Norwich bulletin., 1922-07-22
IN THE DAYS NEWS
THR RIo GRANnE.

The Rio Grande river, between Tex
 as and Mexico. which has been giving
 an all too realistic imitation of thf
 Mississippi on rampage. is normally
 So shallow and sluggish that immsgra-
 ton agents and customs officers ara
 kept busy -shooing' back Mexicans E'he
 would enter the United States by tho
 simple and informal procedure of Tad- ing in." says bulletin from the Washington. D. C.. headquarters of tas National Geographic Society sn reE1rd to the country's latest flood region Tt is hard" continues the bullettr, "fo- the Mexico-bound traveller to re- elfze under normal conditions that the ribbon cf water mcznderinz through 2 broad bed of sand is the stream that il Spanish means The Great River Bui I once a year at least. ard sometimes efs tsEer, the Rio Grande fully lives gD tS i.s name.
 ~The loam banks of the lower Rle Grande and it's bread, fertile valley, covered with a heavy growth of tho thorny mesQuite-hah shrub and half | tree-was long considered a wilderness and given over to deer. wild pigs. ar nadiIlos and jack rabbits. Then came
 ranchmen to graEe great herds ef beef cattle among the feathery sea of green Large areas somewhat removed from | ll4C tElNG[ 0LE 1-@-l BAH~4 o@N- ~ ~~-~--~ raising.
 .But near the stream pumping sta tons and irrigation canals have cont | into existence in recent yesrs. and each | spring and summer thousands of car loads of vatermeIons. eantelcpes. ozAonz cabbage, and other vegetables stearn north from the region to help feed ths more northern portions of the country: For this region. near the wArn cuh of Mexico and barely ortside the uop- ! ics, competes with Florida and the lrn- | psrial valley in producing early cropz sStill more recently another develop | ment has taken place which prornisss to make the Rio Grande second San Joa- ouin valley. Between niIion-and-a- | half and two million citrus-<ruit treei have been planted. and 4n the winter oi [ 1sa1-za the first carloads of oranges and | grapefruit were shipped out-
 historically the Rio GTande has held prominent place. 1t was one of the chief landmarks in the, famous ezpedi' tions of the spanish explorers who push.
 ed up into Texas and on to New Med- CD and California four centuries agn Later 1t became sort of Southern Con cord: for if the shot fired in Mzsssehu sets in ArriI ITS was heard round th'
 world a shot fired on the bsni<s Of the lower Rio Grznde on another Apri
 morning 7fg years later by Gener1
 Zachary Taylor's soldiers might b'
 said to have been heard over an area o
 half a million square miles. That aTe' was added to the United States as I result of the shot for B brought oi the Mexican war which resuited in thi annexation of what Is now caiitcrnia Nevada Utah. Arizona. and parts Q
 New Mexico. Colorado and Wyoming. n
 addition this sl1irIniEh near the mouti cf the Rio Grande led to the, conhrma tion of the annexation Of Texas whicl had brought an additional quarter mil
 lion square miles under the Amerscai
 nas.
 Part of the region lately innndafs' was known to thousands of dough5oy during the nobflization along the Naz : scan border shortly before the Unite !. States entered the World var. p1rt IHs bel. almost nt the mouth of the RI Grande. came into newspaper fame {
 the fan of 1920 when Senator Hardin, : l having just nnsshed the ,Etrenuous can . paign which took him te tae Whii House. went there for big game 1Ei , ing"