The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1908-09-08
ADDRESS OF SEC'Y BARNES
AT NATL EDITORIAL ASSN
Presentation of Bamboo big Stick
From Brownsville Made Great
Hit.


When in attendance on the Nation
al Editorial Convention at St. Paul
recently Judge Charles NJ. Barnes,
secretary of the Lower. Rio Grande
Valley Commercial Club made great
hit in his speech, when he presented
it-a big stick in the shape of sec
ton of mammoth bamboo Among
other things Judge Barnes said:
when his farmer friends present
ed William Jennings Bryan with big
stick gourd, that gift was an express
sion of admiration. Similar was the
friends presented William H Taft
with a pair of trousers fashioned
from the fieeces of their flocks.
at is just such sentiments of es-
TEEN and admiration that impelled
my friends of the Lower Rio Grande
Valley to command me to bear to you
this big stick 1t is the stem of the
pipe of peace, which calumet l have
been chosen and charged to smoke in
this great conclave with you. The
stalk from whence it was cleft was
over so feet tall. The brake in which
it grew is a few miles below Browns
VILE
From the giant bamboo grown
there houses, furniture and many
other useful articles are made. But
many other serviceable objects grow
in this great Garden of Eden. In fact
everything grows there except the ap-
pie that caused all the trouble of the
original Eden. In the great gardn of
the Lower Rio Grande, the production
is without limit Its soil is as fertile
as that of the valley of the Nile. The
waters of the magnifi-
cent Rio Grande poured copiously ov-
er it produce great harvests of veg
fruits and a perennial para
disc of flowers. Most of this produc-
ton has been secured within the last
five years. Prior to the advent of the
railway, the land was covered with
cactus and chapparal, and inhabited
by the coyote. Since then q new
canals make it possible to cultivate
more than a half million acres of
land. If stretched in a straight line
the mains and laterals of these canals
would nearly reach from the Rio
Grande to St. Paul. Some of their
individual systems are susceptible of
over 10000 acres of land.
''In this lovely valley, oranges
blossom, ripen and produce lus-
cious fruit. So do grapes. banan
as, and various other fruits, while
of many varieties are
grown in great quantities, in the
of a thousand car
loads having been shipped out of the
valley between the first days of jan
uary and July of this year.
Sugar, the purest in the world,
entirely free from glucose or other
is made in large guam
titles from the splendid cane growing
In this vicinity. Specimens of it grown
on the Hacienda de San Juan owned
by our honored president, Hon. John
Closner. of Hidalgo, took the prem
ium at the st. Louis Worlds Fair.
Here you have the lovely twin
lister cities, St Paul and Minneapolis,
only separated by the magnificent
river. There likewise We
have cities that are sisters and twins,
and both bidding you come and enjoy
their Inequalities and pleasure. These
are Brownsville and MatamOros. |
They are only separated by the sinu-
ous Rio Grande that shimmers like a !
saffron ribbon in the sunlight, SEEM
ng rather like a garland that binds |
han a stream that sunders, the great |
win sister republics, the United |
States and Mexico.