Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1925-11-03

IN OUR
VALLEY

- PEAKING for the Brownsville
y oChamber of Commerce, Harbert
Davenport Monday told the board Of
county commissioners that he can fore
see the time when there will be at
least three roads connecting the state
highway with the coast, in Cameron
county alone
The coast of the Gulf of Mexico one
day will be one Of the great attractions
that will draw visitors to the Lower
Rio Grande Valley.
Beaches have figured greatly in the
development of Florida.
So they have in Southern California.
And just so, they will in the Lower
Rio Grande Valley.
Already highway from Barreda to
Point Isabel has been designated as a
state highway. 1t is Highway No. 100.
Yesterday the board of county COM
missioners committed themselves to
the project of a road along the river
from Brownsville to Boca Chica inlet.
which will permit automobile owners
to drive right up on the beach.
And by the way, that is the only
beach on the Texas gulf coast where
motorists can reach the surf on the
mainland.
The third road no doubt will find its
way from Harlingen to the bay.
And in between times Cameron coun-
ty will give a great deal af attention
to feeder roads
1t is announced that on next Monday
morning work will start on the new
Hotel Ell Jardin. The first work will
consist of excavations and the removal
of dirt from one part of the site to
another
The newer part of Brownsville's pop
ulation is not aware, perhaps, that Ho-
tel FL Jardin will set in what at one
time was a bed of the Rio Grande
The sidewalk at the Levee street side
was at one time the bank of the river.
The river at that time. some sixty
years ago, took a sharp turn west at
the corner of what is now Levee and
Eleventh streets.
But there is no serious engineering
problem involved. Engineers will put
sixty foot piling down to below the
bed of the present river, and will set
them on. quicksand And quicksand,
they say, makes splendid footing for
the piling Of course, there will be
concrete work in connection with the
piling.
With the beginning of work on Hotel
Ell Jardin more construction will be
underway in Brownsville than ever be-
fore in the history of the city.
The hotel will cost about s4OO 900.
In connection with this construction,
the Missouri Pacific Gulf Coast Lines
will start work on its new depot which,
with yard changes, will be an improve
ment costing about $4,000. The de-
pot itself will cost about $4,000
There are three other corners at
Eleventh and Levee available for build
1ngs. One is a vacant lot another is
occupied by an old building the third
is occupied by residence.
The prediction is ventured that be-
fore the hotel is completed splendid
ned buildings will be erected on each
of the other corners.
The year 1926 promises to be the
greatest building year Brownsville has
ever experienced.
There might even be a boom.
Brownsville merchants may look for
ward to the time when this city may
be the financial, shopping, theatrical
and wholesale center for territory
extending to Kingsville on the north
Hebbronville, Falfurrias and Rio Gran
de City on the west, and a large part
of Tamaulipas on the south.
Those having plans for the develop
ment of their businesses would do vel
to put them into motion now.
And we might mention that The Her.
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