Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-07-03

not mlSc0nstrue Is meaning.
The &c ebration over | remained in
Galveston and availed myself Of this op
portunity to visit our district L. :. engi-
neer. Colonel Richie, and / discussed
with him cOndit ,ons on our improvement
ance that Colonel Richie will visit this
section during this summer and will be
with us before submitting report on
Brazos Santiago
As your chairman on WATERWAYS |
must say that Brazos Santiago rs deep
water port, will install general pros
peritv and future growth in this country.
will be of great Importance in the promo
ton Of agricultural growth
A brief consideration of il will show
that ii will be when completed of great
Importance to the whole Of the United
States. 1t has no partisan or sectional
character III it. If made il vii install
a new era in American trade and com
merce and greatly stimulate industry of
al kinds
We are doing today 80 million dollars
If business with Mexico. Legitimately
BraZoS Santiago will render the cheapest
transportation facilities for seventy per
cent of this commerce.
Deep water at BrazOS Santiago will
earn and save fully one million dollars
per year and more and more weary to
the Lower Rio Grande Valley. | will not
include the Laredo territory or the i'm
port and export Of Mexico in these fig
urcS. NnHff' nih
Let me call your attention to the fact
that this wear, 1913. Laredo and the Low
er Rio Grande Valley territory shipped
via Galveston 1900 carstOf onions on
(which the growers saved %13S 2i0 in
transportation charges
a port at BraZoS Santiago vii save
the onion growers of Southwest Texas a
half million dollars annually in freight
rates.
Thirty feet of water at Brazos Santi
ago could be obtained for - 1924.
against deep water at Sabine $50O00 900
and Galveston $l20O0,000. 1t is the
cheapest port obtainable in the United
States.
We al know that in the last three
years Cameron, IIidalgo and Starr coun-
ties have invested over one and a quar-
ter million dollars in drainage. In the
past six wears over fifteen million dol
lars in pumping plants, sugar mi Is. pre-
cooling plant canals and laterals and
hundreds Of other improvements.
Seven wears ago we had OnlytwO banks
and a very little money. now we have
over twenty banks with over mi lion
capital and surplus and with over five
million deposits. Is this all a dream or
\ is it a fact? The population of 10000
has grown to over 100 900. | ask You
where is there a country which will
stand by this in comparison?
/ We are raising all kinds of crops l.
months i'll the year. and the record of
shipments will bear me out.
/ must remind YOU in all seriousness
that unless we have water transpOrta-
tion we must curtail production.
We had on exhibition at the midwinter
lair last winter siXty-seven varieties Of
vegetables. ali grown in the va ley Mil
lions are waiting for our vegetables, but
unfortunately the freight rate to the
Lower Rio GranGe Valley is prohibtive
A water port at BraZos Santiago will
swell our population in ten years to 800.
900 and we have millions of acres of LAND
as productive as the Nile valley.
We must apply to the government fol
deep wafer port. Should our statistics
on visible facts not appeal to the U. ;
engineers. appeal TO the Z. S. Board OF
to The Rivers and IIarbOrS committee ash
through your congressman that congress:
relinGuish the right to BraZOs Santiago
: In November. 1909. Congressman Gar
ner wrote me:
"If favorable report on the ply
. steal survey is made as Capt. Oakes
has made recommending the neces-
! sity Of a survey. I feel sure that con-
greSs will appropriate for the con-
struction of the needed work"
{ The survey was made and the physica
| condition is here The report prove'
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