Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-07-14
IN OUR
VALLEY


= plan for financing home building is
still more or less strange to the average
would-be home builder in the Lower
Rio Grande.
That circumstance considered, the
growth that the Valley Building &
Loan Association has experienced since
the first of January, as indicated in the
company's advertisement in last Sun
days Herald, should be highly crafty
ing to those Interested in the associa-
tion.
On January / the association had as
sets of $1O,378.62. BY May l they had
jumped to $34 4.276.78. by June ! to
$G0,493.60, and by July | to $1O3,183.64
H. other words, its assets increased In
six months by ten fold.
lew months more of such expansion
and the association should show assets
of a million dollars.
A. F. Hester, Sr., Of Donna, headquar
ters of the association is president,
Paul ID. Miller, formerly with Hous
ton building and loan association, is
vice president; A. Wayne Wood of
Brownsville is vice president, and s..
A. Morris of Donna is secretary treas
urer.
Il like your paper and especially your
in Our Valley column" writes Walter
Schenck, Temple, Texas. Il believe
that if you were to send SIS worth of ad.
vertising matter, printing, pictures, etc.
to each of ten persons in some northern
town or city and, in the same mail send
to the same parties one of your rattle
snake post cards U have not seen any
the mere suggestion is enough) | think
- the latter would be more effective in
kraping people away than the advertis
ing would be in drawing people to the
Valley.
MY wife and were there in Febru-
airy, 1920. Among the places of inter
est that we visited were the Palm Grove
and the jungle at Rabb's ranch. / re-
member that some of our party were
loud in their expressions of horror as to
snakes. | think it was a Mr.. Cowan
who said, 4 have lived here several
years and have seen but three snakes
His words were spoken in way that
carried conviction with them, as there
was no more worry about snakes.
II do think, though, that the pro-
miscuous sending out of rattlesnake
postcards should, for the good of the
Valley, be cut out"
A good thought, that. Mr.. Schenck.
There is not exactly a dearth of
scenery in the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
If you tire of the flat landscape along
the coast, select a nice day and make a
trip up the Rio Grande as far as Roma.
There is good gravel road from Sam
Fordyce to Roma.
Leaving the delta country the motor
ist plunges almost instantly into roll
ing hills. The Rio Grande's banks
charge their formation from silt to
overhangng rocks. Off to the south
west are the foothills Of Mexico, with
mountains of the Cerralvo district in
sight.
Look back down into the Valley. It's
a really beautiful sight.
Approaching Roma from the west in
the early morning one is struck with the
medieval castle-like appearance of the
town. All buildings seem to be single
structure of rock.
In the late afternoon, at the setting
of the sun, the mountains to the south
west stand out in bold relief.
West of Roma the road passes
through a dry resaca There is cut
at the east entrance into this resaca.
And the cut bears curiosity-an
oyster she'll bed that one would expect
to encounter only on the coast. 1t is
probably ten feet thick at that point.
The salt water Of the Gulf of Mexico
evidently at one time, many thousands
of years ago, extended that far up the
Valley. No one has been abl to ac-
count for the shell bed in any other
way.
length have been found in that district
But who wants to eat an oyster of
that size these days?
County Judge Oscar c. Dancy is pre-
pairing to obtain the greatest possible
competition for the Cameron county
flood control bonds of 81 100000.
He is laying the ground for par and a
premium.
Cameron county is in healthy condi-
tion It's indebtedness is now approx
mately $l,000,000. Even with that issue
out its Indebtedness will still be less
than ten per cent of its assessed valu-
ations. And the state will give US at
the least, the interest and sinking funds
on these bonds.
Riddle of the Valley evidently has
fallen down on her job. completely.
With eggs at four cents piece just
now in the Brownsville city market, one
might think that the dealers are plod-
ding along under the mistaken idea that
Christmas was only three days away
RIFF FRONT IS INACTIVE
FEZ, French Morocco, July 14-Be-