Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-08-04
BRANCH WOULD
BE EXTENDED
FROM EDINBURC
Application to /. c. c.
Asking Permit for 80
Miles to be Heard with
First Request

The San Antonio & Aransas
Pass railroad, a subsidiary of
the Southern Pacific system,
asked the Interstate Commerce
Commission today for permis-
sion to build thirty miles of
new railroad from Edinburg to
Harlingen, according to an As
sociated Press dispatch from
Washington.
The distance is 80 miles.
No estimate of construction
cost was given in the applica-
tion but the new line was declar-
ed to be needed "to serve rich
agricultural district and to open
up new route out of San An
tOniO.'
Today's dispatch from Washington is
the first news of the plans of the South
ern Pacific for development of feeder
lines through the Valley following its
application for main line running from
Falfurrias south to the Rio Grande, a
distance Of 80 miles, ending at or near
Hidalgo. ~
The application filed today is ex-
pected to be heard by the Interstate
Commerce Commission at the same time
that the application for the Falfurrias-
Rio Grande river application is heard,
and the hearing will likely be held early
next month. M
May Build to Rio Hond0
Conjecture was rampant in the Valley
today as to whether the Southern Pa
cific plans to build east from Harlingen
to Point Isabel, or whether it proposes
to build south from Harlingen to
Brownsville.
In some quarters it was thought prob
able that the Southern Pacific later will
file another application to build from
Harlingen to Rio Hondo where it would
cross the Arroyo Colorado, and from
there across the Browne tract to
Brownsville. There was also some talk
that the Southern Pacific would termin-
ate its efforts at Harlingen, being salts
fled with available tonnage from there
north, should the Interstate Commerce
Commission grant its various applica-
tions.
1t was understood today that a com
mttee from the Brownsville Chamber of
Commerce will leave in few days for
Houston for the purpose of interviewing
President w. R. Scott of the Southern
Pacific. Mr.. Scott is now in California,
but is expected to return to his head
quarters at Houston about August g.
Today's development in Valley rail-
road news was not entirely unexpected,
as word had been received from San An
tonic two weeks ago that supplemental
applications to build two feeder lines
would be filed by the Southern Pacific
However, there was no intimation Of the
territory that the feeder lines would
travers.
Would Cross New Country
As the situation now stands, the
Southern Pacific proposes to build from
Falfurrias on almost direct route
south to the Rio Grande, touching at
Edinburg, McAllen and Hidalgo, cross
ing the Gulf Coast Lines at McAllen and
also at point several miles north of
Ecinburg the Raym ondville- Monte
Christie line of the Gulf Coast Lines,
work on which is about to start.
The Southern Pacific, in todays appli-
| cation, will build in the south easter
ly direction from Edinburg to Harlin-
| gen, following route along the north
| side of the American Rio Grande lands
north Of Mercedes and La Feria a dis
tance of about ten miles.
The Interstate Commerce Commis ission
a few days ago granted the reouaSt nf
the St. Louis, Brownsville x Mexico