Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-09-04
IN OUR
VALLEY

q offer for sale. it's flood control bond:
~ AMERON COUNTY Saturday viii
amounting to $l,500,000-
County Judge Oscar c. Dancy and the
commissioners court have extended an
invitation to the public to attend the
sale.
This is an opportunity for the public
disposed of, to the highest or the best
bidder.
So. If you have ever suspected any
thing wrong about bond sales, now is
the time to listen in on a really i'm
portant sale,
Bond buyers likely will be here from
many points. Judge Dancy has seen to
it that virtually every bond buying house
in the country was notified of the
sale.
He has been telling these houses about
the Valley, its prospects and its ambl-
tions. Frequently he has sent them CO.
pies of The HeI cd containing informa-
tion bearing in one way or another on
the bonds.
The time seemingly is not so far dis
tant when it will be possible to travel
from Brownsville to Corpus Christi over
a route said to be as miles nearer than
over the present improved highways.
This comes with the designation by
the state highway commission of high
way crossing Willacy county north and
south, and which will connect with
similar highway to be constructed by
Kennedy county.
Kennedy county is owned almost en-
tirely by John Kennedy, the rancher
Therefore, IL an improved highway is
constructed in that county, the county
cost will fall almost entirely on the
property of the Kennedy ranch interests.
The Raymondville Chamber of Com
merce, of which c. O. Harris is the man
sger. has outlined hefty program for
itself.
Among the things Raymondville is
after: bigger and better market Tor
onions of the local growers; advertise
the opportunities of Raymondville and
Willacy county through citizens and for
eign land owners and otherwise; bring
more people to Raymondville and Will
lacy county; more cows and chickens;
cleaner streets; white way, and trades
days.
Raymondville believes in the principle
that the only way to get things done
il to work to get them done.
"Co- operative marketing is the only
thing which will check the increasing
migration of farmers from the rural dis
tricts to the city and the teachers OF
the nation must spread the doctrine OF
cooperation by education.
This statement was made before the
teachers institute in Brownsville by DR.
Macy Campbell of Iowa, lecturer be-
fore the institute.
DIR. Campbell's lectures during the
week have revolved almost entirely
about the subject of cooperative market
ing, and there is no better audience fol
the spreading Of such a doctrine thar
through the teachers.
1t is particularly valuable at thi:
time when the Lower Rio Grande Valley
farmers have before them the project OF
a Valley-wide marketing organization.
On next Tuesday farmers of the Val
lev will gather at La Feria school, al
] O'Clock in the afternoon, to consider
q constitution and bylaws for an or
ganization.
The Ell Paso section of the Rio Grande
Valley, located nearly 1000 miles from
the Brownsville section of the Rle
Grande Valley, has reached the headlines
with another flood stage and 500 families
reported homeless.
Papers over the country will tell o1
n flood in the "Rio Grande Valley.
OF course, this particular flood viii
likely have spent its force before It has
trayersed the tortuous path of the Rio
Grande.
And folks in other parts OF the coun
try will be writing acquaintance her'
asking how serious the flood is.
How and when are we going to Sc
cure a distinctive designation for th'
Tower Rio Grande Valley, one that vii
not confuse III Win ObhSi SNNN'O'S
the Rio Grande Valley?
March, 1926. is expected to see tn
completion of the Gulf Coast Lines tracl
across Wilracy and Hidalgo counties
from Ravmondyille to Monte Christie.
The Spiderweb has closed its gap be
tween Santa Maria and Mission and
now in position to operate trains owe
this feeder for the Gulf Coast Lines.
The Southern Pacific is proceeding
with the survey of its right-of-way iron
E,o,f,rr;as south to Hidalgo, on the Rl
Grande. in full expectation that the In
tarstate Commerce Commission Will ap
prove it's plans. :,
Chairman Clarence Gilmore Of tn
Texas Railroad Commission declares ina
the fight between the Southern Pacn'
and the Missouri Pacific that is to
staged in Brownsville beginning octobe
& before Mr.. Mahaffie of the l.. Z. =
will be one OF the greatest in railroa
history. The Texas body has been IN
ysted to sit in at the hearingss and ma
accepted.
lis our guess that the federal court
room will be taxed to its capacity un, a,
tbe audience begins to realize how reai'
a,v thing a railroad application heal