Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1924-12-21

are in the planning and are expected
to become realities soon.
High School Quickly Filled
An example of the towns growth and
development is found in the school
situation. A beautiful high school was
erected in 1923 at a cost of about $4,000
and when completed the building had
many vacant seats. A startling and IN
expected growth the firstsyear has filled
the building to OVERLOOKING and another
year will find the classes too crowded if
the present rate of expansion is main
tanned. The lower grades are housed in
the old high school building.
One Of the best, if not the very best,
rural schools in the state located off Of
a railway, according to many authori-
ties, has been built at Santa Rosa, six
miles north. The building was erected at
a cost of more than 100000 and is a
decided asset to the entire district.
The Baptists and Presbyterians are
planning new church buildings, the
former to cost about $4,000. Other de-
nominations now have comfortable
buildings.
On the $4,000 acres of land sold by
the Parker company in the past two
years there nave been constructed 140
residences. These comfortable homes
represent an investment of approx
mately $4,000 aond home building in
the city has kept pace with development
in the surrounding country. The town
rapidly is assuming the appearance Of
permanency attained by other towns
only after long years.
The Holbert-HensleY Nursery, of
which Harold Hensley, secretary OF the
Chamber Of Commerce is a partner, has
set out over a 100000 home grown pedi-
greed citrus trees since development
started in that section and has set out
approximately $4,000 trees in the La
Fer.a and Edinburg district in the past
year. They are maintaining a large
corps of planting crews and are setting
out hundreds of trees almost daily at
the present time. The La Feria nursery,
of which Roger S. Wilson is manager,
also has set out about Fl 1000 trees in
the past IL months and other nursery
men in that section ave enjoyed a good
business. There soon will be a million
trees in that section, according to esti-
mates.
Few Tenant Farmers Here
About 80 per cent Of the farmers in
the La Feria districts are land owners,
it is claimed and this is considered re
sponsible for the rapid development in
the district.
Water is necessary to the develop
ment of any Valley citrus growing dis
trict and the La Feria system has played
its part in the advancement of the sec
ton. Cameron County Water Improve
ment district No. 3, located there, after
absorbing an inadequate private system
in 1918, now is one Of the best, physic-
ally and financially, public owned DIS
tricts in the Valley. The land owners
hold title to the system. The pumping
plant is located on the bank of the Rio
G:ande about five miles from town, and
has a capacity sufficient to water 5000
acres q day. The canals traverse $4,000
acres of land of which IA, 900 are in cul-
tivation. according to W. w. Houser,
of the system.
About 80 miles of the main and
branch canals have been added since
1921 at an approximate cost Of $4,000.
There are a total of 12S miles of canals
in the district, making it one of the
lsrgest in the Valley.
The lie Feria relift, with a total ca
pacity of 114,000 gallons per minute,
constructed at a cost of about $4,000,
diverts the water with one operation to
10000 acres of land, thus greatly re-
ducing the cost and largely increasing
the value of the service.
A concrete siphon passing under the
Arropo Colorado, built at a cost of $685.
900. has sufficient capacity to irrigate
10000 acres. All work now being done
is of a permanent nature.
Five years ago a small clearing In a
wilderness of mesquite and cacti, by her
rapid growth, La Feria has earned all
right and title to the name she bears.
The Fair"