Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-12-02
IN OUR
VALLEY

- paperman has a place on a New
York City newspaper and has started
boosting the Lower Rio Grande Valley
He is Burton Davis, whose first po-
sition as a newspaper reporter was on
The Brownsville Herald in 1915, and
who now is dramatic critic for the New
York Morning Telegraph.
Davis had no more than struck the
Morning Telegraph office than he wrote
q corking good booster story for
Brownsville, Matamoros and the lower
coast of the Gulf of Mexico.
Davis makes a suggestion that might
well have the consideration of Colonel
Sam Robertson and those behind. the
beach road project.
He writes the proposed road as
a "Surfway"
How does Subway strike you?
Doesn't it seem to be a fitting title
for a beach road?
And do you know of any other beach
road that is known as the Subway ?
In the story in the Telegraph Davis
writes of the new tourist hotel Of
Brownsville as well as the beach road,
and remarks that the Volstead act dis
appears in the middle of the Rio Gran
de.
And incidentally, he mentions that
@Wken the geese that lay the golden
eggs in Florida are killed, the Texas
Gulf Coast will be in the midst of a
monster program of development as a
resort country
Which brings US to that full page
advertisement that c. E. Craig of Ly-
ford carried in The Brownsville Her
aid yesterday.
Mr.. Craig quotes from an article by
Roger Babson of Babson Park, Boston,
the famous writer on financial matters.
In that article Mr.. Babson said. among
other things, that "Some day the Gulf
Coast of Texas will have a boom. that
will exceed anything now taking place
in Florida
The article by Babson doubtless was
widely circulated.
The Texas coast, and of course the
Lower Rio Grande Valley, are receiving
a considerable share of Florida's ad-
yertising at this tine for the simple
reason that, as is suggested by Carl
Hunt, newspaper writer, "We have, in
America, three great sun porches-
California, the Gulf Coast of Texas and
Fiorida-all three affording most en-
joyable and most profitable opportuni-
ties to those who wish TO make living
where they may also live in a pleasing
climate.
When the Valley has arrived" from
a Florida standpoint, it will receive all
Ia 40 &c
ceiving, and possibly more.
The st. Paul, Mimi, Dispatch a few
days ago carried first page, full col
umn story on Florida as a winter vege-
table producing area. Doubtless the
Valley could not attain such first
mage story from a metropolitan news
paper at the present time. The reason
is that the Valley is not now so prom
inently before the American public as
is Florida.
Later on they'll be clamoring for
Valley stories. Just watch the predic-
tion.
Brown3gille can sympathize with
Miami Fla, which a couple of days
ago experienced an out-of-se trop-
ical storm which doused the city with
fourteen inches of rain.
Last September Brownsville expert
eneed about eleven inches Of rain over
night.
The two cities have much in common.
A Florida man attending the Mid
Winter Fair at Harlingen yesterday
commented that he couldn't see why
Florida ever had boom. with this
thing you have down here in this coun-
try"
People of the Valley are all begin
ming to feel that way about it.
six acres of the Fishback property.
near La Feria, three OF them with frult
trees, sold the other day Tar s1''ooV'
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