ' rVlllitfil3'! rl rlHIr II llDiUlllUr nL - IctpOcUlS OOOOr riOIIco lty jufuiiuici jl FnuU u MWT1 M ' J - "T":il"i P f3 JF ff5 B f Pkfi I $150,000 Already Spent De veloping Stone and Put ting It on Market. SiraPASSESAWY DOMESTIC STONE Grades Up Equal to Marbles of Italy and Is in Constant Demand. The history of the' Arizona marble de posits near Bowie is Interesting. In l!05, a prospector from Arizona sent samples of the Bowie marble to the Kerr Marble and Stone company, of Denver, to- be tested. The sample was placed on the desk of J. G. Kerr, presi dent of the compa'ny, who has been making- a study of marbles for the past 15 years. He has examined every de posit In the JJnlted States, erthery per sonal visits to the quarry sites or by means 6t samples from the quarries. In February, 1905, he visited the de posit, as yet unworked, in the Chira cahua mountains of Arizona. So fa- vorably was he impressed with the for mation of the deposit and thel high quality of the marble that he returned to Denver, arranged for the organiza tion of a company to develop the pro- ject and disposed of his holdings in the Denver company. Associated' with him in the quarry company is Lawrence C. Phipps, of Pittsburg, one of the fa mous Phipps family, "who are heavily (interested In the steel business at Pitts burg Gerala Hughes, son of United States senator Hughes, of Colorado, is. also interested in the Arizona company It is capitalized for $1,000,000, andd has already invested $150,000 in developing the quarries near Bowie. Finest In1 Country. The Bowie marble is pronounced by ICew York and other eastern architects and builders as being fhe finest in the United States, surpassing the Vermont. Georgia and Tennessee marbles smd equaling the world famous Italian and, Grecian marbles. It tests 99.98 percent purs in carbonate of lime and has a crushing strength of lr2,000 pounds to the square Inch. Mr. Kerr has a num-j ber of photographs of marble slabs' which have been taken from the Ari zona Marble company's quarries, show ing the beautiful stratification which makes it so valuable commercially. AH 'contracts made by the company for Its product specify matched marble, giving tha building in which it is used the ap pearance which Is sought for by tb'i famous architects. One slab of the Ari zona marble is shown in a photograph ! with a perfect compasa and squaro formed in the compound vcinings. - This is formed by reversed cheveron vein lng, and is considered one of the finest pieces of matching ever quarried. An- other photograph show: a sample or the marble with a Japanese lily show ing plainly in the dark colored vein ing. Samples Gratlfriii;?. Samples of the southwestern marble j were placed on exruomon va. tue ju.etro polltan Life building in New Tork, and were also exhibited before the leading 2Cew York arhcitects and pronounced the equal of the high grade marbles quarried In Italy and Greece. McKImm, Mead & White, Carrare & Hastings, Case Gilbert and other famous archi tectural engineers declared the output of the Arizona quarries far superior to the other native marbles of the United States. The new First National bank, of Den ver, which is now being built, h.as speci fied the Bowie marble for its interior and exterior decorations, in the new $1,800,000 building now in course of construction. Other large buildings in the southwest, Including a number of the new El Paso structures may be or namented with the Arizona marble, as Mr. Kerr has been in conference with a number of the business men who are planning to build soon. Tho present plant of the marble com pany Includes ,all the machinery used in a modern quarry plant. A pattery of "three chandling machines, af. 250 horse power boiler plant, air compressors and air drills are installed and in opera tion on the ground. A small mill 13 now being operated to finish the ma terials for a number of contract where it Is not possible to finish the marble on the job. A general store is also conducted by the company to provide ; the force of 45 men employed at the J plant with supplies. Later tne plant will be extended and the entire deposit of marble worked as it is needed. The company is planning to develop the j property as rapidly as possiDie ana expect to be supplying the east Texaa, California and southwestern demand for building marbles within the present year. Faith In tke West. "It is extremely gratifying to me." Mr. Kerr said, "to see the Texas cities demanding a higher grade of marble for their building than those of the east? and north. That is true right nere in El Paso. The new bank buildings spe cify marbles which are the equal of any in the country, and the bank structures will be a credit to any city in the United States. I have cast my lot with the southwest because I believe in it mot onlj' in my own project; that of ""producing marble, but in the great pos sibilities of the southwest in every branch of Industry. Marble quarrying is as exact a science as copper mining and milling, and we propose to produce and prepare the output of our prop erties for the market In the most mod ern way possible. 