The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-10-09
FRIDAY. OCTOBER .. 1908.
THE ZZNE rs COLE.


Editorializing upon the great ben
efits which win result to the Texas
Coast Country from the construction
of the Intercoastal canal, the Browns
vile Herald says among other things:
The time has come. however. when
this region must no longer submit 20
being ignored. when our large land
owners must push their claims, and
see that the Brownsville end of the
canal receives itsdue recognition from
the powers that be. The very fact
that Corpus Christi through its con-
nection by steamer with Galveston, is
now getting a rate which is less than
half that paid by residents of this val
ley on freight shipments. is sufficient
to prove that our people will simply
be obliged TO exert themselves, for
their commercial existence is threat
ened. There is no other section of
the state of like area that can com
pare in importance with that of the
Lower Rio Grande Valley today. With
US are many men of high intelligence
and ofmeans sufficient TO command
the attention of congressional COM
mittees, or any other body that has
any relation TO the great improve
ments which the government IS now
making or contemplating. II only re-
mains for the men of the Lower Rio
Gronde valley to speak. to act togeth-
er, in order 10 force their claims upon
the government II appears to The
Herald that the Lower Rio Grande
Valley Commercial Club could make
its mark os one of the most influential
and powerful of the kind in the en-
tire state just now by securing this
great good for this valley
without intending any disparage-
ment to the energy or aggressiveness
of the people of Brownsville and the
adjacent country, the condition to
which The Herald refers. it may be
noted. is illustrative OF the necessity
of everlasting pushing in the achieve
ment Of great ends. Two years ago
when the people of this city. through
their commercial body, decided 10
ask for an appropriation for the con-
struction of the Turtle Cove channel
the people OF Brownsville were skep-
teal of the success of the undertaking
and made no request for a continue
ton of the channel through Laguna
Madre to Point Isabel Some of them
regarded it as an utopian dream,
which would be realized maybe by
another generation.
The wonderful development that
has taken place in the Brownsville
country since then has changed the
viewpoint of the people of that re-
gion. The vast acreage that is being
put in cultivation, the great canals
that are being built. the mammoth
sugar mills that are being erected.
the new towns that are springing into
existence. these things give
foretaste of the vast tonnage which
will soon seek an outlet into the chan
neIs of commerce and the people are
beginning to ask themselves, how2
The answer is. the Intercoastal can
al From the canals to the Rio
Grande. down the river tc its mouth
and the Intercoastal canal, through
the canal to the Mississippi thence to
St Louis, the drainage canal to Chi
cago, the Great Lakes to Detroit or
Montreal, or the Erie canal to New
York, or the Ohio to Cincinnati and
piffehuro- tbuc will cona dav poove
the vast tonnage of Americas Sugar
Bowl
There is indeed no section that will
be touched by the IBtercoastal canal
which will receive larger benefit from
it than the Brownsville country.
Corus Christi Caller.