Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-07-20

IN OUR
VALLEY

THE Interstate Commerce Commits
= sion hearing on the request Of tht
San Antonio & Arkansas Pass (Southerr
Pacific) for permit to build south from
Falfurrias to the Rio Grande, at or neal
Hidalgo, probably will not be held until
September.
The /. c. c. takes a vacation shortly
But before that time, say rumors in
circulation in San Antonio, the South
ern Pacific will make supplemental
request.
IL is said now to desire to build not
only to Hidalgo, but also up and down
the river; that is, is wants also to &c
up in the general direction of Rio
Grande City, and down the river in the
direction of Brownsville.
These will be feeder roads.
It's great times, these days in the
railroad woIlI.
Diagonally across the state from
Brownsville, there's another railroad
territorial war on. Up there it's the
Santa Fe and the Burlington that are
loekiEg horns on whether there shall
be new, competitive trackage.
Up there they know little or nothing
of the even more interesting situation
down here in the Lower Rio Grandc
Valley.
North Texas newspapers are full Of
the Panhandle and far West Texas
situation.
South Texas newspapers are equally
full Of the extreme South Texas situa-
tion.
And it's the Interstate Commerce Com
mission that, in the last analysis, will
say who shall and shan't.
j. Z. Sloggett grew crops in Australia
He doesn't thing much of grapefruit
in Costa Rica, after doing some or
charding there.
He feels that only the wealthy in
England ever have an opportunity to
hunt. Others are barred from the pri-
vate preserves, as a matter Of course.
Water is lacking in Australia, he
founc.
Bat everything suits him Just fine
in he Lower Rio Grande Valley to
judge from the enthusiastic way in
which he spoke, in an article in The
Herald Sunday.
He's abandoned the others-perma-
nently. Now he's perfectly satisfied.
The Valley will welcome the visitors
from Kingsville who will arrive the lat
te part Of the week on a jaunt to
81 cad the good news that the South
Texas Teachers College at KingsviIle
will soon be ready to begin instruction.
The Valley feels a sort of proprietary
interest in the new state school at
Kingsville, for it was the united sup
port of the Valley that helped to To-
cate the college in that town.
It's part OF the program to make ex-
treme South Texas a real center Of
higher education.
Some 10000 bales Of cotton had been
ginned in the four coutnies of the Low
er Rio Grande Valley up to late Sat
urday.
That's about one-thrd of the prose
and there is remote possibility that
it may be more.
Translate $4,000 bales into dollars.
Valley farmers, since they are produc-
ing a better lint, invariably receive bet
ter than the middling prices. Prices
have run from rs to 27 cents pound,
and there have been many sales at 2S
cents pound
!. The average bale weighs 500 pounds.
xThe average price has been Y cents.
y1hat S135 bale, not including the
money brought by the sale of seed.
\ Thirty thousand bales means that in
the last three weeks Valley farmers
have been enriched $4,050,000-if they
have Sold Add 100000 for the seed.
A nice tidy sum, isn't it.
And if the coming $4,000 bales does
as well, there some $9,000,000 more to
come.
The prospect of 13,000,000 sperad out
among hundred thousand good folks
like those in the Valley is quite a
pleasant one, now isn't it?