The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1907-10-24
THE CANAL AT
MERCEDES
Water viii Be Pumped Into Canal
About First of January.
The Electric Lighting Plant Is Complete
and the Lights Were Turned
On During Recent Visit
TT. W Carter.

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Mary Ellen, returned Sunday from
a ten weeks visit to their former
home in Missouri and other points,
and now Mr.. Silver's face is hard
ly large enough to accommodate
his Sunny Jim" smile.
James Johnston Jr., cashier OF
the Hidalgo County Bank, return
ed Sunday from a trip to his old
home in Missouri where he went
for his wife and baby He is build
ing a pretty brick residence on
Missouri Avenue and expects the
household good to arrive soon.
Lam, the hotel gardener, has'
grown an experimental crop OF
cane which IS a wonder. There are
five acres of it. It is over 10 feet
high and will easily yield so tons
to the acre.
The beautiful new building
which has been put up as an annex
to the hotel, is about completed.
Contractor Shapley has promised
six rooms the last of this week.
Monday evening, Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Forney entertained IN
honor of Mr.. Chester B. Davis
birthday. The rooms were taste
fully decorated in green and white.
A six course dinner was served
with covers laid for Mr.. and Mrs.
Davis, Mr.. Nicolaysen and Mr..
and Mrs. Forney.
To a Mercedean, recently re-
turned from the north, the town
presents a most gratifying appear
ance. There are many new build-
ings, some of a very high class,
like the hotel annex, the school
and the residence of Vim. O'Fallen;
]. M. Johnston Jr., and Fred Cut
ting.
The hotel grounds and park op-
nocite form a beautiful picture
with their velvety lawns. brilliant
flowers and semi-tropical fruits,
palms and shrubs, which have
made an amazing growth in the
last three months.
Work at the pumping station is
rapidly approaching completion.
The pumps and motors are install
ed and superstructure completed
except the roof. The wiring and
connections remain yet to be done.
January 1st, 1908, will see water
in the canal.
The electric lights were turned
on for the first during the recent
visit of T. w. Carter Of St. Louis,
president of the American Rio
Grande Land and Irrigation Com
pany. The hotel is beautifully
lighted with over a hundred in
candescent lights, the porch lights
in their ground glass globes pro-
ducing a particularly pleasing eff
feet. The street lights are of the
enclosed arch style. In the engine |
room of the power station the gen.
eral illumination is by three Nernst !
lamps which produce a perfect |
light, brilliant and white In the
boiler room the lamps are of the
enclosed arc type similar to the
street lamps.
Some little fig trees planted in !
the hotel yard in May are bearing
a crop of fruit and eighty-seven
little kumquats were counted on
tree less than three feet high, also
planted in May.
E. E. Witter has completed his
ice house and stocked it and now
people living in Mercedes and
vicinity can get ice in any quantity |
desired without sending to Browns
vile for it and much cheaper. by
the-way.
Several barrels of apples from
the Ozark region of Arkansas, the
Land of the Big Red Apple, :"
were received in Mercedes this
week. They proved quite treat
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