Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-05-26
IN OUR
VALLEY

LEARNERS of the Lower Rio Grande
u Valley, having experienced an un-
satisfactory vegetable season due to
what they now conclude was Jack Of or
ganization, will gather at Parker's club
house, La Feria, at 10 o'clock Wednes-
day morning.
There will be discussions, there will
be plans Duly authorized delegates will
vote yeas and hayes, and there Will
likely be large numbers there to lend
their moral support, to advise with their
delegates, etc.
1t Is outlets for our fresh vegetables
that the Lower Rio Grande Valley is
seeking. Outlets at prices that will
at least give the grower a fair return
for his efforts.
Farming in the Lower Rio Grande
Valley is purely business proposition.
The farmer must watch his overhead
just as jealously as the best of business
men. g.. IA
Farmers. growers, in considering out
lets should not pass up the canning fac
tory idea. There is one great outlet for
overproduction, should overproduction
materialize.
We have it on the authority of rail-
road officials of long experience that
freight rates do not bar canning fac
tories from the Valley.
Just figure the freight on the in
1ividual can," they point out. 1t is
so small that it could not alone affect
the selling price"
Upon which banker put IN:
Canning factories that we have had
have been too inadeauately financed to
really test out the canning proposition
in the Valley. Their equipment has
consisted merely of few boilers and
other inadequate facilities. Properly
equipped, properly financed, | think they
would go long ways toward solving the
problem of low prices.
Colonel A. j. Peeler of Austin has
been seeing the Valley. He is now in
Brownsville.
II was written a great, great many
years ago that Colonel Peeler would
some day visit the Lower Rio Grande
Valley.
He is a native of Texas, but refuses
to tell when he became native OF
Texas.
Suffice it to say that Colonel Peeler
was a member Of the first graduating
class in the law school of the University
of Texas.
Mr.. R. B. Creager, denying that
Colonel Peeler graduated during his
days in school, which ended in 1900, as
serts that Colonel Peeler graduated Is
wears ahead of him.
Figure for yourself how long ago
Colonel Peeler became native OF
Texas.
He had never seen the Valley until
a few days ago.
Now he foresees a single city from
Brownsville to Rio Grand City.
Why not some great clubhouses for
wealthy men?" says Colonel Peeler.
"Your coast should be lined with them.
And. whatever any one thinks on the
prohibition question, there is no doubt
hut that the absence Of any Volstead
act across the river will prove a great
attraction"
Three inch high corn in Missouri
covered with ice. And dead.
Watermelon and eanteloupe crops in
Indiana dead. Killed by cold
Vegetable losses extending into the
millions. Killed by cold.
Summer apparel discarded for over
coats. Up north.
SIMMER kresorts suffering heavy
losses because of deferred summer. Up
north.
You valleyites, If you would feel
bit Of cold, just make trip to your
nearest ice factory or cold storage plant
get in 3 cooling box and enjoy CD the
experience.
The firm of Richman Samuels
Headquarters in New York, and with
shipping housese at Mercedes and Wes
laco. is one of the largest in the busi
ness.
They know the New York markets
They know other markets from the At
lantic to the Pacific. What they migh
have to say about the market OF fresf
vegetables is, therefore, interesting.
Mack Sanluels, member of the firm
has been in the Valley A Houston
newspaper reporter talked with him II
that city.
Here are some of the things he hat
TO say: !.
"The demand for vegetables and trui
products of the Lower Rio Grande Val
ley is growing to such an extent tina
there will be continued increase II
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