Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-09-16
WOMAN Stays FORMER MATT I
IN OUR
VALLEY

l. missoners from virtually every
state in the union are visitors in the
Lower Rio Grande Valley. They have
toured the Valley to see at first hand
the development that has taken place
here in the last twenty years.
They conclude their visit in Browns
Vile and Matamoros, and in the latter
city have an opportunity to see how our
neighbors over the Rio Grande OBJ
serve their great NATIONAL independence
day-Septembre dies seis September
16)
We welcome the insurance men. We
hope they have enjoyed their visit to
Texas and its most favored spot-the
Lower Rio Grande Valley. And we trust
they will take to their homes and their
friends the message that we have for
all-come and see US; you'll enjoy the
trip.
At the request of The Brownsville
Herald, The Associated Press has sent
to it's member newspapers a story
correcting one published on August 28
stating that the Brownsville Chamber
of Commerce opposed" the building
into the Valley of the Southern Pa
cific railroad. The original message
read approved" instead of opposed"
the error being in transmission some
where.
The Associated Press asked news
papers which printed the erroneous
story to publish the correct one.
This is just one of many little serv-
ices The Herald can render Brownsville
and the Valley through its membership
in The Associated Press.
President w. R. Scott of the Southern
Pacific has signed article in the cur
rent issue of Monty's Monthly in which
he outlines the reasons why the South
ern Pacific should be permitted to
build into the Valley.
In summing up the mileage Of track
in the various counties proposed to be
entered, Mr.. Scott makes a statement to
the effect that cit is understood the
Rio Grande railway is under option to
the Missouri Pacific"
There have been reports at various
times that Colonel w. T. Eldridge of
Sugarland, Texas, who holds a me-
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amount of nearly half million dol
lars, had sold to the Missouri Pacific
This Colonel Eldridge has denied.
However, it is, a fact that the Rio
Grande railroad is losing money rapidly.
How long it will be allowed to continue
doing so is a question that only those
in control can answer, because they are
making up the deficit
The Rio Grande will never pay its
way unless there is harbor development
at Point Isabel, with ships coming in
and going out. And there will have to
be tonnage both ways for these ships.
If it should happen that the Rio
Grande is sold under the hammer, why
wouldn't the Southern Pacific have as
good an opportunity to buy it, if it
wanted the road, as the Missouri Pa
eific?
There will be something definite with
regard to the Rio Grande within the
next six months, or about the time the
Interstate Commerce Commission rend-
ers its decision on the entry of the
Southern Pacific.
column in The Houston Chronicle, in
writing to his paper while on a "Trip
west, says that Mount Franklin, at Ell
Paso, is the highest mountain in Texas.
Mefo erred. There are several noun
tains in Texas higher than Mount
Franklin, which towers to 71O0 feet.
The highest mountain in Texas is
Guadalupe Peak, in Culberson county
which boasts of a height of $500 feet,
or 240O feet (nearly half mile) higher
than Franklin.
Some people think Franklin is higher
only because Mount Franklin, being
near large city, is we'll advised, while
Guadalupe Peak, being off in the wilds,
out of the roads of travel, must remain
in comparative obscurity.
To mention some others, Baldy Peak,
in Jeff Davis county, is 1882 feet high;
Blue Mountain. in Brewster county,
1880; Crown mountain, Brewster coun-
ty 1886 feet; Lost Mine Peak, 1850 feet;
Mount Emory, Brewster county, 1886
but we reckon that list is long enough
Brownsville is 81 feet above sea level
Point Isabel is 8 feet above sea level
Mercedes is 61 feet above sea level
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