Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1923-08-01
IT., =; !. ;;;;:.::;' +: :;: 9 SURVEYS
BEING MADE FOR
I. ISABEL ROAD
Definite Route to be Decided
,as Soon as Surveys are
Completed. May start grad
ing When Dredges Start

To hsve good grade roads connecting
Point Isabel with Brownsville and with
she Upper Valley by way Of Barreda by
the time the dredges have completed
their work on the Valleys future sea-
port at Point Isabel. is the object Of the
surveys now being made By the Cameron
county engineering department. The
utmost care Is being exercised In max
ing these surveys In order that the most
difect, and most easily drained route
from Brownsville 10 the Point may he
sscertained. and the grade which will be
constructed as soon as the route H. es-
tablished will serve as the grade for the
prd d-surfsced highway in the went the
bters Of Cameron county decide 10 con-
ksuct q bard surfaced road to the port.
me survey from Barreda TO the point
7here the upper Valley highway will
bnnect with the Brownsville Point Isa-
~ highway was completed several
honths ago, and the contract was
awarded for the clearing, but owing to
labor shortage little has been accom-
plished on this section of the road. The
upper Valley road runs due east from
Barreda n distance Of twelve miles to
the point where il connects with the
Brownsville Point Isabel road. Barreda
Is two miles closer 70 Point Isabel than
Brewnsville Is. .end the Barreda high
wsy viii prove Of greater value to upper
Valley residents when the Point Isabel
port Is opened.
The engineers are surveying three
routes out OF Brownsville. and some
time will elapse before route Is de-
finitely decided upon. One Of these
routes turns at the end of Fourteenth
street near the FL Jardin drainage ditch,
and passing through Mesquite on the
70 Grande railway. would run on the
e.H,,. side Of Iona Alto lake. The other
two routes follow the present Point Isa-
bel road through III Jardin. one Of the
routes koing straight across the Resaca
de viejo, and the other following the
present location III the Point Isabel
highway to the Loma Alta little bridge
and then following straight line instead
of making The bend around the Iona
Alta bill.
No lines are being run DOWN from the
FL Jardin boulevard to the north bend
of the river and then Vurning north and
sskt- The ground along that route is
very low. and highway would not be
feasible, engineers state. unless there
are q number Of long bridges construct
ed, the cost ,of which would make the
route prohbiitive.
Announcement was made last week
that the county expects to let the con-
tract next month for the draining Of the
low land hetween the railroad and the
boy. and this drainage will assure the
permanency Of the grade. The an
nouucement was also made that the en-
sineers expect to hive the survey COM
pleted by the time the dredge arrives mt
Point Isabel on August Il. and grading
machines will be started at once on the.
highway project.
,"The grade can easily be completed by
the time the dredses have finished the
channels at Point Isabel" n county of
fetal stated this morning. land we ex-
pect 10 NO grade and construct this high
way that not one cent will be wasted
n changing to a paved road in the event
the voters Of Cameron county decide on
hard-surfaced highway. The highway
TO the Valleys seaport will eventually
become one Of the most important high
ways in the, Valley, and there il no
boubt In my mind that the people of
The county viii favor the construction
bf hard surface when they fully real
lze the Importance Of the port and the
necessity Of all parts Of the Valley hav-
ing good highway connecting with IT,"