Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1920-06-25
SAN BENITO MEN CHARTER
SPECIAL TRAIN IN FIRST
BALE RACE TO HOUSTON

was grown by u. NJ. Chapa OF thai
place.
The San Benito crowd thought they
would have the fiIst bale on the mar
ket by shipping by express on the
morning train. When they learned
last night that John T. Lomax, presi.
dent of the Farmers State Guaranty
Bank, San Bcnito and co-partner with
G.. G.. Henson in the Valley Gin Co.
was going to Houston on business or
the morning train they became sus-
picious and started investigating. The
Lomax gin at San Benito was report.
ed afire last night and after the
crowd had returned from the false
alarm they corncrcd LomaX at the
poStoffice and he admitted his com
pany was shipping bale of cotton
from Edinburg on the morning train.
Business picked up.
Mr. Bowie. president Of the James
c. Bowie Realty Co., San Benito, and
leader in the present chamber of com
merce drive on the San Benito tract,
with Mr.. Frazier. an oil man from
Houston and San Benito. decided that
the Matz bale must be the first on
the market. Over the telephone To
kingsvillc arrangements were made
Cor a special train To take the San
Benito bale from the regular train
while the passengers ate breakfast and
to start Immediately for Houston.
The special cost 81 OPS TO carry the
bale, Frazier, Matz, T. n. Lynch and
your correspondent.
Bowie and Frazier never blinked
an eye hut tclcgraphed the money TO
J. c. Nolan, superintendent of the
Gulf Coast Lines at kingsvillc.
The party left San Benito this
morning ov the regular train with
the bale in the express car. LomaX
wa aboard and his bale was picked
up at HarlinCen. off the branch line
train. Lomax is not aware Of the spe-
cial train. A bet was made this morn
ing that the last bale 10 the exchange
was To pay for feed at the Rice no.
,cl tonight.
iomaX'S partner, Henson, was 10
iCin him at Sinton and it is feared
that when they learn Of the special
train they will wire for an airplane
from Houston to meet them en- route.
LomaX's bale grades strict good
middling. $40 pounds, from 1901
pounds seed cotton
Both bales are consigned to w. ID.
Cleveland & Son. Houston.
An effort will be made to have the
San Benito bale sold before the Edin-
burg bale arrives or the regular train
or by airplane. IL was rumored that
the Lyford gin has produced a bale
for shipment on the same train. but
the agent at that place advised the
bale had not been shipped and none
was loaded this morning.
The Rio Grandc Valley usually pro-
duces the first cotton of the season.
This years crop is exceptionally
good.
Conductor II. Sparks and Engineer
Bob Ferguson were in charge Of the
regular train that took both bales "a
far a. kingsville Conductor Will
kinson and Engineer Teftellcr are on
the special train from kingsville to
Houston. San Bcnito il to claim the
honors Of the first hale To market
and hcviest in weight by 40 pounds.
The Edinburg bale was ginned out
at 80 p. m. Thursday, while the
San Bcnito Bale was ready for ship
meut at z .. m.
A. y. Chadick. manager Of the Val
ley Gin Co.. Mercedes. joined Mr.
LomaX a. Harlingen. He is rcspon-
sihlc for the effort TO have the Edin-
burg bale first on the market, hav-
ing bought the cotton and superin.
tended the ginning.