Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-01-09
PACKERY MATTER
WILL BE TAKEN
UP LOCALLY
Or. n. S. Dew is Given Such Assurances
That He Will Immediately Lay His Plans
for the Purpose OF Submitting Oe6pite
Proposition to Local People.
ABANDONED RICE MILLING
SITE MAY GO INTO OEAC
Building and Property Considered to be
Most Advantageous for Location OF
Packery-Committee Named to Take
Matter Up With Mill Owners.

chamber al commerce Nc-ttfudN alltIhnnn
in connection with the proposal of DIR III :.
Dew and associates for the establishment
of a packing house i'll Brownsville brought
results. First, DR.. Dew was assured that
Brownsville wanted the packing house and
that il would do all it possibly could Ia ~e-
cure it, location. Second. the promoter
announced since the plant l. desired he will
Immediately have his engineers draw up a
definite prospectus Of the proposed plant,
which will be submitted 10 the prospective
investors throughout this section.
Indications now are that instead of be-
ing q 100000 proposition the proposed
plant may represent an investment of per-
haps sl25. 900. This Increase was brought
about through the suggestion that the own
crs Of the abandoned rice milling building,
IN the eastern part of the city. may be- in
flucnced, should the proposition prove at
~tractive to them, put u price ON the prop
erty and accept stock in the plant equiva-
lent Of the price. Ii was stated, without
any price AZ hand from the owners, that
the property might be obtained for about
Sl0.O O0.
DIR. Dew amended his proposition in
placing it before the directors that it j.
believed there will he less trouble in
Brownsville selling her share of the stock
in the proposition than was at first
thought. lie stated in answer To q qucs-
Ition by one of the directors that if Browns
viii would take half the stock Ia be- seat
tered through the Valley, or S25, 900, he
and hi~ associates would dispose Of the
balance AT various points through the Val
lev.
A. 4. Browne then brought up the matter
of the rice mill building, which he stated
would fully cover the Brownsville share of
the institution. and which brought about
the raising Of the investment to about
Sl25 900 Or Sl35.OO0 giving the PROPOSE
tion a longer line Of working capital on the
Sl00.0 900 of stock sold. On that basis II
was stated that Brownsville would have to
sell only about $4,000 or $40. 900 of stock
for actual cash.
President :. &. Tucker Of the Chamber
Of Commerce appointed a committee com
posed of J. b. Scott. A. A. Browne and f..
A. McGary. who will confer with the own
ers of the rice mill building. represented by
:. l.. Dworman. president ~ the First Ma
tional bank. and J. q. Fernandez. president
Of the Merchants National bank. A
proposition from the mill owners. however,
may not be sought until DIR. Dew has re-
turned to Brownsville with a complete
statement of details covering the conseruc-
tion and operation If q packery. lie in
formed the board If Director. that ~ had
not these details nj hand at this time owing
to the fact that he did not desire to go To
the expens of preparation unless he felt
certain that the city Of Brownsville was
interested IN the deal.
Many detail, of minor Importance IN
connection with the plan were discussed
during the course of which interesting in
formation IN regard to freight rates ON
packing house products and the probabili-
ties Of competition we're brought out. See
rotary OBricn stated that shipping rates
Tor packing house products carried no diff
tcrcntlal and were based on continuous
mileage. This would permit a packery in
W f'iilii'it WIN tue flnu~lpH
packery, for instance. IN the ~lattcr's own
TERRITORY. and II would have 4 great advan-
tacc over any other packery operating in
the territory north to Corpus Chriti and
west to Laredo. The haul from Browns
Vile to Laredo l. shorter than that from
Houston To- Laredo and since n packcrv
here secures it, livestock from immediate
territory. both cattle and hogs. there j. 4
high saving in the matter ~ shipping to
market.
The directors present at the meeting
Yesterday were: :. G.. Tucker. A.. A..
Browne. ". II. Putcgnat, J. n. Scott. ".
ii. Mason Dr.. ". r. McDayitt. f.. A. Ne
Gary. j. N. Morris and u. a. O'Brien
DIR. Dew stated last night. following the
meeting. that he wa> quite satisfied with
the result of the session with he board of
directors. He said that he will 20 10
Houston probably on Monday. and during
Ihis stay in that city will nave hi engineer
complete the details of the proposition. on
which he J. already AT work. He plans 10
return To Brownsville about the latter part
of next week.
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