Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-07-21
IN OUR
VALLEY

SOME five or six years ago the
~ Country Gentleman, farm maga-
zine published by the same concern that
produces the Saturday Evening Post,
sent staff writer to the Lower Rio
Glande Valley.
He came he visited most OF the pro-
ducing areas of the Valley.
he was considered an able writer on
agricultural subjects, and an expert
Oil farm production.
His work appeared in the Country
Gentleman some weeks later. He was
not in the least impressed. He did not
indicate anywhere IN the story that he
thought this worthwhile district.
Many changes have taken place in the
Lower Rio Grande Valley since this
writer visited this section.
Quantity production in citrus fruits
has become fact. Vegetable produc-
tion has increased six to fold-the
market likewise.
thousands of bales of cotton are be-
ina produced where hundreds were
gI Swn six to ten years ago.
Railroad transportation has improved
caftiers are seeking entry into the ter
ri1ry.
The time appears to have arrived to
insite the Country Gentleman to send
ahother staff writer into this territory
He might find many things at which
TO throw rocks, but in the main he
should find ample reason to revise the
estimate that was made several years
ago.
The fact that the Missouri Pacific
has since entered the territory, the
fact that the Southern Pacific now de-
sires to do so, putting in millions of
capital for the purpose, would not seem
to bear out the magazines staff esti-
mate.
Expert writers are not always so.
Tax rolls of the two principal counties
of the Lower Rio Grande Valley will go
over the $6O,0O0,00O line this year, ac-
cording to the reports of tax officials
of the two counties.
Cameron county estimates that taxes
this year will be based on total valu-
alton of about $26,O00,OOO, an increase
of about $750,000 over last year.
Hidalgo county has leaped forward at
a much more rapid rate, the increase
there, according to the Edinburg Re-
view, being from $30,200,000 to $780,
100000, a boost of nearly $5,OOO,OOO.
Surely no one will object to the action
Of ,he officials of the Valley Mid-Win-
ter Fair in deciding to eliminate carni-
val attractions at the coming exposition,
in December
Carnival attractions run to a certain
foim. They vary little from yea. to
year Certainly they are of no educa-
tioI al or other practical benefit, so why
bother with them.
We have but one suggestion to make.
We hope that whoever has in charge the
concessions, that they will see to 1t
that the peanut concessionaire supplies
his customers only with first class
roasted peanuts. They must be fresh,
crisp and preferably hot, or at least
warm.
Mushy or moist roasted peanuts are
never good.
i. w. Dillon removed to the Donna
Neighborhood last December.
He began farming Immediately. The
Donna News reports that he devoted
quarter of an acre of ground to the
cultivation of okra and garlic.
He recently began harvesting his
crop, and showed returns Of $400 off
the quarter acre and there was still
some to be marketed.
That's at the rate of $1,000 to the acre.
Of course, it was just small plot
of ground.
But it only goes to show what can be
done in the Lower Rio Grande Valley.