Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1917-04-13

~stitution in many ways. getting out an an
nual. like the high schools in biz cities,
which book this session will contain q hun
dred pages. seven by eleven inches, the
money for which j. largely secured from
local advertising. This year there i a
whom. ] am told, expect TO enter college
next fall.
SAN BENITO HAS DAILY PAPER.
A new enterprise in San Benito j. a daily
paper with United Press service, which Il
made possible by the liberal and generous
support of local advertisers. This is pos
sibly one of the smallest towns in the
United States which supports a daily pa
ger, and shows that it, citizens are for
anything which will help San Benito. The
editor and proprietor Of this paper, the
San Benito Daily Light. is Mr.. y T.. Stew
enson, who will continue to get ont his very
creditahle weekly paper.
|SAN BENTTO'S IRRIGATION DISTRICT.
Al at other places, 20 AT San Benito. ii
has been decided that an ~frrigation dis
trict, under the state law, has numerous add
vantages over private ownership of the
canal system. The bonds, amounting To
$500. 900, have been voted, issued, approx
ed, and the purchase price, in bonds. soon
goes to the bonaholderS of the old con-
cern.
The new work in contemplation in the
Immediate future j. the putting in q new
60-inch pump and a 36-inch pump, the for
mer to be used for the large Browne tract
receatIy added, the digging in OF a new
low land gravity canal eight miles long,
which will mean the moving Of a half mil
lion yards Of dirt, and also the moving of
a hundred and Seventy-fi five thousand more
TIVE dredges will be bought for clean out
in the erection of a new high land canal.
work on the entire system. Some new boil
ers are ut present being put in.
PLAN FARM DEVELOPMENT DEPT.
A distinctive and useful feature Of this
new district j. planned 10 he a farm de-
%velopment department, under the super
vision of an expert, where farmers can get
practical as well a. theoretical informa-
ton n to the proper times and methods
of irrigation. Ii j. an undoubted fact that
n great deal Of water l. wasted and 4 great
deal of fine land injured by improper meth
DDS Of irrigation, since in the past, there
has been no method whereby the newcom-
er in this section can obtain proper infor-
nation on this subject except in a haphaz-
ard sort of way, by asking hiS ~neighabors.
For that matter, plenty Of people who have
lived here a good while. the experts tell YOU.
know very little more about II. This de-
fit in this respect. 1t is not intended 10,
and will not he. an expensive item in the
budget, and viii probably he under the
charge Of q person who holds some other
capacity with the system. III viii have
printed and distributed among it, custom
ers pamphlets on the subject Of irrigation.
From the point of view of size, the San
Benito district will be an enormous one.
It will serve n total of seventy-eight thous-
and acres. including the Browne tract. with
thiriy-~even miles Of main canal and q
hundred and fifty miles Of main ~lateralS.
II il hardly necessary 10 state that tho
main canal is one large enough to handle
all the water that may ever be needed.
"TIIE HOME OF TIE CABBAGE"
San Denito may well he called the land
of cabbage. IL you want 10 flnttcr q mar
from there call him a cabbage head. Wher
Lewis Carroll wrote Of ~"cabbaecs and
kings" he probably thought they were n
two utterly opposite words as could hs
found which begin with the same sounding
letter, and he would hardly have mentioned
them in this connection if he had thought
that the poor. humble, despised cabbage
was capable Of great things when pro
duced in the proper quantities and nj the
right time. San Bcrito is the town wher,
il is produced in the right quantity, and last
, season was the vcsr when it produced nj
the right time. The frost got n LOT of il
but the prices made up for this, 30 that th,
total cabbage yield in dollars and cents
was probably the highest known here.
just how much was realized from thi.
vegetables this season, il would be difficult
Ito say. We can come somewhere near il
however, when we think that this season
There were shipped out of San Benito. Il
date. three hundred cars Of produce BY
freight, and fifty-eieht by express. From
ltwo-thirds to three fourths Of these were
cabhage, and the prices ranged anywher,
up to a hundred and twenty a ton. Any
one interested in knowing how mich cash
came into San Benito can make The calcu-
lation from these figures. The huge sale