Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-10-15

IN OUR
VALLEY


sources and deposits of the banks of
the Lower Rio Grande Valley.
The figures show the resources to be
well over $22,0OO,OOO. The deposits are
well above the s17.OOO,OOO mark.
In 1901 the resources of the single
bank in the Valley, at Brownsville.
were s162,398 and the deposits were
S8O.227.
In 1904 there were two banks. The
resources were $581.153, the deposits
S21e.932.
In 1907 there. were still only two
banks. at Brownsville, with resources
OF S1,361, $3.50 and deposits of $77O,986.
BY 1911 the number of banks had
jumped to g. the resources to $4,000, ,339
and deposits to S1.529,4O3
The year 1913 found 10 banks with
resources of s7,932,475 and deposits of
$5,98O,99l
Admittedly a pretty good record of
growth.
The Weslaco News, in reporting a
football game between the Brownsville
and Weslaco high school teams, refers
to Brownsville as the Beverage City,"
The News must have seen the splen-
did motor trucks of Brownsville soda
bottling concerns in their journeys up
and down the highway. distributing the
cooling drinks of the Brownsville es-
tablishments
On the other hand, the News refers
to its own home town as the wonder
City"
The products of the half dozen bot
thing concerns of Brownsville are val
ued at some 100000 year.
The sands" between Raymondvillc
and Sarita. which figured largely in
the testimony of Charles Armstrong
at the |. C. C. hearing in Brownsville,
has been one of the wonders" of ex-
treme South Texas.
The sands proved extremely trouble
some to the railroad unit about 1913
when DR.. H. H. Harrington, then agri
cultural director for the railroad and
now a member of the state board OF
control, conceived the idea of fertiliz-
ing the sands along the right of way.
In this way the sands were captured"
by the weeds and other growth, and
are now said to give trouble
Passengers coming into the Valley in
earlier days were always annoyed by
the drifting dust, and bathtubs were
the first wish on arrival at destina-
tions south of the desert"
The sands have their value, however.
according to some. They are declared
southwark journeys.
John T. Lomax, president of the Far
mers' State Bank at San Benito, an
nounces that his institution will soon
erect a modern bank and office build
ing on the property at the corner in
San Benito that has long been occupied
by the Alcove Confectionery.
The site is one f the most prom
inent bus mess sit 4 San Benito, and
while no definite. announcement has
been made as to the size and cost of
the building, it is certain that it will
be in keeping with the splendid bank
ing houses in other cities in the Valley.
The Alcove. which has long been con-
Quoted by Frank W. Roberts, has long
been an institution" in San Benito.
Mr.. Roberts has already leased other
quarters and plans to equip it in up-to-
date fashion.
Bus transportation for the school
children of the Valley is becoming an
important educational factor.
The purchase by the Edinburg school
district Of ten new busses for this pur-
pose further illustrates the possibility
in the Valley of high grade rural high
schools, all of which. with continued
road improvement will be available to
children for miles around.
Quite a change from the days Is
years ago and back of that when child
rem were forced to walk for miles to
and from school, except for the more
fortunate who possessed ponies, or
horses.