Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-04-29
IN OUR
VALLEY

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- opposite Roma, Texas, and severa
miles distant, are proving very annoying
to the Mexican federal officials.
There are no saloons in Mier.
Liquor dealers refused to pay the
high license, and closed their doors.
SO bootlegging has become flourish
ing industry.
Same as in the United States.
Thus Mier again becomes more than
a mere place on earth.
Famous for the first time since the
Mier expedition.
Little black beans first brought no.
toriety to Mier
Now it's the bootlegger.
The Florida grapefruit grower has
blazed the way for the grapefruit
grower of the Lower Rio Grande Valley,
Florida ships great many thousands
of carloads of grapefruit annually.
In the Lower Rio Grande Valley,
where the industry is yet in it's infancy,
this year has been the banner year of
the grapefruit, at least in quantity ship
ments.
Five hundred carloads and more have
gone forward. The Valley itself has
consumed good many carloads, doubt
less.
Florida, realizing that she is soon to
be shut out of the most of the west half
of the country by the development in
the Valley, is seeking new markets for
her grapefruit.
She has already succeeded in making
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Now she is looking to Germany for a
market.
The United States Department Of
Agriculture and the Florida Citrus Ex-
change are cooperating in putting the
grapefruit over in Germany. Already
leading fruit dealers of Hamburg, Ber-
lin. Dresden. Munich and other cities
are carrying the Florida fruit
freight steamer, with an exclusive
cargo of an exclusive fruit, reached
Hamburg from Florida last February
Regular consignments were to follow
the shipment.
The United States Department Of Ag-
riculture doubtless is just as ready to
cooperate with the Valley in marketing
its product abroad as it is with Florida
The distance from Point Isabel to a
German port is not so very, very much
greater than 1t is from Florida port
And the fruit of the Valley is so very
very much better
Let's shove our grapefruit down Ger
man throats-they'll like it,
1t is said to be the ambition of the
Missouri Pacific, now controlling tho
Gulf Coast Lines, to place railroad
track within not more than seven miles
from every farm in the Lower Rio
Grande Valley
This means that before many years
have passed the Valley will have net
work of rails as thick as the street car
rails in a large city.
1t is up to the commissioners courts
of the Valley counties to formulate
their road programs so that the farmers
will have no difficulty in reaching the
rails at all times Of the year.
Cameron and Hidalgo counties have
spent their strength, possibly, in build
ing their main highways. No doubt the
various county commissioners are al
ready laying the groundwork for the
network of feeder roads that is certain
to follow.
No better proof of the growth and de-
velopment of the Lower Rio Grande
Valley is necessary than the fact that
the Missouri Pacific is endeavoring to
make its position south Of San Antonio
and Houston the strongest pssible.
The M. p. is keeping the Interstate
Comerce Commission quite busy.
1t has bought the control of the San
Antonio. Uvalde e. Gulf railroad, sub
ject to permission of the Interstat
Commerce Commission. If the permis-
sion is granted we may naturally expect
that the bumps on the Sausage will
soon disappear
And we venture the prediction that
acquisition of the Sausage will soon
be followed by a complete through train
from the Valley to San Antonio just
rs there now is complete through train
TO Houston.
The NJ. P. is taking cognizance Of the
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