Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-08-10
THREE IN FAMILY SLAIN
IN OUR
VALLEY

= correspondents at Austin, in sending
out stories from the capital on the flooc
control matters in Cameron county
have given the impression that one lohe
levee is proposed to be built down the
river, throwing the water over ontt
Mexico.
Such is far from the case The plans
contemplate taking care of the FLOOD
waters, controlling them, running them
through artificiaily provided channels
giving them a chance to go on out into
the Gulf of Mexico without causing de
struction of crops and property, in
Mexico az we'll as in the United States
There are same phases of the project
in which our friends on the south bank
of the river can assist materially. They
help to provide at least one channel to
take care of part of the overflow. The
plans for this assistance on the south
sice of the river are not yet matured,
but should be soon.
One week from tomorrow-Tuesd sday,
August Isis the day on which voters
of Cameron county will go to the polls
to pass upon the bond issue of 81 100000
The law under which Texas agreed to
give back to Cameron county 20 cents Of
The aJvalorem taxes, requires that the
vote on this issue must be twosthrds
of the total qualified vote Of Cameron
county.
There are about 400 votes in Gamer
on county this year, not inducing the
exemptions.
AT least 5000 taxpaying voters should
go to the polls and register their APP
proIal of the issue.
There is an Increased tax of 20 cents
involved in the issue. But Cameron
county is operating under conservative
assessable valuation, and with continu
ing growth new taxable property is Ger
tain to reduce this tax after the first
year
Voters are being accused of negli-
gence when it comes to voting on bond
issues.
This Is one case of bond issue where
virtually all the voters must register
favorable vote, or the issue will be de-
feated. They must 60 to the polls to
the number of not less than two-thirds
of the qualified vote of the county.
An absent voter is a vote against
flood protection.
To forget to vote is a vote against the
issue of bonds for flood protection pur-
poses.
To go fishing and cot vote is vote
against flood protection.
And If the bond issue fails to carry,
the state may take advantage of the
situation to withdraw it's offer to Cam
eron county.
Cameron county has until October,
1926, to vote the bonds. But if it's is
going to vote them. it might as we'll do
so on August 18, 1925, and permit the
work to proceed. !
If you have moved since you paid
your poll tax, don't neglect to have the
county tax collector make note Of your
change of residence.
August 1S is the last day on which
this can be done.
If you fail to do so, your vote will
likely be thrown out.
In that way you would vote against
flood protection.
1t isn't the vote that will oppose the
issue at the polls that will court so
much in deciding the issue, as will the
favorable vote that remains away from
the polls, for any reason whatever.
The reporter who wrote the stories |
on flood control in Sundays Herald |
confused the name of the consulting
engineer.
The consulting engineer is W. +. An
derson of San Benito. who is member I
of President Coolidge's commission on /
the equitable distribution of the waters /
of the Rio Grande.
The other members of this commits
sion are DR.. Mead, government expert,
ar General Lansing H. Beach, U. S. A.,
retired, former chief of engineers of the
U. S. Rivers and Harbors Board.
A. Z. Anderson. whose name was er-
roneously used. is a we'll known irri
CATION engineer of Brownsville.
The Texas legislature came to the |
Valley on a day last March.
In single day of travelling over the |
Valley. .the legislature was sold" on |
the idea of the state paying most of the |
cost of flood control in the expectation
that increased values as result of
flood control will eventually return the /
amount to the state.
If the legislature was sold in ,
single day, how much more so should |
the people of Cameron county be sirce
il is they who will feel it most if their
lands are flooded, their crops destroyed.
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