Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-06-22
IN OUR
VALLEY

Brownsville as the point for the hear
ings on the various applications of the
Missouri Pacific and the Southern Pa
cific in connection with their plans to
make extensions and purchases nearly
all of which have some bearing on the
Lower Rio Grande Valley?
There is a federal court room in
Brownsville, with facilities for holding
such hearing.
Brownsville has the hotel facilities to
accommodate the large number of per-
sons that would doubtless come here
,tof the hearing, lawyers and others.
Brownsville would be available, too,
to all persons in the Valley interested
in one or another in the various ques-
tions that would come up.
The hearings are expected to be or
dered at an early date. There is likely
to develop a warm and quite interesting
contest.
Yes, why not bring the hearings to
Brownsville?
If you don't believe advertising pays,
ask Paul E. Montgomery of McAllen,
editor of Monty's Monthly.
just before the COHNcHbioh VI
the Texas Press Association at Tyler,
the following appeared in the Tyler
Journa., a weekly newspaper: The
Journal has received a special message
from Past president Sam Fore, Jr.,
advising that among the big number
from the San Antonio section and re-
mote region beyond who are coming to
the Tyler meeting in their special Pull
mans will be p. E. Montgomery, editor
of Monty's Monthly of McAllen.
To Monty, as Editor Montgomery is
called by the press folk, is due more
credit for putting the Rio Grande Val
ley on the map commercially and in
dustrially than to any other man, or
publication, or business concern in
Texas. There is no telling what
newspaper man can do for his country,
once he sets himself to the attain
ment of detectives seemed desirable,
and then stays with his assignment till
owes to p. Z. Montgomery debt of
gratitude that it can never repay. He,
too, is a builder--a builder of our
glorious commonwealth. Be sure, Tyler
friends of the Journal, to meet Monty"
And because of which Monty" has
been elected director of the Texas
Press Association.
Annual citrus schools are being in
augurated today in Hidalgo county and
will be followed in few days by Cam
eron county schools.
These citrus schools are being attend
ed more largely each year, and the in
formation gained during the sessions is
proving of great benefit to the orchard
owners.
The citrus fruit industry in the Val
ley is an accomplished fact. 1t is no
longer fairy tale that the land sales
man has to concoct. He can now show
the prospective purchaser 1.-THE goods. ="
It's on the trees.
Fifteen years ago land salesmen used
the sour orange trees as an argument
that this was a good citrus fruit coun-
try. But 80 per cent of them were will
ing to admit, at that time, that they
used it as a good talking point, but that
down in their hearts they didn't believe
plouefruit or oranges would produce
here.
All of which indicates that they
surely didn't know how well they were
building.
San Benito is promised the first
few miles of a concrete feeder road
east and west from the city, heading
for Rio Hondo on the east and Santa
Maria on the west.
This is the first move in what prom
ises to be general movement among
Valley towns to build first class feed
er roads into the surrounding farm
communities.
With some $4,000 available. the San
Renito commissioner will be able to
bnild only comparatively small amount
of having. but it will be an opening
wedge into the eventful organization of
q road district for the extension of the
highway.
Weslaco is also agitating improved
HIGHWAYS to the surrounding COM
munities.
Brownsville regrets to lose Chaplain
REYNOLDS of the Twelfth United States
Cavalry.
Chaplain Reynolds has been here sew
eral years, during which time he mas
epdeared himself to both. the mllltar!
and civilian populations of the city,
He goes to Denver, Colo, not De-