Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-10-26
IN OUR
VALLEY

an ambition to become a mecca Tor
tourists.
1t believes those who have leisure for
long vacations, those who seek differ
ent and more comfortable climate, can
find just those things in this district.
But we must provide amusement for
those people of means who come here.
One Of the most popular amusements of
the day is the golf course. And its
popularity is on the increase.
Various Valley communities have ta-
ken notice of this fact. And they are
working for golf courses. The most at
tractive courses will bring the most
visitors-and keep them.
Brownsville's course is some 16 years
old. 1t has had had it's ''ups and down, :"
and now is undergoing refinancing, with
prospects that there will be developed
one of the finest courses in Texas.
Harlingen is developing the Arroyo
Country Club. La Feria has a small
course that has possibilities.
McAllen has a golf course, and the
latest town to enter the field is Edin-
burg, where progressive men have
bought 75-acre tract of ground, will
incorporate and develop a golf course.
E. G. Dexell, general manager of the
California Fruit Growers Exchange, has
addressed the following letter to the
Texas Citrus Fruit Growers Exchange
of the Valley:
Having a. little time on this Labor
Day holiday, | have perused the report
of the Texas Citrus Fruit Growers Ex-
change forwarded with your letter of
August %, and was much interested in
it, 1t has a familiar tone and shows
that these growers organizations and
their problems are much alike wherever
situated.
You seem to have matters in good
control in your organization and hope
you may be able to get sufficient Of the
outside growers in to enable you to
function to the fullest extent. We have
a considerable proportion of our crops,
but am satisfied that with 85 per cent
to 80 per cent we could materially bene-
fit the growers without harm to the
consumers and make the trades busi-
ness more satisfactory and I am sure
this would be true with your organiza-
tion." -.4e .,---'
T. A. G., writing in The Harlingen
Star. reminds us that
"Harlingen has assumed second place
in Valley financial circles, passing San
Benito. Mercedes, McAllen, Mission, and
only Brownsville with four banks ahead
of it. The statement Of deposits and
resources of all Valley banks published
Tin The Herald) last week was interest
ing reading and it was then that Har-
lingen took it's place in second position.
It's quite remarkable and fact Har-
lingen people can point to with pride
The San Juan-Alamo Sentinel has
changed its name to San Juan Sentinel.
Editor T. E. Thompson announces that
the change followed the establishment
of a weekly newspaper in Alamo, the
Alamo News
Close on the heels OF the announce
ment that Hidalgo county's assessable
valna ions have increased from about
$4,000, 900 to s38,OOO,O00 comes a re
port from Mercedes that Hidalgo county
is preparing to launch $3,00O000 bond
issue for a system of high-class feeder
roads for the county.
Hidalgo county is rapidly becoming
one of the wealthest counties s~of the
state. From its north line to the
river, from the east line to the west
line, its lands are almost all good agri-
cultural lands.
Cameron, a coast county. necessarily
with a great deal of coast land unfit
for cultivation cannot attain this figure
Vt pre- sent. but when its coast is develop
Id. as it is destined to be. for amuse-
lent purposes, there will be changes
That are certain to send this county's
ralues up and up.
Coach Shifflet of the Brownsville
nigh school intimated, in addressing the
Brown sville Rotary Club, that he did
not expect his gridiron organization 20