Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-07-27
NOUR
VALLEY

Lower Rio Grande Valley have beer
passing up a good bet in not go.nf
after the advertising for the Valley that
would result in occasionally sending tn.
''first bale to the New York Cotton
Exchange.
This is brought TO mind by very
misleading news item sent out from
New York City the other day recording
the arrival there of the first bale ot
the 1928 crop-but that "first bale
came from Georgia, not the Valley.
Here is the item as sent out from
New York:
"New York, July PA record price
of SO cents a pound was established to-
day when the first bale of the 1925 cot
ton crop was auctioned off for charity
on the floor of the New York Cotton
Exchange after closing of the market
The bale came from Georgia and was
the earliest new-crop cotton from that
state ever received in New York Sam
uel L. Hubbard, Jr., vice president of
the exchange, was the purchaser"
The price, 5S cents a pound, of course
would not attract the Valley grower, who
has been accustomed to seeing his bale
auctioned off at Houston for sums rang
ing up to around $1,000.
y But the Valley could more than make
up for that in the value of the advertis-
ing that would be had if Valley first
bale was displayed in front of the New
York Cotton Exchange, on the sidewalk,
for day or two.
Just think of the thousands that would
view that bale Of cotton on the side
walks Of New York. and read the explain
atory card that it would carry, announc-
ing the First Bale-From the Lower
Rio Grande Valley of Texas"
The Chamber of Commerce of Browns
vile Saturday arranged to send few
stalks of typical Valley cotton, with
their numerous bolls and squares, to
persons at Austin, Waco, Houston and
San Antonio, asking that they place
them on exhibition.
And won't the eyes of those poor,
drouth-stricken folks literally pop when
they see such wonderful samples of cot
ton as those from the Valley?
We we're badly frightened when we
read this "scarehead" in the Weslaco
Ncws:
CANNING FACTORY BLOWS UP!p
Looking down in the story for the
casualties it was found that persons who
had agreed to establish a $4,000 can
ming factory had withdrawn their offer.
Valley wonders never cease
The cotton season is almost at its
height.
And already we find farmers buying
seed for early fall vegetables, such as
peppers, tomatoes, egg plant, cabbage
and celery.
Cabbage seed beds are being prepared.
In the course of few weeks the time
will have arrived for setting out the
plants.
About the most interesting piece of
news in The Herald this morning, to
our way Of thinking. is the roundup"
of building activities in Brownsville.
A program of better than $500 900.
under construction. just completed and
IN prospect is better record than
Brownsville has ever been able to show
before.
This figure is not altogether based on
large individual projects. The best ba
rometer of progress is home building.
and the list includes large number of
homes, ranging in cost from $4,000 to
$4,000.
The Valley is more widely known and
more favorably known over the United
States than ever before.
Harry L. Seay, president Of the Ameri-
can Rio Grande Land and Irrigation
Company and also head of the Southland
Life Insurance Company, told Rotary
Club members at Mercedes the other
day
Mr.. Seay is essentially a financier
When he says that in financial circles
he found, when he visited the north and
east recently. that bankers realize the
vicissitudes in the Valley have gone
never to return, he surely knows where
of he speaks.
The efforts of himself and associates
have done much to advance stabilizatior
in the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
Oklahomans of the Valley are going
to picnic August IA at Mercedes Beach
Also they may have an opportunity u
hear former Governor Haskell of Okla
homa, now Houstonian.
II promises to be great event. Okla
homans are probably as numerous il
the Valley as upstate Texans.