Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-07-06
IN OUR
| VALLEY

II AMAR GILL of Raymondville has
discovered strange being-a
modest land man. to judge from let
ter in today's mail from Mr.. Gill
That is, modest insofar as his boost
ing for the Valley goes, in az least one
in. tance
Mr.. Gill writes:
In reading the account of c. H.
Swallows address broadcast from
Brownsville as part of the Alamo pro.
gram was much surprised at his com
putation of the length of the train had
all the $4,000 cars of vegetables shipped
from the Valley been sent out in one
train.
"The Herald-and suppose Mr.. Swal,
low was correctly quoted-that it would
have made train more than ten
miles long when as a matter Of fact it
would have made train more than one
Z hundred miles long.
Il am surprised at Mr.. Swallow, TAX
ing into consideration the number Of
years he has been in the land business.
j would not have thought anything of ii
if he had computed the length of the
train at one thousand miles when it
should have been one hundred. But to
figure it at only ten miles is a mistake
that l canont understand or overlook
am af3id our Mr.. Swallow is slipping.
Please check up the figures and see
if | am correct in the length of the
train
The reporter who wrote the story as
sures the writer Of this column that
Mr.. Swallow was correctly quoted.
Therefore, the correction by Mr.. Gill
is in order.
A freight car length may be anywhere
from 35 to so feet, but the outside
length OF refrigerator car, the type
used almost altogether in shipping vege-
tables is just short of AZ feet
Thirteen thousand cars would streyh
out total of $4,000 feet. Since there
are $3.50 feet in mile. the $4,000 cars
would make train 1O3 1-2 miles long.
So Mr.. Gill is right. and MrOSwalloW
was entirely too modest.
A Brownsville boy, now working in Ell
Paso. writes bearing out the statement
in this column a few days that the FL
Paso section of the Rio Grande is
guilty of stealing the thunder Of the real
Lower Rio Grande Valley.
Here is what he has to say on the
subject:
"a tip for your Our Valley column.
Papers here refer to the Valley as the
Lower Rio Grande, leaving out the
word Valley They have little valley
of their own, productive, yet only about
the size of FL Jardin, or little larger.
They holler about this being the Ri,
Grande Valley. deceiving the outside
world into believing that this is she sec
tion of the Rio Grande which the world
\ has gone crazy about. They make me-
laugh with their ignorance and their re-
ference to the Lower Rio Grande coGn
try"
Here is something for our publicity
leaders to think atoat. If the Valley IS
going to spend S25 900 or $4,000 year
in publicity for the Valley. it should d.
SO in some way that will assure the full
benefit of it going to the Lower Rio
Grande Valley and not to any other
part of the Rio Grande
nc cdH DcnAbp Ddiig bEhl hdS IC-
sumed publication with W. D. Holland
as publisher and Paul Cottrell as manag.
ing editor
The San Benito Daily Light was first
established in 1916. 1t ran as a daily
until about two and half years ago
when it suspended because of lack OF
patronage.
San Benito is to be congratulated up |
on the venture. With business man
ager of the ability of Mr.. Holland and
an experienced news handler in the per- |
son of Mr.. Cottrell and an energetic as
sistant like Miss Minnie Carpenter, The
Light should be everything that the
town wants it to be.
Probably the time is not far distant
when every town in the Valley has a
daily paper Of its own, as each town
now has a weekly.
The expense of conducting even
small daily paper is not to be snickered
at The newspaper reading public has
come to demand a great many things
of a newspaper. often without consider
ing that unless the reading public an'
the advertiser supply the wherewithaI
these things cannot be had,
III tue! tdil 10 give ehie Suppoi', 1"Os
should not feel disappointed if the paper
"goes on the rocks"
San Benito staged a wonderful cele-
bration Saturday. The town was literal
ly overrun with visitors from most OF
the Valley. A Herald representative es-
timated the crowd at $4,000 and believes
he was conservative in the figure.