Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-11-08
IN OUR
VALLEY

c. Richardson, field editor of Farm,
i & Ranch, Dallas publication. has
written an article in his paper dealing
with the flood control program in the
Lower Rio Grande Valley.
The edition, the current issue of Farm
Ranch, which paper has a very wide
circulation over the Southwest, gives
the article first page position, with
Illustrations showing porti3ns of the
Valley under flood conditions.
Two paragraphs in Mr. Richardson's
article deal with the confusion that of
ten occurs in describing what we here
know as the Lower Rio Grande Val
ley." They follow:
All along its course are occasional
valleys, and when you read Of flood
in the Rio Grande Valley you don't
know whether it is at Las Cruces, New
Mexico, at Ell Paso, Texas, or 800 miles
farther down the river, near its mouth,
in what its people call the Lower
Valley. This is confusing to the read
er not intimately familiar with the ge-
ography of the Rio Grande. and the use
of the term valley in so many widely
separated sections keeps some Of our
good friends on the verge of nervous
prostration for fear one section will
receive blame or credit which belongs
to the other.
"For this reason l prefer to desig
nate the section from Mission 20
Brownsville and the adjacent territory
as the Rio Grande Delta, thus avoiding
confusion, for no matter how many
valleys it may have, river never has
but one delta. reference to the ac-
companyng map .and to the dictionary
will show that this area is true del
ia. with all that the name implies OF
rich deposits of silt transported by the
river from it's drainage basin and de-
posted near its mouth.
"There was a killing frost in the
Lower Rio Grande Valley last night,
but none was reported from the upper
Valley"
That sentence did not appear in
Brownsville paper. San Antonio or
Houston paper. 1t is taken from an
Ell Paso paper, the Post.
,El Paso has what it calls the Upper"
and Lower Valleys" both on the Rio
Grande of course, and include territory
Immediately above and below Ell Paso.
Just another proof of the truth of
the argument advanced by Mr.. Rich
ardson.
DR.. G. N. Lucas, owner of land near
brownsville and who left here some
eight or ten years ago to make his
home at Manchester, ILL.,, has returned
to Brownsville to make his home.
Ever so often former residents re-
turn and take up the task of helping
to develop the Valley where they left
off years ago. And often they bring
others with them, as DR.. Lucas has
done.
He brought with him Glen Gilmore
and Henry Heron, both of Roodhouse,
Ill. who will make their homes here,
and will be followed soon by immme-
diate relatives. In both cases they are
locating here for the benefit of some
member of their families.
The concern which has been making
a survey of San Benito on the propo-
sition of whether that city needs and
can support a modern hotel, has rec
commended hostelry of rs rooms to
cost. including construction, furnish
ings, carrying charges, etc, $225,OOO.
A committee of citizens has been
named to carry the stock sales project
through. and the effort will be to make
il an all-San Benito- financed PROPOSE
tion.
Cameron cCInty towns are doing
things in the hotel line these days.
Harlingen has its 100000 hotel under
construction, and Brownsville begins
moving dirt on its 100000 hosiery
Monday morning, the building to have
$50 guest rooms.
Other important projects will start
Monday, including a new $4,000 NOV
ing picture house for the Queen thea
tre And there are under construction
residences and small business buildings
at a total cost of well over $125,0O0.
Brownsville is not on a boom. by any
means, but is undergoing very fine
and healthy growth.
Not many persons in the Valley are
aware that a large and growing num-
ber of farmers are shipping their prod
ucts comparatively under the guidance
of the Farm-Labor Exchange of Chi
cago, a Farmer-Labor party organiza-
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