The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-12-07
THIS THE LAND OF
MILK AND MONEY
indianapolis Man Who Likes
Brownsville.
Tells Home Paper that He Intends to
Locate in Land Of Sunshine and
Wonderfully Fertile SOiI.-Game
is Abundant.

/ T.. Lowe WHO SPGul SSsSld
months here the past summer, and
who is now visiting his home in
that city, in which Mr.. Lowe
speaks a good word for the lower
Rio Grande valley as follows:
Mr.. Lowe formerly lived here and
removed to Brownsville last May.
He says he likes Brownsville and
intends to locate there permanent
ly.
Brownsville is farther South
than any other railroad station in
the United States, but notwith-
standing its extreme southern loca-
ton has a pleasanter summer eli
mate than any other part of Uncle
Sans domain, Southern Califor-
not excepted. This is due to its
proximity to the Gulf of Mexico
and the trade winds, which are un-
failing throughout the year. The
temperature has been taken at Fl.
Brown every day for forty-two
years, and in that time the highest
recorded was 1914 degrees. During
the months of July and August the
average is lower than in Indiana
polls. In forty-two winters there
has been only one actual freeze.
The average is one frost in
three years. Last June ate ripe
tomatoes from a vine that was two
years old.
GARDENERS MAKE MONEY.
THE principal industry of the
wer Rio Grande valley. of which
Brownsville is the metropolis, is
the growing of vegetables for the
Northern winter markets. This is
highly profitable and one instance
is recorded of truck farmer who
cleared 81, 024 on one acre. A
young lawyer from Jackson, Tenn,
had seventy acres of land in cult
walton this year and cleared over
$40, 900. Another farmer has $50
acres of alfalfa, which he has cut
nine times since January. The
average was a ton an acre each cut
ting, which he sells baled in the
field at $16 ton. Near this alfalfa
farm is a sugar plantation which
yielded an average of sixty tons an
acre last winter. The product sold
at $500 a ton.
These enormous results are ac-
by irrigation, water
for which is pumped from the Rio
Grande river. The irrigable terri |
tory comprises a strip of land along
the river fourteen miles wide and |
seventy miles long. Very little of |
this land is under cultivation as
yet. A number of large irrigating |
canals are under construction in
The valley, all of them nearing
Millions of dollars
have been spent in this work since
he coming of the first railroad, |
:hree years ago.
Several Indianapolis people are
in this development work
The soil along the river averages
thirty feet in depth. ALI kinds of
-ropical fruits flourish and every
1ome has its own banana, orange
md lemon trees, besides number
If fruits indigenous to the country, |
'uch as tie papaya, aguacate, Gust
srd apples, etc. We have one
variety of lemon that grows as big
IS a cocoanut and yields enough
uice for a dozen pies. These
emons took first prize at the St.
Louis fair, with all others left at
he post.
GANK IS ABUNDANT.
Game is abundant. The woods
Ire full of deer, wild hogs, quail
Ind turkey, while every lake and
bayou is literally covered with wild
lucks and geese, which, come to
he gulf coast to spend the winter.
of course, couldn't count
hem, l am positive I have seen a
zillion ducks and geese in one day.
Fhe o1i1f ovsters are small hf1t of