Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-05-24
IN OUR
VALLEY

II. EXAS bankers, in convention at
Houston FAST week, were agreed
that Texas is facing a year of the
greatest prosperity that it has ever ex-
perienced.
There is more building underway, in
Texas, more projected than ever be-
fore. The states population is we'll
over the 100000 mark and growing.
There is no section of the state that
has more in store for it than has the
Lower Rio Grande Valley.
F. L. Flynn, active vice-presioent OF
the First State Bank of Mission, told
the bankers at Houston a few things
along this line.
1t will be interesting to Valley folks,
we feel sure, to know what Mr.. Flynn
told them about the Valley. Here are
his remarks, in part:
"The Valley is more in the spot light
of Texas now than any other section.
1t has become a mecca for the home
seeker. Land in Cameron and Hidalgo
counties 20 years ago was semi-arid and
sold at from so cents to 81 an acre.
and most intensely developed section OF
the state. 1t has grown from a section
, Of 10000 inhabitants to one of 100000
people From 1910 to 1920 the growth
of population exceeded any other strict
ly farming community. There are 80
pumping plants in the Valley capable
of feeding 100000 acres and 100000 more
are available.
"There is enough land there to feed
a small nation Twenty-foar banks
there have deposits of $15,000,000. There
are l3 high schools in the Valley, eight
of them being on the college accredited
lists. The Valley leads in the construc-
ton of good roads.
"Yet, less than half the tillable acre
age has been made available. Besides
citrus fruit the section grows truck and
produces more cotton per acre than any
other section. There are 10000 acres
in citrus fruits. At low average OF
$500 an acre, this is an investment or
Sl8,OOO.0OO That is more acreage than
the citrus acreage of California and
fourth of that of Florida. There is suf-
ficient land there to supply the whole
United States, and the pre-eminence OF
flavor already has been recognized to
the extent that Valley grapefruit brings
a premium.
"The Valley realizes the value OF the
tourist. It is beginning to be the win
ter playground of Texas. The tourist
crop of California is immense and
productive, but the time is coming when
the Lower Rio Grande Valley will be-
come as popular.
Mr.. Flynn seems to have crowded
whole lot of Valley information into
very few words.
The Valley can produce eantaloupe
That is an incontrovertible fact. 1t can
produce them earlier than any other
producing district.
There are some varieties of Valley
cantaloupe, however, that should not be
permitted to 60 on the market. Iheif
rind is perfect in appearance. so is the
meat. They look good, wherever they
are found.
They lack one important element
however. They are almost tasteless
Neither sweet nor sour.
They are disappointment to the buy
er.
Growers should look carefully into
this missing taste. 1t is costing them
q lucrative market.
There are sweet, delicious cantaloupes
GROWN in the Valley. We know, for we
have eaten of them.
This should be looked into by our
agricultural experts.
Green corn from the Valley has oeeh
tickling the palates of great many nun,
dreds of people in climes not 50 wen
favored with early production as the
Valley.
Nearly 800 carloads of roasting ears
have gone out of the Valley this sea-
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