Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-09-21
Control of Highway Giuem
lines IN Cattle Disease War
The Herald and the Southern Pacific

IN the thirty five years of its existence The Brownsville Herald
has champoed that promised tie urher growth
and development Of the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
For ten before the building OF the Brownsville railroad
The Brownsville Herald fought consistently and peenty for
raiload connection with the outside world
Hardly had the construction of the railroad been completed
porting the Of deep Point Isabel Thousands Of
columns Of space well considerable devoted by this
newspaper to the of deep water.
The files of The show, addition
that this has, in the past Is supported
stIucon of another railroad system this with the
object of supplying additional outlet for the products Of this
territory.
The Southern Pacific railroad to build into the
Rio Gande Valley supply the additional outlet which
The Brownsville many years necessary
in order that Rio Grande Valley achieve
destiny the producing district the smallest
The Southern Pacific any 9TH
than the moral Of the people Of this section in the
Southern Pacific greatest railroad systems
the world is in n position to1 to 40 40 dsemng & ha rail
country With 10000 miles of track and 1000 miles Of
for the products Of the Lower Rio Gande Valley.
of the Lower Rio Grande Valley have worked long
and assduousy harbor Brazos Santiago At least half
million dollars OF their money has gone into the Rio Grande rail-
road or into the channel fund.
Individuals have contributed weeks and months and
years of their time to the haTbor proposition.
If the contention that there likelihood that the
Valley will the provide sufficient for
another railroad then why waste time and and labor
the Of harbor at Point Isabel Brazo Santiago
What will harbor avail if there is tonnage to
through it?
tend its tracks into this territory
The Southern Pacific will provide additional payrols 1t will
the assesabe valuations of the counties and cities
feced 1t will lessen the chance interruption through
washouts and other causes 1t will open markets.
The Herald favor of railroad TampicO Mexico
City The Herald believes this road should have
terminus at Matamoros.
The Herald in favor Of adequate harbor
The Herald believes that Valley chamber Of
should voice it's support Of the plans of the Southern
town that fails to voice this support true to it's conviction that
the development Of the Valley is still in its infancy.
Every should the moral support
If the Southern Pacific denied opportunity to build into
the Lower Rio Grande Valley will be 10 IS perhaps
longer before there will be another line.
And who will that the Southern Pacific better equip
ped than other railroad supply additional
Lower Rio Grande Valley?
there mas been announcement that
Pacific expects to build to Brownsville That depends
o. O. decision the extensions already officially applied
But face of this fact The Herald supports Southern
cfc plans in the belief that what good rest of the Val
ley also good for Brownsville although this city may have
direct benefits.
The hearing the matter will be held in Brownsville October
Let's give the Southern Pacific support That is
all that is asked.
The Valley not being developed just today is being
developed for what five hence bring twenty
years all posterity.