'Our mill was built of .the first car of concrete shipped by the Southwestern Portland Cement company, of El Paso, and all of our machinery has been shipped either from here or through here. While I am not an agriculturist, I can see the greatest possibilities for the vallej's surrounding El Paso on all sides. The trend of (immigration is southwestward in its direction, and as soon as the government puts water on these lands there will be no limit Gen. Anson Mills Is Griiest of Honor at Banquet at St. Eegis Hotel. Tribute Is Paid to Man Who Eeally Laid' Out and Started El Paso. It is not often given to a man 10 oe j honored by his fellowmen while yet alive and able to appreciate the tribute of friendship. j Frldaj- evening, surrounded by the nnmnanlons of his earlv manhood and the business men who know and appre- j diplomat-citizen has done for El Paso, Gen. Ansdn Mills, brjgadie: general (re tired), founder of E1 Paso and its most prominent citizen, was paid the highest human tribute, the acknowledgement of a debt of gratitude and Its paj-ment in fun measure. Kesponding to the sincere tributes of his friends, Gen. Mills renewed his faith In the city of his early manhood, the city which he loves second only to the town of his nativity, by declaring that he would bnild a monument to himself and to the old El Paso which would take "the form of a modern building, the finest in the southwest. The banquet was spontaneous, was planned by the business men of the city as an appreciation of what the distin guished citizen has done and Is doing for the city of his choice. The Speakers. W. H. Burges presided as toastmaster at the banquet. "We have many things to be grateful for." he said at the be ginning of the speech making. "We have gathered here to testify to our good friend. Gen. Mills. We have the Mills building, are going to have the Mills dam, and I am reliably informed that we are to have a new Mills build ing. No one will doubt that the things which El Paso has to be proud of are flim in no small extent to our guest of this evening. You all know him and j Tvorus are bupciiiuuuB. ic .. hear from Capt. Beall." Capt. Beall, business associate and close personal friend of Gen. Mills, paid the first tribute to the distinguished guest, the tribute of a friend to a; friend. "We are here as business men of EI Paso to pa ya worthy tribute of honor to ope or the city's pioneers. He came here more than a half century ago when this city w,as known as Smith's ranch. It was not even digni fied as a town or hamlet- Later It was named Franklin after the christian name of Franklin Coons. Thereafter It was changed from Franklin to El Paso. You have here now as the guest the man who had the honor of nam ing this place (applause). E,rom that time until he left us, he was active in the interest of El Paso. He mapped out the Mills property on the first map. I think we now have here the most prominent of all citizens El Paso has ever had and we all delight to hon or him this evening. He was active, zealous and faithful. We cannot go back to any enterprise without find ing the name of Mills associated with them. Gen. Anson Mills now comes back to us. He Inaugurated the pro ject which for years was known only as the Mills dam. The name of Mills was potent in getting resolutions passed by the first irrigation congress for the Elephant Butte , dam. Under treaty stipulation the dam is to be built and we are the beneficiaries of it. We want to hear from Gen.' Mills. He has been a part of everything" pertaining to -El Paso. Gen. Mills, we want to hear from you." Gen. "Mills Speaks. The applause when Gen. Mills arose to speak was prolonged and lie was forced to bow his acknowledgments a mumber of times before the grizzled old veteran, the reho of war and peace," could speak. It is a proud thing to be entertained as I have been here tonight. I take ir for granted that this Is not the result of other than sentimental motives. I was told I would b expected to reminisce. If I had a younger audl otioa -T -would feev more rree to tell more liberal stories. But here on my j A mWSJAWmmSm 1 M UfOTCTH Distributing T . Ji v i JLlBBaSSaSBM-SSOWSBnn! .. a i wwinii riMm i j-.TmtfinT j ; rr ,.ft;i:iiff.;ifa ! p. n ! - i J right is a companion of my youth V. " vM .jS&ISmW 'if 1 (Joseph klagoffin). He was here be- L c?ofc3 o rW' TO JJLiM&MSmS P Jt right is a companion of my youth (Joseph Magoffin). He was here be fore I was. I came here as a discharged cadet. I was appointed by a member of congress from Indiana. I did not make good. Realizing my failure, I was