Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-04-14
IN OUR
VALLEY

"iS many English SparroWS
IN the Lower Rio Grande Valley
of Texas.
Iwenty-one years ago there were
none.
Strange, isn't it?
But IL is said to be a fact that prio.
to the building in of the St Louis.
brownsville & Mexico railroad. the Eng
llsh sparrow was unknown in the Lowe
Rio Giande Valley
Inc sparrow came in with one of the
iirst trains--a freight, just like the
human tramp. Somewhere above the
sands ne hoped aboard a carload Of
corn or other grain, and before he knew
II ne was on the Rio Grande.
The Sisters of the Incarnate Word Of
Brownsville propose to erect quarter
million dollar boarding school in
Brownsville or some other point in the
Valley.
Cities that have boarding schools find
them valuable business asset.
Not only that, DR.. Z. r. Stanford,
president of the Westmoorland College
San Antonio, told the San Antonio Real
Estate Board, but boarding schools are
also splendid medium of advertising
the cities in which they arc located. to
the outside world.
Here is how he figures it out:
For every student who spends one
year in school in San Antonio, there
will be revenue to the city of from
$500 to $500. The impression made on
the student from another city or from
another state will be carried home and
broadcast in the particular students
community, and, on that students i'm
preston of San Antonio deepnds the
kind of advertising San Antonio will
get"
That was highly interesting dis,
catch in The Herald yesterday form,
Mexico City, announcing that the gov,
ernment of Mexico has entered into
contract with an American firm to
build highways from three points on
the American border to Mexico City.
One road is proposed to run from Ma
tamoros to Mexico City, presumably
along the coast, entering the mountains
to the southwest of Tampico.
Another road is proposed from Nuevo
Laredo to Mexico City.
A third is proposed from Nogales.
Ariz. to the capital.
The first name is the highway or
particular interest to the people Of the
Valley.
It will connect here with our own
fine state highway.
1t will give wonderfully scenic
route into the republic.
In the absence of railroad down the
coast. it can be used for commercial as
we'll as pleasure purposes.
Some of the most wonderful scenery
in Mexico is to be found in southern
Tamaulipas, in the vicinity Of Victoria,
the capital of the state.
From there on down to the capital it
rs interesting at every point of the
compass.
Motoring to Mexico City promises to
be wonderful tourist opportunity,
Near Mexico City is being unearthed
and studied the remains of a once
great city.
Near Mexico City are pyramids that
rival the pyramids of the Egyptians, in
age and in construction.
There are evidences of city that
must have had population of any
where from 100000 to 100000.
In the years TO come Mexico City -
destined to be the American tourists
Mecca.
Those roads will bring Mexico much
nearer to the United States than it
now is.
Every few days there seems to be a
new crop comm gout of the soils of the
Lower Rio Grande
Now it's tomatoes, and San Benito
reports that the first crates have ar
rived on the market there
Farmers are now preparing to forget
the vegetable crops of the winter and
early spring seasons, and where they
have planted cotton and corn are look
ing forward to the arrival of roasting
ears and bales of til fleecy staple
The Valleys cotton crop is well along.
The stand is entirely satisfactory, grow
ers report. If they had no rain, they
used irrigation water. If they had
no rain, they used irrigation water. II
they had rain, they did without canals.