The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-10-10
IMPORTANT
LAND SALE
Capitalists Purchase 5000 Acres
of La Blanca Lands:
About 1000 Acres viii be Planted Sugar
And a Mill Erected on the Proper.
$1,000 Acres Will Be Sold
to Settlers.


Pittsburg capitalists have closed a
deal with the La Blanca Agricul-
tural Company whereby they come
into possession of 5000 acres of the
| La Blanca Co.'S. lands in Hidalgo
county. The syndicate is compos-
ed of ]. c. Mcdowell, Pittsburg,
chairman; A1onzo NJ. Snyder, Cleve-
land, Secretary Treasurer; Frank
lie. Game, L. A. Smart and other
gentlemen of Cleveland, Ohio. Mr..
Smart is now in Brownsville and
will remain here for some weeks.
He will have charge of the affairs
of the syndicate from this end of
the line. Mr.. Mcdowell is heavi-
! ly interested in Texas and recently
paid this valley a visit. Mr.. Snyder
has been here for some time assist
| ing Mr.. Smart in closing the deal,
organizing the syndicate and lay
ing plans for work on the proper
ty. Mr.. Snyder, who is one the most
prominent attorneys in his home
city, left for Cleveland Monday
morning. He was Very much
gratifed with his visit and left
here thoroughly filled with en-
thusiasm.
Mr.. Smart explained to THE
HERALD that it is their intention
to complete thorough survey of
the land as early as possible. He
has one crew of surveyors at work
now and will start another out next
week. AS soon as this is done the
construction of canal system will
be started and pushed to compile
ton as rapidly as possible.
This system will extend from the
river across the Sam Fordyce
branch and beyond to the north
end of the La Blanca grant.
About 5000 acres of this land
will be cut up in small tracts and
sold. 1t will not be ready to put on
the market before the 10th of No
vember but more than 1900 acres
it has already been spoken for and
much of it actually contracted sub
ject to the survey. The titles have
been passed upon by Judge Wells
of Brownsville and the law firm of
Ford, Snyder and Tilden of Cleve-
land.
The best part of this proposition
is the fact that the La Donna
Land Syndicate is going to put a
sugar mill on this land, having
allotted 1000 acres for sugar plan
tation purposes. Fifty acres has
already been set apart for a sugar
mill site proper and a mill expert
is now at work making plans for
the building, machinery, etc.
The plans provide for a mill
with an initial capacity of 500 tons
and laid out in such way that
the capacity may be increased by
adding other units as the occasion
demands.
This deal, was consummated
through the hustling real estate
agency of the Hallam Colonization
Company. The Hallam's deserve
much credit for starting this splen-
did development in the valley.
Mr.. SMART in an interview by
THE HERALD said. We have
bought this land and are going to
develop it by the installation of an
irrigating system and construction
of a sugar mill, for the simple
reason that we have implicit faith
in the Rio Grande valley.
Were this not the case, we GER
tainIy would not make this large
investment. I consider this the
richest country by far 1 have ever
seen. In counting points, the rich
est parts of California can not COM
pare with it. Another thing
Uncle Sam can be depended upon
to successfully operate on the IN
necessary appendix that obstructs
the two Americas. When this takes