ashamed to go home to my father. I started to go as far away as I could get and'l landed here with $10. I had known some of the officers stationed at the post here, back at the academy. I told them I had failed at' school and wanted a chance. James Magoffin, the father of my friend here, found that 1 had had some engineering. He asked me af I could survey land. They had elected a man named Rufus Doan as surveyor and he did not know a com pass from a teapot- I "was sworn in and given a barrel of maps." Early Day Reminiscences. Gen. Mills then indulged in reminis cences of the early days in EL Paso while ho was the surveyor and was In timately associated with the men of the old times. He told of the attempted raid. on the Mexican jail to liberate a miserable gambler who had beenlocked up, and how a-young man named Henry had met his death. He also told of the Cutting" affair when a similar attempt was plannebut was given up when the seriousness of the move was realized. He told of "the Lieut. Flipper affair at Fort Davis and .pf the part that the late John Dean played In the affairs of the" Southwest- Gen. Mills has a fund of reminiscence and has a whole some humor which makes his stories doubly .Interesting. His stories of the Posjoffice site postoffice site who is going to sell the government a post office site? This troublesome question continues to haunt the owners of down town property; Sites havebeen pro posed in every partof the district in cluded between the union station and' Campbell street, and even northof the tracks. " ' The Z. T. White property, on San Francisco street, seems to be ahead in Y. W? C.A.. and Several Other 'Buildings, 4e Put Under Way. This has been ground breaking week in El Paso. The First Church of Christ, Scientist, broke ground for Its new $10, 000 structure on' Montana and Stanton streets. The ground breaking at the Schutz building .consisted of a half doz en 'teams and as many more men swooping down on the site of the new building and starting to work loading the dirt. Sunday the Y- W. C. A. will hold a formal ground breaking exercise on the site of the new boarding home which Is to be built on West Missouri street. Other ground breakings will soon be In order. R. B. Bias Fuel Co. Wood, coal. feed, cement, plaster, lime, building paper. 1014 Missouri street. Phones. Bell S49; Auto, 1S49. old days were the feature of thespeak- mg and he was urged to tell more be foro ho ceased talking. 'I'm Goinsrto Build." .' After he had'taken his chair amid the applause of his friends Gen. Mills asked to be permitted to speak again briefly. "I forgot something I was going to say," the general modestly said. "I just wanted to say to you here that I am going to build." This was enough. The crowd broke' into cheers and the general was again forced to acknowledge, the ovation to him. When the applause had subsided, hG continued: "I havo raised $200,000 and I am going to put it all into the building. It wH! be as much as eight i stories, possibly nine, it may be ten and possibly 12. I want you all to help me. I want you to sympathize with me for I am tearing down a build ing Into which I put $00,000 and from which Lam getting $1000 a month in rents. Onlj- the shame of having that building In the center of a progressive city has led me to build. I am leaving something of a monumenfin the town the running, although nothing definite has yet been announced. The bill, appropriating money for a site is expected to pass congress at the present session, and a selection of a site will be made as soon as this Is done.it Is- thought. The government requirements call for a site large enough-'to permit a one 'story building, well lighted and ven MASONS HAVE A NEW CLUB ROOM Scottish Eite Chapter Makes 'Improvements in Its Hall. When the Scottish Rite Masons come to El Paso from all parts of the south west for the semiannual reunion this month, they will be unable to flndfthe little Scottish Rite club room which, was the lounging place for them at the former reunions. Instead there will be a large, newly furnished club room, with reading and writing tables, easy chairs 'and a billiard room in connec tion. The partitions and closets in the southeastern corner of the .Masonic temple have been removed, making the corner Into one large club room, which opens directly into the Scottish Rite assembly hall. Three rooms have been made Into one, and the second floor lodge room, as well as the club, has been repainted and papered. Pictures of Albert PJke have been hung over the altar of the lodge room factlng the altar which he made while in El Paso years ago. On th'e opposite wall is a picture of James D. Richard son sovereign grand commander of the Scottish Rite for the southern jurisdiction. w1 to which I became atactfed more than to any town save the one where I was born." Fevrel