Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1922-07-19

between the Association of Indepen-
aent Water Districts Of the Valley
and the u. S. Reclamation Service,
were furthered at the meeting held
at Mercedes Tuesday ofternoor.
The meeting also adopted the re-
port OF the irrigation engineers which
recommended that the reclamation
service te requested to Immediately
begin its work under the contract,
ana which also suggested the raising
of a fund of $4,000 in the Valley
~ finance the WORK.
! Tha net results ;f The meeting,
other than the adoption of the en-
gii ers' report, in-ll.le che l., Dtinn
of a r, ,solution BY Frank Pober:. on
os S.rr Benito for the organization
of crrna.ittee of .i.rev, TO be- known
as an organization" committee.
About fifty were present at the
! meeting. Towns and districts repre-
sented include McAllen, Pharr, DON
ma, La Feria, Harlingen, San Benito,
Brownsville, Los Fresnos, Raymond
vile, Mercedes, Sebastian and Ly-
ford.
Mr.. Robertson's motion contcmp-
lated one committeeman for each
county reprcsented-Cameron, Hi
dalgo and Willacv-the committee
men to be elected by the represen-
tatives of the various counties par
ti"ipating in the meeting.
The committeeman, according to the
motion as outlined by Mr.. Robertson,
would return to their home counties,
call local county meetings, secure the
opinions and wishes of the people,
and then meet to assemble the var
ious ideas. This committee is then
% be prepared to make report at
another meeting of the same dele
~ates who gathered yesterday at
Mercedes.
The presentation of the motion
was followed by an amendment by
Blake Seay of Mercedes which would
authorize the chair to appoint the
committee. 7. c. Richardson of
Lyford, Willacy county, declared that
he would support the Robertson res
olution, but that he would vote
against the Seay amendment. The
amendment was defeated, and a re
cess was taken during which the var
ious counties elected their commit
teeman.
T. c. Richardson of Lyford, was
named by the Willacy county del
egation, Frank Robertson Of San
Benito by the Cameron delegation,
and A. b. Jacobs of Donna by the
Hidalgo delegation.
These committeeman said they
would hold their county meetings by
the last Of the week, and probably
would be ready to report at another
Valley meeting to be held early next
week on the call of the chairman.
A. b. Jacobs of Donna was elected
chairman Of the meeting to succeed
Harry L. Seay Of Mercedes, who
was out of the city, and A. Tamm
of Harlingen was elected secretary.
Upon assuming the chairmanship,
Mr.. Jacobs said that meeting OF
Hidalgo county irrigation districts
had been held the previous night al
Pharr, and that its sense was that
the flood proposition at this time has
reached a point where something
lis going to be done in Hidalgo
county for flood control"
w. E. Anderson Of San Benito, en-
gineer for the San Benito district,
presented the report of the engin-
GERS which was asked at a previous
meeting. 1t was adopted in toto, and
without change Of any sort.
The presentation of the Robert
son motion for an organization
committee brought o. S. Osborne OF
Raymondivlle to the floor to iex-
plain the position of Willacy coun-
ty people on the flood control pro-
position. Mr.. Osborne made a plea
for harmony and Valley unity. de-
clared that he did not question the
motives of the irrigation districts,
nut that there were some things ne
could not understand. He read from
Mercedes newspaper statements
that only the present irrigated dis
tricts were to be included under the
work to be done under the contract
tween the irrigation districts and
the reclamation service.
He attacked the use of the word
resume" in the report of the en-
gineers that the reclamation service
be asked to at once resume its study
of flood CONTROL" declaring that il
must have been used in error, and
suggested that the word be changed
20 read continue"
There is a living, active organ
'-ation (the Lower Rio Gran6e Val
ley Water Users Association now at
work on this proposition, declared