Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-10-22
IN OUR
VALLEY

= from the mouth of the river to
Corpus Christi, along Padre Island is
receiving a great deal of attention
these days.
Valley men are giving attention to
the attractions Of the sea, as indicat-
ed in the growth of the beach sections
of Florida and California.
Colonel Sam Robertson's Ocean Side
Toll Road Company. his Brazos Santi-
ago Pass Ferry Company, are figur-
ing prominently in what promises to
be beach development.
Then along comes the Brownsville
Chamber of Commerce with agitation
looking to laying the groundwork for
what eventually will be a first class
highway from Brownsville to the coast.
There have been occasions when Is
many as 500 automobiles, with more
than 1000 persons have braved the ex-
ceedingly bad road to the coast at
Boca Chica in a single day for the
bathing.
The l25,OO0 or more persons in the
Valley will all at one time or another
visit the beaches in summer-provid-
ed there are proper road facilities. And
the visitors will run into the untold
thousands.
It is but 20 miles from Brownsville
to the coast. With a good road the
trip can be made easily in an hour. At
the present it is closed much of the
tkme.
Folks like to motor along the beach.
They'll take advantage of the oppor-
tunity, if the opportunity is given
them.
There's 14s miles of beach on this
coast, said to be the longest anywhere
on the Gulf or Atlantic coasts.
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ST. Louis is giving some attention
now to the Valley. Here's brief ed
itorial taken from the St. Louis Times,
somewhat inaccurate as to its informa-
tion, but the intentions were right:
South Of San Antonio, bordering on
the Rio Grande, is being developed
rapidly @the greatest garden spot in
the world. For eighty miles beau
tiful highway runs through the Valley
as far as Brownsville, with thousands
OF grapefruit, oranges and lemon trees
on both sides; with prosperous, we'll
paved, weh-lighted little towns every
five or six miles apart; with ap excel
lent irrigation system costing $50,-
100000; with soil of unknown depth
washed for centuries down the Rio
Grande-the whole forming territory
unexcelled by California or Florida.
"The Missouri Pacific and the Sou
them Pacific are planning extensions
No this wonderful country. Senator
Sheppard proposes to put deep water
port at Point Isabel, giving the Rio
Grande Valley a seaport at its very
door"
Very good advertising for the Val
ley.
-Four hundred to five hundred acres
of watermelons seems to be consid-
cradle patch. but that's the acreage
announced for the Garcia farm in Will
lacy county, of which Howard T. Gragg
Is the manager. 9.
The Lower Rio Grande Valley pro-
duces the country's earliest watermeI-
ons. Mr.. Gragg expects to be among
Matamoros that produces a still earlier
the early ones.
However. here's a district south of
watermslon. Up to ten years ago Mex
lean farmers were accustomed to haul
their melons into Brownsvilel for ship
ment by rail from here. They came in
long trains of the once familiar high
wheeled cart.
Major James p. Doyle Of Chicago,
who prefers to spend his winters in
Brownsville, and owns property here,
endorses the views stated in this col
umn yesterday that the future will see
the. resacas about Brownsville beauti-
fled and improved to the "joy forev-
er" point.
If these resacas, or lakes, were in
btaly, they would have been beauty
spots long ago." asserts Major Doyle.
Ninety blocks of paving went in a
single contract at Harlingen. This is
big order for any city twice the size
of Harlingen, but Harlingen is intent
on developing a city and proposes not
to remain standing.
The day is not far distant when the
cities of the Valley will have more
paving within their. limits than any
collection of little cities anywhere in