Spcakn. Major W. J, Fewel. who has often made the boast that he would erect a building one story higher than the high est in the city, was called upon by Mr. Burges to announce his 14 story building, after Gen. Mills had finished. "I know -major Fewel Is superstitious ' and will not build 13 stories. It Is up to him to build a 14 story building. We want to hear from major Fewel." , Major , Fewel responded by saying that, when he made the statement he would erect a building one story high er than the highest there were only a few three story structures In the city. tilated, to be built on the site without approaching nearer than 40 feet to an adjoining building. This .puts a number of the proposed sites out of the running, and reduces the sites to a few having the necessary ground to comply with this clause, and at the same time be reasonable enough in price to permit the government to purchase. Drowns Out the Noise of the Knockers in Business .- . Section. The rumble of the concrete mixers has drowned the wail of the knockers In El Paso. On almost every .street in the business district the concrete mix ers are grinding out their buildings In the rough and the mixture of El Paso cement, El Paso stone and good El Paso sand Is wheeled away by El Taso labor ers to be poured into boxes to form El Paso skyscrapers. The mixers have Been started at the new Roberts-Banner building, at the K., Z. & M. site two big mixers are at work, rushing the concrete for this business block, and the Schutz building will soon be ready for the concrete workers. The Reckhart building, fur ther down on San Francisco street, will soon be ready for the builders. PC UL JL 1 ut he said he would do his best, which was all anyone could do. The major then told a number of stories on hi3 friends, including a fishing story on Capt. Beall. Eylar Talks. Joseph Magoffin, who sat at Gen. Mills's right, spoke briefly. Judge A. S J. Eylar, speaking for the younger generation of El Paso, paid the most glowing tribute to the general. In closing, judge Eylar said: "When a booster of the old guard comes back to find his dreams coming true it gives us all renewed confidence and makesji ua it: it Hie LlliiL cue ncaiu ui luc ll ue booster never grows old. If we had 1 such boosters we could be a second Chicago. If 50 a second New York But let us not complain, rather let us be thankful for what we have. Let us drink to Gen. Mills." Judge R. H. Ward made an appeal for a more patriotic attitude toward the state of Texas on the part of the El Pasoans and predicted that El Paso would some day be the greatest empire J city in the empre statf of th nr5vv Judge P. F. Edwards and T. M. WIngo also speke briefly In praise of the great work of Gen. Mills. Thanks to Ges. Mills. In closing toastmaster Burges said: "I feel authorized to say to Gen. Mills that wherever he may be, he can rest assured that the people of El Paso realize that to the work he has done Is due in no small part the prosperity of the city and that the good will and j the people of EI Paso wish him many . years of life, health, happiness and! prosperity now and always." The Guests. The guests at the banquet -were: Gen. Anson Mills. Wilbur Keblinger, H. B. Stevens, O.- H. Baum. Joseph Magoffin, W. H. Austin, D. M. Payne. Ernest Kohlberg. A. P. Coles, A- Schwartz, Charles DeGroff, T. M. Wingo, W. L. Toole3 J. J. Mundy, J. A. Smith, J. a Wilmarth, S. J. Larkin, George R. Le Baron, R. F. Burges, William H. Bur- ges.. "William F. Robinson. H- S. Potter, A. S. J. Eylar, Capt. T. J. Beall, R- H. Ward. Millard Patterson, J. A. Buckler, J. F. Williams, William W. Follett, W.J" KS. jjavis, v. j. tv iiiz, . a. -cvmiitr. . i J. Fewel. judge P. F. Edwards. L. D. Gilbert, Claiborne Adams. Francis Gal- I lagher, Charles Richardson, A. G. Trost, j Raymond Hackett. ! Engineer for Chicago Pack-j ers Is Here Inspecting Plans. Surveys are being made In the Santa Fe reservation for the new International Stockyard company's yards, which are to be built between the Santa Fe yards w and the river. F.. J. Parrot, construction engineer for the Nelson Morris company, the Chicago packers, has been here Inspecting the plans for the stockyards. This firm of packers, which Is extending its business through the west and southwest, la be hind the movement- to give El Paso adequate stockyards for the handling of Mexican and Arizona cattle. Charles F. Hupt.and Frank M. King, of El Paso, are promoting the u plan for the new stockyards and Mr. King will be the general manager of the yards when they are completed. The yards of the International com pany will have a capacity of 250 cars and will be built from tha most modern plans. The yards will be paved with vitrified brick and the streets will be of the same- construction. A warehouse, office and other buildings will be built at the stockyards, the total