Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-11-04

IN OUR
VALLEY

ic ocihg pldnIeu IN the Wllldcy
county onion district this year.
Ine volume of onion production hap
pens to be in the Laredo district, but
the Lower Valley is year by year be-
coming more important factor in this
field.
Note the experience of w. T. Holder,
told about in The Herald last Sunday
he came to the Valley as a school su-
perintendent, about 1915 He became
interested in onion production. He
went into it in small way. Finally
ne quit the schools for the farm.
he had so acres in onions last sea-
son. The acreage yielded $3.50 crates
Since the Willacy crop is marketed in
advance of the Laredo crop he received
good prices, and his crop brought him
$11,s5O.
Planting, cultivation and seed cost
MIN $1100, crates and harvesting cost
$oO00, leaving a net balance of $7,75O, or
an average of Sal per acre.
Not so bad.
The last report on Valley cotton pro-
duction. carried in The Herald, showed
total ginnings of 109,676 bales The
latest government report shows GIN
n1ngs to October I8 to be 111.13O in the
1our valley counties. Cameron and Hi
dalgo counties produced total of &c.
S29 bales, including 44,509 bales for
Cameron county and 55,420 bales for
Hidalgo county Willacy county pro-
duced 9,319 bales and Starr county
2,813 bales.
29,494 bales, Hidalgo county Also
,baies. showing an increase for Hidalgo
county of about 5000 bales and for
Cameron an increase of about $1,000
bales.
Between Raymondville and point to
the north of Edinburg work has been
started on clearing something like 58,-
600 acres of land.
It's big job. and one that will en-
pioy small army of laborers COM
mossion man has contract which
guarantees that in his camp alone not
less than 900 and as many as 2OOO men
will be employed in clearing work dur
ing the next two years.
news item OF interest: 90 marriage
, licenses we're issued in Hidalgo county
in October, 81 in Cameron county
Means business for the grocer. the
butcher, the candlestick maker. and
the furniture contractor, the carpen-
ter, the banker, the garage man, the
newspaper, the drygoods man.
The establishment of 116 new fami-
lies in the course of month is strik-
ing part of the rapid development of
the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
A Brownsville contractor made the
statement that development in West
Brownsville recently has been so rapid
that new ground will soon have to be
brought in for home building sites.
There is still great deal of unim-
proved property on Levee street and
st. Charles. but these streets have
some low land, he said.
But why permit that land to go to
waste? It is not so low that it cannot
be easily drained and made available
for buildings.
Florida is putting building sites in
the Everglades. If the Everglades was
worth reclaiming, it is certain that
building sites in West Brownsville are
as valuable.
Florida is building towns on coastal
marshes. Florida is putting additions
and subdivisions on property that even
year ago was considered of no value.
Drain Brownsville.
Drive out the mosquitoes.
The Weslaco News, one of the young
est and sprightliest of the Valley
weeklies, came out Friday last with its
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