Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-03-06
TRANSPORTATION
IMPORTANT TO
DEVELOPMENT
CAPTAIN DAvENNY POINTS OUT Me-
CESsITY or CHEAP AND ECO
N0MIcAL CARRIERS.
SEES RAY OF HOPE IN ULTIMATE
IMPROVEMENT or nARBoR AT
BRAZOS SANTIAGO PASS.

adequate. %cficicnt and economical
tran portation facilities are indispensable
IL tie development ~ the country and III
the n%pbuilding of urban activities and the
expansion 81 commerce
This sentiment WA one III TIE cardinal
prmcipale advanced by Captain Wilson l..
DavcunN. icld secretary At the National
River and lIarbor- Cungrc~-. III hi ud-
dre~s before the Brownsville Chamber Of
Commerce and h%u-inc-- men last night.
Preparatory a. NJ discussion If the
economic problems IN which Brownsville
and the Lower Rio Grandc Valley are in-
tcrc~icd ~ strongly insisted that the COM
munitie~ that are ambitious 10 grow must
the condition M pioneer day when indi-
vidual initiative and effort were effective
had passed. and that no real progress iu
TIE building ~ u city or the development
~ Che latent resources of a country could
~ achieved without cohesive cooperation
~ the people. who should ~ animated w,
q common purpose.
Captain D%ayrnuy made mn addrr-- be-
fore the Chamber 81 Commerce w Mission
Thursday might whore hi~ audience IN
cludrd y large number M farmers and truck
grower "a the surrounding country. lie
wa~ earnestly assured that he bad
awakened N deep interest III the subject MI
more adequate and more economical fac
lhtic- Tor carrying 90 market the products
ut the Valley. and what T. quite A. I'M
portani. reducing the Transportation cost
on the commodity consumed bv the people
vino live m Brownsville aud the territory
tributary thereto.
"Nincc my former visit to Brownsville
about two years ago.. sand Captain Da-
ycmuy. 81 have travcr~ed 4 good many
Thousand mlc~ OF various sections of our
country. including U our MI the Pacific
Coast from san Diego. Cal, Ia Vancouver.
Il. Gil. and 20 all the territory covered I
have found un region that I'LL a~ obviously
pruductlNc-hIghlN productive the
country saw around Mission, and that
whirh Nv briug developed from the com
munily ccntcr~ along the railroad between
Mission and Brownsville. The TACT 10 b.
dcplur"d. however. NV that w large " per
ccutasc of The money that the farmers
products command nn the market h. cx-
acted For transportation and other
charges. out a Twelve envelope taken
a. random from q thousand containing the
money results NJ unit farming Hi one point
"a the Valley itw a. found that ~ per cent
~ the total amount realized never reached
the farmer. and II ~ \ conservative r-ti-
mate % Say that taking the whole mum
hcr approximately 90 per cent had been
eXactcd between the farmer and the bulk
purchaser Of hi products.
II am moi assuming 40 prejudice the in
psiry now being mad" IN the Texas rail
road commission. or the hearing before
the interstate commerce commission upon
the appeal for increased ratc- sought IN
the raIl carriers. ! simply plant myself
~ the proposition that iii there IA any
other transportation agency that can
serve the Lower Rio Grandc Valley than
the existing railway lines u should Nv in-
yoked and the economy that could ~ IVY
cured would add 10 the prosperity eft the
farmers and unavoidably build nv thc
tuWn- and ciiic- that are now being de-
%vel"ped ~ thi~ ~cction of the country.
The twin -i-tcrhuud NJ production ana
distribution must w. more fully an
preciatcd. -
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