cost of the entire yards being estimated at $15,000. RUSHING BUSINESS FOR THE VALLEY AUTO LINE. An auto line is now running regularly Vxtt.'cwnn VA T.i5rt and Ysleta. Th nnf-n arrives eah morning, returning In the I atterncon w;in passc"tci u.jiu xreigui. Friday it left for Ysleta with three pas sengers a sack ol potatoes and a toot of the born. The auto line Is doing a brisk business. Its owner says, as the interest in the lower valley is keener now than at any time since the county road war completed. SURVEY MADE FOB BIG STOCKYARD Headquarters For the Bowie Quarries Will Likely Be Here. INEXHAUSTIBLE DEPOSITS FOUND 'Machinery Is Now Taking Out the Slabs of Stone for Commercial Use. A finishing plant for preparing the product of the Arizona Marble com pany, of Bowie. Ariz., to be built in El Paso in the near future may result from the visit of John G. Kerr, presi dent and general manager of the mar ble company, who has been here for the past week In the Interest of his company. Being a rough finish project, the Arizona marble Is quarried with the Iddea of having it finished In or near the cities where it Is to be used. A small finishing plant at the quarry sit is now being operated to supply the trade, where it Is Impossible to have the high grade marbles cut and polish ed. El Paso, being a distributing point for the southwest and also a large consumer of marble in Its own build ings, has been selected by the general manager of the company as the possible location for a f'nishing plant to dress the rough blocks which are the prod uct of the Bowie deposit. The deposits, which are inexhaustible, are located 14 miles from the main line of the Southern Pacific, the closest Ra tion being Bowie. Ar'z. At present the supplies and output of the quarries are hauled by steam traction engines to the railroad line, but the general plan, of construction includes 'an electric traction line between Bowie and the marble quarries. The deposit Ilea at the base of the Chirlcachua mountains. The stratification Is from 50 to 359 feet wide, according to general mana ger Kerr, and the strata which con tain the supply of marble are standing on end. This ledge extends2 for about 25 miles ahd are- covered with granlta formation in a number of places. The supply Is practically inexhaustible, there being a supply of the finest mar ble dn the United States sufficient to build all of the buildings in a large ciij Chamber of Commerce Is Communicating With Contractors. The chamber of commerce committee appointed as a result of the agitation for a new hotel in EI Paso has not yet made a report, nothing definite having been decided upon. A number of plans have been advanced for promoting the construction of the hotel, and also se curing a site. A bonus for the builder, is one. Correspondence has. been opened with Caldwell & Drake, of Columbus. Ind., who are well known public building promoters and contractors. They, were awarded the first contract for the. con struction of the Arkansas state capital building at Little Rock, and recently closed a deal for the erection of a $750, 000 courthouse at Topeka, Kans. Among the buildings they have recently com pleted Is the five story Colonial hotel and the state Normal school at Spring field, Mo. The hotel is one of the mod ern hostelries in the southwest. A number of other contractor? hav also been -approached but the members of the committee are not at liberty to make public tho- result of their investi gations. That a number,, however, are Interested, is the statement advanced- RANCH IS SOU) DOWN THE YALLEY Louisville Man Comes to El Paso and Invests in Property. N El Paso gains by Louisville's loss. J. O. Nagel, a business man of Louisville, has bought 15 acres eight miles below El Paso on the county road, and will Improve It with a residence and or chard, and will put In a garden and al falfa tracts. The deal was closed by Pence Bros., the consideration being $3000. George Pence, of this same firm, has completed his country home on the Pence ranch down the valley. He has rebuilt the house which was on the 24 acres he owns, eight miles below tha city, and has moved there. The land has also been Improved and put in fruit, alfalfa and garden. CLINT, DOWN THE VALLEY, IS ON THE BOOM. Clint, Texas. Is on the boom. Mc Kinney Bros, are building a new store in the little town down the galley, a .number of residences are bitfg built In and near the own, and a number of residents of the valley town afe plan ning to build new homes during the spring. The building boom which has struck the entire lower valley has In vaded Clint, and the other valley mu nicipallties will have to hurry to catch up. C Globe Mills Graham Flour! also Whole Whin' Flour. Fresh frnm lhf rolls. 'Nuff Sed. Try a sack. At all grocers. iHnui mm iu -ERECT Jl HOTEL i r to the resources of the southwest.' j