Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1918-10-22
LARGEST PLUM EVER
PLUCKED ABOUT TO FALL
IN THE LAP OF VALLEY
ByO,UnsUilIe--T -TdnnpicO Marine
Transfer Company of the Fu-
t,tye Fleet Which VIII Sail
BettUeen Pt. Isabel & TdnnpicO

The Valleys dream of ocean navigation
Is about to be realized. Situated only u
few miles from tide water, where every
thing j. propitious for ocean navigation
vet for all these years the people of
Brownsville and the entire Valley have de-
MED themselves the blessings which follow
in the wake of ocean freight rates, and
the consequent advantages. Compared -
the advantages that ocean rates mean 70
every town in the Valley the cost of Se-
curing deep water at Point Isabel j. nsig-
niticant.
For years tins important enterprise has
been allowed to sleep. but when one stops
:ui considers the magnitude of benefits
with the minimum cost of securing such
huliifarious and far-reaching blessings.
one i Likely To remark a Senator Morris
Sheppard did when visiting the Valley and
Point Isabel on one occasion: why has
this patter not been conSummated long
ago."
That n. TIE question which AL live wires
in tie cliIe Valley are now asking. But
tie ancry i about to be answered IN the
affirmative. and it is now only question
of months before the dream ii the Valley
will be- realized. and ocean navigation Will
have become a reality.
The matter assumed concrete form
when delegates from every town IN the
Valley met nj Point Isabel last July and
put the ball in motion for the realization
Of dream which peou'e have waited for
someone else I'd come and do for them that
which they should have accomplished years
ago.
The particulars of that memorable con-
vention. which j. destined to mark a new
era in the entire Valley, are well known
to the readers of The Herald, and will
not he reiterated in this story except a
few of the more essential deta's.
Some time previous the government had
been asked for m Appropriation for the
deepeniny Of Brazo~ dc Santiago pass,
and engineers had been oh the scene and
made the estimate OF the cost of deepening
the pass io connect with deep water also
IA make a survey and estimate cost 81
opening channel from the pass 70 POINT
Isabel. This latter channel j. what Valley
people are cornerned about. n the work
which the government will do. while 1t
canno. he said n II certainty. vet the con
ditions are most favorable. and with the
Texas delegation unanimously in favor "i
the proposition there i hardly chance
"a say the appropriation viii not be made
But the convention which assembled ~
Point Isabel on July IL. of this year. was
for the purpose Of apportioning The
amounts 10 be raised by the different
towns in the Valley for opening up th'
channel from the government works Z
Point Isabel The first estimate Of the en-
pineerS was that the cost would be 500,
600. but a revision of this FIRST estimate
was made. and the engineers stated tina
n channe' could be constructed of the de
sired width and depth for Sl25.OOO. II vii
he Is feet deep and of sufficient widtl
for the passage Of ordinary steamers, Will
a turning basin at the Point. The dis
tance from Point Isabel to the pass Is l3,
600 feet.
This July convention was composed q
two delegates from each town in the Val
lev, and every town was perfectly salts.