Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-08-16
THE MAGIC VALLEYS GREATEST CHANCE

Will Brownsville and the Lower Rio Grande Valley raise the bonus required to
secure railroad transportation to the coast at Point Isabel and deep water cross the
bar at Braz0S Santiago with a channel of the same depth TO the haveS al Isaheif
The Herald believes it will.
It would never be expected that a railroad would be built to connect the Valley
with any shipping point, without a substantial bonus being given by the people OF
the Valley. Every intelligent person realizes this
Every intelligent observer Of the development OF TIT Magic valley IS convinced
also that the thing most needed now to supplement The great work already done tor
the Valley is connection with the markets which will insure the speedy hanspoHa-
knows that it is absurd for a Valley of such great possibilities as those possessed
by the Magic vaney-the Wonderland of the Lower Rio Grante vaney-to expect TO
achieve the magnificent destiny which Nature designed for IT. SO long as II continue
to neglect the great advantage which it. proximity to water transportation mas
placed within its reach.
Anyone will tell you that all this Valley needs TO insure the greatest era Of
prosperity that could be dreamed OF is railroad connection win eep wafer al rom
Isabel
At Point Isabel twenty-five miles from Brownsville, lies one of The finest land
locked harbors on the entire coast of the Gulf OF Mexico. Three miles across that
bar even now, and the pos Utility of twenty-five feet easily within reach, as govern
.meentI engineers have assured the United States board of engineers more than once.
The proposition now before Brownsville and the Lower Rio Grande valley IS 10
build and operate a standard gauge railroad from Brownsville 10 Pont lsaheL
build a wharf at tine terminus Of the water 'front.' construct a channel ten f@t deep
and 100 feet wide across the bay to Brazos de Santiago Pass and a turning basin
200 feet in diameter at the end of the ~hart-work TO begin within thirty days after
a bonus CT $4,000 is subscribed, and all to be completed within me year from
the Gate OF the bonus notes. This includes the eectrfyng OF the Brownsville
street railway and opening of electric traffic between Brownsville and Point isabel,
completion of the standard gauge track from Brownsville TO the end of the wharf at
Point Isabel and the opening of the said electric traffic between the two places The
remaining fourth Of the bonus is 10 be payable when the channel across Inc bay and
turning basin shall have been completed.
It is estimated that it will require an expenditure of at least SaOO0Oo on the
part of the promoters 10 accomplish all that is SET forth in the contract
Was evera greater offer made to airy section?
The fact that this magnificent offer is made by A Albert Browne and James A
Browne, men whom everybody in this section knows to be substantial capitalists,
men who would place their own fortune at stake upon this great project, whose very
a bona fde project, is me which inspires confidence and gives every reason TO be-
Iieve that the project once undertaken, will be carried out to Ire letter.
The leading business men of Brownsville and other Valley points are ready to
back the Brownies in this undertaking.
There is no need TO go outside the Valley for capital or for guarantees These
men offer the capita, offer all the guarantees one could ask. Anyone is bound TO
realize that for every dollar invested in this bonus its value will be repaid TO property
owners or business enterprises a hundred times ever. All they ask IS a bonus OF
$4,000.
The bonus must be raised. The Herald is suret that IT will be raised.