Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1920-09-17

audience that in subscribing % this
amount Of bonds Hidalgo county is
laying its first plans for the building
of second line Of railroad from Mis-
sion To the coast at Point Isabel. and
that Hidalgo county considers this
money its first contribution toward
the construction Of that line touching
every community in the Valley.
The resolution. the reading Of which
was met with an outburyt Of applause.
follows:
al called meeting Or the beard
Of directors cf the Donna Cha smber OF
Commerce, associate members of the
United States and Texas Chamber Of
Commerce, held At Donna on Thurs
day, September 16. 1920, at IL o'ciock
a. m, the following resolution was
presented and unanimously. adopted.
WHEREAS, the proposed improve
ment Of Brazos Santiago hsrbcr and
the standar dizstion cf the Rio 'irande
rsilrc ad from Point Isabel &c Browns
vile has now reached the point where
the details Of construction and the
plan of financing has met the ap-
- Of the war department, and
..rEREAS. in recognition OF the
fact that this improvement is primari-
ly at the foundation Of the COM
mercial life Of the 10 Grande Valley
and inseparately connected with its
continued prosperity. and.
WHEREAS, this Chamber Of
Commerce, realizing fully the need OF
immediate action in connection with
the sale of the $191 900 seeond mort
gage bonds &c enable The Rio Crandc
railroad to imme ediately finance ito
part cf the work, now,
THEREFORE,, PE RESOLVED:
That this Chamber Of Commerce on
behalf Of the Donna people through
its membership does hereby pledge H.
self to the immediate promotion and
sale of its allotted quota of $75OU
worth Of said bonds. and that the
secretary Of the Donns Chamber OF
Commerce be and is hereby instructed
to spread these resolutions upon the
minute book Of this chamber and give
as wide distribution q same as pos
sible."
Mr.. Jacobs was the last speaker Of
the evening, being preceded BY c. T.
Jessup. Cameron county chairman; by
ID. A. O'Brien. president Of the Rio
Grande railway. and Hon. r. w. Sea-
bury. President W g. Whitman Ct
the Chamber Of Commerce presided
About one hundred people attended,
the meeting. many cf whom were
women.
Mr. Jessup related the efforts that
have led up to the present camoaign
20 dispose of $l9l 900 in second
mortgage bonds or the Rio Gran 10
railway He delved INTO the h;stsry
OF the channel fund campaign of more
than year ago. and said that this
fund of $125.000 i now in the banks
of the Rio Grande Valley. He also
told the audience Of the approval BY
the United States army district en-
glneer at Galveston, the division en-.
gineer at New Orleans, and the chief
engineers at Washington Of the plan
TO standardize the Rio Grande rail
way. and the statement by the en-
gineers that when assurances have
been received that the road will be
built that dredging at Point Isabel and
Brazos de Santiago will start Mr.
Jessup predicted that the Valley will
put over this present campaign as eff
fectively as it did the channel fund,
and he believed IL would be done
more quickly.
Mr.. O'Brien's talk was filled with
Illuminating facts relative to savings
that might be effected in the way Of
transportation rates with the estab-
lishment of shipping In and out Of
Point Isabel and Brownsville and Val
ley points. He discussed the history
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