Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-02-05
EX-PRIS0N COMMISSIONER HIT BY PROBE
IN OUR
VALLEY


What magic word
:, now our cars tingle when We hear If
now our interest is at once had.
s"N met Brownsville man on the
,-sefeet the other day who had talked =
lew days previously with II. c. Harrison
or.neriy oil Cerralvo, Mexico. formerly
OF brownsville and now Of San Antonio
we know Mr.. Harrison. We recall
DIS heroic services to wounded Mexican
seidifrs back in 1915 when he almost
lost an eye which became infected as a
result Of his activities in ministerinp tn
these men. An active, energetic, whole
souled individual, this Mr.. Harrison,
whose heart was and is much biygo r
than his frame.
however, we started out to talk about
oil. We branched off on Mr.. HARRISON
residence in Brownsville in 1915 and his
work Tor the men wounded in the Mex
lean warfare because he is indelibly as.
soclated with that period in the history
of the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
Back to OIL Mr.. Harrison. in talking
with the Brownsville man, just after he
had come up from Cerralvo. mentioned
the fact that he had been talking with
a. prominent geologist in Mexico who
made the flat statement that the
mother pool of all in Mexico will yet
be found in the neighborhood Of Aida.
mas"
Aldamas is 125 miles west Of Mata-
mOros, on the Matamoros- Monterrey
branch cf the National Lines of Mexico.
Ramblings of oil have been for many
months filterng up to this part Of the
border from the Aldamas district
We hear, for instance, that all the
land in that section of Tamauipas is
now in the hands of some of the largest
OPP rators in Mexico.
We hear that at last the operators
are prepar ring to do their stuff" after
having awaited the change of govern
mcnt in, Mexico in an cndeavor to as
certain the attitude OF the new govern
ment to oil development.
Perhaps they now have determined
what course they will pursue, and are
ready to GO. 1t is said that one dc rrick
is up, or in process of erection.
Geologists who have investigated that
field are as certain as biologists can be
that there is an immense field in that
district.
Discovery Of oil so ntar the Lower
Rio Grande Valley of Texas and Mex
leo would, of course. mean a great deal
to this section.
II may net develop, but really, its
nice to contemplate the possibilities.
isn't it?
The San Antonio Express report
Houston as protesting the establish
mtnt Of sleeper service from Browns
vile to St. Louis by way of San An
tonic. San Antonio sets forth that
President l.. W. Baldwin promised San
Antonio that service when he met busi-
ness men and manufacturers there on
the occasion Of his recent visit to Texas
TO use a once popular expression OF
the street, "we should worry.
We get four Pullmans on~a last
train. two Of them to San Antonio, two
to Houston. IL we don't like one route,
we get another for a change Of scenery
~ III. r. Stafford, newly elected executive
hsSad Of the Gulf Coast Lines, has ar
riyAd in Houston to assume his duties.
The former G. B. & Q. official al
ready is looking forward to his first
visit to the Lower Rio Grande Valley
And down here we arc looking forward
with interest to his coming. For Hous>
ton newspaper reporters describe Mr.
Stafford as man Of fine personality
something like six feet three. and .
good looker-fit to run Jesse Jones In
close competition. So those who know
Mr.. Jones are expecting great deaf q
Mr. Stafford in the way Of personality.