Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-08-04
IN OUR
VALLEY

i tap for Brownsville materializes
into operating form within the next 1S
months, it will not be necessary to wait
until 1880 to see a doubled population.
That can very well happen within
the next three years.
There is the 150-room tourist hotel.
There is the $25O,OO0 Villa Maria
Academy.
There is the possibility of the South.
ern Pacific railroad.
A million dollar cotton mill project
that is being launched today. Its pay
1oll would be around quarter of
million dollars.
leo City highway that should bring 250,
900 tourists annually through the Val
ley and into and out of Mexico
Deep water at Point Isabel.
A department store with a capital
stock of half million dollars.
A loop highway connecting Browns
Vile Boca Chica- Point Isabel Barreda.
Speaking of the Matamoros- Tampico
highway, the American Chamber of
Commerce at Tampico has made that
project a first ord of business.
The American FER, which is man
aged by foItPositio nsville man. Jack
4. Hott iced in me- vote on what
Sire salesman O. :. precedence in the
dress Box 2s .sanization.
= in Importance, according to
Po,6te, was improved sanitary con-
4".ons, the second was continued agi-
tation for adequate fire protection, both
of which are local problems at Tampico,
and third was the MatamorOsT Tampico-
Mexico City highway.
The chambers bulletin says: "The
MatamorosT Tampico Mexico City high
way won a place in the high five, as it
deserved to. Good roads mean progress,
and good roads will be of tremend IS
importance to Mexico. A highway f-5n
Natamoros to Mexico City, via Tampicc,
will bring in hundreds Of thousands of
xeople annually, with millions of dollars
worth Of benefits Of countless kinds"
AS port for Mexico Brownsville is
not particularly important, as is shown
by the carlot movement into Mexico
through the four Texas-Mexico gate
ways in the fist four months of 1925.
The figures are: Ell Paso, 1904 carloads;
Laredo, 2700 carloads; Eagle Pass, 902
carloads and Brownsville, 67 carloads
Brownsville will have different stat
Us if the proposed railroad from Mata-
moros to Tampico is ever realized.
1t has been under consideration for
some Is years, and may yet be built.
Brownsville cotton is particularly well
adapted to the manufacture of fine
yarns for cloth, says Major S. NJ. Ranso-
pher, head of the New Braunfels mills
which manufacture "Blue Bonnet ging-
hams
To use Brownsville cotton for the man.
ufacture Of rough cloths is like devoting
q $4,000 sedan automobile to do the work
of truck, he says.
A cotton mill in the Valley may re-
suit in the establishment: OF n dozen
similar plantS III tnls SectloH'
The labor is here. So is the cotton,
in exceptionally fine grades.
A few payroils of s2j0.O0G each would
do the Valley no harm.
Agriculture is the backbone OF the
Valley Industries will become a great
factor in the stabilizing Of trade.
North and South Carolina were unin.-
portanp industrially until very few
years ago. Cotton mills began to be
established, and within the last few
years the spinning industry Of the
northeast has been almost overshadow-
ed by the development of cotton mills
i'm those southern states.
New cotton mills have sprung up al
most over night. Towns and cities that
had slept ttarough generations were
awakened, and are developing into great
industrial centers.
Texas, producing 100000 and more
bales of cotton annually, is destined TO
be the scene of the next great activity
in the cotton spinning industry.
There is no reason why the Valley
zA,n MT hood tha dpyelonment