Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1926-01-20
IN OUR
VALLEY
DERSISTENCE more often than not
= is crowned with success.

0A4SISIENCE more o1ten tnan not
= Is crowned with success.
The Herald today carries the inter-
eating information from Senator Shep-
pard and Congressman Garner that the
rivers and harbors committees Of the
two houses have approved the recon-
mendations of General Taylor of the
rivers and harbors engineers, for the
completion of Brazos Santiago harbor,
Point Isabel.
Dikes will be built on the seaside of
the Pass, to create scour. The outer
channel will be completed, after which
the inner channel can also be dredged
TO connection.
All of which follows straight line
Of correspondence, between C. L. Jessup,
chairman of the harbor committee of
and the representatives in congress, as
well as some excellent work by others.
And we hear that at least sone boat
is ready and willing to enter Point
Isabel harbor, If the wharf there is
standardized as to its rail guage, and
other cargo handling arrangements
made.
As matter of fact any number of
boats can be secured for Point Isabel
harbor. The only question is, will cargo
in and out be available?
The Brownsville Chamber of Com
merce will hold its first banquet Thurs
day night, with Joe Leopold, Texas sec
retaSy for the United States Chamber
of Commerce, and Ed Overholser, presi
dent and general manager of the Okla
homa City Chamber of Commerce, the
principal speakers.
Everyone is invited. Tickets are 81,
and q meal goes with them.
Leopold and Overholser are accom-
plished chamber of commerce speakers.
Each will have message worth hearing
by anyone who has at heart the advance
ment Of his city.
Leopold will be heard by the San Be-
hito Chamber Of Commerce tonight.
r Neys,s dispatches announce that six
mutt itfmftlionairesT of Chicago and the
Great. Lakes region have made up
pool Of $1,500,OO0 which they will invest
in Southwest Texas real estate.
They will have headquarters at San
Antonio.
Recently The Herald announced pur-
chase Of $l50.0O0 worth of land near
Iyford, and another 100000 west of
Raymondville. And an option on the
Barreda tract, between Brownsville and
San Benito, at price of a million and
auarter. Perhaps these are the out
growth Of the Chicago pool. Perhaps
not.
The Matamoros territory is becoming
. more and more important agricultural
A gentleman interested in
kfarm development there advises that in
the vicinity of Matamoros, in 1924 there
were 90. and today there are $50 units
1 OF this valuable farm equipment.
Cotton growing has become the back
| bone of the farm life of the Mata-
moros district. The product, of course,
cannot be brought into the United
States. It is sold to Mexico City, and if
exportsd goes out through Tampico or
Yera Cruz.
The Brownsville correspondent of a
Houston newspaper asks this column to
assist him in disowning authorship of
In article that appeared in the Houston
paper on the coming celebration in Mata-
noros. Here IL what he has to say:
A centennial celebration the Booth
anniversary Of a city, is something new
in the way Of centennials.
However, such is evidently going to
ONE to pass, If the report of Houston
T. hn tod
This newspaper, in feature article
Arried last Sunday on the Centennial
elebration in Matamoros, calls the Gen.
knnial the celebration commemoratine
Ae three hundredth anniversary OF
atamoros.
The article goes further to describe
be imaginary founding of Matamoro:
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