Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1924-12-21
BIG bitches IN .
VALLEY DRAIN
LARGE ACREACE
Four Cameron County
Districts and One in
Hidalgo Built at Cost
of Over 100000

go and three in Cameron County with
several hundred miles of canals con
st1ucted at a cost Of approximately a
million dollars drain about 500, 900
acres of land in the Valley, according
to figures complied by S. Robertson,
manager of Cameron County Water I'M
p,ovement District No. 2, and A. f.
Anderson, engineer for Cameron coun-
ty drainage districts Nos. l, 2 and 4.
Bonds have been voted, and a contract
soon will be let for the construction Of
a system Of canals in the fifth district
which will drain 1,456 acres and which
will cost approximately SCI, 900.
Hidalgo Drainage District
Hidafgo County Drainage District,
No. 1, comprises approximately the
southern half of Hidalgo county, begin
ming near Mission on the west and ex-
tending to the county line east of Mer
cedes. Portions of the Mission, McAllen,
Edinburg, Pharr-San Juan and Merce-
des irrigation systems are embraced in
this district.
A bono issue Of $4,000 was voted
and the district organized in 1910. all
construction work has been complete
for several years. The system drains
in the Arroyo Colorado with the excep-
ton of one or two bitches.
Cameron County District No. /
The first drainage district organized
III Cameron county is known us Drain
age District No. / and was formed in
1910. 1t included the land between the
Guerra and Cuatas resacas, approxim-
ately 3 to 10 miles north of Brownsville
and is comprised Of approximately
81 900 acres. The bond issue for this
district was $205, 5O0s
A total Of SCI miles Of bitches hav-
ing a bottom Width Of from 4 to 90
feet nave been constructed. These ditch
es outlet into the Bahia Grande, an arm
of the Laguna Madre, and their size is
governed by the size of the territory
which each drains.
Directors of the district are j. H.. Ben
nett, Joe Downs and NJ. C. Myrtle. A. f.
Anderson is engineer Of this district
and also Of Cameron County Districts
Nos. ? and A.
Cameron County District No. 2
Cameron County drainage district
No. 2, was formed two years after the
first district and also is in the south
ern part of the county. 1t includes LAM
south of istrict No. l and east of
Brownsville, being about 1900 acres III
size. A bond issue of $200, 900 was voted
in 1912 and since that time 80 miles OF
bitches cave been constructed. This sys-
tenn also has an outlet into the Bahia
Grande.
Present directors are l.. a.. JagoU
Geo. French, and j. A. Walker.
Cameron County District No. 3
The largest drainage project in Cam
eron county, district No. 3, also was
organized in 1912. This district takes in
about 100, 1000 acres, covering the entire
San Benito irrigation district, about
1000 acres in the Los Fresnos tract and
10000 acres outside Of Cameron Coun-
ty Water Improvement District No. ?.
A total Of $450,0O0 in bonds was voted
for the district but $216,000 worth Of
the securities have been retired.
The district has 1873 miles Of bitches
ranging from 4 to 20 feet in width at
the bottom which drain into the AFRO
yo Colorado and the Fresnos resaca. In
addition to this the irrigation distr ct
has constructed % to 80 miles of ditch
es on the same land making a total
of almost 200 miles Of drainage bitches
is now at work cleaning these drainage
bitches.
The present directors are Otis Adams
| Mark Mullenick, F. NJ. Paul, ST.. G.. NJ.
Miller is engineer.
Cameron County District No. 4
The fourth drainage district i'm CAM
eron county was organized in 1928 and
a pond issue Of SCI, 700 voted. The DIS
trict includes 11,456 acres of land north
Of the Cuatas resaca and east of Dis
trict No. 8, this being the Fresnos tract.
Although no construction work has
been done yet a contract soon will be
let for the digging Of PIG miles Of
bitches With 4 to 10 foot bottom width.
This will require about 100000 yards Of
excavation. N
Directors of the new district are 9
w. Sullivan, w. H. Smith and f. w.
Chase.
Besides the work of the drainage dis
tricts some drainage work is being
done by the irrigation districts, such
as cleaning bitches, draining lakes and
resacas and providing outlets for title
drainage from farms.
From August 1922 to August 1929
Cameron County Water Improvement
District No. 5 spent $21 ,629.SG on drain
age work and in the next year spent
81 ,683.91. Cameron county Water I'm
provement District No. 6 spent .$1,278
during the year ending August 1924.
The Soviet is interfering unwarrant-
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