Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-08-12

IN OUR
VALLEY

there is making great headway. Dredg--
es are shoyeling mud and sand, the
scourings will be set aside and there
will be a channel some % miles in
length.
Looking forward to the time that
it will be necessary to begin creating
shipping tonnage, the Corpus Christi
Commercial association is asking all
Southwest Texas for information OH
their shipping.
Corpus Christi wants the traffic to
come through its port
Step by step the organization is being
perfected. Now they are down to the
traffic bureu.
The Corpus Christi Commercial asso-
citation is operating under budget OF
5000 to cover years operations.
They have manager, traffic expert,
publicity men and the other facilities
of an up-to-the minute ch2mber OF COM
meIce.
The Corpus Christi channel must be
dredged some 25 miles before deep wa
ter is reached, say 30 feet.
At Point Isabel there is an uncom-
pleted channel lacking few hundred
feet of reaching a government-paid pro-
ject over the bar.
The Point Isabel channel when COM
pleted will be some $4,000 feet long. A
3O-foot depth is just few hundred
feet away
The Corpus Christi channel will be
142000 feet in length.
Point Isabel could be provided with
ietties at less cost than will be required
to dredge a channel at Corpus Christi.
Hidalgo county has been authorized
to begin construction of its flood con-
troll project.
Hidalgo county has already available
Sl,62O,O00 for the purpose.
Under the present plan Hidalgo coun-
ty merely carries its flood waters to
the Cameron county line.
If there is no interlocking project at
the Cameron county line, the natural
q consequences will be that Cameron
county will have more water than it
would have use for.
Lands subject to flood are not as
valuable as lands that are not subject to
flood.
The State of Texas, realizing the un-
fairness of permitting Hidalgo county
to unload it's flood waters onto Cameron
county, has agreed to share the cost OF
flood control project for Cameron
county.
The only way that Gamer county
can make that state aid available i,
by voting for the flood control bonds
on August 18.
The most important thing, however,
is for every qualified vOtef to 80 to
the polls on August Is. If you are a
qualified voter and favor the issue and
do not go to the polls, you are voting
against the issue. Two-thirds of the
couEty's total vote is required.
A Valley man rises to remark that ne
does not believe in that o!d superstition
about a black cat crossing the roaf
inst ahead of you, in the dead OF night
black cat sought something over
the way as he passed along he highway
a few nights ago.
And Immediately after his wife dis
covered that the baby had its first
sooth. >'
uere,s an interesting little state
ment on Valley farming, written by Mrs
A. Simmons, formerly of Wichlt'
Falls. now living on 20 acre trac'
near Alamo:
AT the time of giving out this state
r.nt we have been in the Valley about
ten months, coming here IN August
1924. ..,;
1--WE built a small house within
<aw davs after our arrival here, JUS
os soon as we could get possession IRON
,be tenant then on the farm
.Tbe first planting was on November
= ,,han we nlanted four-fifths of al
acre of spinach, which matured on ree
mary 4. and for which we received s''
The same piece of ground was piah'e>
Eebruary 10 to cantaloupes wlich NJ
,nred MAY %, and for which we reeeiVe'
S110. olon.
Ono acre was planted to watermelon
- Fabruary 20, which matured June Y
and for which we received SZzo' ~
largest melons weighed an average :
A home canning outfit permitted Mrs
c;n,roons to put up 1880 cans Of vege
tables, grapefruit and meats. All IN IN
mata,;ai for canning was raised on Tn
.n,ace except the meat and grape1rua'
cranefruit will come later iol
o;trns fruit trees have been pianleo'
rhara,s living on every zo-aer
.ran inthe Valley And prol'
you hit the ball and use common sens'