Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-09-21
IN OUR
VALLEY

LII ERE is a matter that will doubtless
i u receive the immediate attention of
Judge Lamar Gill of Raymondville.
The Dallas News. which usually knows
everything there is to know about Tex
as. has grievously wronged Willacy
county.
The Dallas News, judging by the cot
ton map published in its issue of Sat
urday, September 10, has not yet be-
come aware of the fact that there is a
new Willacy county authorized by the
state Legislature few years ago.
1t is using for its cotton map, a
Texas map that dates back to the time
when what is now Willacy county was
portion Of Cameron county. Hiaalgo
county and the present Kennedy county.
The map The News is using does not
show Kennedy county.
But that's not the worst of it. The
cotton map shows the condition OF the
cotton crop in various parts of the
stale.
The heavy shade indicates the crop
poor. the parallel lines indicate the
condition fair. and white means the
crop is good. Cameron and Hdalgo
counties are shown in white, meaning
the crop is good. Willacy county-the
partially right Willacy county is shown
in heavy shade, meaning a poor crop.
The reverse is true. Willacy county
the present Willacy county had a
good crop this year as indicated by the
table also carried by The News, which
shows that Willacy county produced
4743 bales of cotton last year, and at
the time the table was made 8087 bales
this year. But the Willacy county The
News is talking about in the map and
the Willacy County The News refers to
in the table are not the same Willacy
county.
Go after 'em. Judge Gill. Send 'em a
real map of Texas showing the real
Lower Rio Grande Valley.
Grapefruit trees throughout the Low
er Rio Grande Valley are heavily laden
with fruit This Notwithstanding the
severe freeze of last December.
Those who are in touch with the sit
rrtion ore EXPRESSING the opinion that
the Valley will have a thousand car
loeds of grapefruit to move this year.
This will be a considerably larger
movement than that of last year
T. c. Richardson. Valley man, field
editor of Farm and Ranch. Dallas, has
toured California and Florida. He was
particularly interested in citrus fruits.
He advises Valley growers to go in
more heavily for oranges, which form
cnl~ small part of the citrus fruit
production of the Valley He declares
there is money to be made in oranges.
Richardson has been added to the
staff of Farm and Ranch because he
knows agriculture
Perhaps growers would do we'll to
follow his office.
La Feria proposes to issue bonds to
the amount of $4,000. The election
he's haen set for October "a.
OF the amount, $4,000 will be de
voted to the construction of a sewerage
system. and $4,000 for a waterworks
system.
The La Feria News says these inn
provements will lay the foundation for
Ia Feria's growth to a population or
1000 or 5000.
And why not? La Feria's agricultu-
raj territory is among the richest IN
the Lower Rio Grande Valley. 1t has
srlendd soils. and beautiful homes have
been developed throughout the tract.
Other towns in the Valley have
grown to this size in the course of a
few years.
Construction Of Villa Maria Academy,
Brownsville's new boarding school for
girls. is proceeding rapidly.
The first building is now being root
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