Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-05-21
IN OUR
VALLEY


= reach st. Joseph, Mo-, on morning
And st. Joseph can use only one or two
carloads, then the sale price of beets
and carrots is certain to be one not pro-
fitable to the grower or the original
shipper.
That's why Valley farmers are hold
ing meetings nowadays preliminary ITO
the market plan meeting at Parker club
house, La Feria, Wednesday morning,
May 81, 10 o'clock.
One way to sell the Valley to the
Valley, proposed by those favoring a
publicity campaign for the Valley, is
to satisfy the grower, put him in a
position where he can realize some
thing on the sweat of his labor And
this coming meeting at La Feria is one
way to bring this about.
The Valley this vegetable shipping
season will have shipped more than
$4,000 carloads of vegetables, but prob
ably has actually produced several
thousand more carloads than it has sold.
There is no way to determine what the
grower has averaged in returns, but
not been a profitable crop season.
Growers and shippers seem to be
agreed that it is not over-uroduction
that has brought about the present sit
uation, except possibly as to cabbage
Consensus of opinion is unat certain
markets have received too literally, while
other markets have been neglected or
overlooked To search out the market
that is not being supplied appears to
be the problem ahead of the growers
The mixed car has been long step
forward in finding new markets More
cars of mixed vegetables have gone for
ward this season than ever before. But
even so the marketing situation has
been far from satisfactory in actual
returns.
Wen hazard the guess that the La
Feria meeting will be one of the largest
ever organized in the Valley on the
marketing problem.
A party of Missouri-Kansas-Te Texas
railroad officials are visiting in the
Valley. They were in Brownsville yes
terday.
Lt IS ~not probable that there is any
significance to the visit Of these gentle
men. 1t is more likely that it is GU
riosty brought about by the railroad
activity here that followed the merger
of the Gulf Coast Lines with the Mis-.
souri, Pacific
All over the United States newspapers,
railroad journals and financial news
papers have been carrying extensive re-
ports on the Missouri Pacific activities
here, with the result that railroad men
who probably never before heard of the
Valley are wondering what it's ali
about.
Not railroad men alone are curious
and coming There are others, many
others. And they are certain to grow
in number as time goes on.
The Valley is at the Threshold of
great future. 1t is up to the Valley to
see that it is made certain.
The Southern Pacific, in its applica-
tion for "a certificate to build to the
border from Falfurrias, states that it
is seeking "practicable crossing OF
the Rio Grande."
Ihe map Wnlch mas Deen liieu VIII
the Texas Railroad Commission indi'
Gates the tentative route to be from
Falfurrias to Edinburg, thence veering
to the west and south, touching Donna
McAllen. Mission and Samfordyce. with
a crossing at Hidalgo, opposite which,
high on a hill, sits the town of Reynosa,
Mexico.
The sale by Colonel Eldridge of his
interest in the S. A.. U. e. G.. railroad
to the Missouri Pacific was to be ex-
pected. But his announcement OF
abandonment of plans to build new
line between the Valley and San An
tonic is surprise to both the Valley
and San Antonio.
Colonel Eldridge announced that ne
continues to hold the Rio Grande rail-
road, between Brownsville and Point
Isabel.
It has been said that the conditions
under which the Rio Grande operates
make it possible for this road to
build out to any point it chooses. 1t
is now operating at loss said to be
$50 day. ~
This is something Valley people can
think about.
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