Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-04-15
IN OUR
VALLEY

a - the Lower Rio Grande Valley is
bound to convince any visitor that
down here in the extreme tip of Texas
more building. more development Is 90
ing on than in any other part of the
south, for that matter
The tourist does not have to leave the
highway to see the busy dredges, to
watch the bridge builders, to observe
the road workers, to hear the noise of
the carpenters hammer
There IS busy activity everywhere.
Everybody is doing something
Leaving Brownsville, you find the
great building of Colonel Cook of DaI-
las, being erected for the Patteson
Motor Company of this city.
Then few residences under con
struction. crew of bean pickers at
work, out near the Country Club, men,
women and children.
A great brick and tile factory under
construction, off to the left Of the high
way.
Between Brownsville and San Benito,
considerable tracts of heretofore unused
land being placed in cultivation Here
U
great land development project in the
Valley.
A gang of track workers on the Cuff
Coast Lines. building up the roadbed,
placing new ties.
At San Benito. streets being paved,
others being torn up preparatory to
l'aving. Business buildings under con-
struction, ground being cleared for 9th
ers, still others just completed and new
tenants moving in.
And you find Louis Wqtte, president
of the reorganized Chamber of Com
merce pressing action in the matter Of
building a new hotel in San Benito.
Leaving San Benito. you pass innum-
cradle auto truck and wagons. San
Benito bound with beans, carrots, beets
and other products.
/. At the Arroyo Colorado bridge, a
great excavating machine of Dodds &
Wedegartner. preparing excavations for
the giant piers which will support the
new $4,000 bridge across the Arroyo.
Perspiring men all over the ground,
doing the necessary preliminary work
little further along. the Arroyo
cleared. cement entrance gates already
built, field office for the conduct of
business.
Then the Baptist Hospital, on which
construction Is progressing satisfactorily.
Many new homes and indications of com
ing activity resulting from an auction
sale of nice building lots.
In Harlingen. the Wittenbach build
ing, a five-story office building. and
just being tenanted Further along, in
to the business section, two or thres
nice buildings, either completed or un,
der construction.
Streets lined with parked automobiles,
and parking space at a premium. Ev-
erybody busy, apparently.
Here we encountered the one sad note
of the trip. Met Mr. N. s. Liddell, a
recent arrival in the Valley. from Tex
srkana, whose wife must soon undergo
serious operation. 1t is to be hoped
that it is entirely successful.
On out the highway, west.
More trucks loaded with vegetables.
More automobiles, all seemingly bent on
business missions.
Fields being cultivated. Into La Fe-
rie-"The Fair"--and you meet more
trucks with carrots, beets, cabbage. "A
loading platform with well packed vege-
tables crates, or hampers.
A business section typical of the VAL
ley towns-autos, autos. autos. every
type and description. from the moder-
ately priced to the expensive ones.
Mercedes, "The Queen City. and
which bears out it's name in every re-
state-or the south, for that matter.
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