Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-03-29
IN OUR
VALLEY

IN ouIS S. WITTE, broad-minded resi-
- dent of San Benito, and an indi
y,dual of forceful and impelling person
atty, has been unanimously elected
president of the reorganized chamber OF
commerce of San Benito.
Already, under his leadership, San
Benito is raising budget for the con-
auct of its chamber that promises to
bring the organization from $500 to $500
q month, or $1,000 to $4,000 a year.
Listen to how Mr.. Witte outlines the
work ahead of his organizations:
The San Benito Chamber of Commerce
is going to get a modern hotel, large
enough to meet all needs and attrac-
tive enough to make this a favorte
stopping place in the Valley.
"A hotel, a new depot and co-opera-
tion with other cities and districts IN
the flood control program are the inn
mediate tasks for US. The hotel project
will be realized when San Benito has a
definite offer to make someone for the
investment, has a site and goes out to
bring hotel builders here to show them
the opportunity. The Chamber of Com
merce is going to handle that prelimin-
ary work and get the whole job done
.'Our foundation work will be to get
every real citizen into the organiza-
tion. Every member of the civic clubs
like the Rotary and Kiwanis, should be
a member. Every businessman and pro
fessional man and every property own
er, regardless of club affiliations, should
be member.
The Chamber of Commerce should
business. 1t should be and will be back
ed by the clubs and individuals but civic
and commercial jobs which should be
handled by and for the community as
a whole shoul not be left up to in
dividuals or individual clubs but should
be and will be handed by the Chamber
of Commerce"
We predict successful organization
will be rounded out by President Witte.
The Mission Times comes out flat
footedly against any proposal that Val
ley farmers plant the oyster plant in
competition with Point Isabel oysters.
Well, what do you know about that?
And. further, what do you know about
the oyster plant?
The Times goes on to say:
What's the idea of using good Valley
citrus land to raise vegetable oysters
when over at Point Isabel there are
thousands of acres covered with two or
three feet of salt water that are the nat
ural habitat of the real oyster-an
oyster that has the distinction of be-
inc the only variety of the species that
is ripe i2 months of the year?
The Point Isabel oyster lays no
claim to fame on account of size, but for
pure deliciousness. succulence and all
other things which endear the oyster
ment 'stomach) of the epicure it has
no neer
I'VE have all the faith in the world in
the Valley soil. We know it's fertility,
its wonderful productive capacity and
the excellence of it's products; but we
would advise the Valley farmer not to
endeavor to compete with Laguna Madre
in producing oysters. No doubt the Val
ley soil will produce vegetable oysters
Of surprising flavor and size, but they
would be merely a poor imitation of
those succulent bivalves the Point Isa-
bel fisherman harvest from the lodges
of Laguna Madre."
We still insist that there is con-
siderable acreage of the oyster plant in
the vicinity of Mercedes, and we are
patiently waiting for business to slow
down so that Ralph Buell. of The
Tribune can go out, investigate, and tell
US all about the oyster plant and it's
uses.
Mission leads in citrus fruit shipments
for the season now ending, according to
the Mission Times. That district shipped
1916 per cent Of the total, as shown by
compilations by the state department
Of agriculture. Harlingen was second
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