The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-11-11
NOTES FROM MERCEDES.
Wonderful Development Made is Less
than a Years Time.-Large Tourist
Invasion 'Anticipated-Person.
al Mention.
To TIE HERALD.

Mercedes, Texas, Nov. s. Some
idea of the rate at which develop
ment is progressing at Mercedes
NAV be obtained from the fact that
practically all of the original town
south of the railroad has been sold
out and that part of the townslte
living north of the railroad has re-
Gently been opened and placed on
the market including over four
hundred lots and some small acre
age tracts. Texas, Missouri, Vir-
ginia :and Georgia avenues have
been graded as far north as Lake
Anaquitas.
| 1t is becoming easier every day
to show to our northern visitors
that with the climate and soil al
ready given, all this country needs
to make of it another southern Cal
fornia is little time and work,
and some water. A year ago,
there was no Mercedes. Every
thing which has been planted here
has been set out within nine
months, yet we have grape vines,
ig trees, orange, lemon, kumquat
pomelos strawberry and guava
trees making a luxuriant growth,
some of them already in fruit. We
have bananas eighteen feet high
and papayas rivaling Jacks famous
bean stalk in their wonderfully
rapid growth.
Palms, the slow growing kinds,
set in the open ground, have in
six months, attained a size which
' they would not reach in six years
in the north. A date palm six
teen feet high is fourishing in Mr..
Silver's yard. This was trans
planted to its present location from
the banks of Lake Anaquitas less
:, than a year ago, and, though sc
r large has never shown any i'll eff
: fects from the moving.
ei Advance letters and requests fol
: accommodations, indicate large
e delegation of homeseekers on The
Il excursion reaching here the last
:. of this week. We can handle any
o number with ease now since MIN
Der of rooms in the new amer
have been completed and furnished
Contractor Shapley is turning thu
other rooms over to the hotel a
al the rate of about one day now.
. Mr.. and Mrs. Thos. Carter, Jr.
of ST. Louis are expected the las
1t of this week: also Mrs. Days tw
:, daughters, Mrs. Pelsoe and Mrs
d Doss who are pleasantly remember
r, ed as having visited here before.
l, Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. E. Whiteke
l. have gone to Brighton, Iowa, wher
~ they were called by the seriou
illness of Mrs. Whiteker's Father
lie Mr.. Edward Westgate has re
m turned from a two months visit t
re his fruit farm in northern Arkar
1e sas.
+ Mr.. and Mrs. J. c. Kennel
left for Houston Sunday nigh
lie They will spend the week here a
n tending the festivities after whic
~ Mr.. Kennedy will return here an
o. Mrs. Kennedy will go to Eag
ut Lake for a short visit with her pi
I'd rents.
re- Mr.. James Griffin left Thursda
e for Houston and San Antonio.
an Some one was heard to remar
n recently about the unfortuna
he circumstance that Mercedes cou
OF not be seen by the tourist from Il
:" Ia car window on the main lin
his THE view which one gets fro
the cars here is a sight for sore ey
on after travelling over the wea
OF miles cactus, sand ana prairie
said our friend.
be Married in MatamorOs.
.rosI A wedding of more than passl