The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-11-23
THE GOSSIPER.
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credit to the city. Corpus Christi
also has the finest pavilion on the
Texas coast, and the old town has
improved in so many ways it would
be hard to note them all. | spent
many pleasant years in Corpus be-
fore l came to Brownsville, but in my
visit there the other day / saw far
more strange faces than l did famil-
lar ones. In fact, it is decidedly a
new Corpus Christi now, and the Cor
pus / knew in the old days is only a
memory. Yes, the changes bring
something of regret, but this is pro-
gressive age we live in and one
should be prepared for that which
happens and is yet to come. The Cor
pus people, the new as well as the old,
know how to entertain visitors, and
they made our stay there one con-
tinued round of pleasure. In all of
their progression and building up,
they have not forgotten the art of
entertaining. and when they visit us
at the next State Waterways conven-
ton we will try and pay them back
in their own COIN
I'm only on pleasure trip to
your country" said E. E. Richard
son, secretary and treasurer of the
Kansas City Stock Yards Company of
Missouri as he sat in the lobby of the
New Miller conversing with an old
friend he had accidentally come
across, and who introduced him to
The Gossiper. Il didn't come down
here to invest" he continued, but
after seeing the country l only wish
owned at least part of it. When
/ started here, two or three old
friends told me to write them. if
decided that the country offered any
inducements to man who wanted
pleasant place in which to live. Well,
l have seen it, and instead of writing,
/ have telegraphed them. | do not
mean to be fulsome when l say that
the Valley of the Lower Rio Grande
is the most favored section l have
ever visited, for l state what l be-
lieve to be nothing but the truth. It
is truly wonderful country; in fact,
seen it can form no adequate idea
seen in can form no adequate idea
of what it really is. How it remained
undeveloped so long is a mystery
hard to solve, especially when one re-
members that the American people
are of an inquisitive turn of mind and
are quick to locate the best, especial
ly when that best is in the shape of
land The railroad surely did a great
thing for civilization when it built
down this way. l don't mean to say,
or so much as intimate, even, that
the people who lived here before the
railroad came were at all lacking
civilization. for this section of Texas
has produced some remarkable men,
and meL too, who nave helped make
history; but what | mean is, that the
railroad has opened to the outside
world perhaps the finest valley under
the sun, and has brought that OFT
side world here to develop it and con-
vert an almost unbroken wilderness
of cactus and mesquite into VERT
able Garden of Eden. / telegraphed
my friends to come at once, and am
sure their enthusiasm will be as great
as mine when they see the Valley as I
have seen it. You have here the soil,
the climate and the water, and a way
to get the products of the country to
the markets that need them; and
what more could one want? Do you
know what my friends in Kansas City
are going to call me when l get back
there and tell them what have seen
down here? If you don't. | do, and
it won't be George Washington that
they'll call me; either" Mr.. Rich
ardson has spent several days touring
the Valley in an automobile and says
every hour he found something new
and interesting. He thought the
great development that is taking
place was truly marvellous and, with
the millions of capital already invest
ed, he could see nothing but great
future for the Valley of the Lower
Rio Grande Mr.. Richardson will
spend two or three days in Browns
vile and may visit Point Isabel be-
fore returning to Kansas City.